Stupid little things that bug you

bluebaja said:
This is slightly off topic, but there are certain words and phrases that make my skin creep. Strangely, they nearly all have food connections, and yes, I am well aware that this is weird.

The worst is 'all the trimmings'. I can never bring myself to say 'meal' and the word 'juice' makes me shiver.

There. I have admitted it and feel better now.
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I hate the word “veggies”.

It’s either “veg” (which works perfectly fine as a singular or plural) or “vegetables”.
 
richardtheref said:
That welsh girl on the One Show. Keeps going on about how her & her better half are snapping at each other due to the lockdown, However, a few weeks ago she said she normally left the house at 10 am to rehearse and did not usually get home til about 11pm. How much time do her & the better half normally spend together ffs
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She’s got too many teeth in her mush, her.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Using the word “like” when they mean “about”.

“He was like 6 foot tall”
“She was like 30 years old”
“It was like 60 miles away and took like an hour an a half”

ABOUT, ABOUT! Even “approximately” or just “around”... but not “like”!
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I know what you mean, both my daughters sound like fucking seagulls, when they start yapping because every fucking sentence starts with like, like, like, like, like fucking like.
 
mikemcfc said:
Ha! We like going to the U.S. a lot. Living in Canada is great, but sadly I feel your pain about the adverts, we are getting the same treatment, especially since about 80% of our stations are yours.
One of the worst programs for in-show recaps and previews is Gold Rush. I used to love it for the engineering of the different processes from mining, sluicing, and clean-up. Now I can't be bothered, all the getting to know them personally, and the man drama fighting crap does my head in. Waste of time.
Anyways, in North Am. a 1 hr. show after ads is about 41 minutes. Gold Rush has about 5 breaks with a 30 second recap and preview with each one, another five minutes, plus the opening, and ads beginning and end. There is only about 30 minutes of actual new footage each week.
On one extended show I saw years ago they said they edit from over sixty hours of footage a week for each show. When I thought these are the best 30 minutes you can come up with? That was the end.
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People who pluralise “anyway”...
 
mscenterh750 said:
I know what you mean, both my daughters sound like fucking seagulls, when they start yapping because every fucking sentence starts with like, like, like, like, like fucking like.
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We were on a train last year from Toronto to Montreal there were 4 girls, teenage girls set adjacent to us and they drove me insane, every other word was "like" it was a train were your seat was booked so I couldn't move, I ended up having to put my headphones in as I couldn't stand it any longer, it was pure fucking torture.
 
How Americans are too soft to say “twat” and “****” properly. Even the most rough house Yanks you could ever find would still say “twot” and “kent”.
 
Ringing a call centre is more fucking hard work than ever these days.

Years ago it was "press 1" or "press 2" for certain departments, now they ask you to "explain in a few words the reason for your call" and you end up having to repeat yourself 3 times because they cant understand you, you end up shouting into the phone emphasising every word as clearly as possible but they still mishear you and put you through to the wrong department so you get put on hold again, you end up explaining your problem to several different people, that's if you get through and dont get kept on hold for an hour as they're "currently experiencing higher than normal call volumes" and sometimes you just end up getting cut off anyway.

Drives me fucking crazy.
 
Mr Partridge said:
Ringing a call centre is more fucking hard work than ever these days.

Years ago it was "press 1" or "press 2" for certain departments, now they ask you to "explain in a few words the reason for your call" and you end up having to repeat yourself 3 times because they cant understand you, you end up shouting into the phone emphasising every word as clearly as possible but they still mishear you and put you through to the wrong department so you get put on hold again, you end up explaining your problem to several different people, that's if you get through and dont get kept on hold for an hour as they're "currently experiencing higher than normal call volumes" and sometimes you just end up getting cut off anyway.

Drives me fucking crazy.
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I never press any buttons or say anything. They connect you anyway eventually
 
TV shows/films which are CLEARLY made for a post 9pm watershed viewing, which are shown at tea-time (or even earlier), with scenes deleted or bleeped over. Just show them at the appropriate time, and all is well.

I'm no prude, but I don't want excessive bad language in films, but in the same breath, I'm not going to get upset because I've heard a couple of F words.
 
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