Words that grind your gears

FelineGuitars

Non-syncromesh gearbox

Babones

 I hate the way the word 'Epic' is bandied around these days. It's generally used to describe something that is anything but. It's become watered down.

'Fresh' is annoying too. Supermarkets and journalists seem to love the word.

HAL9000

Oops - double post.

HAL9000

'Hard-working families'. Do Cameron and Osbourne really need to squeeze this into every other sentence?

thermionic

HAL9000 said:

'Hard-working families'. Do Cameron and Osbourne really need to squeeze this into every other sentence?

Indeed.

Nobody ever thinks about us lazy single people!

thermionic

Also, I refuse to buy anything described as "artisan".

hungrymark

octatonic;957156" said:

"Man flu" when referring to actually having flu.A friend's girlfriend wrote it today on FB: "Thanks Mike, I now have your man-flu".

No you don't.You have Mike's flu.

Reminds me, flu when somebody means a cold, or migraine when they mean a headache. If you're not pretty much incapacitated, then you probably haven't got either.

10thumbs

People who say "arksed" instead of asked.

and "pacifically" when they mean specifically.

makes me want to punch them.

When I was at school , a kid in my class used to say Sumbarine , and Draclia  , not because he was just a little kid ,

he was an annoying 11yr old, who would not be told he was wrong, aggravating little shit.

Iamnobody

10thumbs;957934" said:

People who say "arksed" instead of asked.and "pacifically" when they mean specifically.makes me want to punch them.

When I was at school , a kid in my class used to say Sumbarine , and Draclia  , not because he was just a little kid , he was an annoying 11yr old, who would not be told he was wrong, aggravating little shit.

Good one - arksed. Isn't it a Londoner/Southern thing?

littlegreenman

Iamnobody said:

10thumbs;957934" said:

People who say "arksed" instead of asked.and "pacifically" when they mean specifically.makes me want to punch them.

When I was at school , a kid in my class used to say Sumbarine , and Draclia  , not because he was just a little kid , he was an annoying 11yr old, who would not be told he was wrong, aggravating little shit.

Good one - arksed. Isn't it a Londoner/Southern thing?

No, it's a can't be bothered speaking properly thing. Much like chimley or wevver.

lloyd

hungrymark said:

octatonic;957156" said:

"Man flu" when referring to actually having flu.A friend's girlfriend wrote it today on FB: "Thanks Mike, I now have your man-flu".

No you don't.You have Mike's flu.

Reminds me, flu when somebody means a cold, or migraine when they mean a headache. If you're not pretty much incapacitated, then you probably haven't got either.

Wiz for this.

TonyR

I hate the phrase "touch base" - e.g. "I just wanted to touch base with you regarding this afternoon's idea shower."

WTF - what is it with this "management speak", do they have people out there whose job it is to invent this stuff?

Grunfeld

[no gear grinding here...]

lasermonkey

Iconic. Apparently everything is these days.

speshul91

Uni students are clever. No. The ones I encounter are not CLEVER. Yes they might be academic geniuses but fuck me will they ever learn to cross a road AFTER LOOKING AND SEEING THE CAR WITH HEADLIGHTS ON AND INDICATORS.

Phil_aka_Pip

Not heard quite so much recently but this may be because I see fewer of the kind of people who make this mistake, but

"Rift" meaning "Riff"

and "Bottom String" meaning the "Top String" (FFS it isn't the bottom string 'cos it's closest to the floor!)

kjdowd

Curate. As in "Dean Wankley has curated the cheeses for this event" or "the chuckle brothers have curated the comedy tent".

Chosen. The word is chosen.

Museums are curated. Other things are chosen.

stratman3142

When politicians or (so called) experts start their response to an interview question with "Look!"

Sambostar

Yeah I find that is deeply patronising to the people who pay their wage, whilst allowing them time to make up an answer on the spot.

octatonic

Sambostar said:

Yeah I find that is deeply patronising to the people who pay their wage, whilst allowing them time to make up an answer on the spot.

I'm finding the 'I/we pay your wage' thing a bit tiresome, so let's add that to the list.