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optics

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

also photonic inplace of optic

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"the....(insert superlative)...in pop."

― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

To return to the top of the thread, I still after 20 odd years gag on 'outreach' as a VERB....

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

the mightily empty "i could care less" variant on being unable to do the same

― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

People who pronounce the word "presentation" as "PRE-sentation".

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

since i was reading some VICIOUS anti- rachael ray sentiment last night and i'm still feelin' the love: "E.V.O.O. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL"

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

"YUM-O"

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

cf.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also: 'fridge,'

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

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Saying "it impacted on me" instead of "it had an impact on me"... well that's annoying enough but, just recently, I've heard people say "it impacted me" - which surely would only make sense if the speaker was a molar?

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

'fridge,'

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?"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

bougie, instead of bourgeois. heard it four times last week.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Chav"

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

bourgie?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Yes, sir, I am bougie, I am bougie... etc."

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

"what the...?"

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bougie

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

"He's on fire"

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

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

chav, prole, "get one...", but most of all commercials selling relatively expensive goods such as electrcal gubbins, fitted kitchens and the like where people say only "one-nine-nine-nine" instead of "nominally under two thousand quid". do you think not actually saying the proper number is fooling me?!!?!!

― stelf)xxx, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Raft"

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

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

which surely would only make sense if the speaker was a molar?

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?"

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

"let's unpack that (concept/policy/statement/generalisation)"

"hating on"

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! Oh! This one REALLY annoyed me the other day:

"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.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh i used to have a PA in the cubicle next to me for a while that said 'diarise' as in 'sure, john is free on tuesday morning, i'll diarise it'. aaaaarrrrggghh

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Boss"

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.

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not your fucking boss!!!!!!!!!!

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Madam" when used by shop assistants. This kept happening to me yesterday.

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.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

i like most of these. i just like variety. i do hate 'action', 'impact on, etc, though.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i call people 'boss'.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want you to think that I obsess over it, but "obsessing over something" as opposed to "being obsessed with/about something"

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

People saying 'momentarily' when what they mean is 'in a moment'.

'Whilst'

― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah i fkn hate 'whilst' and 'amongst'.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

i like whilst too! it's kinda romantic, like 'betwixt'.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

'betwexit' is ok, a girl i liked used it instead of between all the time. but whilst can fuck off.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

"The plane will be taking off momentarily"

"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

'betwexit' = betwizzle, obv

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

i bet you all hate 'innit', too. i can't help it! *weeps*

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

u say innit, only to piss people off, though, geez.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

everyone on this thread: get one grip

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

People who say or write 'cliche' when they mean 'cliched'–it's becoming very common and it really annoys me.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

everyone on this thread: get one grip

"No can do"

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with the original poster about 'veggies'.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Today I'm hating 'power off' and 'power down'. I've heard them said far too many times this morning.

'If I can just ask you to power off your machine'.

What's wrong with switch off?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Thanking you" instead of "Thank you". Aaaaaarggggggghhhh!

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Peeps," for some reason, stirs a visceral reaction in my soul. I loathe it so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

it's funny because andy's at the top of the thread are the exact things that bug me, too.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Literally" improperly used.

The word "proverbial" when overused or when not referencing a proverb but an idiom or cliche. (Correct: "Let's not count our proverbial chickens just yet." Incorrect: "I'm having a proverbial bad hair day.")

Redundancy in general.

Word inflation (i.e. "efficacious" for "effective" or "efficient").

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Diarise? Diarise?!?!?!?????

Add that to my list, please.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that, too. I usually tend to say "colloquial" instead, if it fits.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

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I despise it when serious media outlets insist on referring to something by a colloquial name: eg, 'Big Beautiful Bill', 'Wagatha Christie', 'Obamacare'. Barf. You don't have to do this!

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:45 (yesterday)

No Bobo
Where they are used to honk

― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:48 (yesterday)

Isn't the sad thing about the Big Beautiful Bill that its official name really is that?

― Alba, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:49 (yesterday)

Hopefully there's already a gay pornstar called Big Beautiful Bill.

― Posts That Witness Madness (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:50 (yesterday)

lol

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 13:52 (yesterday)

As kids born in the '60s, the older members of our family were the "grups," stolen from a Star Trek episode.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, July 12, 2025 1:31 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I heard this in the 1990s as well, along with "parental units" or, even worse, "p-units."

― peace, man, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 14:06 (yesterday)

Wagatha Christie - there's no other way to succinctly sum up the case, alas.

― Alba, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 14:15 (yesterday)

minimalism to mean just not a lot of stuff

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 14:20 (yesterday)

p-units

You know, like that Prince song "Parental Control"

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 15:14 (yesterday)

Parental Units is stolen from the Coneheads on SNL.

― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 15:44 (yesterday)

“On the go” anyone?

Sorry, what? Isn't that literally what people say when they're eating food uh... on the go?

― Floyd 'The Oyd' Lloyd (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 15:59 (yesterday)

It’s something people don’t really say unless they’re weirdly basic.

― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 16:03 (yesterday)

A misspelling i see all the time that bugs me: "peak" where "pique" is intended, as in "peak my interest".

― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 16:55 (yesterday)

have we discussed the newish usage of 'flex'? As in, 'yeah, those videos are his latest flex'

annoying but I'm also not sure there's another word that covers this particular usage... it really is its own thing

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 17:08 (yesterday)

A misspelling i see all the time that bugs me: "peak" where "pique" is intended, as in "peak my interest".

I don't see this nearly as often as "sneak peak".

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 16 July 2025 17:22 (yesterday)

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