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

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.

'Whilst'

Uhh *Morrison Hotel* would like a word with LA Woman

Tracer Hand mentioned it nine years ago, but "good good" annoys me. It might be a "nine years ago" thing. It has been a long time since I heard it. I remember wondering at the time, all those years ago, way back when, if it was something to do with the Second World War, or the Keep Calm and Carry on Posters, or Joanna Lumley. It feels like an imitation of something that a sensible person might have said circa 1941.

"I am Francesca!" That was from the intro to the old NES game The Krion Conquest. In Japan it was called Magical Kids Doropie. The main character was a cute witch called Doropie, which was apparently a transliteration of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. That wouldn't cut it internationally so the US importers renamed her Francesca. This paragraph is completely off-topic but I couldn't find anywhere else for it to go.

Nine years ago wasn't 1941! It was 2015. No, it was 2017. I added when I should have subtracted. I mean, I added backwards. I went backwards, and then went backwards one more year. I should have gone backwards ten years and then moved forward one year. Not backwards. Nobody says "bad bad", right?

dismal stuff thanks again

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i guess 'pre-owned' is now largely accepted for things that were once called 'used'? which is of course absurd in in its own right, but

now there are ads for (the) Vintage (app) using the term 'pre-loved'

"pre-loved" has been a thing here (UK) for many years. Books, clothes, etc.

the letter e

"Slug"--as in, "the Jays need more slug in their lineup." Hearing that a lot the last few months...not "power," not even "slugging," but "slug." Wish I were still doing parent-teacher interviews: "Your child works hard, but he needs more think."

cf. “compute” as noun. I’ve also heard “slew” used like that. Not a fan.

did you also notice this first in the Jodi Dean piece from the AI thread? because i did, and i legit had to read the sentence a few times. i didn’t understand it.

still don’t, think it’s lazy

"Wrong answers only" was once a mostly harmless whimsy thing. Now it has become transparent engagement bait. Sad.

‘YouTuber’. Wince when I read it, as in https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/25/cheese-rolling-german-youtuber-tom-kopke-beats-all-time-champion-chris-anderson

dunno i really fucking hate “influencer” youtuber seems practically benign next to influencer

Hate them both, but "influencer" is even worse for me too. The idea that these influencers are actually influencing anybody is too depressing to contemplate.

"Influencer" is the new "famous for being famous."

just read some annoying realtor-speak... describing a vacant lot as a 'product'

“I think it’s a very fair price, considering where it is,” Emanuel said. “We just started our marketing of the product."

Deliverables. Just call a task, a task.

Americans ordering food: "Let me do a..."
British people calling food/drink "cheeky" ("I had a cheeky pint on the way home")

"several" is an annoying imprecise word imo. it's more than a few, so 5 or more? no more than a dozen, so 5-11? heaps.

Someone on the street whatsapp got chided for taking someone else's wheelie bin. "I think the blue job needs changing to a pink one", his wife said. "I need to check the numbers in future but I probably still won't. Think it is a blue brain thing" he said. Barf, even if it was meant in jest. Of course I then went back to my DIY task of putting up a garden trellis and said to my wife "lucky you have someone to do these blue jobs, eh?"

message them privately and ask them if they realize blue and pink jobs are teenage slang for sex acts

There are blue jobs and pink jobs around the house now? BARF.

yeah not good

Christ, yes, this is a thing with the kind of people who say hollybobs. It's fucking dreadful.

i don't believe that people this appalling could really exist

Ledge, I dare you to ask the group if there are lavender jobs, and if so, what are they?

professional cottager

Ledge, I dare you to ask the group if there are lavender jobs, and if so, what are they?

I don't even get involved in the LTN discourse.

OMG. I don’t join local WhatsApp groups when asked, because I flinch at bad spelling and phrasing such as ‘you was’.