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after reading "wind your neck in" on another post i was instantly angry!!

i hate that phrase with a passion.

so what phrase "grips your sh1t?"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:15 pm
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Reinventing the wheel!


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:16 pm
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Swapping out.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:17 pm
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ringfencing the unicorn


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:17 pm
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Absoooooooolutly


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:18 pm
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when people say they are "stoked" about something cos it's not cool to say excited


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:20 pm
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The phrase "grips your shit" grips my shit (and also boils my piss and condenses my farts).


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:20 pm
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"i imagine that.."

means i don't know and I can't be bothered to check


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:20 pm
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Giving 110% and derivatives of that,

How??

How is that possible??


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:21 pm
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"Get a life"

"Does that make sense?"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:23 pm
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"Big Society"

"It is what it is."

"We're all in this together." (usually heard said to people who are demonstrably more 'in this' by people who obviously aren't 👿 )


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:26 pm
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Off of. Thank you Scott Mills. You need a severe slapping.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:29 pm
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Anyone who says (of themselves) that they 'don't suffer fools gladly' is usually a prize scrat-end. Same goes for saying it as they see it, and speaking their mind. GRR!


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:31 pm
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Giving 110% and derivatives of that,

How??

How is that possible??

One of my targets is to get 10 of something this week. I manage to get 11. I've done 110% of target. Simple.

🙂

It still annoys the **** out of me when you hear some **** on x factor banging on about it though 🙂


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:35 pm
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shits and giggles


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:37 pm
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My new absolute number one?

SMASHED IT! Or any variation...

just been to the gym and smashed it.
i'd smash that
the dj smashed it big time
etc etc

I'll tell you what would be smashing, smashing your scrawny *ing face in *!


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:45 pm
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Smashing.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:46 pm
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Rocking up, why not turning up, or even arriving?


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:47 pm
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'can i get a...................'

'fire across an email'


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:48 pm
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'iDave diet' seems to be as annoying as it is ubiquitous at the moment; fat people who eat too much wailing about how to eat something different. Fine, no problems, but do shut up about it now chaps...


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:48 pm
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Of an evening


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:48 pm
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'It's only money'
Normally heard from people who have plenty of it.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:49 pm
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One of my targets is to get 10 of something this week. I manage to get 11. I've done 110% of target. Simple.

You have achieved 110%, not given it.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:50 pm
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palmer77 i rock up. i think its some thing i picked up in the army


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:50 pm
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'literally'
110% (to mean "they tried hard")
totally


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:52 pm
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In Oz it's cool, in Bedfordshire it's just silly


 
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You have achieved 110%, not given it.

My little boy asks for £1 I give him 110% instead as I only have a 50p and a few 20p's


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:54 pm
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"Emotional rollercoaster"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:56 pm
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At this moment in time.........


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 5:56 pm
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"going forward"

Apart from it being a bit of a ****-marker, I don't know why it makes me want to lead people into the deep, dark woods and show them the sharp end of my hatchet.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:03 pm
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My little boy asks for £1 I give him 110% instead as I only have a 50p and a few 20p's

You have given 110% of a prescribed amount (or target). If there is no base vaule to measure against, it is impossible to give more than all of it.

eg

'I'm going to give 110% effort' No you aren't, even if you do everything that is humanly possible for whatever you are doing, you have still 'only' given 100% effort.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:06 pm
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I had to put together a presentation on project management deliverables...I called them 'Project Deliverables' which I thought was pretty clear.

My boss asked me to change it to 'Artifacts'...I refused.

I think he's been hanging around with the consultants to much...I hate consultantese.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:09 pm
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Awesome


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:10 pm
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Off of is bloody annoying but the one that i hate is "the chelseas, the arsenals" etc.... It doesnt even save any words....


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:11 pm
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"What tyres for..."


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:12 pm
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4 seasons in one day


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:13 pm
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Prefixing with 'super'. 'I'm super excited/hungry/awesome/bored/stoked' 😡


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:21 pm
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"Hello"
"At the end of the day"
"What it is is"
"What they do do"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:25 pm
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I hate it when a girl says "is it in yet"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:27 pm
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"Guesstimate"

No. Its a guess. Or an estimation. [b]Not Both!!!![/b]


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:32 pm
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Inappropriate use of 'myself', 'ourselves', 'yourselves' etc etc

e.g At the meeting between yourselves and ourselves, we resolved to make more effort to keep the customer in touch with yourselves. They've been in contact with myself, but is there anything ourselves can do to assist you?

I hear that bollocks all of the time and it just screams out short-sleeved shirts and machine washable suits.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:33 pm
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" good times......" what a load of rubbish


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:37 pm
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"Not three bad"

It's not funny. It's not clever. You say it [i]every[/i] time you are asked "How are you?" Please stop.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:42 pm
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I don't like 'good times' either, I think everyone say it because f that hairy comedian from Bristol.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:44 pm
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Jeez some of you lot need to pull the monkeys out of your arses.

I bet you hate that expression too! 😛


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:48 pm
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"playing devil`s advocate"
basically means Being a C**t


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:49 pm
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"going forward"

Apart from it being a bit of a ****-marker, I don't know why it makes me want to lead people into the deep, dark woods and show them the sharp end of my hatchet.


Me too, I mean what else can we do but do but go forward this isn't back to the future is it?


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:52 pm
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Awesome - when referring to things like handlebar grips or tyres

Stoked - I heard someone talking about the stoke factor of a particular bit of trail the other day


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 6:58 pm
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"two times as much", erm, twice as much, then.

"4 times less". I have absolutely no idea what times means i feel it should mean a fourth or quarter of... but i'm not sure.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:33 pm
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My boss patronises the hell out of everyone whenever they make a valid point by announcing "correct" at the end of their sentences. Very irritating.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:38 pm
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an mountainbike
an hotel


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:41 pm
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'Sessioning' Another word for the phrase, 'needed the practice cos I'm shite'

My most unfavourite word at work at work is 'obviously'. Prisoners use it all the time. Today for instance, after lined route (ie, off to work you orrible lot) a prisoner comes to the office door for nothing in particular & I say to him, 'are going to work or what Mr X?' He says, 'obviously' (which winds me up) so I say, 'well your'e obviously not are you cos your'e obviously stood in the office doorway, so * off to work & stop being so **** obvious'.
He went. (obviously)


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:41 pm
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" it would make your sh1t itch" often said by a female colleague! 😯

"chew the fat" eeewwww,

Any conversation that has speech inclination to make it sound like a question by going slightly up a pitch or two towards the end.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:45 pm
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"of this parish"
"of a night"
"its was like x o'clock"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:52 pm
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slam - with reference to stems

I'm not racist but... <continues to make racist comment>

What are you thinking? - when said by girlfriends etc


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:54 pm
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"sweating like a rapist", was used by a young pretty blonde sat next to me a few years ago.

Not keen on that one, but from a burly tattoed football fan in a boozer, it might be vaguely acceptable...


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:58 pm
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"You get me?"
"For real"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 7:59 pm
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most unfavourite


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:10 pm
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"sweating like a rapist", was used by a young pretty blonde sat next to me a few years ago

Was she referring to you ?


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:10 pm
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[i]most unfavourite[/i]

Thanks. 😆


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:14 pm
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"4am in the morning"

It's 4am, or 4 in the morning. Arrrgh.....

Irrational, but I hate this with a passion.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:16 pm
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F+++ Off Simon! That generally puts a downer on the day. 🙁


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:18 pm
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an mountainbike
an hotel

Well one of those is just wrong (and I've never seen it used)

And the other one is correct use of the queens English.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:25 pm
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When someone's not interested in something, "I could care less."

Argh! Is your brain and your mouth in any way connected?!


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:29 pm
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And the other one is correct use of the queens English.

Is the Queen from Barnsley?


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:30 pm
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When people start a sentence with "You know what"

You know what, new member....Hi all 🙂


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:32 pm
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You will do well here. Is that Colt Seavers?


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:33 pm
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Colt Seavers it is, I'm more of a Howie.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:36 pm
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Any phraseology associated with an unfunny picture of a cat, for example "Can I haz cheezburger" or "Mommy, I iz scaredz".

Drives me insane, no matter what I do my Facebook timeline is infested with these things.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:37 pm
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"whatever doesn't kill you , makes you stronger"

Does it buggery! Second sentence fragment in my experience is, "....gives you PTSD" (straight from a shrinks mouth)


 
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Would you mind stepping out of the vehicle sir !!


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:39 pm
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Would you mind stepping out of the vehicle sir !!

That's not to bad, "you have the right to remain silent" on the other hand...


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:41 pm
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I've got a developmental opportunity for you 😯


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:42 pm
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"Can i get..."

no, the person you are asking is working there and they can get you something but you cannot...I blame "Friends"

"We are where we are"

Well yes we are thanks for that


 
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Is the Queen from Barnsley?

As far as I know, yes.

But I'm not really an expert.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:42 pm
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"my bad"


 
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My old boss used to say "take a different tact" all the time. Grrrrrr. Doubly annoying from a person with no tact at all, never mind multiple different tacts, that just made it even more irritating that she had it all wrong in the first bloody place.

So eventually I explained why she was wrong and she said "Don't be stupid, sailboats can't sail against the wind"


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:47 pm
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Colt Seavers it is, I'm more of a Howie.

God damn, I didn't even look at at your username.

My bad. (-:


 
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And the other one is correct use of the queens English.

so? i expect most of the phrases in this thread are too. it being correct or incorrect has no bearing on it's emotional impact on my psyche.


 
Posted : 19/04/2012 8:48 pm
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It's not exactly rocket science.


 
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