Words that annoy you

[AoWW]

"Do the dishes!"

"Do the hoovering!"

"Do the dusting!"

[sphericalfox]

"Do the dishes!"

"Do the hoovering!"

"Do the dusting!"

technically those are phrases, though I suppose Brenfox didn't lay down and define the rules of his thread

[Alf Bentley]

1) "Enjoy!", as said by ****ing Birch, among others, before every ****ing home match! It's not that I'm rabidly anti-American or against the influence of American English in English English ("enjoy" is a transitive, not an intransitive verb in English English: e.g. "Enjoy the match!", if you really have to).

It's the effete smugness of it...the implication that "we've laid on the perfect banquet for you, so you just have to sit back and "enjoy!". "Let's have a good match and let's win!" would be so much better...

2) "...and how are YOU today?" (as pronounced by phone/door-to-door sales/marketing wankers as a brazen ruse to get you to think you can't tell them you're not interested and have to listen to them. The only logical response is: "Well, I've got 2 weeks left thanks to the bowel cancer, but my Mum has just committed suicide...how are YOU, stranger?!"

3) "flexible labour markets" = shafting working people / society in the interests of profit maximisation for the shareholders of global corporations who control the world.

4) " 'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple [or whoever, fill in to suit your own generation] really is the greatest example of guitar-playing/technical musicianship ever..." No! No! No! It's a load of arrogant, pompous willy-waggling that has no artistic merit whatsoever as it does not stimulate the emotions or the brain...and you are a drippy, inadequate bore into the equation, mate! "Some people think lickle giwrls should be seen and not heard....but I think, OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS! 1, 2 ,3 ,4!"

5) "We're just making a courtesty call"....No, you're not, you're making a discourteous marketing call!

6) "Hard-working families" (a Blairite creation): As it happens, I do work hard and I do have a family, but (a) single or childless people are not 2nd class citizens; (b) I have the utmost respect for people who can use their time well without working hard!

7) "station stop" (as announced on trains: "your next station stop will be Market Harborough!") used to irritate me, but now amuses. I see the logic: the train might go through another station without stopping or it might stop between stations due to a breakdown. I like "station stop" now"

8) "like", as in "So I was, like.... and she was, like...., then he was like...." At the risk of seeming like some Express-reading WW2 Colonel, a minimum standard of articulacy is required!

9) "Spirituality"...people who see themselves as "spiritual", be that the religious or the non-religious (probably new-age bullshit) version are so smug and superior. **** off, all of you! As Madonna correctly pointed out, "we are living in a material world and I am a material girl!" (well, drunken old bloke, in my case)

10) "Jermaine Beckford"

11) "Credit to the lads, they set their stall out..." No! No! No! Destroy these footballers' cliches! There is only one man in football who has an excuse for "setting his stall out" and that is Thracian! I still love to remember Frank Worthington being interviewed about a goal he'd scored and describing how he'd "risen like a young salmon at the far post" (or something similar). Sheer class!

Blimey, where did all that anger come from?!?!

[Mack]

Buddy or Bud especially said in a condescending manner.

Oh look... theres 5p on the pavement... as he bends down to snare the booty swift kick to the swede.

[cambridgefox]

Slags who say 'Marbs' instead of Marbella

Slags-when used in a Danny Dyer type way.

[Daggers]

"Do the dishes!"

"Do the hoovering!"

"Do the dusting!"

And how often do you have to say it to him?

[FoxyPV]

"get in the hole in" in a golfing context, especially when it is a tee shot on a par 5

[Fox92]

Crack, but only when used like this; "Vardy has a crack". Just say shot.

[flowwolf]

Buggered as in " I'm Buggered if I know ' Do people have any idea what Buggery entails ?

[Reynard Bleu]

Pacific, in can you be more pacific?

[1964FOX]

Buggered as in " I'm Buggered if I know ' Do people have any idea what Buggery entails ?

I have to say that's always amused me especially those who say ''well bugger me''

[pSinatra]

R&B

Are you referring to rhythm & blues?? Or are you referring to shite pop music??

[Socks]

Nottingham

&

Forest

[Tielemans63]

What he should have said was, "Do you mind if we have a three-way with Siobhan."

Shit. Can't help feeling I've missed a real opportunity there.

[FoxesAreBlue]

"Discombobulated", shit word

[flowwolf]

Savile row as in a line of under aged girls not the posh tailors street.

[Reynard Bleu]

Futile, as in the japanese ceramics specialist who is running out of porcelain squares.

[Zingari]

cross pollination , as in a country full of angry parrots

[Reynard Bleu]

Crossing Continents as in a group of grumpy old men.

[hairy]

Vodafone

[AyewJoking]

mastication.

a little too similar to masturbation and i dont even want to think of the oral possibilities.

too late

[Ilkeston_Fox]

"The keeper's pulled off a worldy" F***ing worldy? You mean he's made a good save?!

[sdb]

savvy

[Stevosevic]

"Ledge"

[The Doctor]

4) " 'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple [or whoever, fill in to suit your own generation] really is the greatest example of guitar-playing/technical musicianship ever..." No! No! No! It's a load of arrogant, pompous willy-waggling that has no artistic merit whatsoever as it does not stimulate the emotions or the brain...and you are a drippy, inadequate bore into the equation, mate! "Some people think lickle giwrls should be seen and not heard....but I think, OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS! 1, 2 ,3 ,4!"

That seems an odd way of determining artistic quality - most pop music is like crack to the brain - because it's so simplistic and obvious the brain reacts well to it, it stimulates a few bits but is completely devoid of artistic merit.