Minor things that bother you

people who use 'literally' when they shouldn't. "I was literally dying of thirst". No you weren't, or you wouldn't be here to hyperbolise your dull life now.

 

Why would you say that? Bit random...

 

People whose anecdotes involve a lot of turning around e.g. "So he turned round and said..." "Then Mum turned round and..." "I thought about it, then I turned round and I said..."

Why is everyone facing away from each other in the first place?

 

Even worse is that so many people use the word 'literally' incorrectly, the Oxford Dictionary has caved in. It is now perfectly fine to say "I was literally dying of thirst". The excuse given is that a dictionary is not a preachy document that tells people how to speak properly - it merely reflects how the English language is commonly used.

Urrrgghh.

 

Fantastic is one that does it for me.

Meaning 'of or belonging to a fantasy, unreal, make believe'.

No, your confirmation of a meeting date and time on the telephone is not "fantastic".

Not even nearly.

 

When people use the name of our largest body of water incorrectly. To be Pacific, when they don't say "specific".

 

The sheer number of Americans who can't say supposedly. They somehow manage to drop the d and insert a v.

It's not even that they have difficulty with the letter d, since they replace the t in the middle of words with a d (water, butter etc).

 

Windemere

 

Not sure if it has already been mentioned... But pronouncing 'ask' as 'arks'

 

or 'axe' ..... Me axe him a question but him not gimmie no answer.

 

They have literally killed my faith in the English language.

 

toast crumbs in my butter - wtf

 

The modern fad for collective grieving/well-wishing and with it the people who deem it necessary and somehow appropriate to dictate to others how they should do it. Definitely a post-Diana thing and now well-ingrained in our society often to no real end.

 

My mother-in-law uses the expression, "I can't be asked" to put across that she can't be bothered.

 

BBC Weather's overuse of 'squally', like some teenage kid who's discovered a new word.

 

Americans always say 'I could care less' to mean they don't care, but that is wrong.

 

BBC Weather's view of the United Kingdom. Believe it or not, you can see the Czech Republic and about 20 other countries in their normal view of the UK! It's true, no exaggeration.

 

I've never heard that, that's weird. It took me a few moments to try and work that out!

 

I'm not saying for a second they know how to produce the sound but that is called a 'tapped T', so they do at least try. ;D

 

BBC regions. I live in Tring which is counted as East of England. Therefore the BBC local news might include something from MK (fair enough) but more often than not we hear about what's happening in Lowestoft, Felixstowe and Norwich.

 

My girlfriend has got into the habit of saying "... and I was like", even though the event she is talking happened ten to fifteen seconds earlier.

An example: She is queuing at the supermarket and someone pushes ahead. We leave the supermarket she says "that was so irritating, I was like 'why you pushing in'!"




Get rid?

 

Likewise. So keen to hear how the Canaries, Tractor Boys, Us, Shrimpers and the fecking rest of them are doing and the not club I support that is nearer where I live.

 

OK. Serious issue that could affect the rest of your life. It's important not to act rashly, without due thought. But yes.

 

Can't you just change your postcode on your STB to a Watford one? (you can on mine)

 

Nope.

 

The beauty of having a satellite system I suppose ... mine thinks I'm in Nuremberg.

 

Don't have an STB. It's just the telly.

 

I suggest you walk along your street until you see a satellite dish attached to a house. Then just move in ... simples!

 

People that use their bodies to communicate in addition to their mouths. If you tell me that you opened up a can, I don't need to spend the next 20 seconds watching you opening an imaginary can with an imaginary can opener. In fact, I can do without hand gestures completely, seeing as I'm not deaf.

I was prompted to write this after watching Mark Clemmit on the FLS. What an irritating, arm-waving, head-swaying c*** that man is.

 

Mines a Sky box. Googled changing the postcode but Sky don't allow it.

 

Troy Deeney shirts in the shop only being in large size, dont quite fit my butchers pencil frame..:doh:

 

Sadly this applies to most things in the shop. Good luck trying to find an away shirt or training shirt in size medium or small in the sale, or even an 84 retro shirt at full price.

Add to the list student politics. I honestly can't think of a more boring, self congratulatory circle jerk than student elections. We all know you're only standing because it looks good on your CV so stop bombarding people with leaflets to convince me that the lack of a designated Anthropology department post-grad study space makes any *****ng difference to my life.

 

****ing mothers day. Sickly Facebook updates professing how great their mums are, when some folk whose mothers are no longer here, have it shoved down their throats all day.