Words or Phrases that you Loathe

[Knight Rider]

Democrat majority

 

[Kagnew]

Democrat majority

 

[stephen87]

Anything even remotely close to "You did good." NO! You did freaking WELL! Just like your English, you don't speak it well!

Of course the obligatory
sell, sale, sail
their, there, they're
y, r, u
then, than
its, it's

I have a picture to go with it, however it's NSFW.

 

[GlockRock]

"One thing led to another"

 

[NYFelon]

the replacement of the contraction 've with the word of.

e.g. - He should of double tapped.

Sends me into convulsions and torrents of profanity

 

[poptab]

Superfluous use of the word 'like'

"no pun intended" (i call bs)

"pun intended" (ok so you intended the pun but you felt the need to point it out almost as if we wouldnt be smart enough to catch on....)

"pulled the trigger" when not talking about a trigger

 

[gungirl65]

People who say, "when you have been doing this as long as I have." I want to answer it with "I will be old, burnt out and borderline b*tchie?"

 

[popsmoke]

"irregardless"

"high capacity assault clips"

 

[reesez]

Piers Morgan used the term "high powered magazine" earlier lol

 

[Lecaia713]

"Weary" when the person actually means "wary." Ie-"That dark scary alley made me feel weary." No, the alley did not make you feel tired! Just one I've seen a lot of lately and drives me nuts.

 

[parsimonious]

"what not" or "what not, what have you." If you're about to say that you're just wasting my time and my air.
Please, just put a period in place of those phrases.

There are a few words that are misused that drive me nuts, but I can't think of them now.

 

[Audie Murphy]

irregardless

 

[Bigtanker]

Margarine ...

IT'S F'N BUTTER!!!!

 

[chezuki]

Margarine ...

IT'S F'N BUTTER!!!!

You don't cook huh...

Butter and Margarine are two very different things.

 

[JJP8153]

Swag annoys me to no end - anytime I hear a teen say it I tell them what it means - not cool, not awesome, no no, Secretly, We Are Gay. (Fact, look it up)

 

[Bigtanker]

You don't cook huh...

Butter and Margarine are two very different things.

Yes I cook. A lot. The word is like fingernails on a chalk board to me. I use both, and call them both butter.

 

[drysdaleg]

Swag annoys me to no end - anytime I hear a teen say it I tell them what it means - not cool, not awesome, no no, Secretly, We Are Gay. (Fact, look it up)

Well said.

 

[CathyInBlue]

"We're efforting that as we speak."

 

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

Baby Daddy

 

[Pull Trigger Goes Bang]

Swag annoys me to no end - anytime I hear a teen say it I tell them what it means - not cool, not awesome, no no, Secretly, We Are Gay. (Fact, look it up)

Are you trying to say that it means "Secretly, We Are Gay"? I looked it up. That would not be factual.

Snopes says it doesn't mean that.

Wictionary says it doesn't mean that.

"swag" shows up in English around the 14th century. "gay" didn't start meaning homosexual until the 20th century.