Most annoying words & phrases

My current pet hates are:

Exclusive as used in "exclusive interview". Any one to one interview is exclusive so means nothing.

Always on Broadband: Aside from the fact it should be high(er) speed would not defeat the purpose if it was not on all the time?

History of the State as used in "biggest/largest/longest since history of the state". No idea what it is suppose to mean.

"At the end of the day"
"mate" - Just wrong when said (or posted) in an Irish accent, mate.

At the end of the day

Credit crunch

Sub prime crisis

Fool.
I fly into a temper if someone says it to my face. No kidding. I get the compulsion to loaf anyone that calls me it. Not that it happens often. :D

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Originally Posted by pete

Any one to one interview is exclusive so means nothing.

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Er, no it's not. Actors can do fifty one-to-one interviews a day. Doesn't make them exclusive. Yes, some people wrongly claim an interview to be exclusive.


My one:

"with special guests". You're the support band; now get over it.

"gave the keeper no chance" -- rubbish, of course he had a chance.

"his shot hit the back of the net" -- no, it didn't.

"there was only going to be one winner" -- naturally.

"perfect start" -- so there was no way that start could have been any better?

'' i preferred your brother '' hate when she says that......:):):)

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Originally Posted by Rocky77

"his shot hit the back of the net" -- no, it didn't.

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People getting annoyed with that annoys me. No amount of attempted explanation will sway me either. A goal net has a back, a roof and two sides. Don't give me that front and back nonsense.

But then who will I give it to? :D

General

Misuse of the word 'literally'

'A person who needs no introduction' (This expression is invariably followed by an introduction)

'a window of opportunity'

'Think outside the box'

'post 9-11'


Sport

'a young 20 year-old'

'winningest'


lots more I can't think of now.

Actually, the misuse of apostrophes irritates me beyond belief.

"carbon footprint" is ****ing me off at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Rocky77

"his shot hit the back of the net" -- no, it didn't.

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interesting one Rocky... my biggest gripe wouldnt be whether the net has no back but rather his shot didnt hit the back of the net, the ball did. They should really say "his shot caused the football to hit the back of the net"... ;)

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Originally Posted by osarusan

General

Misuse of the word 'literally'

'A person who needs no introduction' (This expression is invariably followed by an introduction)

'a window of opportunity'

'Think outside the box'

'post 9-11'


Sport

'a young 20 year-old'

'winningest'


lots more I can't think of now.

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In football , calling of a fully grown man a boy , I.E Alex Ferguson saying about 33 year old Paul Scholes "the boy's been a great servant"

Recently managers in the game say "at the football club" "this football club" whereas before it would have been just the club , I don't know why we need to clarify that it's a football club


Misuse of the word "random"


In work , people using stupid sayings like "going forward" or "the issue has been resolved"

People are ****ing idiots

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Originally Posted by SkStu

interesting one Rocky... my biggest gripe wouldnt be whether the net has no back but rather his shot didnt hit the back of the net, the ball did. They should really say "his shot caused the football to hit the back of the net"... ;)

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You're quite right. In my anger, I completely missed that. Perhaps I've become too emotionally attached to the fight against cliched inaccuracy and bad grammar ;)

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Originally Posted by gustavo

People are ****ing idiots

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That's a long-held opinion of mine. Glad someone agrees

Thank you so much" What in the world does "so much" mean?

Basically, any conversation that begins with basically

"Loose cannon", usually meaning a cannon that shoots uncontrollably, when in the original meaning a loose cannon could not shoot at all.

I hate "excuse me" - so often it is uttered in such a tone of voice that it clearly says "f** off and get out of my way".

"It was a burglary/Shooting that went wrong." Maybe one day the police will define a burglary/Shooting etc that went right.

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Originally Posted by FarBeag

"Loose cannon", usually meaning a cannon that shoots uncontrollably, when in the original meaning a loose cannon could not shoot at all.

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A loose cannon was one not lashed securely during a storm. It could break free, rolling around the deck, smashing stuff and breaking limbs. The modern usage is entirely appropriate.

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Originally Posted by John83

A loose cannon was one not lashed securely during a storm. It could break free, rolling around the deck, smashing stuff and breaking limbs. The modern usage is entirely appropriate.

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Yep.Good point.Did not look at it that way before. Anyway you won't catch me out on this one:)

The, seemingly endless media and 'Presenter' references to "kids". Goats have kids, human beings have children.

hate the way the word random is used, esp that one that bes on 2fm in the evening, some one will text her in to say they are on top of a mountain or at the bottom of a hole or cutting turf and without fail she will say - 'that's so random'. shut the f*ck up!! teenagers are also using it far too much and should be forced to stop :p
I also don't like the way people start sentences with a prolonged emmmm or ummmm, if you have to think about it before you say something, do it in silence ffs