'Sayings' that get on your nerves

[Squid]

Are there any sayings that really get on your nerves for instance when someone at work does something stupid on a Monday people say "It's ok, it's Monday!" or (which I pulled from the Movie Office Space) "Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!"

For me I really hate the saying "It's on my Radar" and I don't know why, maybe coz my boss says it over and over again but ugh it's annoying.

Now you

 

[Ethics]

"You can't have your cake and eat it to"

Seriously? Who the hell came up with this saying? When I try to attempt to picture it's origin I picture a large russian lunch lady working at an American middle school. Hair on her moles are optional if you want to picture it with me.

It's simple, but it's most often used in situations where it doesn't really apply.

 

[Tom Badguy]

I hate it when people try to sum up their thought on something and use the expression "on the whole." I don't know why. Someone says this and it makes me laugh and roll me eyes. It just sounds stupid.

 

[Coco]

"You can't have your cake and eat it to"

It's simple, but it's most often used in situations where it doesn't really apply.

This.

I understand what it means, but I don't understand how it came to be. For instance, "no use crying over spilled milk" probably came from someone actually spilling milk and crying, hence the phrase. But this? I've had many cakes which I ate. How dare you tell me what I can and can't eat, especially if I already have it?

This might be irrational, but it's just absurd to me.

 

[klaww]

I hate it when i'm just an a-hole to somebody who's an a-hole to me, then they say 'wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed'. just hate that phrase so much. no real reason, either.

 

[bearsfwd]

I HATE when people say "my bad". "What not" is pretty annoying to me as well.

That's pretty much it for me. I'm sure there are more, but I just can't think of them.

 

[Pandora]

"No homo."

Like . . . what the fuck. No one was even accusing you of being gay for giving a compliment or whatever to the same sex. It's annoying to hear when most singers say it, and it's annoying to hear when people in general say it. I personally think it makes the person look like a moron when they say that after something nice has been said to a person of the same sex.
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[Ness]

I have a few phrases I find annoying, but they're all in the same family. To wit:

"With all due respect"
"No offense, but"
"Not to be rude, but"
etc.

All of these little qualifiers inevitably lead to some comment that flies in the face of the thing you said. For example: "No offense, but you are an idiot". Statements like that have always bothered me.

 

[Big Casino]

"With all due respect"
"No offense, but"
"Not to be rude, but"
etc.

All of these little qualifiers inevitably lead to some comment that flies in the face of the thing you said. For example: "No offense, but you are an idiot". Statements like that have always bothered me.

Its basically trying to be polite when your away to say somethine rude isnt it? If your gunna say something that could be taken wrong theres not much point adding that to the start. People are gunna take offence to somethign that hurts them regardless of how nice you try to make it sound. It doesnt bother me when people say this but i find it a bit daft. I think half the time its just a habit for people to say 'no offence' anyway.

Cant really think of any particular phrases that annoy me but i bet theres alot. Next time i hear one im gunna be like @#1!!/><! thats what i couldnt remember.

 

[Bambi]

Pretty much all the new sayings flying about annoy me. I hate chillax, it makes me cringe. Peng. wtf, who thought of it. Sick annoys me as well. ahhhh man thats sick innitttttt. Ellie has used it once or twice and im like whut? I am not raising a chav! 6 years old and using 'sick' and 'mint' urghhhh

im sure theres loads more but thats all i can think of at the moment.

'at the end of the day' that one to. i use it as well and annoy myself when ive used it hahaha

I beg to differ bugs me, ive no idea why, it just sounds stupid.

Hang fire. Whats wrong with just using wait?

 

[Linnaete]

"You know what I mean, right?" or "You know..."

Uhh, no? I don't know. I'm not too sure what you're on about. Dammit man, explain it! I know quite a lot of people who overuse the above that it manages to annoy me even when I do know what they're on about. When I'm expecting some kind of explanation or clarification and I get a "Well yeah, you know..." I just silently scream at them. Just get to the bloody point! I don't know! What? Just tell me!

"No offence but..."

Practically what Justin said. Chances are, I probably will be offended anyway. It's a crap form of mitigation because it doesn't do anything. It tries to sugarcoat something, but it doesn't, so it's totally useless and annoying when continuously used. Admittedly, I'm guilty of this as well. I do annoy myself.

"I ain't done nothin'..."

Or anything similar. Basically any form of double negatives in the same sentence. It's redundant and pointless. I probably only dislike it because I'm fixated with good grammer.

 

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

Its basically trying to be polite when your away to say somethine rude isnt it? If your gunna say something that could be taken wrong theres not much point adding that to the start. People are gunna take offence to somethign that hurts them regardless of how nice you try to make it sound. It doesnt bother me when people say this but i find it a bit daft. I think half the time its just a habit for people to say 'no offence' anyway.

i love the scene in pulp fiction when mia wallace explains that.

"the pot calling kettle black", cos it makes no sense at all. i get the whole hypocrisy thing to it, but not all pots and kettles are black...
using sick as a superlative is another. it just sounds horrible.

 

[Rey]

"Not to be stupid but", "no offense but etc" Yeah these are all annoying because it just sounds like a person does not want to hurt someone when they are trying to admit something. "yo" is really annoying as well. "Yo I got a new car yo" "Yo check out that chick yo" Like shut up already and talk properly . Yo as in saying hello is alright, but when it becomes stupid like that it gets ridiculous. "dude" This is apparently the "cool" thing. I think it is just frickin annoying. When it is used even more than two times in a sentence, it is just stupid. "dude you are so cool dude" Whenever I hear things like that, I just say "what the hell" These things simply annoy me, wether it is on TV or in real life.

 

[Starships]

The early bird gets the worm. I get it, but to me it sounds a little gross, maybe not to a bird, but to a human. I understand that it means if you go early, you'll get the best things. But really, have you turned up first to a meeting at work or at school ? You're just sitting around, playing with your pencil, bored out of your brains. There is no award in being early, so why the lie ?

/o/ The pencil part sounds kind of dodgy.

 

[Stock Choengroux]

"Yo I got a new car yo" "Yo check out that chick yo" Like shut up already and talk properly .

If it makes you feel better, not a lot of people end sentences with "...yo" anymore. That was so 10 years ago. It was pretty popular then when Bussa Bus came out with Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See. A lot of people attempt to mock hip hop slang by throwing in the yo's at the end of their attempted mockeries, but it is so passé.

Like you said earlier, it's still very common to start out with yo though. Like, for example, "Yo, what up, son?"

 

[Martel]

Most of the ones that irritate me have already been mentioned, but I am going to add one:

"You know what they say"

...no, I don't know what "they" say, but I expect you're going to tell me. Usually what "they" say turns out to be an extremely irritating phrase or quip that I've heard fifty million times before and am well and truly sick of that hardly ANYONE say anymore, except in these situations. This is like a precursor for every irritating saying, making it, for me, the most irritating of all. If I know what they say, I don't need to have it quoted back to me, do I?

 

[Tucker]

Like said before, "No offense but..."
If someone starts to say that to me, I just stop them mid-sentence.
"No offense, but you're fat."
"No offense, but those shoes are hideous."
"No offense, but you are really annoying."
Does that really make it any better? Like, that's really mean but since you didn't say it offensively I shouldn't be bothered? Just doesn't make sense...

 

[Six]

I don't have any problems with the 'No offense thing', unless it's used with the examples given above, but if it's something like how it should be used 'No offense, but that still doesn't make what you did right' to me it feels like - I'm not TRYING to be rude, but this still has to be said, just don't freak out over it because I'm not trying to provoke an arguement.

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What pisses me off, is when someone knows they're getting on your nerves, and go "Calm down"

YOU calm the fuck down and drop the damn attitude before you start telling me to calm down.

'You know what they say' is another one. No I do not know what they say. Are you stupid?

And the biggest one, "It'll be fine, you're worrying too much."

I don't mind this one if people are trying to be comforting, but if you're telling me this while the worst shit possible could happen it pisses me off beyond belief, because 1. You don't know what can go wrong, and 2. I rather expect the worst, and not be let down when it happens, than hope for the best, and have my hopes crushed.

I can't think of much else at the moment, but I'm sure there's more.

 

[Saints&Storms]

"Bad things don't happen to good people"

Its not only not true, its down right aggravating; bad things happen to good people, sometimes the best of people, most of the time to good people who have no possible way of doing wrong -kids, babies etc. etc.- I hate this saying, so damn much.

 

[Squid]

What pisses me off, is when someone knows they're getting on your nerves, and go "Calm down"

YOU calm the fuck down and drop the damn attitude before you start telling me to calm down.

OMG I HATE being told to Calm Down!!! All it does is anger me further!! And I'll rage if I wanna rage!

Edit: I felt this picture was appropriate for the 'No Offence' saying, because it's how I feel when I hear it lmfao