Mehaul: Well that wholly depends on whether it's your part of the world, or mine. In Saskatchewan (where I was born and raised), the noon-ish meal is called "dinner", not "lunch" and the evening meal is always "supper", not "dinner". "Lunch" is something you serve at things such as funeral/memorial services (diagonally cut, crusts removed sandwiches etc) or at 11 pm at wedding receptions (where you get "leftovers" plus buns, cheese and coldcut meats - which I presume is to attempt to absorb some of the alcohol ingested at the event lol)

Klinski: "I hear ya" (another one I don't like, unless you're speaking to someone on the phone or in person). I'll call your GMTA and raise you with a SMSD (small minds seldom differ) : )

Tabby Tom: I must agree with that one. Unless you're on active duty in military, police, fire or protection services, you have no business using the "not on my watch" phrase!

Jakeroo, so 'do lunch' has a funereal connotation? Sounds kinda like 'eating with the fishes'. If it's neutral territory, do we do both or do breakfast?

BFF

and

'freaking'

BFF? I don't know that one.

"I'm here to tell you...", and I thought you were here to wash my windows.

I always thought BFF was 'Best Female Friend' (correct me if I'm wrong someone )

And I always thought saying 'freaking heck' instead of the alternative 'f---ing heck' sounded much nicer (of course I probably wouldn't use the word 'heck' but I don't know exactly which 'naughty' words will get me in trouble here )

I always thought BFF was Best friends forever
I can tolerate "Heads up", but I am sure every young person used to dread "We'll see" from a parent. It usually meant "No, but I don't want to tell you "No" yet!".

I suppose "heck"is "hell", isn't it?

Yup

Mouth soap all around!

My least favourite expression, and the one I'd like banned.."my bad"...
Your bad what ? Manners, teeth, breath ?

"Have a nice day." A friend of mine responds "No thank you I have other plans."

I feel the same about all the phrases and words above. The one that drives me scatty is when someone says they'll do something in "just a minute" which can mean anything from 1 hour to never - aaaaaagh!

A few months ago, someone who passes for adult told me to "Have a nice life." I thought that was a hoot because because I've never heard it said by anyone over the age of seventeen.

"Chill out" can go too please. "Take a chill pill" can definitely go!

When I get tired of hearing "Have a nice day". I'll scowl at the speaker and say "Don't tell me what to do"!

My day improves everytime I say it.

You know what really grates my nerves, certain people who constantly say seriously after a question or a statement by someone,it annoys the heck out of me,seriously this,seriously that,i've tried to get them to stop by mocking them or just plain telling to stop,but it doesn't work,they just won't listen,seriously. Wait a minute,that's me....seriously.

OK, NOW I have one that gets right up my nose, seriously(sorry George)
Why oh why are people, especially teens(isn't it usually?) saying:
"I Heart -" instead of "I Love-" when there is a red heart? It drives me bonkers!

"There's no answer: you'll have to ring back later (because it would kill me to leave a message asking them to ring you)."

"This is a small branch: you'll have to go to another branch 20 miles away (because it's too much trouble for us to order one in for you here)."

"You have to understand..." Do I really?

I don't mind it used once or twice, but whatever happened to "Sorry"? And the way people act like saying "my bad" makes it okay drives me round the bend.





I was like so totally about to like say that like just right now!





I used to hear "BFF" all the time years ago, and I got really annoyed. What person has the same best friend all their life? And what about in the afterlife? You might never see your friends there.




"I feel you, man" - I don't really want to be felt, especially not when I'm upset. Luckily I don't hear it that often.


Edited to make a sentence make sense (or as much sense as a sentence with that many likes will ever make).

On the "have a nice day" phrase, I had it said to me the day of my husband's funeral...so I told her what I was doing that day, and that it was most defintely NOT going to be "nice".
Her response was that the manager insisted they say it to every customer. I suggested she tell the manager that in many cases, it was unappreciated !

A pet peeve of mine is the constant overuse of 'star' and 'champion' in the media. When reporting on some other event, an actor (either gender) is always a 'star' even if they've only appeared in toothpaste commercials and anyone who has made even a fleeting appearance on televised sport is always a 'champion'.

Because I teach at uni, I'm exposed to most of the 'new speak' including incorporation of internet acronyms into everyday sentences (e.g. 'lol' as a word), but as noted in earlier posts 'my bad' still grates...

Mike, you can add 'hero' to that list.

I have several that make me grind my teeth.

"Kewl" in correspondence. If people must use the dopey expression, they could at least spell it correctly.

"Like" used after every second damn word. "Uh, like, you know, I went, like, to the shops, like" etc etc etc.

"A ballpark figure" - public servants are fond of that one. What the heck is a ballpark figure? For me, it's a baseball player.

"A level playing field" - last time I heard a public servant use that term, I finally decided to ask for an explanation. He looked blank and replied "Uh, like, you know, like.."

And now they're replacing the "like" here with "Yeah" instead. "Uh, yeah, well, yeah, I said to her, yeah" etc.

Finally, politicians who repeat everything, as in "We will spend our money on education. We will spend our money on health. We will spend out money on roads" etc. Why can't they just say, "We will spend our money on education, health and roads"? (Not that the idiots do any of the above).

I recently spoke to someone in the finance business and he suggested that I should get all my ducks in a row. This raises a few questions, such as-

1) Where should I get some ducks at short notice?

2) How many would I need?

3) Is there an advantage in ducks being row-ed, as opposed to unrow-ed?

4) What on earth do ducks have to do with my retirement fund?

It seems that I was not in the loop and could not see the big picture (of what, I ask?). Perhaps I should have been empowered to facilitate a solution going forward (as opposed to zig-zagging?). No-one gave me a heads up about the methodology, so I had to literally (which I took to mean 'figuratively) leverage the paradigm (I have yet to meet anyone that can define THAT word). I synergised myself (oops, can I do that in public?), and went hunting for a box to think outside of.

I touched base with the stakeholders, and enabled the dog and pony show, conceptualised some blue-sky thinking then charted out the bottom line.

I thought I was on top of everything until someone mentioned that there was an elephant in the room! I looked around in panic, but saw nothing- perhaps it was in the box?

That's wonderful, ozzz2002!!

During many insufferable meetings, I have been exposed to all of the above phrases (including "Getting all the ducks in a row") - I'm beginning to suspect that this intentional creation of bureaucratic waffle is the verbal equivalent of the Emperor's New Clothes. It's meant to hide the fact there's simply nothing behind it - certainly no intellectual substance.

Now scientific jargon on the other hand... :-)

Having sat through interminable meetings, I agree with both of you. They bore me witless.

At a heads of department meeting one of my sisters had to attend at her work, she said they spent the ENTIRE day - arguing about the wording of one paragraph. They were trying to produce a booklet. Work enough there for the next twenty years I imagine. By the time it's produced, it'll be time for another new one.

Let's not forget their books full of acronyms, either. It's a whole new language when they start tossing them around.

Dilbert is my hero.

I don't mind "lol" used online, but if someone said it to me in the street (In the street? Surely they'd say it to me on the pavement or at the very least on top of the street.) then I'd probably just stare at them and say "What?". For one thing, you don't usually go around telling people to laugh out loud, people tend to do that on their own if they find something funny.

Oh, Ozzz, well done! [Reminder to self - stop drinking coffee whilst reading the forums. It's too hard to clean sprayed coffee off the keyboard and monitor].

Are they Lucky Ducks? Only if you have more than one lined up I know several people who'd increase your pension fund to get one.

Ozzzz, I have a quantity of ducks on the creek that runs through the farm. If you work out how to get them in a row, could you plese tell me, as I think it would make an interesting tourist attraction...