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Words/phrases that irritate you.

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  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Salvatore Thankful Sonar


    grand ( shudder)

    oh and anyone who says they are dyin after drinking should be taken out and shot imo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    People that say FTW


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭HereNorThere


    Mojo. :rolleyes:

    Hella. As in "That band is hella good."


  • Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Ben Hadad


    The phrases, "happy days" and "happy out," make me want to vomit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Any 'knacker' talk, like stall it, or me gaff. Cant stand it!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Sew is pronounced So, it is also pronounced Sow, but Sow is also a female pig, So my mother in law is called a Sow and Sow and Sew and So!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Limerick_Lass


    Hate when people say get a life
    And dont like people who curse constantly ..... especially the four letter c word :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    The word random, and the phrase "same difference". Ugh.

    What about "Same diff."

    Better or worse?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    People on facebook saying they heart something instead of saying they love something. 'I heart Venice'.....can you not just say you love Venice for god's sake?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Benny Lava


    "I seen him earlier today".

    Seriously, that sounds so retarded. The verb "to see" isn't that difficult AT ALL.

    I saw him earlier today.
    I have seen the misuse of the verb on boards.ie quite a few times.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭Rigardo


    "Not a bother"
    I knew a chap that couldn't stop saying it!... Then again, I suppose he could have said worse things, like "Not a bother... Fu%*head!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet: "Thanking you" (or as it's usually pronounced, "tankin yew"). :rolleyes:

    It's like something an Elvis impersonator from Dublin would say after doing a bad version of "Suspicious Minds".

    Also for some reason when I hear people asking someone to keep in contact by the written word and they say "write me", as opposed to "write to me". Now I do not know if the first way is indeed grammatically correct (someone please tell me), but it always grates on me.

    Both are gramatically correct, since the pronoun "me" can function as either a direct or indirect object, but I know what you mean. It's annoying, and a bit pedantic.

    When people call people 'boss'. Especially when women say it to each other.

    :eek: Jesus, where do you live?

    chasm wrote: »
    "Specific"...it amazes me the amount of people who pronounce it "pacific"

    That's a "reeyal Duub" thing... sort of like "dee azoo".

    triciadela wrote: »
    When People say (especially teachers) "It's not rocket science"...

    Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me (though something tells me it was one he just couldn't resist repackaging as his own). He was in a ballistics tutorial in college and the tutor says "it's not rocket science", whereupon some wag couldn't resist answering "well it is actually...".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Hate when people say get a life
    And dont like people who curse constantly ..... especially the four letter c word :mad:

    whats wrong with crap?? :confused:


    anyone who says " something much?" such as if someone for example eats a big bag of sweets and another sees this and says, "jeez hungry much?" fucking tards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    People saying 'Boom!' at the end of a sentence. Whats that all about????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭LucyLouLou


    Peolple who say Scon instead of Scone
    Quuuuaaaasont instead of croissant, you're not french so stop pretending to be

    I really hate the word Ointment, makes me fell ill


  • Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    This has probably been said before, but I don't have the time to go through the whole thread...but when people feel the need to say "like" or "loike" every few words annoys the hell out of me and y'know is a bad one too.


    The way Americans pronounce Ireland also annoys me:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Not really a phrase.. but people who describe themselves as 'insert occupation here' types

    I don't know what it is about it that annoys me but it makes me rage when I see or hear some self-important asshole stating their occupation as, for example "PR type"


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I hate people who put a "yeah" on the end of their sentences. "I was out last night, yeah. And I drank a **** load of beer, yeah" AAAAAAAAHHH!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭Yourself


    Parsley wrote: »
    people that use "alot" as a word.

    I do that! hahaha

    I hate when people say "I'm done" instead of "I'm finished", American I presume!


  • Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭Nanaki


    When your having a conversion with someone and after every statement they make they say ' Do ya know what I mean? ' :rolleyes:

    Yea of course I know what you mean..we're both speaking English!

    I wonder if you both of you really are speaking English


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11 mssin80


    People saying 'Boom!' at the end of a sentence. Whats that all about????

    that really gets on my nerves :mad::mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭watsgone


    People saying "with respect"
    One knob head who always says "through the chair" at every bloody meeting I had the misfortune to be at.

    And the over use of the word "fact"


  • Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭Feeded


    I'm just too lazy to read this thread from the start so if i repeat anything that has been published already....i apologise.

    i'm irritated by the following words/phrases:

    "enthuse"....i just prefer "enthusiasm" or "enthusiastic"

    and

    "so-on-and-so-forth"....lazy, unimaginative way of finishing a sentence.

    but i'm really annoyed by the word "cancer"
    I was listening to the radio as i drove up the country yesterday-
    A sports presenter on one of the national airwaves said something along the lines of...."complacency was the cancer that would eat away at cork's chances of winning their match against antrim..."
    to be honest, using this word in that context is just inappropriate and offensive.


  • Moderators Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    "Fap"

    People who say that really get on my nerves! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭NBTD


    Don't know if its been mentioned previously in the thread, but misuse of the word 'literally' really annoys me.

    People use it to emphasise a point when really they mean the exact opposite of literally


  • Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭CorsetIsTight


    Two phrases that almost always make me want to snarl are
    1. In my humble opinion
    2. No offence


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    How ara ya . . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,475 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    "Fail".

    Bloody twats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    The phrase "Thanks for your time in advance".

    Well fúck you horse! What a passive-aggressive thing to say.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭allandanyways


    Another one I've noticed, particularly with the knobends on facebook:

    "Eeeek!!"

    As in "Just went back to the gym for the 1st time since january eeeeek!!!"

    or

    "Work tomorrow and then shopping eeeeeek!!"

    or

    "Ew, it's raining. EEEEK!!!"


    OH SHUT UP.


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