Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)

Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.

I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.

This is true.

But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.

Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

Or a colon.

COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"

"hating on"

"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.

Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.

A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

my cat had a number of publications before we met so she kept her maiden name of Cholmondeley

Our cat has my wife's last name because it sounds better with his first name (and is good for rhymes).

I haven’t made any judgements about Widget’s potential human speaking voice but his elderly whippet uncle Wilf, who was a huge part of my life until he died last October, was said to have borrowed the voice of Kenneth Williams.

dogs and cats' brains lack broca's area and have a severely diminished wernicke's area, this means that though they can pick up a limited vocabulary, they are unable to use grammar. if your pet could speak, it would be only using individual words/utterances. so if you want to imagine them speaking you do not need to be constrained by reality.

Damn. All that time teaching W to conjugate verbs was a complete waste.

things that my cat is which i remind him of daily:
sweet boy
fluffernutter (he's an orange tabby)
sugar booger
carpetbagger
pumpkin horker (he loves canned pumpkin)
tub o' love
handsome, as a noun. i.e. you're such a handsome.
sassafras
cutie patootie with a big bazootie

Re: picky bits. I dont mind people dropping this usually IRL from time to time. It grates when a brand does it

'picky bits' sounds like 'sensitive ballsack' to me *shrug*

picky tea

― kinder, Saturday, December 23, 2017 9:22 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Glad you're all coming round - hoped this would die a death but instead, as you've noted, it's in the bloody supermarkets now.
Just makes me think of scabs

i call my elderly male cat alternately “big boy” or “little man”, “potato”, “Mister Sir” and various permutations thereof

yes, "picky bits" can fuck off, every few months this country tries to gaslight me into thinking that some twee marketing bollocks they just made up is in fact intangible cultural heritage at the core of our national identity.

My obnoxious cat epithets:

animal
beautiful animal
wee beastie
creature
monkey
white cat
black cat
blue/green/yellow eyes ("owl eyes" for the one whose pupils almost constantly look like she's trippin on acid)
loudmouth
puzzled panther (Germs reference)

rat creature (Jeff Smith/Bone reference)

pretty sure a colleague from about a decade ago brought their snacks into work in a decorated tub that said "picky bits" on, the sort of thing you get in a card and gift shop

It’s giving dead skin…

Oh I have one of these. … ONE OF WHAT?

anonydogs to me are labelled “pup” or “pups.” anonycats and often my just get “cat.”

i just started yesterday as a vol at a local humane society, intending to do both cat and dog work, so i suspect these may change.

there is a cat there who lives in seclusion who was lifted as a juvenile by a raptor and had all the skin from face to neck ripped off to bare flesh. he is loved well loved fixture. he is named “creature.”

“my own”

Lily, Anna replied (her mum is from Montenegro) and says:

Low/mid 30s is pleasant in Montenegro. It's much less humid than here. I'm assuming they're sleeping outdoors?? If they're sleeping up a mountain it will be lovely and cool. If they're down near the water there may be mosquitos. But it should be fine. Is she particularly sensitive to heat? It feels much worse here (London) than there...

breweries that now call themselves “fermentaries”

new to me

seems to be all over Virginia

Our dogs, Sally and Pearl sleep in our bed. So I call them “bed rats.”

Sally is a pit bull mix and her most used nickname is Chonkey Donkey.

Pearl is a boston terrier and is sometimes called Granny Panda, but also Shit Biscuit.

I call my dog "Bobo" at least as often as his given name, Howie

I also sometimes call him "muffinman" for some reason. it just makes sense.

Chonkin' on Bobo

I have a ridiculous amount of nicknames for Widget:

Widdy
Wibs (a friendship group of whippets are ‘wibbles’)
Minou/Min-min
One-one
Sweetheart/Sweetie
Baba
Widiot

There are others, but life is short!

Picky bits is another development in the UK's fetishisation of bad industrial food.

We’ve had a cat for five years who failed to acquire a name due to kids’ factionalism. So everyone calls her something different. Me? “Scrungs”.

Best friend has an Australian doodle whose naming proved so difficult that he became Buster by default.

well my dog is nicknamed “Picky Bits” so i am offended

My dog picks his bits, how do you think I feel?

My cats had their bits removed

can anyone Britisher tell me why does Mark Clattenburg say 'picky bits' like that

i think i've just about had it with people zhuzhing things up