Random Irritations

[stefanovic]

Most overused word is 'amazing'.
As in:
It was Amazing, Amazing.

 

[MegaSteve]

Most overused word is 'amazing'.
As in:
It was Amazing, Amazing.

I made my name with my overuse of the word Mega 😉😁...

 

[GreiginFife]

'Literally', it literally makes my head explode when people use it inappropriately.

Ha, I admire what you did there. I feel your pain though. Currently working with some 20 something grads and their misuse of literally has been eating away at me for days.
Yesterday at lunch, when discussing something funny (or allegedly so) he said "mate, I literally died!" And so, my sanity snapped and I responded "oh did you, I'm sorry to hear that. It must have been a traumatic experience, how did they resuscitate you?"

He spent a few moments looking at me blankly before asking what the hell I was talking about. When I explained... well that's a story for another thread 😂

 

[Slime]

Wintry.
No such word in my world ................................. it's wintery, end of.

Completely wrong. Both are words but your preferred spelling is the lesser used one.

You are totally incorrect!
In my world, the word 'wintry' does not exist as correct, it's 'wintery' ........................ and that's a fact.
Today's weather is very summery, not summry.
FACT.

 

[Piece]

Use of 'leverage' in corporate speak.

 

[Slime]

wintry
/ˈwɪnt(ə)ri/
adjective
characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak.
"a wintry landscape"
synonyms:bleak, cold, chilly, frosty, freezing, icy, snowy, icy-cold, arctic, glacial, frigid, bitter, biting, piercing, sharp, raw;

😆😉

https://grammarist.com/spelling/wintery-wintry/

My random irritation is people using the word “fact” when it’s just an opinion 😉 or their preferred method

You, just as Kellfire, are totally missing the point.

 

[bobmac]

The FACT is ..... some words don't exist in Slime's world, not the real world, Slime's world

 

[BrianM]

A9 😬

 

[Kellfire]

The USA is heading back towards state sanctioned murder. Disgusting.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The USA is heading back towards state sanctioned murder. Disgusting.

With Priti Patel as Home Secretary...actually no - she'll hopefully be out on her ear well before anything so obscene could be proposed here.

 

[srixon 1]

I used to convert but no longer bother. I don;t need to know the temperature precisely - knowing 5* is getting cold; 10* is not so warm; 18* is an OK summer's day (13 in Scotland ); 22* it's getting warm, 28* hot. Something like that.

Coat on= it's cold
Coat off= it's hot

 

[chellie]

Being stung under my arm by a wasp. Was playing a chip shot on the second hole when it happened. Bloody wasp was hanging off my arm for ages. PP had to swat it away then pull the sting out.

 

[Hobbit]

"I'm not being funny but..." You're damned right you're not being funny. If you don't like it, tell me. Don't couch it in flowery waffle.

God, its hot here today... and relax...

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Being stung under my arm by a wasp. Was playing a chip shot on the second hole when it happened. Bloody wasp was hanging off my arm for ages. PP had to swat it away then pull the sting out.

I had this on Tuesday on the Old course. Lying on the grass by the halfway hut, sat up and felt a sharp pain under my right armpit and a pesky wasp dropped from inside the sleeve. Never felt it go in or I'd have tried and got it out

 

[williamalex1]

"I'm not being funny but..." You're damned right you're not being funny. If you don't like it, tell me. Don't couch it in flowery waffle.

God, its hot here today... and relax...

Same here, but a mere 31* but just we've been invaded by a plague of flying ants , hopefully the wind changes

 

[Hobbit]

Same here, but a mere 31* but just we've been invaded by a plague of flying ants , hopefully the wind changes

31*, in Scotland? I dream of 31*. It was 34* at 9:30am this morning when I went bowling.

 

[Fade and Die]

I happily lap up her drivel (though can I say that?)

 

[williamalex1]

31*, in Scotland? I dream of 31*. It was 34* at 9:30am this morning when I went bowling.

I know, my old buddy Sammy who stays near you, has come home for a month or 2 because it's too hot for him.

 

[Slime]

Being stung under my arm by a wasp. Was playing a chip shot on the second hole when it happened. Bloody wasp was hanging off my arm for ages. PP had to swat it away then pull the sting out.

I think it was probably a bee as wasps don't leave their stings in their victims.
I know, I'm frequently their victim!
Six times last year and three times, so far, this year!

 

[srixon 1]

The word marmite as in 'golf is like marmite - you either love it or hate it.'
This ridiculous metaphor now finds it way into the vocabulary of BBC presenters.
Needs to be red carded.
What other words make you wince?

A guy I sit next to at work and lift share with starts every sentence with "I'm not being funny, but......."
Drives me nuts.