Bugbears

[Thailand]

Any traits in people annoy thou? A few of mine...

 

1. People who wears keys on the outside of thier pants, surely there is no need for this!

 

2. People who give you a ciggie, then you ask them for a light, and then ask if you would like them to smoke it for you too. Its been done too many times! and... Duh, no

 

3 'Can I ask you a massive favour?' *sighs* tiny favour ensues...

[Lula]

miserable old scroat lol

[Thailand]

I prefer scrote my loverly.

[blueskies]

1. People who wears keys on the outside of thier pants, surely there is no need for this!

 

Guilty, but only when I'm at work (I work as a train guard and if I keep them in my uniform pockets I wouldn't have pockets left)

[Thailand]

Ok, blue ... we'll call that an occupational hazard:D

[Hippy-chick]

people who say "I personally think that ..."

[Lula]

nice one hc

[blueskies]

"I'm not being funny but......"

 

They never are funny but they feel the need to point it out all the time

[Thailand]

'In all honesty'

 

Ahhh, so you do fib then.

[Hippy-chick]

"it's nothing to do with me but ..."

 

and

 

"it's not for me to say but ..."

[jowalshy]

people who keep on saying "basically........" It is amazing how many people do it. My mum pointed it out to me recently and I try my hardest not to say it.

[Bookworm]

I don't keep on saying it, but I do use it, yes. Basically, it's in the dictionary and I use it as appropriate, so why not?

[jowalshy]

I think that now I have mentioned it, basically you will now realise how many times a day you actually say it..

[Bookworm]

My OH uses "you know" as punctuation, drives me nuts.

[Lula]

my dad used to do that too

 

OH does the new , infuriating "yeah yeah yeah" thing which, in my opinion is done by people when they are not really listening

[becci]

misuse of apostrophes drives me CRAZY!! how many signs do you see advertising "apple's" etc. I even saw a billboard in the window of a high street shop that shall remain nameless, saying "you're favourite shop". Shocking stuff!

 

and another thing...

 

people who say literally all the time and in completely the wrong context e.g. "I was literally green with envy" Really? So you actually, physically turned green, did you? I think not.

 

I know, I know, I'm a nitpicker...but it drives me mental!

[PriorityOne]

Actually.

 

Had to sit through a matchstick-in-both-eyes type lecture at work last week and lost count of all the times this woman said "actually". She even said it twice in one sentence !!

 

"I actually think that we could actually.... " ZZZzzzzzzz

[Hippy-chick]

"It's a learning curve ..."

[Rooster-UK]

At the end of the day....... it gets bloody dark!

On the other hand.............four fingers and a thumb, what else!

Can I ask you a question........You didn't give much choice there, did you!

[demon_x_slash]

Ever since the introduction of James O'Brien's 'Basically Alarm', I've been hearing the foghorn every time someone says the damned word. Yes, it is in the dictionary, but it's incredibly overused; similar bugbears are phrases such as 'at the end of the day' and 'know what I mean' and 'yeah, yeah' at the end of each breath... There are so many delicate alternatives to the sledgehammer that is 'basically' (ultimately, in essence, the crux of the situation is...); this is not a plea to expel the word from the language, just to alternate every now and again

[PriorityOne]

Americanised sentences that get higher and higher and end in a question ?

[Hippy-chick]

"...all singing from the same song sheet ..."

[Lula]

"thinking outside the box"

[Hippy-chick]

You ARE psychic, Lula. I was just thinking of that one.

 

:o

[Lula]

LOL we must have been "brainstorming"