Things you hate people saying

redoctober · 25-10-2023 3:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121282363#Comment_121282363

In general there are so many unnecessary adoptions of americanisms when we have our own phrases this side of the pond. For me a particular annoyance is the recent use of "quite the..." instead of what we all grew up saying "quite a....". E.g. "that was quite a weekend we just had" has now become "that was quite the weekend we had"

Sgt Hartman · 25-10-2023 5:08pm

In an ad for Alpro soy milk products the tagline was “Feed your you”

I wonder what sort of plank in the Alpro marketing office came up with that one?? What does it even mean??

dxhound2005 · 25-10-2023 5:13pm

Scott Grummett is the plank, and he is very proud of his creation. It got your attention, and you are giving it more publicity. Success.

https://www.scottgrummett.com/blog/alpro-feed-your-you

Sgt Hartman · 26-10-2023 8:46am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121283293#Comment_121283293

It certainly got my attention which is the whole idea of these slogans. I still think “feed your you” sounds dumb though 😆

Stephen_Maturin · 26-10-2023 9:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121280346#Comment_121280346

Yeah Jesus this is an annoying one

Good mate of mine has begun saying it in relation to everything

”We did coffee” suffering jaysus take your head out of your hole haha

getoutadodge · 26-10-2023 11:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121282287#Comment_121282287

Another skanky saying is : ask me gash

coogy · 26-10-2023 11:37am

Not sure if this has already been done but "it is what it is", has to the the most meaningless phrase of all time.

A close second has to be "does that make sense?"/"am I making sense?" after someone has just told you something.

And finally, in a more general sense, what really bugs me is people needlessly over-emoting. For example, the way someone might write the following in a Facebook post to a friend who is jetting off on honeymoon or something.......

"enjoy every minute......"

dxhound2005 · 26-10-2023 12:41pm

It is what it is so it is.

storker · 26-10-2023 12:59pm

"Colyum" instead of column.

"Do you know that kind of way?" Not sure why but that phrase grinds my gears.

The guy who reads the new on Morning Ireland, and adds unnecessary pauses into his reading so that instead of flowing the delivery is all over the place. Hard to listen to and sounds like he's about to have an asthma attack.

storker · 26-10-2023 1:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121276305#Comment_121276305

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MacDanger · 26-10-2023 1:32pm

It's a "mute" point - it's "moot", a moot point FFS

Pikey · 26-10-2023 2:48pm

"Out the Gap"

Hangdogroad · 28-10-2023 9:23am

"Yass"

Scipri0 · 28-10-2023 9:43pm

This "Yup" thing that i hear a lot of younger people say.

Zak Flaps · 29-10-2023 2:32am

I don't hear people say it but I see it written down a lot, mostly online. It's the version of the phrase "is what we need right now."

Examples: "The Frasier reboot is the comfort food we need right now"

" This photo of Julia Roberts holding a baby monkey is what we need right now"

"News that Sean Paul is dating Megan Thee Stallion is what we need right now"

Most of you probably won't get what I'm on about, but a lot of annoying websites come out with sh1t like this. Maybe I should avoid them!! Why do I hate the phrase? Mainly because the sh1t they say we need right now is always something really stupid that we don't need at all. Apologies, I'm being grumpy.

I also hate when people say Happy Out.

ottolwinner · 29-10-2023 2:52am

The whole clock change talk

ruth...less · 29-10-2023 12:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121295830#Comment_121295830

Ah no I like yup. It's a chirpy agreeableness.

ruth...less · 29-10-2023 1:20pm

One girl that I hardly know walked by me one day and I can't remember what happened but we had an interaction and it wasn't real like just crap jargon fake talk and at the end of it she said 'happy out'

I just thought, she's been dying to say that all day cause she thinks it sounds cool and no I don't think you're cool cause you said it. There's no 'happy out'...it's like I'm happy but I'm still cool...🙄 Just be happy ffs. Happiness alone is cool enough..don't insult me by playing down your happiness after an interaction with me. And stop using cliched phrases cause you can't think of your own.

ruth...less · 05-11-2023 10:05am

Soz.

It's bad enough ever having to say sorry. Why the hell would you try to make it worse for yourself by coming out with that yoke?

SodiumCooled · 05-11-2023 2:17pm

“Better to be looking at it than looking for it”. That statement that I see constantly online recently when people ask for advice on things really really annoys me for some reason.

ShamNNspace · 05-11-2023 2:58pm

"want gone" usually on an advertisement for some oul shyte that the advertiser is too lazy to clean before display, either that or its only fit for the dump

pappyodaniel · 05-11-2023 8:02pm

Everyone is saying"rinse and repeat" lately.

Example of someone describing their mundane life. "Go to work Monday to Friday, take the kids to training Saturday, few pints in the local that night, wash the car Sunday, rinse and repeat..."