Annoying phrases

[Booldawg]

I hate it when people say 'as you do' at the end of sentences, eg 'I went to london - as you do' what sayings or phrases really annoy you?

[Wispy68]

Basically (Grrrrrrr!)

At the end of the day (Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!)

In my personal opinion/I personally think (You don't need to add the personal bit!)

He choked on his own vomit (as opposed to someone elses?)

Do you have the right time, please? (No, but I have the wrong time!)

I'm not being funny, but...(which usually means that you are).

[Ethel]

With all due respect to ... (no respect whatsoever)

Like....I was walking down the road, like, when I saw a dog, like...

Bless ..Awww, bless

You know what I mean?

In other words....

[SaxyJag]

'Innit, man' - "We're going out, innit man?"

Also, I used to work with a (very nice) teacher whose only annoying habit, when reporting on her pupils was to use the word 'seemingly' - "Well, seemingly, A had hit B in the playground etc."

[horsestache1]

Right.......You turn left, right!!!

So...........You are sooooo wrong!!!!

One guy at work always says forenoon, whats wrong with morning!

[andy-hughes]

"Virtually unique ...." - something is either unique or it isn't - there are no degrees of 'uniqueness'.

[gammaray]

"circa" when what is meant is about or around

[Wispy68]

A dozen or even worse, half a dozen. Isn't it quicker to just say SIX?!!!!!!

[joko]

i always think when someone says dozen or half a dozen (except when buying something) that its more of an approximation rather than a set amount and can mean 11-13 or 5-7 .... perhaps thats just me?

[sixpence]

The overused "myself" annoys me. People no longer say "my husband and I". It now seems to be "my husband and myself"
I'm not implying that the queen uses this word!!

[joko]

i don't like "am i the only one who..." or "does no-one else think...", that some people begin questions with.

of course they are not the only one!
i think its it a lazy way to phrase a question.

I also dislike it when people go into my mums shop and say "you haven't got one of these, have you?" or " you don't sell those, do you?"

instead of just asking the question, they answer, ask and assume all in one go, and they are often sighing or shaking their head or giving a sorrowful defeatist look, as though they are positive she doesn't sell them, yet they know the likelihood is she will.

[ajmmac]

i always answer the "you haven't got..." type ones with "How did you know that?"

[james_m246]

In my opinion I think, like, you lot have basically, like, summed it all up, like, and your all, like, virtually unique, like, innit.

Oh and you haven't got the right time have you?

Aww... bless... aww, you have, aww... belss.

[halfadaily]

"at the end of the day" instead of using "eventually" or a similar word.

"do you have any spare change/spare cigarette? " (of course I do, as well as carrying around spare keys, extra combs etc).

[Booldawg]

...and the worse one of all...'whatever' - this horrbile americanism taken from some banal situation comedy like Friends has made teenage girls to beleive that every debate or argument can be won by simply putting up one hand and saying 'whatever'.

[angeldraws]

Where i used to work we hated staff meetings so to make it more interesting, we would have a list of all the bosses little phrases, like:- the bottom line is; singing from the same hymn sheet, i tell a lie; and we used to record how many times he said them in one meeting - it made them so much more interesting but we would nearly wet ourselves laughing every time he used one...eventually he discovered why we were so eager to hold more meetings...Lol

Another boss used to turn to you and say 'and you know this, don't you so-and-so....' before he'd even said it!!!!!

mind you, we had this saying that if you see 2 people talking and one looks bored, our boss was the other one....!!

[spanner7853]

<PRE>at the end of the day.... annoying or what</PRE><PRE>and in all fainess. I used to work with a woman that it said it 20 times in one bloody meeting. aarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!</PRE>

[Gale_Snail]

I hate the phrase "To be honest"

[Wispy68]

Gob smacked and double whammy....GRRRRRRRR!!!!

[aidantraffor]

" I'm not being funny, but....." & "Whatever!"
But the worst one is "do you know what the speed limit is sir?"

[Triumph!]

I cannot believe that nobody hates the word....ABSOLUTELY, when used instead of "yes". One of my former managers was so fond of using it that I heard him break it up into several syllables with expletive, as in ab-so-f***-***-lute-ly in response to a solution that obviously delighted him!!
(This is intended to illustrate and not shock, dear ABers)