Words or phrases that drive you mad

Azari

kathleenryd wrote: »

Tesco promised to pay customers double the difference if their shopping was cheaper at Asda and then changed their mind.

Thanks.

I should have known that given the amount it's being mentioned at the moment. :embarasse

Ebe_Scrooge

My personal bugbear is when people say their company is going to "leverage" something. Grrr, leverage is a noun - the force applied by a lever - not a verb, so you can't leverage something. What makes it doubly annoying is when it's said by an English person with the American pronunciation ( making it rhyme with "never" rather than "fever" ).

roy_harper

"Keep me in the loop."

hansi

Tell me about it, I am telling you about it:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Azari

thriftymanc wrote: »

Sorry to go OT a bit, but Tesco still do this don't they? I used the Price Check website this afternoon and only just got a voucher emailed to me for double the difference.

No, they recently changed it to just refunding the difference as, apparently, people were scanning the various supermarket web sites to find discrepancies and then buying these items, sometimes in bulk, and costing Tesco a fortune. Poor lambs.

Azari

thriftymanc wrote: »

Well, that's weird. I got an email saying that my shopping was more expensive by £1.47 so I have a voucher for £2.94. Literally within the last half an hour. This is the fourth such voucher I've had in the past fortnight. When were they supposed to stop doing this?

There's been a link to an article about for the last few days. It's gone now of course.

Google "Tesco drops double" and there's lots about it.

pinkpig08

'Trust me - it's free fittin!'

Azari

thriftymanc wrote: »

Hmm, I'd better spend my voucher tonight then and hope the staff don't realise! How strange.

I think once you've actually got the voucher you're safe. They won't renege on that.

starrystarry

no1catman wrote: »

I find it annoying the way 'actress' has vanished - both sexes now seem to be called 'actors' - what's wrong with being an 'actress'?

I'm glad to see the back of "actress" and the like, if indeed such words are disappearing from common use. I've never understood why it was necessary to add "ess" to the end of some occupations but not to others. Why does someone need to be described as a manageress, rather than a manager? It's unnecessary. There are no such occupation descriptions as "doctress" or "accountantess" or "shop assistantess".

miss_independent

Lush. Lush does.my.head.in.

"Oh, I'll tell you what I had the other day, I had this fish pie and it was just soooo lush."

"Oh it's lush. It is soooooo lush."

Lush is a shop. Luscious is a word.

Also - hun. People say it so much, I've even started saying it and it makes me want to poke myself in the eye when I do. A typical conversation with my friends usually begins with them saying,

"Y'alright hun?" ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

And if you don't HUN back, they get offended.

Then, on the internet things like, "Don't mean to be harsh, hun, but...." You don't even know the person you are posting too, why refer to them with a term of endearment?!

Hun? Hun?! Sorry, do you mean Atilla the Hun? Because that is the only "hun", I can think of. Of course, hun stands for "honey" which sounds sweet from Americans but, from my point of view, very few people can get away with it here not to mention that it is overused. Every second person is "hun". In America "honey" is usually reserved for husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, or children. Not the lady in front of you at Tesco or a friend of a friend of a friend whom you have just met. Personally, I find terms of endearment overused nowadays. I like to keep them for boyfriends and small children. I don't appreciate my friends referring to me as "hun", "pal" or "mate" as if "Awww, mate - seriously?", "Pal, you've gotta chill". I have a name, please use it.

I think that what annoys me most is the way people refuse to speak properly and just shorten everything i.e "Ta" instead of "thank you" or even ridiculously, "Ta very much.", "Scuse." or "Scuse me.", "I'll have a cuppa, ta hun.".

I know I sound like a stuck up madam but I get bored with how fake and pretentious it all is. Needless to say, programmes like The Only Way is Essex leave me seething.