My boss uses the phrase 'It's a learning curve' so often it makes me want to scream. Worse still, I always know when it's coming and can feel myself tense up.
Over time you will come to accept it.
You're probably just on a learning curve learning curve.
Off you go. (Please don't use this any more, Masterchef.)
The race card. (Irony is always lost on those who utter this.)
The race card is a real heart-sinker. It is used for no other reason that to try and close down a discussion someone doesn't like. You dare to mention anything to do with race, however sensible and thoughtful, and someone will trumpet that you are 'playing the race card', because obviously we should not be allowed to mention race in any context at all.
I hate it when people use 'boyfriend' or 'girldfriend' of two year olds. "She's got a playdate with her boyfriend'. PLEASE. She is having tea with a friend, nothing more. There really is no need to sexualise (or at the very least, romanticise) relationships among those who won't hit puberty for another 10 years. It's unnecessary and not cute.
Literally being used instead of figuratively. "I literally died laughing!" Or "I literally shit my self!" If either statement is true I don't want to talk to you. 1- cause you're literally a zombie or 2- cause you literally smell.
One guy I knew, referring to an incident in a football match, said "He literally threw his leg at it". He couldn't understand why I found it so amusing.
Oh! And "car crash interview". Can you get any more nonsensical?
People who say "Thanking you" instead of "Thank you." I don't know why but it bugs the hell out of me. And they are usually the same people who will say "Good morning to you" instead of "Good morning."
Only joking - no you were not. You were being a bit of a cow and have been caught out and are now trying to turn it round onto the other person.
Team building exercise (no, no I'll be fine. The whimpering and rocking will stop as soon as I can get out of a pointless activity with a group of people who also don't want to be there).
Only joking - no you were not. You were being a bit of a cow and have been caught out and are now trying to turn it round onto the other person.
Team building exercise (no, no I'll be fine. The whimpering and rocking will stop as soon as I can get out of a pointless activity with a group of people who also don't want to be there).
I used to do voluntary work and it was guaranteed someone would say "Let's do some team building games!" or "Let's have some ice-breakers!" But the worst thing was that there would always be someone with a guitar covered in CND and Save the Whale stickers who would say "Let's all gather round and sing 'Streets of London'." That was the cue to head for the pub for some real team building
Straight from the Jeremy Kyle vocabulary - 'fell pregnant'. It makes me feel sick to hear it used!
That one's odd because while it sounds quite old-fashioned, I only remember it from recent years. I don't know anyone who uses it.
ETA I found this in the Telegraph. Full article here. 'Fall pregnant' seems to be a bit like a 'fall from grace'. Doesn't seem like it was considered a Good Thing until recent usage.
I have been casting around for the origins of the term. The Oxford English Dictionary gives an isolated usage in 1722, to describe the predicament of some foolish girl. It then emerges at the end of the 19th century - the golden age of euphemism - to reflect the misfortunes that, in an age before contraception, sometimes occurred to pretty under-housemaids who had attracted too much attention from the Young Master. In that context, everybody understood what it meant: "She was poor, but she was honest,/Victim of the squire's whim," and so on. The outcome was not to be discussed in polite society, and probably not that widely even in impolite. Once the inevitable had been confronted, arrangements were made, and much was brushed under the carpet. "Fall" itself suggested that the girl concerned may not have been entirely in control of her destiny; and its Miltonic resonances also supplied a suitably moral commentary for the act.
"My friend called, but I had went to the supermarket"
I find this really annoying!
I see people starting threads with this in the title all the time and I click on them to see if anyone has corrected them on their poor grammar. Is it a 'thing' to speak like that now or are people really that stupid that they can't construct a proper sentence?
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Wait what?! Oh my days no...
To be fair I've only ever heard media bellends and the odd middle class gobshite say it
Over time you will come to accept it.
You're probably just on a learning curve learning curve.
"pimping his/her kids"
"grief porn"
Also, "jumping the shark".
Not only is it an annoying, overused cliche, it's also usually used incorrectly (to simply describe a reduction in quality of a TV programme).
Not all taxpayers work hard.
It is actually a derogatory term pertaining to the BBC's prudish and hard line rules on sex and language.
It comes from 'Auntie knows best'.
I hate it when people use 'boyfriend' or 'girldfriend' of two year olds. "She's got a playdate with her boyfriend'. PLEASE. She is having tea with a friend, nothing more. There really is no need to sexualise (or at the very least, romanticise) relationships among those who won't hit puberty for another 10 years. It's unnecessary and not cute.
Or Cosy Toes.
"I feel very cosy toes"
I nearly punched someone's lights out for saying that! OK slight exaggeration but I wanted to
.....you mean you literally punched someone's lights out?
One guy I knew, referring to an incident in a football match, said "He literally threw his leg at it". He couldn't understand why I found it so amusing.
Oh! And "car crash interview". Can you get any more nonsensical?
Team building exercise (no, no I'll be fine. The whimpering and rocking will stop as soon as I can get out of a pointless activity with a group of people who also don't want to be there).
I know for a full fact
Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy
Can we watch Buffy for the millionth time
(Yeah I have recently squired 5 step children whom I love as my own but that's the phrases/ thing they do that winds me up
"scream racism/homophobia" - almost always an exaggeration of what was actually said.
I used to do voluntary work and it was guaranteed someone would say "Let's do some team building games!" or "Let's have some ice-breakers!" But the worst thing was that there would always be someone with a guitar covered in CND and Save the Whale stickers who would say "Let's all gather round and sing 'Streets of London'." That was the cue to head for the pub for some real team building
That one's odd because while it sounds quite old-fashioned, I only remember it from recent years. I don't know anyone who uses it.
ETA I found this in the Telegraph. Full article here. 'Fall pregnant' seems to be a bit like a 'fall from grace'. Doesn't seem like it was considered a Good Thing until recent usage.
I find this really annoying!
I see people starting threads with this in the title all the time and I click on them to see if anyone has corrected them on their poor grammar. Is it a 'thing' to speak like that now or are people really that stupid that they can't construct a proper sentence?
Another one I find really irritating is -
Swear down