The most annoying expressions...

The way kids use "gay" as an alternative to "stupid". So annoying

The never watch "The Inbetweeners"!


Vicky

The way kids use "gay" as an alternative to "stupid". So annoying

I hate that too.

There's some commercial on tv now that ends with the narrator saying something is "scrummy."  For goodness sake, now I have to add that pressies, photies, piccies, chocies, and so on.   

I think that's a Felix cat food commercial.  And whatever 'scrummy' means, that stuff is cat crack..

I think that's a Felix cat food commercial.  And whatever 'scrummy' means, that stuff is cat crack..

LOL

On the corporate-speak vein, I've got a couple from my days in retail:

'we all need to be finishing strong' (as in 'end your transactions with a smile')

'shrink huddle' (a short meeting around the notice board regarding weekly sales targets and store theft amounts - what we can to to reduce stock loss/boost sales etc.)

'pulling forward' (pulling the stock to the front of the shelf so that it looks fully stocked and tidy)

'shrink huddle'

Thank you for reminding me of my all-time least favorite term:  'shrinkage'.  Years and years of retail, and I still think it's the dumbest euphemism for theft.

Plus, after that Seinfeld episode, it now makes me giggle.

'Getting one's end away' - makes me want to 

'Getting one's end away'...

What is that supposed to mean?

sex!

sex!

OH!

Thank you for reminding me of my all-time least favorite term:  'shrinkage'.  Years and years of retail, and I still think it's the dumbest euphemism for theft.

Plus, after that Seinfeld episode, it now makes me giggle.

I've only ever heard of 'shrinkage' used in terms of now-tiny woollen items or in the Seinfeld context. Never to mean retail theft! It's awful!

(nice new icon, btw)

'Getting one's end away'...

May I suggest instead:

'Well that filled a hole!'  (I've recently turned one of my pet phrase hates into a more amusing usage...  )

Or, a new one that seems to have been coined in the process of our remodeling our bedroom - because both someone on here as well as my neighbour understood a double entendre in it... (why do people think I mean something naughty, even when I'm being completely innocent? )

'Tearing up the bedroom.'

 

"ta mate".

I get so sick of hearing that on a daily basis.

And a coworker uses the word "twat" all the time and it does get a little rude after a while.

~BEG