Things People Say That Drive You Nuts

[Merrick]

Mine: How everyone who calls into a radio show to praise something funny they heard on the air says, "I almost drove off the side of the road." Unoriginal liars.

[skygazer]

1. Where are you at?

That one drives me nuts - I've never understood why anyone feels the need to tack "at" on the end of the sentence.

"Literally" - as in "I literally killed myself laughing."

And plenty of others.....

[barb162]

59. And it's a fairly common mistake

[Left Is Write]

2. Interestingly, that happened to me once.

Not driving off the road, but a listener telling my she almost did because of something allegedly funny that I said.

I didn't believe her, of course, because I never said anything funny on the air.

[Left Is Write]

3. And to add my own peeves to the thread...

"For all intensive purposes" The correct phrase is for all intents and purposes.

"Supposably" The correct word is supposedly.

"Valentime's Day" No. The word is Valentine.

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. I know what you mean!

I've also heard "Balletimes Day". OMG!!!! :grr:

[underpants]

11. I could care less you know what I mean?

So you DO care some?

:grr:

and no I don't know what you mean that is why humans have developed facial expressions and body language not to mention HUNDREDS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGES IN ORDER TO CONVEY WHAT THEY MEAN!!!

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. LOL!

So you could care less (you know what I mean) about outer body experiences via chester drawers? Irregardless of that, I've got to go blow up some nucular weapons now...
:spank:

Geez, that made my brain hurt! :yoiks:

[calico1]

4. "I could of" or "I should of"

"I could care less."

Also some celebrity names like:

Tommy Hilfinger (its Hilfiger!)
Marissa Haggerty (Mariska Hargitay)

[huskerlaw]

29. Thank you and

it's not pronounced MaRISka, it's MaRISHka.

[skygazer]

5. Could of, would of, should of

I chewed my boss out the other day because he wrote "could of" on a notice by the time clock. :banghead:

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. I have a few

I hate it when people say "I might ought to..." No, you MIGHT do something or you OUGHT to do something, but "might" and "ought" belong in separate phrases---NOT TOGETHER!!! :mad:

I also hate it when people say "outer body experience" when the term is "out-of-body experience". :grr: Same goes for "chester drawers" instead of "chest of drawers". I actually heard a former coworker tell someone, "I told my son to get the socks out of the chester last night." :argh:

There are more, so if I think of them, I'll be back!

[Ediacara]

9. An "outer body experience" just means they went to Sedna

:-)

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. LOL!!!

:rofl: I'll bet those folks have no idea how many millions of miles they'll travel for an outer body experience!

[calico1]

23. A had a coworker who would say

"draw" to mean "drawer." And she says "acrosst" to mean "across."

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. Grrr...

That's incredibly painful. :hurts: I've also heard "skrate" instead of "straight" (mostly from Eastern NCers). Oh, yeah, here's another: "kindly" instead of "kind of". :spank:

[meegbear]

8. "Long time listener/viewer, first time caller"

:banghead:

[eyepaddle]

26. How 'bout the classic

Long-time caller, fist-time listener....

Now THAT'S funny! :eyes:

[laheina]

64. Sounds like some of the freepers that call into our local

liberal talk stations.

They call often, yell a lot, but dammit--they don't ever listen. :shrug:

[Ediacara]

10. Continuing on

[Left Is Write]

32. Going forward

[Jade Fox]

53. I've got a new co-worker who sends me at least one email...

per week with that in it. At first I didn't know what she meant!

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Brazillions

But my sentimental top language peeve will probably always be the superfluous "able to," as in, "I was able to drive from here to Phoenix in one day."

I always want to respond, "Okay... but did you?"

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

13. "Nucular" and "Irregardless"

:grr:

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. Totally agree!

How hard is it to say "nuclear"? Take the word "new" and the word "clear" and put 'em together. :grr:

BTW, there used to be (and may be now) a restaurant in Raleigh, NC, called the Irregardless Cafe. I heard the food was good, but I refused to eat there because of the name.

[AlCzervik]

15. "the vast majority of...." "Outside the mainstream of America"

[skygazer]

16. My father before me

Well, duh!

[mduffy31]

18. "I just wanted to touch base"

This is life not baseball. I also get annoyed by people who use say the word like every other word when telling a story.

[Initech]

19. When people describe food like they're having an orgasm

Argh, it drives me up the fucking wall! It's one thing to say that you ate food at a good restaraunt, but... :argh:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. But there's that scene from "When Harry Met Sally."

"I'll have what she's having."

[KeepItReal]

20. "At the end of the day..."

You don't know what's gonna happen at the end of the day, because it *hasn't* happened yet!!

:mad:

[1gobluedem]

21. "I have to jump in the shower"

Or "I'm going to jump in the shower." My reply is always, "Please don't, it could be dangerous."

Another one -- "...going to get a bite to eat." Just a bite?

And count me in on the "should of, etc." "irregardless" bandwagon.

[jpgray]

22. "I could care less" "for all intensive purposes"

[azmouse]

24. The overuse of the word 'basically'.

Basically this, basically that, basically, basically, basically!!! :banghead:

[Left Is Write]

35. Basically, I think it's just laziness.

:D

[Jade Fox]

54. Basically, I'm in trouble here...

I say that way too much!

[fizzgig]

25. really unique or very unique

either something is unique or it isn't, there are no degrees of unique-ness

:banghead:

also obiously...there's a 'v' in there dammit

[calico1]

30. Which goes along with "free gift."

I hate that one and see it all the time.

[Left Is Write]

37. While we're on the subject - stores calling customers "guests."

I am not a guest. I am a customer. If I am a guest, why do I have to pay for anything?

[NewWaveChick1981]

40. Exactly!

Guests don't pay for stuff. Customers do. :)

[laheina]

65. And when those stores call their employees

associates, partners, or whatever else they can come up with that doesn't ring of wage slavery. :eyes:

[Left Is Write]

34. That one bugs me also.

I answer it the same way: it's unique or it isn't. Period.

[1gobluedem]

36. Me too

I hate it. And free gift. Just like when stores call their customers "guests."

[Left Is Write]

38. Jinx! We think exactly alike...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5083358&mesg_id=5083673

[1gobluedem]

42. HA!

What perfect timing!

[calico1]

31. With the education system as bad as it is now and

getting worse, can any of you imagine how people are going to be talking 20 or 30 years from now? :scared:

[Left Is Write]

33. I thought of another one...

The incorrect use of myself makes me see red! (Note that it does not literally make me see red...:rofl:)

"If you have any questions, please see Joe or myself."

"That report was prepared by Bill and myself."

"Please give myself a call to confirm."


It makes me want to throttle them. Myself.

[In_The_Wind]

39. whatever, whatever

That is the epitome of laziness! What exactly does what-ever mean this time.

[tjwash]

41. Hi Al, I'm a die hard,lifelong democrat, but I must say I agree with Bush.

On everything.





Period.



















And Fox news is not biased.

[laheina]

66. If they feel the need to convince him of it,

then it's obviously not true. Kind of like some trollsters in GD.

[Dangerously Amused]

43. Well let's start right off with every damn word from Bush's mouth.

It is NOT asking too much for the leader of the most powerful country on the planet to be eloquent. However, not everyone is blessed with eloquence, so I would settle for proper English at a bare minimum. But I am absolutely mortified at a president who not only cannot speak English properly to save his soul, but who spontaneously MAKES WORDS UP in public addresses!

:banghead:

[woo me with science]

44. "past history" nt

[kay1864]

45. "General consenus"

"Consensus" means "general agreement". So "general consensus" is redundant.

[Merrick]

46. Two more:

"Let's make sure we're on the same page" (or any derivation using the "same page" metaphor)

"Think outside the box" (people still using this ad nauseum obviously aren't espousing their own advice)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

55. I just tell them that there is no outside of the box. It does not exist.

There is also no box, so therefore, you've contradicted yourself by not only bringing this metaphorical box into existance, but then saying that you should somehow project your thoughts outside of it. Now, I don't know, you might be able to somehow project your intangible thoughts into a non-existant box (that really has no metaphorical meaning either), or out of it, but I find I prefer to keep my thoughts in the existing world. Reroll and come back later. :thumbsdown:

[laheina]

67. Okay.

But, where does Schrodinger's cat live then? :silly:

Just kidding. ;)

[giant_robot]

47. I hate, "I'm just sayin'" and "don't be that way",

"I'm just sayin'": Usually it means, "I'm just interjecting my opinion for attention even though nobody asked me. This is a favorite line of people who like to rain on your parade.

"Don't be that way": In other words, "Don't be so intolerant of my bullshit behavior."

Example:

Person A to Person B: "I've got box seats at the ball game on Saturday."
Person C: "You know they're going to lose, right?"
A: "Um...who asked you?"
C: "I'm just sayin'!"
A: "Yeah...I gotta go."
C: "Aww..don't be that way!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

48. Some that I think are funny...

"I'm fittin' to do it" which is a corruption of the slang saying "I'm fixing to do it"
"Can I hold a pencil?" (the previous sayings were all heard in Orlando)
or "Can I use the bathroom?"----I sure hope so!
Where I'm from we say things like "wicked good" and (jokingly) "you can't get there from here".

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

50. When my mom calls me on my landline phone she always...

asks "are you home?" Of course I'm home if I am answering the phone!

[alarimer]

51. "Sangwiches" instead of Sandwiches

My coworker does this and it drives me batty.

[uppityperson]

52. "Me and (name) went to a movie"

NO NO NO, it is (name) and I went to a movie, or better yet rented one, stayed home and made out.

[Nailzberg]

56. "I call it like I see it."

Still doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.

I've found that most people that "call it as they see it" have pretty shitty vision.

[kilgore65]

57. "at the end of the day..."

God that drives me fucking nuts.... sure sign of a goddamn mother fucking nerd when some jerkoff says that...

[u4ic]

58. Corporate-speak crap

Wanted: Refuse engineer

In congruence with the sanctity of the tidying of communities...blah blah blah...vehiclular manipulation...blah blah blah...waste disposal in a friendly, caring, dynamic environment...blah blah blah :eyes:

Stephen Harper and his "God bless Canada" :puke:

[barb162]

60. pronouncing February without the first "r"

[barb162]

61. NUCULAR

[Seabiscuit]

62. People who say "no problem" after I say "thank you".

What happened to "you're welcome"???

[Seabiscuit]

63. People who say "whatever", or who insert "like" several times into every

sentence.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

68. "He's a good drawer" instead of "He's a good artist."

:mad:

[NMMNG]

69. "Put it in the draw"

It's a drawer



"Can I ax you a question?"


No, you can ask me a question.



"I'm going to fix a sammich (or sammij) for lunch."

Um, that would be sandwich.

[wickerwoman]

70. People who start sentences with "Anymore,"

when they mean "Anyways" as in "Anymore, I can never remember where I put my car keys."

[Gold Metal Flake]

71. "Get up, honey, you have to go to work"

"Stop kicking that dog"

"You can't just take that"

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son"

[raccoon]

72. "the exception that proves the rule." nt

[Hand]

73. "Put your John Henry right there..."

Which is supposed to mean, "Sign right here, please." However

It's John HANCOCK, you moran! John Henry was a former slave and a railroad worker... and as such, would not have been allowed to learn to read and write.

Every time I hear that, I'm tempted to scrawl a big sloppy X on the line. :grr:

[riona]

74. It was too little, too late

[dmoded]

75. lost something

so you lose something and tell someone about your loss, stupidest question ever, "Hey, where'd you lose it?"

HMM IF I KNEW I THINK ID FIND It RIGHT AWAY WOULDNT I? :)

d.

[Jazz2006]

76. Ideal when they mean idea.

Well, unless it's an ideal idea, of course :)

[ghostsofgiants]

77. For some reason, around here, it's somewhat common to pronounce Chicago...

With an R.

Chicargo.

When I was a kid, I always thought they were talking about a different place. An 8 year-old me: "Hmm, I know Chicago, but where the hell is Chicargo?"

[bluethruandthru]

81. Right next to "Warshington"!

In these parts locals say "crowns" for Crayons... browln, for brown, strawl for straw...AHHH!

[Madrone]

78. A few...

Anyways....

My bad.

UM... (used as my most hated and annoying coworker uses it --- after creeping up behind you and trying to engage you in an overlong and unwanted conversation about some thing she wants to go on and on about. Never work related. The UM you hear from her is like a DEEP breath that means the next thing you're going to hear is an ongoing string of crap you don't care about and she won't stop to breathe again for at least 15 minutes. She drives me CRAZY.)

[brentspeak]

79. "What happened?" when they didn't understand what someone said.

[Seabiscuit]

80. "Let's be honest." As if honesty were a game to be played.

[spindrifter]

82. At the end of the day, 24/7. doh.