Words or phrases that annoy you
 

What words, phrases or cliches do people use that bug the heck out of you? Here are a few that make me cringe:

"I gave 110/150/200 (insert any number over 100) percent!"

"He did a total 360." - when referring to a change.

"Aight."

"Whatever." It's just so dismissive and rude.

"Same difference."

"I saw on the Today Show..." My mom is guilty of this. She gets all of her news from the Today show. Often she'll talk about some viral video or news story that had come out a month earlier and it's just making it into the mainstream.

Anything that people will repeat because they "heard it somewhere", without researching it themselves to find out if it's true. I reference Snopes to people who send me those stories via email. I'm certainly not perfect, but some people will believe and repeat anything they hear.

The 360 one doesn't even make sense.

I absolutely HATE this! Ugh, makes me annoyed just reading it.

"So to speak." Drives me crazy. My husband says it all the time.

"Society....blah blah blah" It's just such a cliche'.

Forgot to add "Can I ask you a question...?"

Please, for goodness sake just ask me.

Ya know.
Doncha know.
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"I hate to tell you..."
Then DON'T!!
Translated: "I just can't WAIT to tell you...":mad:

Some people require a complete circle to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PQMl5hmZY

:rolleyes: lol

I hate when people (actually usually just teens) refer to parents as "'rents".

"A whole nother"
...Um, that's not a word!

This one bugs the hell out of me. My hubby does websites on the side and does several restaurants' sites. One woman in particular keeps asking for the font to be more "classy" and "fancy". Argh!!

Similar to classy - "trashy" bothers me.

I never see it used as anything but someone trying to look down on someone else but trying to sound like they're inherently above such things.

"don't you think..." followed by an opinion that I do NOT agree with.

"irregardless" (just because you can find it in a dictionary does NOT make it correct; we've already gone there, so don't start).

I knew I wasn't crazy. ree-Xi, you started this same thread last year. You even used the same example of the lady who says "classy" and "fancy." ;)

LOL