Things people say/words that irrationally annoy you

Mine are BT ones, and one may be exclusive to hitched for all i know...but i loathe;

'trust your tits' - i know its supposed to be a bit ironic, and 'reclaiming' the word tits like gay men have reclaimed the word 'queer' style but it makes me shudder, its so 'cor look at 'er on page three whadda cracker'

and this isn't a hitched one but 'we're pregnant'...er no. you're not both pregnant. she is.

i appreciate they are phrases not words ?

Ooooh, that one really gets me, too. I appreciate a couple might use it to express how they feel they're going through the whole experience together, but the man is not upduffed and never will be! It's just biologically incorrect!

I quite like "trust your tits", though.

I hate persific instead of specific - one of my old bosses used to say that and put it in letters for me to type up. I wonder if he ever noticed they came back with specific on instead?

The would of, could of thing gets me too. When I was working as a temp teacher last year, loads of the children wrote it on their mock SATS papers (many of which I marked), and I bet they wrote it onthe real thing too - it made me want to weep. Anna (7) knows well not to say would of or she gets corrected straight away, in fact when she says could've, she sometimes then turns to me and says, 'I said could've mummy, not could of.'

The 'I turned around and said' thing is very Norfolk, so I have to grin and bear that.

Would that not be tighten?

Dictionary.com is saying taughten doesn't exist. I can't get into the OED atm. Wikitionary says it does, but also say it is the past participle of teach. [shudder]

Surely there's no way taughten is the past participle of teach. It's from those stupid adverts about wrinkle-decrease creams isn't it? Drives me crazy, whether it's a real word or not.

I must admit I use 'thanks anyway', but not as 'thanks for nothing', but as 'thanks for trying'.

Yes I hate text as a past participle. Yuk.

I like trust your tits, or rather I don't dislike it.

I am not keen on DD or DH etc though. Blah. That is completely irrational but I don't like it.

Agree re 'we're pregnant'. somehow it sounds so smug. Ooh I saw a cracker recently - 'in the family way'. Ugh ugh ugh. just so wrong. I didn't know people used that expression any more?! (They shouldn't!)

Yes, it's from the annoying Loreal adverts and I'm sure they just make words up - infuriates me too!

Also agree re could of, lend/borrow mix ups and specific/pacific (unless it's Kath & Kim saying it!)

And 'I text her' - surely it should be 'I texted her' ???

doesn't it? i've no idea why though, but it just does. kind of a 'look how clever we are!' way, which you don't get when women say it in the singular. ?

it quite ruined a lisa jewel book for me (and i love her books) where near the end a man announced at a family party 'we're pregnant!' ? (this is an irrational thread, right? ?)

Ugh the DH thing really annoys me on here as does the word 'hubby'.

I also hate it when people write 'loose' as in 'I have a lot of weight to loose...' and 'you have nothing to loose' NO NO NO NO NO! It is 'I have a lot of weight to lose..' and loose - 'My trousers are now loose as I have lost weight'

He is such a looser.. NO NO NO NO NO, he is a loser.

Sorry, that turned into a loony shout LOL

I don't like "bubs". ?

And white home counties teenagers who affect a kind of Jamaican accent - "arrriiiight" and "innit". No, it isn't.

Nooooooo! TEXTED is not a word. It should be 'I sent her a text'

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=texted ?

Ooooh another BT related one (i must spend far too much time there ?)

'preggers'...and if that wasn't bad enough, one that is 5000 times worse...'preggy' ?

Preggy ?

Don't like the Hitched use of "TMI" for anything at all that relates to poo, sick, sperm, mucus, snot, periods, genitals, wee, arses etc. There's very rarely Too Much Information.

For me, Too Much Information concerns stuff that's intimate, embarassing and unnecessary.

Tauten is a word and different from tighten

Not a word as such, but a tone. Australian inflection intonation. This annoys me so much that I've started telling people they're doing it. I told a guy in a shop not long ago and he wasn't sure whether I was a nutter, or about to nut him.

In case anyone isnt sure what I'm talking about, its the lift in tone of voice at the end of a sentence? like its a question? ARRGGH!!! even typing it makes me want to take an AK47 and mow my way around provincial retail parks.

ditto *sens* for stuff that isn't, well that *sens*

i know exactly what you mean, i have to cure mr c of doing this sometimes. by telling him he is not a fucking character out of fucking home and away and to pack it in.

i'm so sensitive. ?

Now why couldn't I find that ?

Provincial retail parks ? will they be having CHD for their dinner?

I so agree re the quasi jamaican thing, normally uttered by 16 yr old white boys called Luke who think they're from the ghetto when really they live in pinner or windsor or somewhere.

Stephen Fry put that one into Room 101 when he was on it.

There are loads on here I agree with, but the one I hate the absolute most is guestimate. Either it's a guess, or it's an estimate; it can't be both!!

Oh hell, I won't introduce you to my brother then! He does this all the time now. Considering everything else, it really pales into insignificance, but it mildly annoys me.

One thing he does say which really gets on my tits is 'blah blah blah, etc etc etc' .. all 6 words at the same time. Grrrrrr ?

When people want to ask a question and start it with "Surely .." - I can't help thinking of Airplane and "Don't call me Shirley".

I can stand when people say "I seen", it seems to be quite common here and I struggle not to correct it.

One that my mother does annoys the hell out of me - filling in stories with "tarum tarum tarum" when she thinks part of the story is self explanatory. For example, "I was getting the children their lunch, tarum tarum tarum, when the doorbell went..."

does this happen when you get older? Dear god, will I do it??

Stephen Fry did a great inpersonation of ARP on Room 101 - strangely enough, it was voted in with a resounding majority.

I second what a lot of people have already come up with: "hubby", "comfy", "cuppa", "loose" instead of "lose", etc all set my teeth on edge and make me want to scream. It is even worse when they are combined eg "This is a long question about loosing weight so go and get yourself comfy with a cuppa first". ?

ditto. another one regularly seen on here is "I done it" which makes my testicles shrink.

MR R often says 'Hold Up' when he wants me to wait for him. It sets my teeth on edge and makes me want to run away, fast.

There are several things that my H and his family do that really annoy me, but I dont know if its them being stupid, or if it's a northern thing??

I was teaching my H to drive, yet he told everyone I was "learning" him to drive! Grrrrr!

The other one is my h's grandma and his mum also refer to my female dog as him, and the male dog as her. So if Nina is doing something funny, they will go, "oh look at him" no you stupid woman she is a female, not not a him!! I have corrected them a couple of times but they still do it, so makes me wonder if they do it to annoy me!

Both drive me mad!

Definitely not a Northern thing! Ooop noorth we'd say you are teaching him to drive, or he is learning to drive with you.

Not sure if its been mentioned but "brought" instead of "bought".

I brought some new shoes for the party ?