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

perhaps english specific gripes: i get unnerved over 'dock/docked' when referring to wages, and 'taking on' when enquiring if medical surgeries are accepting new patients in their registry...

'are you taking on any new NHS patients?' why not use 'accepting'? nobody seems to the phrase 'taking on' any other time...?!

these little usages are so strange to me and seem to stick out - i dunno why... is there a term for words that are only used in conjunction with specific activities like that...?

"Take On Me" is about trying to book a physical iirc

lmao, fuck's sake.

A slogan rather than a commonly-used phrase, but
See it
Say it
Sorted
is beginning to fill me with uncontrollable rage.

oh yikes

deems are you responsible for this

'taking on' sort of implies 'taking passengers on board' kind of thing imo. I don't mind it. "Taking on new staff" is another usage.

pretty common in the US - "taking on a new project"

Yeah, I think it’s common in other contexts in the UK too. “I’m not taking on any more work at the moment” a freelancer might say.

Might be nice to expand it usage though. “I’m sorry - I’m not taking on any more sexual partners at this time”.

"I'm not taking on any more accusations of sexual assault, sorry"

Irrationally angry when i hear our provincial health minister, a Brit, say "at the weekend". No one here knows what the hell you are saying.

'On the weekend' has the same effect on me.

divided by a common language.

can't relate to joy, huh

i mean it's usually talk of covid cases "at the weekend" so uh...

well my mind first goes to a nonexistant nightclub called "the weekend", that brings a little joy to it.

is "over the weekend" us only

No.

"out on the weekend" is the only acceptable way to say this

Not here it isn't.

I actually remember when I first heard the Neil Young song, "Out on the Weekend", thinking it was an odd title!

"the weekend" is correct imo

if Uncle Neil says it's right, we all must obey

i get unnerved over 'dock/docked' when referring to wages

how about when referring to the tails or ears of domesticated animals?

“Cinematic universe”

Lol first used on ilx in 2011 in reference to... David Lynch.

how do you feel about "docking"

keep it out of my universe

lol

Docking/sounding combo, now that’s living.

I can't begin to say

"Up with this I will not put."

Once upon a century ago this was a funny riposte by Churchill to criticism that he occasionally ended sentences with a preposition. 5000 years later, British politicians and journalists are still wont to trot out this phrase, apparently unaware of the original context, for no reason other than Colin Hunt-like jocularity... or so it seems. Just stop.

You know what annoys me?

Asking someone about a meeting and the following happens:

"Let's meet at [location] on Tuesday."

"When?"

"On Tuesday."

When you’re making plans via WhatsApp and reply quickly, only for the person to leave you hanging over the final FINAL confirmation. I am very much a ‘make plan, stick to plan’ person who does not require reconfirming an hour before the agreed time of activity. Or person presents you with a bunch of options, you choose one, and then *tumbleweeds*.

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There's room for ambiguity about 'Tuesday, which I've never fully mastered:

This Tuesday?

No - next Tuesday

Tuesday 23rd?

No - not this Tuesday, next Tuesday - Tuesday coming

???

Tuesday 30th obv - dummy!

no way is "Next Tuesday" 13 days away, you are having a laugh

suzy otm. Get out of here with same day confirmations on our very important cup of tea summit

Possibly - I do find there's room for surpising ambiguity with this and next.

Has this thread had people answering a question with 'So... (pause) (answer)' ? That's quite annoying, with its inference of 'you don't quite grok the full meta-level implications of this issue as clearly as I do. Let me enlighten you a little'

Oh god

A hardy stablemate of “Um, ”

I thought Alfred was complaining about them not saying what time on Tuesday.

^^ yes

I was using ‘Tuesday’ as a point of departure for another related complaint of difficulty of fixing meeting times.

Tuesday planning terrible all round.

Reminds me of that exchange in The Naked Gun 2 1/2:

- I promised Jane we'd meet her in the rear.

- Where's that, Frank?

- In the back.

Beware - all of these people are just asking to meet on that day of the week in order to exploit the acrostic potential of "C" "U" Next Tuesday! Only agree to meet on days that don't start with 'T'.

I began to doubt myself - so had to check that this confusion is indeed a thing.....(Another inarticulate phrase that slightly annoys.

It is a thing

but it only happens when the Tuesdays in question are occuring in the present week (so the question would have to be asked on a Sunday or Monday) and the subsequent week

no one would use it when referring to a Tuesday two weeks hence

never could get the hang of Tuesdays. We should scrap them really.

that Morrie fella is passed by now right