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Things you hate people saying

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    #482
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Get a grip": favourite retort of fuming middle aged women on facebook comments.



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    #483
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    “That’s dope” Used to describe something that’s really good. Another Americanism that’s crept into our vocabulary in recent years.



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    #484
    brokenbad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    "How was your weekend?" - Usually the first utterance of small talk in work on a Monday morning.....



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    #485
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121161122#Comment_121161122

    It's even worse if they say "1000%!!" or anything over 100%.

    I'm not mad about the phrase "grinds my gears" either...😜



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    #486
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    110%.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #487
    littlevillage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121162618#Comment_121162618

    This is the only answer to give to insincere people who ask "How was your weekend?"


    https://youtu.be/xYXAR8YrCxk?si=NyA3Y5D9Pa535HVy




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    #488
    bluedex
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭bluedex


    "Living rent free in your head"

    An attempted insult used only by utter eejits

    Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.



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    #489
    Ronandusty
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Ronandusty


    Calling a dog a doggo or a furbaby or AARRGGGHHH



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    #490
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,800 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121162618#Comment_121162618

    Yeah that does my head in. Most office talk does but I've found myself doing it now and again.


    A few months ago I was giving a presentation and I said "I'm really excited about xyz". What a f**king idiot. That **** winds me right up when someone else says it. I work in Accounting for a US MNC. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, exciting about it.


    I should have been shot with balls of my own **** for that.



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    #491
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,709 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    "little legend"... Usually as a caption on a cute baby pic... You're not a legend, come back to me In 30 years or so when you invent something or do some great deed... You're not even one yet 😉



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    #492
    thejuggler
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121135999#Comment_121135999

    Heard this expression used a lot by the participants in Love island a few years back - seems to have passed into the vocabulary of many since then.



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    #493
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    I have heard a few times on RTE recently of presenters/reporters being filled with 'anxiousness' when they perhaps meant 'anxiety'. Why do such professionals make up words for ones that already exist, and that they should know?

    Another irritation is the addition of 'ic' to words that do not need it. Example: minimalist becomes minimalistic.

    Yet another - The use of the superfluous 'what' in sentences - 'like what I learnt in English classes' - instead of - 'like I learnt in English classes'.

    Yet another - Why are they 'obligated' instead of 'obliged'?

    I now just forgive mispronunciation and bad grammar - it is probably due to poor education, or regional variations.



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    #494
    Deregos.
    Registered Users Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    Your round Deregos. . .



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    #495
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Absolutely.

    In answer to everything in a radio interview. It's no wonder I either drive in silence or turn to Spotify.



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    #496
    Swaine
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Swaine


    "inject it into my veins" Usually muttered by the dumb Premier League follower.



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    #497
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Sustainable.

    The overuse of sustainable and its derivatives has become...non-viable.



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    #498
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    "So what you're saying is...".

    When someone listens to what you say and then refashions it into something completely different you didn't say.



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    #499
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,945 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121200171#Comment_121200171

    I agree with what you're saying there, but I think you're wrong.



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    #500
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭growleaves


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121180247#Comment_121180247

    The word 'anxiousness' appears in a William Wordsworth poem written in 1797, "The Old Cumberland Beggar".



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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121201002#Comment_121201002

    So what you're saying is that Wordsworth was another one of these head-wreckers, tweaking words in the language to make themselves seem like great lads? Yeah, I completely agree!



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    #502
    granturismo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭granturismo


    I 'done' instead of I did.

    'would have' is a conditional tense used to describe something that never happened yet is commonly used to describe something that actually happened.



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    #503
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    The word “Bro”

    Used excessively and incessantly by males under the age of 25 at present



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    #504
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    How come everyone is saying "lives rent-free in your mind" these days? How do shite sayings like this go viral?



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    #505
    ottolwinner
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭ottolwinner


    Not a fan or “this ain’t my first rodeo” yea I get it you want me to think you’ve lots of experience



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    #506
    shortlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭shortlegs


    Thanks a million - instead of Thanks;

    Well, to you the truth… - What you been doing up til now?

    I might be wrong, but… - believe me, they’re not;

    Age is just a number - always hated this one;



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    #507
    getoutadodge
    Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭getoutadodge


    awesome - usually with a yankee twang and emphasis on the "awww"

    unbelievable - dunbelievables without end

    hey bud or pal

    txs buddy - too many 30s movies

    going forwards - as opposed to going backwards?

    no worries - that irritating neighbours jingle



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    #508
    tampopo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Higher that up



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    #509
    tampopo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Ramped up



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    #510
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,055 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121202261#Comment_121202261

    Even worse is "Bruh" and worse still "Brah", used exclusively by insufferable gobshytes.



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    #511
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Fam"

    "Inspo"



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