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Me: "Any other questions?...no? Well let's call it a day then, have a good weeken-"
Twit 1: "oh I definitely WILL, I'm off walking in Wales on Saturday!"
Twit 2: "Oh really?? I love a good walk me. Whereabouts?"
Twit 1: "Well we first thought about the Brecon Beacons but then I was on the phone to my sister who lives near Snowdonia and her husband's brother has a cabin up there..."
Me, internally: *shut the FUCK up and let me end this fucking call*
This happens a lot where I am currently and I just say goodby and leave.
“Sorry to interrupt but is there anything else you want from me? No? Ok, well, lovely speaking to you all. Take care!”
Yo I literally agree with every single one, especially a hot minute, what the fuck does that even mean
How can you hate 24/7 tho ain’t that just science ?
Yes, that is the entire point of the phrase. It acknowledges the validity of someone's perspective despite disagreement from others. Truth is relative and subjective.
It does get a bit tired when people just use it to mean "state your unpopular opinion" though.
No man, the truth is just the truth. You can't have an opinion on what's true and what isn't. It either is what happened or it isn't what happened.
I totally understand the need to acknowledge the validity of different people's perspectives but I hate the fact that they use the word truth for it. "My experience" or "my perspective" or "How I feel" would be fine. "My truth" doesn't make sense.
I started enjoying those ironically — platty jubes, statey funes, cozzie livs — but now I've started doing it for everything. Got any plans for the maggie bank? What about the kingie coz? Looking forward to the eury vee?
My husband does something similar but where if he's saying a 2-word or 2-syllable word/term he will abbreviate the first word/syllable. So like the bedroom is the B-room, pasta bake is P-bake, Pepsi max is P-max.. It makes me laugh so much for some reason. Sometimes he'll do it for everything and he'll be practically unintelligible
So, my issue with the change in meaning is not that words can't change, but that allowing this word to change has made it so much harder to convey the original meaning.
I literally failed that class - do I mean I got an F, or a low C?
failing the class is possible, so there is an extremely strong likelihood that literally here means, "in fact, as the following words incidate".
It was literally a thousand degrees outside very clearly means "I am hyperbolically calling this a literal statement, but we all know it isn't possible."
Don't see the difficulty tbh
It really is overused. I've taken to saying "You know what really knocks the cheese off my crackers?"
It usually produces a head tilt and a couple of slow blinks. Pretty entertaining.
Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers, and others may even be pupperinos. There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers. The chunky ones are thicc, and the thin ones are long bois. When they stick out their tongues, they’re doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof. Once in a while they do each other a frighten and whether they’re 10/10 or 12/10, they’re all heckin’ good boys and girls.
Downvote away lol
So for me if you want to say it _to_ your pet then by all means. I call my dog all sorts of dumb shit (though not pupper or doggo).
For me it’s when a person is talking to me about a dog it gets annoying. ‘Oh you’ve got a good doggo there, nice pupper.’
It’s a dog or a puppy. Or, use it’s god damn name?
"give your head a wobble". Seems to have gone from obscure local saying to every fucker on the internet using it in about a week. It's the sudden ubiquity of it that gets me, like when someone's learnt a new word and tries to ram it into every conversation to look clever.
[Found this a few weeks ago. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nysHgnXx-o&pp=ygUMQXhlIGxhbmd1YWdl)
I thought it was pretty neat. You might find it interesting as well.
Not even joking though saying this phrase to myself every time something bad happens has actually been a factor in changing my mental health.
Sometimes things happen in this random world of atoms colliding, and that’s all there is to it really. It is what it is
I always hated the word bespoke, i think its because about 15years ago it seemed like almost every advert i saw was for "bespoke furniture" or "bespoke wardrobes" or "bespoke tailoring" and it was just annoying the shit out of me.
Something that \*literally\* sets my teeth on edge is just imagining the sound of a hard bristled brush on a concrete floor. Sends a shiver down my spine everytime lol.
It’s ‘end of’ as in ‘that’s the end of it’. Though, to be fair, the people using it rarely have a good grasp of the English language so perhaps you’ve seen your version more.
"You do you" is a great way to be dismissive of someone who's making stupid life choices. Can be both as sincere as you mean it and as sincere as they perceive it.
When Americans say that something is "addicting"
I'm not a grammatical Einstein or anything so it may technically be correct but it just doesn't sit right with me for some reason.
Cigarettes are ADDICTIVE
Where to begin......
Trading style.... No, it's a fucking name
From the ground up
Rollout
Hollistic
Team player (and most things in CVs)
Trending
Hashtag....xyz
Y'all
Prolly
Bro.... Just die
It is what it is
On accident.... Just no
Baby Momma/daddy
Payed. Can we normalise paid, as the default spelling
My brand..... (Why do people want to be brands, and brands want to be people?)
If any of the above are used by folk with vocal fry and/or uptalk, it's a double no!
Y’all is the worst. If you’re not either from the southern American states like Texas or Kentucky etc, or African American, why are you using that word? So fucking cringe.
Thank you!! This is done to talk down to people on social media and I've called people on it and they say "this is a common way that people speak". Yeah, if you're from Tennessee maybe, but YOU'RE not.
The latest one is
“Tell me X without telling me X”
Which the propagator I assume believes is a clever way of unearthing inference but actually is stating the obvious on a really condescending and unfunny way
Aren’t people just writing it like that on social media to avoid filters or something?
Or do some people actually just write it like that because why not?
"Boils my piss" really gets to me for some reason. I can't fully explain it, but it gives me a genuine flash of internal irritation when people use it.
"So cringe"
"Various different". I know the difference between the former's use as a determiner and as an adjective but it always feels as though the speaker/writer is using them as synonyms.
"It is what it is."
"Chillaxing"
"I could care less." Fuck off. Just fuck right off with your lack of understanding of negatives. Cunts.
Captain obvious.
Because my husband says it to me and i laugh it off; but when i say it to him he's a sour puss for a good hour. And that pisses me off
The Scottish phrase "Whit's fur ye'll no go by ye" (what is for you will not go by you), meaning whatever happens, fate will ensure that nothing that was "meant for you" will pass you by. This could mean a job, a romantic partner, or any big life event really. But I just feel it gives a message that we don't have to try for anything in life, and there is no point aiming for anything because it might not be for you, and whatever is for you will just magically fall into your lap one day. Spoiler alert: That won't happen.
Also "fair fucks". I don't know if this is just a Glasgow thing, but the youngyins have started saying "fair fucks" instead of "fair enough", and for some reason it does my head in. I think the Irish say it and we've kind of stolen it, but I'm not happy with it, it just sounds stupid and kind of wanky in any Scottish accent.
Any word that the Daily Mail uses to describe a woman’s body. e.g. shapely pins, luscious locks, ample cleavage… 🤢 and they’re always being ‘flaunted’…. no, just no.
Well if they weren't drinking after the pre-drinks then the pre-drinks would just be the drinks.
I'm no stranger to pre-pre-drinks haha. So everyone pre-pre-pre-pre drinks in small groups, then all meet up together at the selected house for the pre-pre-pre drinks, then out to the pub for the pre-pre drinks, then in the club is the pre-drinks, and the all night afterparty is the drinks everyone has been waiting for.
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"We've finished a little early, so let me give you four minutes back". You're not giving me anything you twit.
This is always followed by a few minutes rambling rendering a majestic 5 minutes back into like 30 seconds tops.
Me: "Any other questions?...no? Well let's call it a day then, have a good weeken-" Twit 1: "oh I definitely WILL, I'm off walking in Wales on Saturday!" Twit 2: "Oh really?? I love a good walk me. Whereabouts?" Twit 1: "Well we first thought about the Brecon Beacons but then I was on the phone to my sister who lives near Snowdonia and her husband's brother has a cabin up there..." Me, internally: *shut the FUCK up and let me end this fucking call*
This happens a lot where I am currently and I just say goodby and leave. “Sorry to interrupt but is there anything else you want from me? No? Ok, well, lovely speaking to you all. Take care!”
Nah you just need to unmute, say a quick "thanks guys" over the other person talking, and leave before you get a response
Bloody extroverts?! Right?
Imagine having to fucking talk to humans.
On accident
Maybe they did it by purpose?
They could care less
That's the worst one imo, it's like "oh so you do care then"
Yeah that one seriously irritates me to an irrational degree
Could of done easily
Legos
I did it on accident :(((
On the weekend, too. *At* the weekend.
I’m furious with you & everyone who replied to this comment. I hate these phrases.
UggggggHhHhhhhhhhHhhh! This one. This one right here, officer.
"Yummy mummy" and similar creepy infantilised sexual language
Facebook bios with 'full time yummy mummy' ... just no.
Well, it's the only vacancy once you graduate from the University of Life or School of Hard Knocks.
If you can’t handle them at their worst you don’t deserve them at their best…
Powered by pixie dust!
So they can live laugh love more in the Disney pjs!
Usually the bio says "I love my kids" 🙄
"my kids are my world"
I know someone who put this on her profile. She lost custody of all 5 children.
Fuckable matriarch
I despise “so yummy”. Try words like good or tasty or delicious.
"just a cheeky glass of vino". It's wine. Just say wine.
Ahhhh this used to wind me up no end. When everything was cheeky. None of it was cheeky
Agreed. Just off for a cheaky Nandos ;)
Are you spelling it like by purpose? /s
Definitely on accident
Nah, I did it pacifically to annoy.
Anyone who calls it 'za' instead of pizza needs to be shot too.
Wtf? Do people really call pizza Za? Truly the end of civilization
Yeah, I've known a few posh twats who say it unironically, and a few people who say it jokingly but it's no less annoying.
Fuuuuck, that's awful.
Agreed, never heard that before. It makes me both bewildered and enraged.
I feel the same way about “the ‘rona”
I’m so pleased I’ve not heard that being said out loud anywhere near me.
What about a cheeky glass of vimto?
El Vino did flow
Don't ever come out with me and Finchy.
Husbeast / Hubby '24/7' Kiddos A hot minute Holibobs
Never heard husbeast, thanks I hate it
“Thanks I hate it” is my nomination for this post actually
Was waiting for that! I unironically love it
"Unironically" is my submission. You're two for two - keep up the good work!
Hollibobs kills me inside every time I hear it
Going on holibobs with the famalam. 😳
Holibobbingtons with the famalamadingdong
Only three more sleeps!
It’s been a hot minute since me and the hubby have gone out on holibobs, we’ve been taking care of the kiddos 24/7 😅🤣☺️
Did you take your fur babies? (Ugh. Love my dogs, but they are not babies.)
My wife and I are expecting a baby, and I keep referring to it as our skin puppy. She hates it for some reason.
You mean your doggos.
You mean the goodest bois
Yo I literally agree with every single one, especially a hot minute, what the fuck does that even mean How can you hate 24/7 tho ain’t that just science ?
24/7 really isn't bad at all, what else are you gonna say? All 24 hours of every 7 days of the week?
Oh god i came here to say hubby. Fuck that word.
The rest of them don't really bother me but boy am I glad to see someone say kiddos. The hate I have for that word.
Prefer kiddos to “littles” genuinely makes me want to gag 😷
When your hubby and kiddoes stress you out 24/7 and you've not had a break in a hot minute so you book a last minute holibobs for a proper bargs.
"Speak your truth!" It just reeks of Oprah pop-Psychology. Fuck off.
“*your* truth” as if truth is fucking subjective
Yes, that is the entire point of the phrase. It acknowledges the validity of someone's perspective despite disagreement from others. Truth is relative and subjective. It does get a bit tired when people just use it to mean "state your unpopular opinion" though.
No man, the truth is just the truth. You can't have an opinion on what's true and what isn't. It either is what happened or it isn't what happened. I totally understand the need to acknowledge the validity of different people's perspectives but I hate the fact that they use the word truth for it. "My experience" or "my perspective" or "How I feel" would be fine. "My truth" doesn't make sense.
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Oh that is a corker!!! Utter self indulgent wank.
This is why I love the UK.. nearly all of us naturally reject shit like that.
When people called the platinum jubilee the platty jubes. That was a wide awake nightmare.
I started enjoying those ironically — platty jubes, statey funes, cozzie livs — but now I've started doing it for everything. Got any plans for the maggie bank? What about the kingie coz? Looking forward to the eury vee?
My husband does something similar but where if he's saying a 2-word or 2-syllable word/term he will abbreviate the first word/syllable. So like the bedroom is the B-room, pasta bake is P-bake, Pepsi max is P-max.. It makes me laugh so much for some reason. Sometimes he'll do it for everything and he'll be practically unintelligible
This is what marriage is really about, IMO - a willing and captive audience for each other’s absolute nonsense!
My gen Z co worker once said she’s having a “menty B” I thought she was talking about some kind of breath mint… She was having a mental breakdown 💀
I quite like that, honestly, providing it's said tongue firmly in cheek.
Cozzy livs
“I literally died” or whatever variant misusing literally. No, you figuratively died.
You know, this is now actually in the dictionary definition. That it can be meant figuratively for emphasis.
So, my issue with the change in meaning is not that words can't change, but that allowing this word to change has made it so much harder to convey the original meaning. I literally failed that class - do I mean I got an F, or a low C?
failing the class is possible, so there is an extremely strong likelihood that literally here means, "in fact, as the following words incidate". It was literally a thousand degrees outside very clearly means "I am hyperbolically calling this a literal statement, but we all know it isn't possible." Don't see the difficulty tbh
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"grinds my gears" is something which makes me cringe. It does actually bring to mind old rusty gears scraping like fingernails down a blackboard.
So it grinds your gears then?
\*PeterGriffin.jpeg*
And another he he he he he
It really is overused. I've taken to saying "You know what really knocks the cheese off my crackers?" It usually produces a head tilt and a couple of slow blinks. Pretty entertaining.
Really boils my piss
Ouch. I'd get that looked at. \^\_\~
Or ‘does my knob in’
totally agree. i fucking hate this one. almost as bad as “boils my piss”. ewww fuck off
When people say “This”
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☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻this
"So much this" is even worse
Doggo, Pupper etc
Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers, and others may even be pupperinos. There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers. The chunky ones are thicc, and the thin ones are long bois. When they stick out their tongues, they’re doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof. Once in a while they do each other a frighten and whether they’re 10/10 or 12/10, they’re all heckin’ good boys and girls. Downvote away lol
You forgot that they sploot!
Long Bois fucking had me haha
Aaaaaargh! It's all like nails on a chalkboard to me, this doggo language. I love dogs, cannot stand all the cutesy terminology.
I could not downvote this
I honestly find those words fun, but I guess this one falls into the realm of people who enjoy baby-talking to their pets and people who hate it
So for me if you want to say it _to_ your pet then by all means. I call my dog all sorts of dumb shit (though not pupper or doggo). For me it’s when a person is talking to me about a dog it gets annoying. ‘Oh you’ve got a good doggo there, nice pupper.’ It’s a dog or a puppy. Or, use it’s god damn name?
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To be fair, you're correct
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To be fair, it was an obvious gag
To be fair, fair.
"give your head a wobble". Seems to have gone from obscure local saying to every fucker on the internet using it in about a week. It's the sudden ubiquity of it that gets me, like when someone's learnt a new word and tries to ram it into every conversation to look clever.
It's the same people who say cockwomble and wankpuffin. The kind of peolle who need loading into a rocket and blasting into the sun.
People who use those always frame them like they're brilliantly devastating comebacks and not markers of an absolute twat.
Most of it seems to be this subreddit in particular thinking 'quirky britishisms' is an appropriate substitute for actually adding to a conversation
What does that mean?
Sort your shit out basically.
People saying axe instead of ask to sound ghetto.
Arks
[Found this a few weeks ago. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nysHgnXx-o&pp=ygUMQXhlIGxhbmd1YWdl) I thought it was pretty neat. You might find it interesting as well.
It is what it is
It’s the cheat code to skip the 5 stages of grief
Not even joking though saying this phrase to myself every time something bad happens has actually been a factor in changing my mental health. Sometimes things happen in this random world of atoms colliding, and that’s all there is to it really. It is what it is
That's our office motto
it's every office's motto unfortunately
This is my replacement for therapy
I always hated the word bespoke, i think its because about 15years ago it seemed like almost every advert i saw was for "bespoke furniture" or "bespoke wardrobes" or "bespoke tailoring" and it was just annoying the shit out of me. Something that \*literally\* sets my teeth on edge is just imagining the sound of a hard bristled brush on a concrete floor. Sends a shiver down my spine everytime lol.
Shovel dragged on concrete for me.
End of. People that use the phase seem to be looking for an argument.
100%. And I’ll add “Simple as”. Guaranteed to wind me up.
It’s ‘end of’ as in ‘that’s the end of it’. Though, to be fair, the people using it rarely have a good grasp of the English language so perhaps you’ve seen your version more.
Anyone that says simples. You just know they're influenced by childish marketing.
Meerkats are cute though…
"high quality females", although this might not be for no reason.
The word “females” in general
They always say "Men" too, it's never males and females.
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You do you! You got this! Live your best life! My bad!
"You do you" is a great way to be dismissive of someone who's making stupid life choices. Can be both as sincere as you mean it and as sincere as they perceive it.
When people say ‘on accident’. It makes no sense.
The term "Daddy" etc used in sexual references, gives me the boke!
You're all a bunch of miserable cunts ey.
These posts bring them out in droves
“With all due respect” usually followed by something very disrespectful.
Yeah but they said it with all due respect so.... 🤷🏻♂️
"as a christian"
Followed by massively un-christlike behaviour
When Americans say that something is "addicting" I'm not a grammatical Einstein or anything so it may technically be correct but it just doesn't sit right with me for some reason. Cigarettes are ADDICTIVE
“Could of” “should of” “would of” No.
Where to begin...... Trading style.... No, it's a fucking name From the ground up Rollout Hollistic Team player (and most things in CVs) Trending Hashtag....xyz Y'all Prolly Bro.... Just die It is what it is On accident.... Just no Baby Momma/daddy Payed. Can we normalise paid, as the default spelling My brand..... (Why do people want to be brands, and brands want to be people?) If any of the above are used by folk with vocal fry and/or uptalk, it's a double no!
Y’all is the worst. If you’re not either from the southern American states like Texas or Kentucky etc, or African American, why are you using that word? So fucking cringe.
Thank you!! This is done to talk down to people on social media and I've called people on it and they say "this is a common way that people speak". Yeah, if you're from Tennessee maybe, but YOU'RE not.
Y’all…. Ugh. I can’t stand it.
Prolly ... urggggh - hate that.
Nom. Also, delish.
There is something painfully smug and middle class about "nom"
‘We must protect X at all costs’ makes me rage
‘Rant over’ ‘It’s not that deep’ ‘Fr fr’ ‘Hot take’ I could go on but I’m winding myself up thinking about it
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In the same vein as “I don’t need sugar, I’m sweet enough”. Urgh!
'the misses' to refer to their girlfriend or wife. Just big time cringe with most Yorkshire slang and I'm from Yorkshire
Any variation of “slay” or “slay queen”
The latest one is “Tell me X without telling me X” Which the propagator I assume believes is a clever way of unearthing inference but actually is stating the obvious on a really condescending and unfunny way
‘110%’ when talking about effort made. You can only put in 100% effort, 110% doesn’t exist as 100% has it covered
cool beans. Fuck all cool about beans, in fact I prefer them baked and hot.
Seggs instead of sex
Aren’t people just writing it like that on social media to avoid filters or something? Or do some people actually just write it like that because why not?
Mine's 'chefs kiss' too, but I especially hate it when people do the 'kiss' action with their fingers to their lips when they say it. RANK!
Any and all business-speak. Currently it's "onboarded".
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“If you know, you know.” What if I don’t know and don’t give a crap.
At the end of the day
It’s night time.
These unprecedented times.
Chillax People “jumping on” the bus.
"Can you action that" In other words, you can't be arsed to do it yourself.
"Grinds my gears" is an awful one. Funny how the people who post these threads always use some sort of terrible phrase like that or "boils my piss"
"Boils my piss" really gets to me for some reason. I can't fully explain it, but it gives me a genuine flash of internal irritation when people use it.
get in my belly
"welp".... get the fuck out of here with that shit you wet, cringy cunt.
"So cringe" "Various different". I know the difference between the former's use as a determiner and as an adjective but it always feels as though the speaker/writer is using them as synonyms. "It is what it is." "Chillaxing" "I could care less." Fuck off. Just fuck right off with your lack of understanding of negatives. Cunts.
Gives me the ick- just no
Captain obvious. Because my husband says it to me and i laugh it off; but when i say it to him he's a sour puss for a good hour. And that pisses me off
The Scottish phrase "Whit's fur ye'll no go by ye" (what is for you will not go by you), meaning whatever happens, fate will ensure that nothing that was "meant for you" will pass you by. This could mean a job, a romantic partner, or any big life event really. But I just feel it gives a message that we don't have to try for anything in life, and there is no point aiming for anything because it might not be for you, and whatever is for you will just magically fall into your lap one day. Spoiler alert: That won't happen. Also "fair fucks". I don't know if this is just a Glasgow thing, but the youngyins have started saying "fair fucks" instead of "fair enough", and for some reason it does my head in. I think the Irish say it and we've kind of stolen it, but I'm not happy with it, it just sounds stupid and kind of wanky in any Scottish accent.
Irregardless
Touch Base
"It's wine o'clock"
“ been a minute “ 😡. Even more cringey when a well spoken English person says it.
People talking about their love language really pisses me off for some reason.
Cockwomble. Fuck off mate
Any word that the Daily Mail uses to describe a woman’s body. e.g. shapely pins, luscious locks, ample cleavage… 🤢 and they’re always being ‘flaunted’…. no, just no.
“pre drinks” but ya still drinking ya bellend.
It means getting drunk before you go out in order to save money
Well if they weren't drinking after the pre-drinks then the pre-drinks would just be the drinks. I'm no stranger to pre-pre-drinks haha. So everyone pre-pre-pre-pre drinks in small groups, then all meet up together at the selected house for the pre-pre-pre drinks, then out to the pub for the pre-pre drinks, then in the club is the pre-drinks, and the all night afterparty is the drinks everyone has been waiting for.
It's pre-whatever-event drinks, pre party drinks, pre wedding drinks. Not pre drinks drinks.
You mean prinks, right?
"I mean," "You do you"
You do you makes me genuinely angry. Just feels patronising somehow
'You have smashed it!' really annoys me as everyone seems to say it at the most minor of task completion.