Things you hate people saying

Living (their/his/her/our) best life 😏

Usually young to middle aged "dog moms".

See also: doggo, catto, fur baby.

I never heard anyone saying it either. I heard someone saying Gridlock once. And Congestion a few times. Also people talk about Bottlenecks and Traffic Jams. But the sample size I have from the 5 million population is much too small for me to give statistical conclusions about how common any of these are in Ireland.

Yes. Disagreeing with someone or something, or just simply not liking something or someone now equals a person as a ‘hater’…apparently 😵‍💫

the people that use that terminology might see a person not liking, or being critical of I dunno, say public transport….

fûckwit : “ well the public transport haters here think…. “

’hate’ is an intense dislike…. Yet there isn’t a human alive who doesn’t have an intense dislike for something, some situations or someone… which by definition makes us all ‘haters’ to some degree.

It's St. Stephen's Day, not frigging "Stephens's Day".

When I "defended" a usage of the word Dropped, I was reminded what the thread is about:

"You keep defending this phrase, that something "has dropped". We know it's in use, but this thread is about things we hate people saying, and loads of us hate this usage of the word 'dropped'."

That poster is correct. This is a thread for haters, as per the thread title.

Traffic's not flowing like a liquid.

Traffic has reached its glass transition temperature?

As for something I thankfully only ever heard on radio traffic reports :

rind-a-bite

"Can I have a moment of your time to talk about God?"

Straight from US traffic reports Mr Leahy….. like most of the other loads of crap that come over here.

Sure sure 🙄

Like those tools down in ‘Wesht Kerrah’ not calling folk by their proper names…. e.g. Sean O’Shea being called ‘Seanie Shea’

Load of bollox….. if I was in that situation ….. a church loafer into the plums would be the response.

Lazy diction has us ruined and apologists for it as well.

I thought for a moment I was in the 'etiquette' thread.

People who use 'so-called' in the wrong way.

I just read a post where someone was complaining about the 'so-called' EU. There is no such thing; it is actually called the EU.

I know the poster was trying to question the EU's legitimacy or sow doubts about it but it is still called the EU.

ITYM 'them', and such usage dates back centuries.

There's a long-standing usage in English of using "they/them" as a singular pronoun for an individual whose gender is unknown, unstated or undetermined. Jane Austen and Shakespeare are just two of the many canonical figures in English literature who do this. The Oxford English Dictionary has cites going back to 1450.

Tl;dr: Their is a plural word, except when it's singular. (Much like you, come to think of it.)

'So-called' can be used to question the appropriateness of a name. If a person felt the EU isn't properly European or isn't properly unified for whatever reason, then "'so-called' EU" would be correct.

Why would that annoy anyone!!!

"De Hopital"

Language purists would still use Nice in its earlier senses. Much of the hatred on display here is against modern and new meanings.

nice (adj.)

late 13c., "foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius "ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (from PIE root *ne- "not") + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] — from "timid, faint-hearted" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c. 1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830).

So far on my trip home, I will add "isn't it well for ya", "aren't ya so lucky" and "notions" because I have a nice watch. Please, piss off.