Things people say that annoys you...

[Anonymous]

"Look it"

[Anonymous]

"Happy St. Patty's Day" instead of "St. Paddy's Day"

and here is one my MIL says to my DD which drives me BONKERS: "We love you BIG!!"

What?? Just what?? Who says this???????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Look it"

Regional.

[Anonymous]

That's Washington!

As if we live in some bubble and things only happen here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Happy St. Patty's Day" instead of "St. Paddy's Day"

and here is one my MIL says to my DD which drives me BONKERS: "We love you BIG!!"

What?? Just what?? Who says this???????

YES YES. (I was just about to post that myself!)

[Anonymous]

This is specific to one person, but it makes me insane when the insurance coordinator at my fertility clinic repeatedly says "cortis". As in, "Clomid and cortis are covered by your insurance."

At our first meeting with her, DH and I were sitting at the table confused, no clue what she was talking about. She is intending to say "coitus".

Good to know my insurance plan covers coitus.

[takoma]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When adults try to use teenage slang. A 40 year old saying "whatev" is lame.

Or a 60 year old saying "cool". Wait... maybe their generation came up with that one??

Miles Davis recorded The Birth of the Cool album in 1957, and in the same year Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story included the song Keep Cool Boy (not like a yo-yo schoolboy!) I was a kid then, and I'm amazed that "groovy" sounded nerdy a couple of years after it was hip, but it's still hip to be cool. But is it hip to say "hip" nowadays, or is that a betrayal of my age?

[Anonymous]

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When adults try to use teenage slang. A 40 year old saying "whatev" is lame.

Or a 60 year old saying "cool". Wait... maybe their generation came up with that one??

Miles Davis recorded The Birth of the Cool album in 1957, and in the same year Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story included the song Keep Cool Boy (not like a yo-yo schoolboy!) I was a kid then, and I'm amazed that "groovy" sounded nerdy a couple of years after it was hip, but it's still hip to be cool. But is it hip to say "hip" nowadays, or is that a betrayal of my age?

+1

I like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pull this one out every time this topic comes up: "graduated high school" just grates on me. Is it really so hard to add the "from"?

Believe it or not, but I saw 'graduated high school' in a WaPo article the other day! You'd think their editors should know better..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:walkable

It's an automatic I don't want anything to do with you.

I blame the real estate shows for popularizing it.

[Anonymous]

Ending a sentence with "know what I'm saying?" Makes you sound like a complete idiot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, this could be an entire s/o thread, and it probably already has been the topic of previous threads. My dd is in the process potty training and MIL just got her a bunch of what she calls "panties." Gag. Moreover, it's the way she says it and drags out the word and enunciates the "t", my post cannot possibly do it justice. She stresses both syllables so that it sounds like PAN....wait for it.....TEES. Vomit.

After a half hour of her going on and on and on about DD's pretty new PAN-TEES, DH finally jumped in and told her we call them "underwear," "underpants," or "undies" and to please refrain from using that word. She got all huffy and asked why and he said "because it's not 1970, and we're not in a porno." God love DH and his bluntness.

No offense, PP, but your DH sounds like an asshole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Happy St. Patty's Day" instead of "St. Paddy's Day"

and here is one my MIL says to my DD which drives me BONKERS: "We love you BIG!!"

What?? Just what?? Who says this???????

YES YES. (I was just about to post that myself!)

I don't understand the St Paddys Day thing, is it the way they pronounce it or the happy part?

[Anonymous]

when people say "one YEARS old," "two twins," and "7am in the morning." Excuse me, it's "One YEAR old," we know there's two already if you just say twins, and pick which to say.... if you say AM we already know it means MORNING!!!! Morons....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ending a sentence with "know what I'm saying?" Makes you sound like a complete idiot!

OMG this woman I work with says this! and she's working on a 2nd Masters Degree! Surely, she can figure out how to stop saying that!