Annoying Phrases

We all hear them every day and some of us probably use them without realising it. I thought it might be interesting to list some of them so that we can remove them from our conversations and help others do the same.


I'll start with my favourite:

"At the end of the day"

I've actually heard this open and end a sentence before now. It went something like this:

"At the end of the day it's up to you, you know, and that's what it's all about at the end of the day"




Anyone got any more?

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Great topic Mog.

I hate the phrase "chilling out".
People use it when they try to turn "slobbing on the couch in my pants" into an aspirational activity.

It's nearly always used as a response to someone who says "I had dinner on the QE2 with Stevie Wonder at the weekend, after they helicoptered me in from my morning's snowboarding in St Moritz... what did you get up to?"

"Ahh, y'know... just chilled out really."

At least have the balls to say "Ate Pot Noodle in my pants whilst watching Hollyoaks. And I bet it was a shit-load better than your weekend."

Even worse, is the new composite in linguistic pretension: "chillaxing".

Oh sod off. How old are you? 11?





... and... breathe.

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chillaxing


Hmmm, that's like somebody scraping their nails on a black board, the kind of person who would say that is almost certainly not somebody I'd send a Christmas card to.

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Here's another one:

Some people I know use the phrase "Googlewhacking" for any kind of search on Google. As people who post on forums we all know that a Googlewhack is "a search query consisting of two words that return a single result". I have to try really hard not to be the bloke who corrects people when they say it. Is it worse to go along with it and have it annoy you forever or to just jump in with the correction?

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:)


"Face time"

I hate that phrase, it basically means being seen at work for the sake of being seen rather than actually working. QMB is a fine example of a face timer.


:speechless:

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I see.

"Would you mind coming in to do some overtime over the weekend?"

That's a phrase I hate. Hmmm? :biggrin:

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Over time? Time would be nice

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Oooooooh that stings. :getmycoat:

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Only joking QMB :)

Kind of a bit dumb having this conversation on the forum, you still got those Caramel biscuits?

AIL Staff

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i HATE it when people say "innit"


aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhh

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:nod:

Yep, absolutely hate that, London is not the place to live if you don't like hearing it though!

:)

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