Phrases you hate...

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(That was supposed to be http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Basketball_Jones_single.jpg)

"Good times."

"Not so much."

"could i actually..."

"That's concerning."

"Shit eating grin"

http://flawlessvision.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/dogeatsshit.jpg

"to be hanged by the neck until dead"

busting my hump

K

going forward

"the money's still green"

Haha Aimless. Avoid old westerns I guess. xp

or new westerns trying to be old westerns

sentences that begin with "all I ask..."

Is it too much to ask?

How has 'man cave' not made its odious way into this thread yet?

Possibly nothing I hate more in my job then having to repeatedly write "including, but not limited to,..."

"I loves me some...."

^^^ otm

although the guys -- always guys -- who use "I loves me some" are in the same demographic that thinks "Not!" is a hilarious interjection.

"shoved down our throats"

Sadly, not always guys loves them some _________.

Is that the same demographic that uses "...said no one EVER."

"pop of color"

also, when, instead of saying "I love x", they just say "love!"

yes, doo dah

"pop of colour" is the worst

I thought 'pop of colour' was a contraction of 'population of colour' (like 'person of colour') at first.

"cow-orkers". This has not been amusing for a very, very long time.

"Can I get a drink STARTED for anyone?" at coffee places with lines

As though a coffee is an enormously complex project with various stages. I'll get it STARTED for you, and our team of coffee specialists will have it finished within an hour. I mean I appreciate the practice, I just think it sounds funny.

haha yeah

having worked at starbucks, "started" is accurate.

I sometimes hear americans saying "I'm going to have" or "I'm going to get" when ordering food/drinks instead of "may I please have or get if it's not too much trouble?"

guilty as charged.

SUBWAY ARTIST: What would you like today, sir?

ME: I'll get a 12-incher... and I'll take tomatoes, pickles, lettuce and mustard on it.

no, it ain't right.

I sometimes always hear americans saying "I'm going to have" or "I'm going to get"

"Alright mr. sandwich artist, you're working for me now, and this is how it's gonna be: I'm gonna have turkey on whole wheat bread. You're gonna slather it with mayonnaise. Then you're gonna layer it with turkey breast, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. Is that clear? Do we have an understanding?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFLUz1ZY-A

Sandwich artist

Probably said this before, but one of the only phrases I hate are when people say "myself" and "yourself" instead of 'me' and 'you'. you get a lot of English service-industry people doing the whole "Is there anything else I can do for yourself today at all?". The best one I heard about was in a hotel guestbook had written "Myself and my wife had a lovely time". What a cock.

"The room smelled like chestnuts."

Signed,

Me, Myself & Wife

"nuke (x) from space/orbit"

The "myself" thing is the sort of thing people who don't have the best grammar write to sound more educated. I find it kind of cute and it doesn't really annoy me.

I guess the same thing can be said about "May I please help the following guest" though.

I sometimes hear americans saying "I'm going to have" or "I'm going to get" when ordering food/drinks instead of "may I please have or get if it's not too much trouble?"

― conrad, Friday, November 15, 2013 3:51 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love the notion of saying "if it's not too much trouble?" in a fast food scenario.

I definitely say "Could I please get"

It's almost to the point sometimes where I think too hard about not saying "I'll take..." that when the cashier asks me what she can get for me today, I say "... ... CHESSEBURGER."

The "myself" thing is the sort of thing people who don't have the best grammar write to sound more educated. I find it kind of cute and it doesn't really annoy me.
this is called overcorrection iirc and it's a real sort of failed aspirational thing that some people do
cute is not a word i would use to describe this behavior but it's interesting it's being framed that way

this is like the sociolinguistics corpus collection thread tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXPJOUD7G0

lady on the phone just did the whole pacific/specific thing TWICE. that one doesn't annoy me so much. as Hurting says, it's kind of cute.