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

One cup of coffee please.

That will be just £4.25

Imagine thinking thats a suitable price. Listen *clap emoji* to *clap emoji* customers. Do better

Fine, you do you

no worries, I will

i couldn't stand to hear 'you do you' but now i use it all the time. brevity wins.

always think that one is quite handy and supportive.

sounds extremely pass agg to me

Go do yourself

One does one.

Kinky.

impossible to escape the word "dogwhistle" during the 2008 election

'Pre-Prep'.

"I am absolutely shocked that _________ who does _______ is also doing_______"

"It's almost as if ________ who does ________ doesn't know/understand/care about_________"

i regret to inform that this thread is back on its bullshit

sorry trace this construction annoys me

but like most of these it's a lot to do with the ubiquity

lol sorry hadrian i wasn't clear - i was demonstrating a phrase whose ubiquity has become unavoidable and rather grandly irritating rather than replying to you :)

ah, ok!

“no worries”

“It’s not you. It’s me.” Ok, so you’re just an asshole throwing out cliches.

“latest and greatest”

Thanks to duolingo i can now say walk with me in french.

Deep dive

ok boomer is everywhere and 99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative

Ok boomer

punching old

99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative

language must be liberated from notions of content asap

"Doggo"

Also "very good boy"

14/10 heckin' good post

my puppo just done a bork

this is precisely the point of it
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:27 AM (one hour ago)

how so? the point appears to be "acting like a self-satisfied older neoliberal is obnoxious and due for many of our current problems" not "let's call anyone annoying us a boomer" - it's like an even dumber bye felicia.

and responsible for* etc u get the pt

"give your head a wobble"

customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.

https://i.imgur.com/N9PJi9a.png

I think that "don't worry" in that context is code for "please do not yell at me like everyone else does".

Shoot, is it? Too late.

Not sure I hate it, but lately the thing where people reply 'That's okay' to 'Thank you' is really tickling me:

CASHIER: 'That's £5.95, and here's your change'
CUSTOMER: 'Thank you'
CASHIER: 'That's okay'

FRIEND 1: I just got accepted for an amazing dream job!!
FRIEND 2: Wow, congratulations, that's brilliant
FRIEND 1: Thank you
FRIEND 2: That's okay

SUPERMAN: 'Here are the baddies to put in prison'
MAYOR: 'The city is safe again! Thanks Superman'
SUPERMAN: 'That's okay'

...and here's why

Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)

"did a racism"

Knock yourself out

'Like', that fatuous word sticking out like a sore thumb in conversational English. It's like killed American podcasts for me, like, the word just pops up like every five seconds. I used to think littering sentences with 'like' was solely an American thing, but last time I was in England I heard it quite a lot?

My podcast bugbear is Americans starting an answer with "So" and ending it with "right?"

Starting an answer with "So" is just what politicians et al do in the UK these days.

'Like' has been a thing in UK and US English forever really and I'm guilty of it myself. But there's a certain tone to a lot of podcasts that amplifies it, definitely

"So" used to annoy me as the classic opener for broadsheet columnists and Guardian letter writers ("So Celebrity X claims..." etc). As the beginning of an answer to a direct question it just signals to me that evasion will follow.

State of this, state of that...

Screw 'so', go 'hwæt' or gtfo.

one of my supervisors does the "so..." opening to a "...right?" closing for nearly every sentence uttered. one of those things where once you notice it, it's very distracting and grating.

Chicken cacciatore.

No idea why.

across from the medical center