Things people say/words that irrationally annoy you

I hate people telling me to 'calm down'. That's the best way to get me even more wound up.

Also hate, hate, hate pissed as a fart. Hate it.

Hubby is just horrifically awful in all ways.

"I literally died". Goodness, and yet you seem so remarkably alive right now, so maybe it wasn't LITERALLY, h'mmmm?

"I seen it". Gah!

"at the end of the day"

"I'm not being funny, but..."

And teenagers who can't string two words together without joining them with "like". GAH!

Oooh, much better for getting that out, thanks ?

"Listen to me!" my husband, it even winds me up when he says it to the children...............

Oh and when people say 'I/she/he turned around and said'

"so he turned around and said"

Oh yes, all of those. love love love I literally died.

I caught myself saying I turned around the other day. how awful.

I am such a snob though. I always correct my husband by saying 's' after he says 'pound.' He says 'could of' as well. And 'pacific'. Seems the school he got sent to ripped his parents off ? (although actually I think it's more to do with the way your family speak - they tend to speak the same way)

Calm down is totally counterproductive and usually makes my fists itchy.

'cheer up' is another one. Once some workman said to me 'cheer up love, it might never happen'. I was walking home from the doctors having just been diagnosed with depression (I was quite ill with ME at the time) so I told him it already had and he was mortified ? What a misery I was!

I say could've and people think I'm saying could of.

Hmmm, mine have already been covered here: pacific I hate. 'Good to go' I can't stand either. Turned around I hate. And Euro instead of Euros, in the same vein as pound, above.

I hate "thanks anyway" ie if someone asks you for something or to do something, and despite really trying your hardest you can't oblige and they say "thanks anyway". It always sounds to me like "thanks for nothing then you useless bastard" when people say it.

I also did the "it has" reply to the "cheer up love!" line ? (I think it was when I had PND with my first child)

I loathe the way my mum says theatre "thee-ett-er" as it sounds so pretentious. I'm bound to be told that everyone says thee-ett-er and I'm a pleb for saying thea-terr now, aren't I?

Also all the above. And, my long standing favourite, grown women trying to sound sweet or girlish by defining themselves/their stuff as "little" - eg "ooh, I've had a little idea" or "I found a lovely little top in Markses (ugh)"

Oh I hate hate HATE incentivize. MrH uses it all the time and claims it's a real word. Is it bollocks!

Thanks to you I simply cannot stomach the words 'comfy' or 'uncomfy' and Mrs Jess's dad has put 'crispy' out of use as well ?

? that is irrational - I'm sure I have said this. What could I say that wouldn't imply "useless bastard" I wonder? I hadn't thought that it had that implication at all!

If you're a pleb I'm with you. I'd rather be plebeian than twee ?

"please enter your PIN number". Irrational but it sooo annoys me.

Not irrational - you are perfectly correct!

Oh I hate the "pound" thing too. Argh!

Husband says "cheers very much" sometimes instead of thank you.. Why?!!?

I hate it when on the weather they say "its gonna be a chilly OLD start, better bring out the OLD brolly and raincoat" eeeeek!

MIL says the days of the week ending in -ee, Mondee, Tuesdee (this could be regional but it really irrationally annoys me.

Actually there's been one on here recently, where people have been using 'mortified' to mean angry, when it actually means embarrassed.

I say it too, meaning 'thanks for trying'.

We have an auditor that comes in from the BSI, who uses 'to be fair' every other sentence. Usually completely out of context. After 2 days, it makes me want to scream ?

"Taughtening" Drives me mad.

"Cheer up, it might never happen" For all you know it already has you dribbling halfwit.

"dribbling halfwit" ?

"Taughtening" - what does that even mean? or not mean? I've missed that one completely...

This one's been done to death but I hate 'I'm not being funny but...' because, yes, you're right, it definitely won't be funny, it'll be an excuse to be rude. I suppose that's not so irrational but I hate it anyway.

Mr_cdl says 'half a year' instead of 'six months' which I irrationally don't like.

Oh, and my usual one; 'cuppa'

Another one "with all due respect" which actually means "with no respect whatsover to you, you blithering imbecile".

I hate swig and sup they make me feel sick and my skin crawl.

Also the Ramsey way for ending sentences with "no?" If you want to ask a question just ask a question don't turn a none question into one by saying no? at the end!!

I hate when people transpose "lend" and "borrow". Sounds so awful.

Can't say I mind the "pound" thing. I thought that was quite common regionally, and has never bothered me at all.

I cannot stand anyone saying they feel anything more than 100% about something.

"I one thousand percent endorse this product" "You put 110% effort into that performance" etc etc.

I hate it.

That used to annoy me, but so many people here do it, as in some of their native languages there is no distinction between the two. I've grown a lot more tolerant. ?

And do people really say taughtening? really?! Being annoyed by that isn't irrational in the slightest!

Waaah, you have all made me laugh and cheered me up! there are some corkers here.

I saw a nat west cash point t'other day that said pin number. I mean, I understand people getting it wrong in shops etc (well, I don't really, I'm just trying to pretend I'm reasonable) but you'd think they'd get it right on a cashpoint!

Ooh vicbic, Xfactorisms should provide a whole category. Simon Cowell says things like "one hundred (dramatic pause) and fifty (pause) percent out (pause) standing!"

Hate 'out of my comfort zone' as well to mean anything you don't do normally.

Isn't it supposed to be Euro, rather than Euros? I'm sure I've read that somewhere.

Unless they mean tautening ie making taut

Oh dear, I'm a shocker for the 'no?' thing. I only write it though, never say it.

Gah, me too, I always correct people.

I also really really hate it when people say "am" and "in the morning" in the same sentence - "he came in at 3am in the morning" etc. Even writing that has made me angry, I'm fighting the urge to charge it!

I hate the "literally" thing too.

Anyone who uses a big word to try and sound clever and uses it wrong - if they don't understand what it means why are they saying it?

There are others, but I'm so distracted by my second statement that I have to post now.

Ectcetera instead of etcetera

"Text" as a past tense as in "I text her this morning", also "texes" as plural of text

Funnily enough not many of the ones mentioned annoy me- maybe I'm getting more tolerant!

I think "taughtening" is from an advert. It drives me loopy too.

Another I hate is "captured the public imagination" Its used on the news and tv programmes far too much and it makes me want to throw the telly out the window. What does it mean, FFS?