what two words in one/sayings irritate you?

euronorris

166million wrote: »

I'm sure some of you are making these up... 'cool bananas'?!?...'burglarized'?!?!?

Sometimes I say something because I know it's annoying.
'Whatevs..' really annoys people

Haha, nope. I've heard those sayings also.

Whatevs irritates me. So OH says it a lot. When I decided to act like it didn't bother me, he changed it to wuvs!!! F**king wuvs??!! :mad::mad::mad: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Just_Plain_Jane

I also can't stand 'chillax' - hearing it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

I want to smack Jamie Oliver every time he says 'delish'. It sounds so !!!!!!.

What is it with teenagers and their over use of the words 'awkward' and 'random'? I also loathe it when my 16-year-old speaks out loud in text speak and all her friends seem to do it too. She'll say 'lol' (rhymes with toll) when she finds something amusing and uses initials like CBA, TBH, !!!!!!, ATM. It drives me insane.

euronorris

Oh, does anyone have any clue what 'smexy' means? Is it smart and sexy mixed together?

Just Plain Jane - my 12 year old neice uses 'random' at every possible opportunity, and then some! She seems to have developed a pride about being a 'random' person, who does lots of random things!

Frogletina

euronorris wrote: »

Oh, does anyone have any clue what 'smexy' means? Is it smart and sexy mixed together?

Yes - check out the Urban Dictonary on google, it is very enlightening

JimmyTheWig

Just_Plain_Jane wrote: »

I also loathe it when my 16-year-old speaks out loud in text speak and all her friends seem to do it too. She'll say 'lol' (rhymes with toll) when she finds something amusing and uses initials like CBA, TBH, !!!!!!, ATM. It drives me insane.

I must say I've said "lol" before, though I do think it's naff.
And I can see the point of saying something like "ATM" (though you risk someone thinking you mean cash machine).
But are you really saying they say "!!!!!!"? As in "doubleyou tee eff"? Surely it's easier to say the full thing? [Or is it a polite way to use the f word, especially in front of you?]

piglet74

Just_Plain_Jane wrote: »

I also can't stand 'chillax' - hearing it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

I want to smack Jamie Oliver every time he says 'delish'. It sounds so !!!!!!.

What is it with teenagers and their over use of the words 'awkward' and 'random'? I also loathe it when my 16-year-old speaks out loud in text speak and all her friends seem to do it too. She'll say 'lol' (rhymes with toll) when she finds something amusing and uses initials like CBA, TBH, !!!!!!, ATM. It drives me insane.

my 13 year old is the same.. exactly the same in fact...its all CBA, !!!!!!, and says "LOL" it drives me nuts!

and she says "ohhh that awkard moment when...." and refers to the situation....:mad:

peaceandfreedom

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

In other European countries 1s do look more like our 7s

I often put a / through a zero to show it is a number rather than a letter.

IT workers, especially programmers, will tend to cross 7s and put a / through 0 just to differentiate 7 and 1, and zero and the letter O - these things can make all the difference if you're writing code.

Granted, things are not hand-written very much any more but I've never really lost the habit. Still matters a lot when writing down someone's email address, for example.

FatVonD

Frogletina wrote: »

I agree with you, but in some areas of the country supper is the name of an evening meal, whereas in others it is dinner or tea.

I quite like supper if it's used as a regional thing, it just became annoying about 10 years ago when posh people in London started having supper parties instead of dinner parties. I'm not sure what the difference was (never having been invited :rotfl: ) I think they may have been a little later and more informal.

peaceandfreedom

*max* wrote: »

Misused apostrophe's drive me insane.

Ha ha, nice one.

peaceandfreedom

Just_Plain_Jane wrote: »

I also loathe it when my 16-year-old speaks out loud in text speak and all her friends seem to do it too. She'll say 'lol' (rhymes with toll) when she finds something amusing and uses initials like CBA, TBH, !!!!!!, ATM. It drives me insane.

My teenagers do this but it doesn't really bother me, in fact I find it quite amusing. I overhead a couple of students chatting and one said "Let's do it, for the LOLs". I've also heard them say 'omm-guh' for 'OMG'.

I also think a lot of people, including adults, use '!!!!!!' in texts/emails as a way of swearing without actually swearing. But it still rankles a bit because I silently read the swear-word. My kids have occasionally said 'OMFG' and when I remonstrate they say 'But I didn't actually swear'.

And that's another word teenagers over-use: 'actually'. "My teacher hates me, she ACTUALLY does".