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posted on Feb, 2 2013 @ 10:07 PM
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reply to post by ItCameFromOuterSpace
 


I've seen a little on TV.



posted on Feb, 2 2013 @ 10:12 PM
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What's a real kicker for me is the term "you know" after every sentence.
You know?



posted on Feb, 2 2013 @ 10:29 PM
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reply to post by AdAstra
 


Ah, ha ha. I deserve that.

I also dislike when people use cutesy rhyming ("tighty-whities") and slang alliteration ("brown-bagging it.")



posted on Feb, 2 2013 @ 10:36 PM
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Originally posted by Jess117
The word "preggers" makes me a little nauseated. No pun intended. I never understood how those terms slipped into our mainstream vernacular. "Preg-preg" is even worse...

Preggo makes me feel a little weird since I have three thoughts. I think of an eggo, then I think of the spaghetti sauce, and then I understand she means that she is pregnant. By that point, I'm all off track.


"Prego" means 'you're welcome" in Italian, so maybe that's how that got started.

She: "I'm with child!"

He: "Prego."



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 12:13 AM
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I hate when people call garbage or trash "rubbish". I do not care where they are from it simply annoys me. I also find the words moist, pocket, ointment, and dangle to be gross.



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 01:12 AM
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Here are some of my "favs", BTW.. "favs" is one I actually don't like.
Also, poker face, (what the heck does that mean)? Another is, "Riddle me this", also, "whatever" and "knocked up"....as bad as preggers.
Any oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp or icey hot. "Pause for thought" is another...I picture a dog scratching his head trying to think about something? I use that one myself sometimes though.



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 02:53 AM
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Originally posted by pheonix358

Originally posted by canucks555
Stop being "anal" about the subject.
I hate that word. reminds me of anuses.


That is actually what the word means and what is trying to be said. If you are being anal, then you are talking out of your anus.

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I always thought it meant you're acting like you have a stick up your ass.
Somebody that's too rigid. So they're being anal.



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 03:01 AM
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Quote Unquote
I agree that ones annoying especially when the person curls their fingers into a half claw to signify quotation marks.



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 03:06 AM
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Originally posted by Char-Lee

Originally posted by AwakeinNM
Another one:

ORIENTATE

Not a word, people. Orient, oriented, orientation.


Think - Class, classify, classification. You do not classificate something, why would you want to orientate it, too?


I think ex president Bush could classificate something.



I don't like it when somebody says disorientated for disoriented



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 03:15 AM
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Anyhoo gets on my nerves, so does woo hoo



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 10:13 AM
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Haha, I would like that much better. I don't mind Prego.

Usually it will be used in this context though:
*College girl, with a tendency to use the word like, browses gossip sites*: OMG! LIKE, Kim Kardashian is PREGGO! I CAN'T WAIT TIL I'M PREGGO."
Me: I'm sorry? All I heard was, "blah blah blah, I'm a dirty tramp." (hey man, Mr. Deeds was a cool movie)



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 12:36 PM
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Originally posted by shrevegal
Here are some of my "favs", BTW.. "favs" is one I actually don't like.
Also, poker face, (what the heck does that mean)? Another is, "Riddle me this", also, "whatever" and "knocked up"....as bad as preggers.
Any oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp or icey hot. "Pause for thought" is another...I picture a dog scratching his head trying to think about something? I use that one myself sometimes though.


Poker face means not showing any emotion as if "when bluffing in a game of poker"....

I'm guilty of the curled finger quote signage as well.......*sigh*

I personally don't have dislikes for any catch phrases except when someone says "You mad bro?" or "You mad brah?", hearing (seeing) either of those makes me want to metaphorically go home run hitting with a Lousiville Slugger on thier arse.




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edit on 3-2-2013 by Darkphoenix77 because: clarification



posted on Feb, 3 2013 @ 01:39 PM
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Another one: Irregardless. Used to be, when you heard someone use this word, you automatically knew they were an airhead. Now there is a whole generation that defends its use as a real word. Sad.
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posted on Feb, 4 2013 @ 07:01 PM
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Originally posted by Snsoc


"Prego" means 'you're welcome" in Italian, so maybe that's how that got started.

She: "I'm with child!"

He: "Prego."





posted on Feb, 4 2013 @ 07:02 PM
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Originally posted by captaintyinknots
Another one: Irregardless. Used to be, when you heard someone use this word, you automatically knew they were an airhead. Now there is a whole generation that defends its use as a real word. Sad.
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Yep. And they could care less. :-)



posted on Feb, 4 2013 @ 07:14 PM
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I always thought it meant you're acting like you have a stick up your ass.
Somebody that's too rigid. So they're being anal.

You're right, that's what it means.
As in "tight ass". But not in a good way.





Another is, "Riddle me this"


Check.
(I am actually borderline allergic to it. < shudder >)



Anyhoo gets on my nerves, so does woo hoo


Check. (Especially the second one.)

And on a related note, I am not particularly fond of the appendix -Nazi to signify anyone who gives a damn about something.
As in, "grammar nazi".


Man, I hate a LOT of things!







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posted on Feb, 5 2013 @ 03:30 AM
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And on a related note, I am not particularly fond of the appendix -Nazi to signify anyone who gives a damn about something.
As in, "grammar nazi".



I hate hate hate the term "smoking Nazi," particularly since the people using it are the ones going around gassing others.



posted on Feb, 5 2013 @ 07:19 PM
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Originally posted by Pressthebutton
What's a real kicker for me is the term "you know" after every sentence.
You know?


Well you know, as someone, you know, who does transcription for a, you know, living, I can guarantee that, you know, everyone does this, you know, to some extent.



posted on Feb, 5 2013 @ 07:26 PM
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That is an accent, not a phrase.



posted on Feb, 5 2013 @ 07:29 PM
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I think it is because Prego had the jargon: its in there.
When I was pregnant we said I was Prego, well because it's in there. LOL

I have no problem with it.




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