Words/Phrases That Make You Want To Spit

[HonaloochieB]

'Twas. Tw@t.

[ratty]

Southampton!

[Guest]

'Reality TV star'

[HonaloochieB]

'Celebrity'. In connection with anything. Saddens me beyond measure.

[????]

But player as in 'Playa' is a fantastic word.....

[CamberwellOz]

This reminds me of word bingo. We used to play it all the time at work. Hours of enjoyment.

[HonaloochieB]

???? Wrote:

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> But player as in 'Playa' is a fantastic word.....

Agreed, and good as wheat.

[Marmora Man]

Anything that begins with "and now I'd like to introduce Cherie Blair / Booth to talk about her new book"

[HonaloochieB]

???? Wrote:

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> But player as in 'Playa' is a fantastic word.....

Unless it's used by a wannabee middle class wigga, in that situation it's less than dope, blud.

[HonaloochieB]

Marmora Man Wrote:

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> Anything that begins with "and now I'd like to

> introduce Cherie Blair / Booth to talk about her

> new book"

Particularly if uttered by Fiona Phillips/Paul O'Grady or any other day time TV dicksplash.

[HonaloochieB]

'Footy'. I'm not a fan of the game, but I know it's wrong.

[Nero]

'Gotten' instead of 'got'. It is very, very affected and very, very naff.

'Random' is another hackneyed word.

In fact, most cliched language gets my goat these days.

If you fancy a real laugh, go and listen to the Jeremy Vine show from Friday at around midday. There was a guest whose English was so poor and so choc-full of cliches that it would be very difficult to have parodied him.

[Guest]

A colleague organises large group meetings that go on for at least two hours and fills them with a quick-fire delivery of as many words as possible ending in 'ality' and 'isation' (we have even had 'isationality') in order to bludgeon everyone else into exhausted submission. I guess the idea is to demonstrate intellectual superiority, but secretly I suspect the stunned silence that follows each speech is because people are too polite to say, 'You do know that's not a real word, don't you.'

It makes my inner Anglo-Saxon seethe.

And I have 3.5 hours of meetings with this colleague tomorrow.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mentee (as in recipient of a Mentor's advice)

So wrong.

[dc]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: > Mentee (as in recipient of a Mentor's advice) So wrong.

Been around for over 40 years apparently: Mentee

[HonaloochieB]

'So'. A small word I know but when overused it makes you want to come out swinging.

[HonaloochieB]

Ms B Wrote:

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> A colleague organises large group meetings that go

> on for at least two hours and fills them with a

> quick-fire delivery of as many words as possible

> ending in 'ality' and 'isation' (we have even had

> 'isationality') in order to bludgeon everyone else

> into exhausted submission. I guess the idea is to

> demonstrate intellectual superiority, but secretly

> I suspect the stunned silence that follows each

> speech is because people are too polite to say,

> 'You do know that's not a real word, don't you.'

>

> It makes my inner Anglo-Saxon seethe.

>

> And I have 3.5 hours of meetings with this

> colleague tomorrow.

When you kill this bastard, and you should, use this post in your defence. I can't see a jury in the land convicting you.

[jumpinjackflash]

when people refer to just about anyone as a 'legend'. "He's a leg".

People who don't know the meaning of 'literally'. "It was so hot in there, I was literally dying".

Er, no you were not.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

An American dictionary - I rest my case.

[Gerrard]

One often heard from work from our friends in the US:

Can you "reach out" to the people in your area..

Aaaargh!

[Ant]

Gotten is awful.

I abhor dynamic target-focused managementspeak best-practice blah blah policywank bollocks going forward. It invariably makes me think the speaker is either a) an idiot, b) trying to hide something that I won't like or c) both.

Utilize is another pointless, ugly word. Please use use!

[bon3yard]

'...at the end of the day'. Especially when sprinkled 6-8 times through one never ending sentence.

[Ant]

Awesome.

Did it really inspire awe? No, probably not.

[Keef]

Lots of things I hear the kids on the buses saying do my nut in...

"Bare", as in "it was bare funny", or "she's got bare shoes"... I can only assume it means lots / very.

Another little gem "he gives me jokes" which I think means that he makes me laugh.

[jumpinjackflash]

yes agree with you on that one Keef!

Also, morons on buses calling each other 'blud'. "Do you get me blud?". Why don't these idiots realise how stupid and pathetic they sound, oh and they should pull their trousers up too.