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  • Syrette 12 Mar 2008 02:19:41 38,343 posts
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    I fucking passionately detest the adjective 'pap'.

    It just sounds horrible and outdated. Cringe-worthy in the extreme and I hold it against anyone who uses it.

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  • PazJohnMitch 12 Mar 2008 02:23:35 5,678 posts
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    Cockney
  • Ares 12 Mar 2008 02:26:13 1,822 posts
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    Much



    But don't look at it for too long! It gets weird ...
  • heyyo 12 Mar 2008 02:28:05 14,307 posts
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    "However"

    More but I can't think of them atm, i'll add some tomorrow.

    Slightly OT but I hate the phrase "when the shit hits the fan" not only because of the horrible mental image it brings to mind, but also because it's hard to figure out where it comes from. Also hate the saying "how are you?" because a) people saying are usually just making smalltalk and have no regards to how you actually are, which leads me on to b) I hate it because it's always followed by "I'm fine and you?"
  • PazJohnMitch 12 Mar 2008 02:35:24 5,678 posts
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    Yoof


    Even hate it when it is spelt correctly too.
  • SHABBAWOTT 12 Mar 2008 02:52:55 59 posts
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    I hate the word
  • grimmace 12 Mar 2008 04:55:12 563 posts
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    'actually' or 'actual' because it is misused so often as in "I got into the actual car" or "The criminal was actually inside the actual police van". Grrrrrrr

    'buttons' - the word makes me vomit carrots even when I haven't eaten any.
  • keyboardmonkey 12 Mar 2008 07:55:50 409 posts
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    basically
  • DUFFKING 12 Mar 2008 08:04:05 6,014 posts
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    Addicting, because it's not actually a fucking word.
  • mrharvest 12 Mar 2008 08:05:54 5,048 posts
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    'No'

    Examples:
    "Do you love me?" "No."
    "Did you fill the car?" "No."
    "I just wanted to ask if-" "NO."
  • chrisp 12 Mar 2008 08:10:52 473 posts
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    I hate the word egg. Like eating them, though.
  • Der_tolle_Emil 12 Mar 2008 08:19:38 7,290 posts
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    could of?
  • The_Aardvark 12 Mar 2008 08:21:13 3,063 posts
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    literally
  • Gretters 12 Mar 2008 08:22:59 2,628 posts
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    Deceiving.

    Whenever I hear it uttered, a little bit of me dies and a small voice in my head screams:

    "IT'S NOT A FUCKING WORD YOU BORDERLINE ILLITERATE COCKPIECE!"


    Edit: Ironically (that's another one, 99% of the time people use it, btw) I misspelled a word in my shouty bit. /o\
  • Fat-Boy 12 Mar 2008 08:25:33 4,300 posts
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    'Banter'
    Abbreviating McDonald's to 'Mackey Dee's'
    The use of the word 'so' with that Friends inflection. I'm so going to have a frapuchino. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!

    Also, on a slight tangent, wankers who go into pubs they've never been in before and use their own bizarre dialect to order drinks.

    "Hello mate, what can I get you?"
    "Pint of Kronenberg, a G&T and a Red Bull and Two."
    "A Red Bull and what?"
    "Two"
    "Two?"
    (as if I'm some sort of backwards cunt) "Yeah, a Red. Bull. And. Two."
    "Yeah, I heard you, I just don't know what it is."
    "A Red Bull & Double Vodka. Have you never heard that before?"
    "Well clearly not, otherwise we wouldn't be having this delightful conversation, causing my other regular customers to wait, whilst I try to translate your impenetrable dialect."
  • LeoliansBro 12 Mar 2008 08:26:42 35,084 posts
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    PC Brigade.
    Action used as a verb: 'If you can action that by Tuesday'.
    Party used as a verb: 'Let'd PAAAAARRRTY!'. Let's not.

    And bizarrely, people confusing 'less' and 'fewer'. One applies to discrete amounts, one does not. So you can have 'less sugar' but 'fewer sugar cubes'. NOT. HARD.

    LB, you really are a massive geek.

  • Fat-Boy 12 Mar 2008 08:28:24 4,300 posts
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    Leolian'sBro wrote:
    Action used as a verb: 'If you can action that by Tuesday'.
    Party used as a verb: 'Let'd PAAAAARRRTY!'. Let's not.
    Plus. Fucking. One.
  • Pirotic Moderator 12 Mar 2008 08:29:43 20,637 posts
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    clunge
  • chrisp 12 Mar 2008 08:30:07 473 posts
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    Oh another one is Crimbo for Christmas, hate hate hate it. It just makes my toes curl.

    I also get annoyed when people mix up less and fewer as well as lie and lay, but then I'm pedantic and studied languages, plus I don't hate the actual words.
  • LeoliansBro 12 Mar 2008 08:30:19 35,084 posts
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    I might add brainstorm used as a verb: 'Can we brainstorm this?' Sorry, I'll just have to think about it instead...

    LB, you really are a massive geek.

  • Mr-Brett 12 Mar 2008 08:32:57 11,486 posts
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    Charm wrote:
    Surely. Ever since a swotty nerd in my biology class would keep interrupting the teacher in class with pointless arguments that always began with "surely blah blah blah".
    I get this but at uni which makes it even more sad but he says "I was gonna say...", it really gets my goat.

    Please don't use the delete button, think of the children.

  • Deleted user 12 March 2008 08:38:06
    Cunt

    Find the word unnecessary and vulgar.
  • BanjoMan 12 Mar 2008 08:40:16 13,730 posts
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    Pirotic wrote:
    clunge
    +1 on this. What's wrong with good, old-fashioned minge?

    I also hate the word 'actually'. Too stiff. People with surnames like Ponce-Sconsington say these types of words.

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  • JuanKerr 12 Mar 2008 08:44:03 35,451 posts
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    Fat Boy wrote:

    The use of the word 'so' with that Friends inflection. I'm so going to have a frapuchino. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!
    Agreed. People who use 'so' like that should be rounded up and culled.
  • Whizzo 12 Mar 2008 08:47:50 41,128 posts
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    Incentivize/ise

    That can go fuck itself out of existence as soon as possible.

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  • BanjoMan 12 Mar 2008 08:47:53 13,730 posts
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    JuanKerr wrote:
    Fat Boy wrote:

    The use of the word 'so' with that Friends inflection. I'm so going to have a frapuchino. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!
    Agreed. People who use 'so' like that should be rounded up and culled.
    Also people who tell stories by over-using the word 'like'.

    He was like 'shut up' and I was like 'oh my god', but he was like 'yuh-huh', and I was like 'nuh-uh'.

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  • Fat-Boy 12 Mar 2008 08:49:41 4,300 posts
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    BanjoMan wrote:
    JuanKerr wrote:
    Fat Boy wrote:

    The use of the word 'so' with that Friends inflection. I'm so going to have a frapuchino. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!
    Agreed. People who use 'so' like that should be rounded up and culled.
    Also people who tell stories by over-using the word 'like'.

    He was like 'shut up' and I was like 'oh my god', but he was like 'yuh-huh', and I was like 'nuh-uh'.
    I have a friend who does that with both 'like' and 'yeah'.

    "So, I was like driving along, yeah, and I saw this bloke, yeah, and like, I realised it was Matt, yeah, so I like beeped my horn, yeah, and he like looked up yeah, and...."

    He's a nice bloke, but sometimes he makes me want to drown puppies.

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