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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    valleynick66 said:
    ‘The Feds’ when mentioning the police. Have we moved to the US?
    Just start referring to "the rozzers" to get your own back.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Talking of radio, that's a perfect segue into my next hated phrase. There's an advert on the radio that uses the phrase 'taking candy from a baby'. So annoying, it should be 'taking candy from a kid'. On a practical level babies shouldn't have candy, so if you take candy away from one it's the best thing you could do. On a linguistic level it robs us of the wonderful alliterative quality of candy from a kid.
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    "work colleague"
    FFS where else do you have colleagues other than at work?!?  That's what the word means - a person I work with.
    To an English speaker, 'colleague' requires no explanation.

    "my lived experience"
    self evidently to have experienced anything one has to be alive at the time, unless we're giving house room to any sort of 'ante-natal experience' or 'former lives' bullshit!

    "in my opinion"  is massively overused as some sort of redundant emphasis - as if the very fact the speaker is expressing it adds weight or credibility.
    The absolute opposite is true - I know it's your opinion cos I can see and hear you saying it, your mangling of the English language undermines your contribution.


  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Using 'hey' instead of hello.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,257
    ME14addick said:
    Using 'hey' instead of hello.
    Maybe they're of Scandinavian descent and are actually saying Hej?
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    "Yeah, no, yeah" - how the f*%k has this nonsense become acceptable?! Fairly sure it came from thick-as-pigshit footballers.

    Interviewer: "Tony, a tough game today against a side 2 divisions higher than you. On reflection, quite a lot of positives you can take, despite the 2-0 defeat?"
    Tony: "Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, it was really tough out there, but we've acquited ourselves really well against a great side.......etc, etc, etc."

    Wtf is "yeah, no, yeah"?
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Higher up the intellectual scale, but equally irritating, wanky meeting jargon - "across the piece"

    I believe it basically means "in relation to everything", "the whole thing", something like that. Either way, there are plenty of perfectly adequate words and phrases within our beautiful language that convey the same meaning without making you sound like some sort of nouveau yuppy. Particularly irritating when uttered by my colleague who combines it with this weird deliberate stutter thing that seems to be designed to interupt other people who insist on talking properly.:

    "I....I,I,I,I,I,I,I think we need to look at that across the piece."
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Put it on the back burner.
    Grrrrr!
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,886
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Put it on the back burner.
    Grrrrr!
    ‘100%’  and ‘I’m not gonna lie’ 😡
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    MrLargo said:
    "Yeah, no, yeah" - how the f*%k has this nonsense become acceptable?! Fairly sure it came from thick-as-pigshit footballers.

    Interviewer: "Tony, a tough game today against a side 2 divisions higher than you. On reflection, quite a lot of positives you can take, despite the 2-0 defeat?"
    Tony: "Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, it was really tough out there, but we've acquited ourselves really well against a great side.......etc, etc, etc."

    Wtf is "yeah, no, yeah"?
    I'm convinced that is revealing of the interviewee's attitude toward the interview or the interviewer. When they start with 'no' it's because they generally don't want to be answering the questions or they're feeling defensive. 
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    'Skin in the game'. I've no idea where it comes from and I don't particularly want to know. Why can't people just say, 'I have no interest' or 'I have no involvement' or 'it doesn't matter to me' or something else along those lines? Something that's in English rather than in Gibberish. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,739
    Stig said:
    'Skin in the game'. I've no idea where it comes from and I don't particularly want to know. Why can't people just say, 'I have no interest' or 'I have no involvement' or 'it doesn't matter to me' or something else along those lines? Something that's in English rather than in Gibberish. 
    “I couldn’t give a flying fuck”
  • SOTF
    SOTF Posts: 1,149
    ‘I’m speaking my truth.’

    To clarify, I have no issue at all with it being used in the right context, which is people who have overcome horrendous experiences and using their voice/platform to support others and break down barriers.

    What I can’t stand is how it’s somehow seeped into everyday life, been taken completely out of context and is used as some sort of untouchable shield to spout complete and utter bollocks.

    And if you don’t like the above, I’m speaking my truth and you’re gaslighting me if you disagree.
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    Probably just me:   I detest the phrase 'National Treasure'  being used to describe an actor.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    Terry continually using the phrases “Cleared away” and “Saved away” on Charlton TV commentary. It’s just “Cleared” and “Saved”, Tel. No idea why it irritates me so much. 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    I haven’t listened to CAFCTV for years but does he still say “he’s overcooked that” every time someone over hits a pass or cross etc? Nothing wrong with the phrase but he never used to vary it and say “over hit” or “put too much on that”. It was ‘overcooked’ every single time.
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 844
    End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.

    Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    Radostanradical said:
    End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.

    Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.
    I have a real problem with quoting adverts. 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Radostanradical said:
    End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.

    Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.
    “To stupid” is brilliant 😂
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 844
    JaShea99 said:
    Radostanradical said:
    End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.

    Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.
    “To stupid” is brilliant 😂
    Dyslexia - Duffmans secret shame

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