Words or phrases that drive you mad

MissGolightly

Azari wrote: »

Yes, because the staff there are, to put it politely, not the sharpest knives in the draw and probably wouldn't be able to work that out.

This! Draw instead of drawer, really gets my goat!

Azari

MissGolightly wrote: »

This! Draw instead of drawer, really gets my goat!

:embarasse I do that every single time I mean to type 'drawer'.

Usually I catch it but this one slipped through.

anotherbaldrick

Sign in Sainsburys. Cobham

In the interests of Health and Safety
we always prosecute shoplifters.

Now, I can think of many reasons why they should want to prosecute them , most of which comes down to stopping the scumbags making it away the goodies. But think as I might I cannot come up with one that relates HSE issues. However it is nice to know they do not do it for any pecuniary reason!

ST99000722

Obviously. some customer service staff like to use it at least once in every sentence.

It's not obvious , is it ? that's why I'm asking !

Backbiter

whatyadoinsucka wrote: »

'going forwards'

Or 'moving forward'. These are thrown into sentences with alarming frequency, e.g. "He might be the best manager for the club moving forwards".

Abbafan1972

I hate the word "Awesome" or when someone on their twitter or facebook accounts put "just chillaxing" or "going to chillax".

Abbafan1972

kathleenryd wrote: »

Tesco DTD...! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

It's gone:(

What does it mean?

Another thing that gets me annoyed is when people confuse the words "lend" and "borrow".

Azari

kathleenryd wrote: »

Tesco DTD...! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

It's gone:(

Don't understand this. What is DTD?

It does remind me that one of the supermarkets used to have one of the most brain dead posters I can imagine.

"When it's gone it's gone!"

Oh, really?

Unlike every other shop in the world where, when something's gone, it's still there.

Muppets!

Malky

Everytime I read that someone has brought something when they bloody well mean bought. Arrrgh!
For instance, I brought a car today. So where did you bring it from? Or where did you bruy it?

hansi

I am in my late 60's and I did some shopping at Lidl today. At the checkout, the young lad referred to me constantly as "mate". As in " Alright Mate, that's £10.90 ,mate, thanks mate"

I was bl**dy fuming!! When I was in retail ,it was, "Thank you Sir/Madam, and suchlike. What is happening to the standards in our world:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: