Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Bonecruncher Date: 17 Nov 06 - 08:42 PM Back to back, when what is meant is consecutive. Back to back would imply reciprocal actions. Perhaps multisyllabic words are too difficult! Colyn. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 16 Nov 06 - 09:33 PM "If you will" an American expression? Funny, I've never heard it. Alice in Montana |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Desdemona Date: 16 Nov 06 - 02:29 PM "Have a good one". Good what? ~D |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Scoville Date: 16 Nov 06 - 12:45 PM "Talk to the hand" (Well, Hell--I'm apparently already talking to the ass, so why not?) "Like" (I, like, find it so, like, annoying when, like, every other, like, word . . . ) |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST Date: 16 Nov 06 - 11:36 AM You bet.I hate this expression. People who cannot speak more that three words without inserting the word "like" into the sentance. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,PeteG Date: 16 Nov 06 - 05:32 AM "Read my lips" "Do I LOOK as if I .......?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Cod Fiddler Date: 16 Nov 06 - 05:03 AM Rather than "Know what I'm saying?" How about, "I know what your saying...". It is usually followed by a big "but" and implies that everything you're saying is nonsense. Terribly rude, but no one realises. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: autolycus Date: 15 Nov 06 - 04:13 PM i'd like to say a few words in praise of "and you point is?" There are people who don't or won't come out with what they are saying, talking in hints and implications instead. An alternative strategy is just to state a fact. The listener is supposed (I suppose) to know what they mean. And, of course, if the listener has an outloud go at guessing the meaning, the original speaker is quite likely to say,"No,I didn't mean that." Well tell me what you DO mean then. (Only if you feel like it.) I like to know what the speaker means rather than what I can second-guess them to mean. Aids genuine communication. Sometimes the speaker does merely make an observation because something has made them angry, only they don't own their anger. (Thyaaaaaaat's better.) Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:52 PM IF YOU WILL, Another yankee expression coming in to Brit-speak, IF you will, let me have the licence to lie my ass off. Tony Blair |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: John O'L Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:01 PM I knew someone would ping me for that. (and) So crucify me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,memyself Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:37 PM ARE you joking, though? (Whoops; I'm being predictable again. Sorry!). |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: rock chick Date: 13 Nov 06 - 12:16 PM 'You must be joking' if i was joking you would know Grrrrrrr |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Mrs.Duck Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:13 AM Thats exactly it, Alice. I hate 'just for the record'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST Date: 13 Nov 06 - 11:07 AM When life sends you lemons, make lemonade! |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 13 Nov 06 - 10:16 AM Well, there's a couple I've never heard before, "I'm thanking you" and "turned round and said". So, how do they use "I'm thanking you". Do you put the food down in front of them and they say, "I'm thanking you" instead of "thanks"? |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 13 Nov 06 - 09:10 AM Salesmen (they usually are men), often masquerading as people 'conducting a survey' - What do I think about double glazing/fitted kitchens? - who come to my door and begin by saying 'It's nothing to worry about.' |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:55 AM That annoys me no end |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Paul Burke Date: 13 Nov 06 - 07:18 AM The status quo is not an option. That was then, this is now (eternally associated with the Thatcher years). aka (ditto). |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: John O'L Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:53 AM Matt R's "What's your point?" reminds me of "And your point is....?" That annoys me no end. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: patriot1314 Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:20 AM All of the above plus the one that gets me.... "turned round and said" "You'll never guess what she turned round and said to me" Conjures up a vision of people spinning round before saying anything |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:34 AM I'm thanking you... That has got up my nose since I was a waitress back in 1900and frozen to death..... (alright, 25 years ago)... when one particular regular customer used it EVERY sodding time.... to me, it's even worse than NOT saying thank you at all! I KNOW you're thanking me... I've just taken your order and served you with a delicious meal of rainbow trout, new potatoes, peas and carrots, with tartare sauce and a lemon wedge followed by apple strudel with clotted cream and a coffee.... 3 courses, 3 times I have to listen to 'I'm thanking you'... ARRRRGGGHHH!!! I would get a petty revenge by serving their food with 'You're the sausage and chips so you must be the trout.' She never twigged. LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:11 AM there's plenty more fish in the sea.... ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Matt_R Date: 13 Nov 06 - 02:08 AM "what's your point" Why does everything have to have a point? |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,van lingle Date: 12 Nov 06 - 10:17 PM "My bad". This tiresome expression seems to be fading from popularity but one of my carpenters was using it to apologise for his f**kups all too often so I had to ask him when he was going to say,"My good!".vl |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Nov 06 - 09:36 PM In "webspeak" the last few exchanges are often expressed as: DILLIGAS Or: DILLIGAF The latter appearing on far too many T-shirts and gimme hats in my area. John |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: John O'L Date: 12 Nov 06 - 04:21 PM Yes Cretinous, I read it was actually "by and learge", but the site where I found that didn't bother to explain what a learge was or what was supposed to be by it. Perhaps further research...but then perhaps I have inadvertantly and incorrectly led you to believe I'm someone who gives a shit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Snuffy Date: 12 Nov 06 - 11:35 AM " I'm sorry you appear to have me confused with someone who gives a shit " If I did give a shit, you would definitely be the first person I gave it to. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,Cretinous Yahoo Date: 12 Nov 06 - 11:27 AM By and large is an old sailing expression. It made sense back then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 12 Nov 06 - 10:38 AM Slag, another overused saying.... "beam me up, Scottie". lol ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Dave Hanson Date: 12 Nov 06 - 04:23 AM You've all got me laughing this morning, wonderful stuff, my current favourite is, " I'm sorry you appear to have me confused with someone who gives a shit " eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Slag Date: 12 Nov 06 - 01:30 AM OhMyGawd, It's like 7/24 (or is it 24/7, whatever, go figger)so Like I go "Didn't we just do this topic a short time ago? And then like you go "no Man, like I must'a missed it." An' then it's like, well, you know.........." Scotty, I'm waitinggggggg.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,memyself Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:38 PM I don't know what a dojang is - some manner of minor Oriental potentate? - something smokable? - something that contains a locker room yet weirdly is contained within a locker room? - on second - or is it third? - thought, I'd prefer not to know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:31 PM I first heard that in a locker room of a dojang. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,memyself Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:25 PM That one only bothers me when I haven't yet emptied the cup - then it really irks me! |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 11:20 PM Another dislike: "Pass the cup, please and thank you." |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:26 PM LOLOLOL That's Pearl. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:16 PM "Go figyah" with both palms turned up and the shoulders coming up in a shrug. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Deckman Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:14 PM "NOT A PROBLEM"! |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:02 PM Yeah. Figger. That's the only way to say it around here, too. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Nov 06 - 10:02 PM I don't believe I've ever heard anyone say "Go figure." It's always "Go figger" around here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:53 PM Your post reminded me that I first heard the expression used in NYC, and the people who used it spoke Yiddish (as well as English). Pearl would say something like, "The man's a complete idiot and STILL he got elected. Go figure!" I still use the expression. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:46 PM Thanks, Peace, I was searching for that on the web because it seemed to me to be a Jewish idiom. You found it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Peace Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:45 PM 'This expands to "Go and figure it out", and means: "The reasons for the fact just stated are unknown and possibly unknowable. You can waste your time thinking about what they might be, if you choose, but you're not likely to accomplish anything." (Kivi Shapiro) "Go figure" comes from Yiddish Gey vays "Go know". Leo Rosten, in The Joys of Yinglish (Penguin, 1989, ISBN 0-452-26534-6), says: "In English, one says, 'Go and see [look, ask, tell]...' Using an imperative without any link to a conjunction is pure Yiddish, no doubt derived from the biblical phrase, translated literally: 'Go tell...' 'Go praise the Lord...' (In English this becomes 'Come, let us praise the Lord.')" Gianfranco Boggio-Togna writes: "The expressions an Italian is likely to use to show bafflement correspond exactly to "go figure": va a capire='go understand' or va a sapere='go know'. The va a idiom is common in colloquial Italian."' |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:29 PM I don't mind "go figure". I used to only hear Jewish people use it along with a shrug and thought it was maybe something from Yiddish translated to English as - go figure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Alice Date: 11 Nov 06 - 09:27 PM Random When did "random" suddenly become such a popular word that it is inserted in just about any kind of conversation? Several years ago when he was still in high school, my son started using the word "random" in odd ways that didn't make sense to me. Now I hear "random" in tv drama dialogue, CSPAN interviews.... What's up with that? .... and that's another one.... "What's up with that?" It's like, totally random. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Lox Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:25 PM "To be honest" because usually I'm completely mendacious. |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: GUEST,memyself Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:17 PM Thank you, Foolestroupe - what a lovely sentiment! I feel so much better I could just hug somebody! You know, now I think I will have a Nice Day! Thank you again!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:14 PM "Have a Nice Day!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: Beer Date: 11 Nov 06 - 08:04 PM "Fuck" "Right On" "Kool" "Eh" |
Subject: RE: BS: Irritating sayings From: John O'L Date: 11 Nov 06 - 07:55 PM By and large, I think "by and large" is the most meaningless thing I've ever heard. |