Phrases you hate

[laserblue]

How big's the friggin plate ffs!

It's the batting plate in baseball. A plate of stone or metal on the ground, about a foot across.

Stepping up to the plate means stepping up to take your turn, putting yourself in the firing line.

So it's an American phrase - makes it even more annoying in that case.

exactly. a year or so ago shane warne did a piece in one of the broadsheets saying that kevin pietersen needed to step up to the plate. wtf? a baseball metaphor about a cricketer? what was wrong with 'step up to the crease' or even 'step up to the mark'?

 

[BimboBob]

Kilometres.
Since when have all our distances been done in the above? Every TV programme now says things like "It's 25k to the next stop"...what? It's fucking miles. We deal in miles. Our signposts say miles. Our speedos say miles. Why are we now using kilometres? Who told the TV companies to do this?

 

[york away to this!]

"you have been randomly selected to....."

or, when trundling round town "Hi, what do you think about cruelty to children?"

 

[laserblue]

Kilometres.
Since when have all our distances been done in the above? Every TV programme now says things like "It's 25k to the next stop"...what? It's fucking miles. We deal in miles. Our signposts say miles. Our speedos say miles. Why are we now using kilometres? Who told the TV companies to do this?

this particularly annoys me when a round figure in imperial measurement is pointlessly converted to metric. one recent example stated that a nearby town was 16 kilometres away instead of 10 miles away.

 

[colourmeblue]

Anything teenagers say that masquerades as english in their own head but is indecipherable by humans.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Kilometres.
Since when have all our distances been done in the above? Every TV programme now says things like "It's 25k to the next stop"...what? It's fucking miles. We deal in miles. Our signposts say miles. Our speedos say miles. Why are we now using kilometres? Who told the TV companies to do this?

this particularly annoys me when a round figure in imperial measurement is pointlessly converted to metric. one recent example stated that a nearby town was 16 kilometres away instead of 10 miles away.

For one that still thinks in bushels and pecks, poles, rods and perches, this irritates me as well. Also, the use of BCE, (Before common era,apparently) instead of BC, which is and has been the terminology in use since the said JC rolled the boulder aside and jet packed skywards.
Cunts.

 

[johnny crossan]

bored "of" instead of "with"

"on" a week-end instead of "at"

"at this moment in time" instead of "now"

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

"Of" when you mean "Off" and vice versa. They look similar, but they mean different things.

 

[SuperbiaInProeliaEL3]

'I'll have a chip muffin please'

 

[WEMBLEY76]

Exactly

when used inexactedly,it has seeped into usage as a term of agreement/consent.Not sure it is proper usage of the word....