Things you hate people saying

"What's for ya won't pass ya"

Really? I'm 58 and still working in a factory I mean come on is that it?

"Can I ax you a question?"

Well you can try, but…. if you can't even pronounce a-s-k, good luck axing.

"I was today years old when i (insert title here)"

Wearing the green jersey: usually spouted by insufferably smug business types.

Ireland Inc. As above.

All of the GAA cliches below that you hear managers and players saying when interviewed……

"We go again"

"Lessons were learned"

"The lads put in a tremendous shift"

"Everyone needs to put their shoulders to the wheel"

"Championships aren't won in January"

"They left everything on the pitch"

"A great day for the parish"

"Lookit"

"Listen"

"Yeah, i suppose"

To be fair you could apply those terms to most team sports and I'm no GAA fan.

The thing that annoys me most and infuriates me with a passion is the current trend of European politicians talking about world war three …. they keep saying we are in a pre war situation and the like …. and sound like they want to see this !! …. stupid, irresponsible dangerous talk …. just as if to deliberately scare the people …. as if to say Covid didn't turn into the scary virus they hoped we have to go with WW3 instead to scare the people !! ….

"you have to look after yourself"

Said to someone whos 3 relatives died in a car accident

using ‘them’ instead of ‘those’…….its becoming very common…..’them things over there’…….’them guys gave everything on the pitch’ and sometimes this is followed by the equally cringy phrase ‘so they did’

Also people who use / say pacific instead of specific or squashed instead of quashed…..all ‘piss boiler’ examples …..!

Bertie Ahearne was good a good man for these type of ‘phases’ (phrases) officially known as ‘malapropisms’ (I think) eg’s ‘don’t be upsetting the apple tart’, ‘ Belfast is a great city for Muriel’s on the wall’…..etc etc

"Oh my days"

fluck off

how about ‘stop the lights’…….goes all the way back to an awful quiz TV show that was hosted by ‘bunny Carr’ called quick silver…..the prize money increased in increments of 25p to 50p……which was still minuscule even in the 1970’s when the show was aired…..the ‘phase’ ‘stop the lights’ could be used to stop the time clock which was represented by a series of light bulbs gradually turning off……there was a guy also who played the key board for musical clues to questions think his name was Norman something…?

I hate how the word BRO is used these days.

Eg

"Check out bro"

"Bro's got game"

Our Survey Says that you were one of the biggest fans of the show. The only detail that didn't stick in your mind is Norman's second name.

I'm not old enough to have been a fan, it is just a distant memory of a program that got in the way of being able to watch cartoons such as Tom & Gerry etc on the other channel…..😡

the ‘ bro ‘ thing is a still a 🤦🏻‍♂️ ffs

I’m living adjacent to a secondary school and at 1pm and 4pm…

“ here bro did you see the match bro ?, the bro who scored for X what was his name bro ? That was some goal bro….

It’s like some oddball version of tourettes, they literally cannot stop… there was a gang of them one day in the shop.. “ here bro “ all about 6 other students turned around because the little dope hadn’t identified as to whom he was talking to… which ‘bro’… these people have names… Kevin, Stephen, Cian, Tom, Barry, Andrew, David etc…. Who, the fück are you talking to…. Just… say… the… persons… name… and… be… done… with… it… 😵‍💫😮‍💨🤪🤌🏻

No sign of it stopping it’s just getting worse.

They used to start the questions at 5p!

In our house it was Tom and Jerry - you must have had a fancy aerial!