General Chat

AnnC You put the "it" in Whitchurch, The "Ann" in Llandaff. :-D :-D

'Lessons to be learnt' - if they haven't learnt the lesson by the time they are in tops jobs then they shouldn't be there at all!!!!

Why do people say "I'm all right" when you ask them if they want a drink, food etc..
What's wrong with "No thank you".
I'm asking them if they would like a drink, not enquiring about their health !

actually Brian it's the saying "You're alright" - you hear it so often - "Can I offer you a lift?" - "No, you're alright" never understand that

Oh thats Awesome, is what I do not like to hear.
Also "And he turned round and said"

"If you ask me "

Would love to say "nobody has so shut up"

We always ask "How Are You?" I always ask that of an 87yo uncle via email. Last time he replied with an attachment. A page and a half of hospital notes.

And the answer to the greeting "How are You" and "Alright" is to say the same words back. Why don't we just mwah everybody instead? :-)

How many times have we asked someone we see in the doctors surgery "how are you " I have done this myself . Silly question really .

Not a phrase I know but the one that really annoys me is Haitch, instead of Aitch. M

Sylvia. Just thinking that my idea of mwahing everybody instead of saying "How Are You?" might not work so well in a doctor's surgery.

Friendliness could really become contagious :-( :-(

Whateverrrrrrr, from my Daughter when she was a teenager :-|

Teresa

You wont get one much older than this one.

"Ceteris paribus or caeteris paribus"

and all things being equal .... wazzat all about then? :-S

The most recent i can think of is. - it was gifted to me not it was a gift to me

Ive got a small window, i can fit you in!!!

like

Nothing more annoying than the incorrect use of the word ... LIKE.
Point it out, and the response is usually "talk to the hand coz the face isn't listening"

It gets me like,....so annoyed!!!!!

All things considered

A few years back, managers at work kept talking about 'silo's' - silo thinking, silo mentality etc what was that about?
I used to spend the rest of the meeting working out how a silo could possibly think or have a brain.

Another bugbear, currently in use is starting the answer to a question with 'So'.

'No worries' and being called 'guys' and 'catch you later' from someone you will probably never meet again!!

Lush and Basically
my 2 pet hates

Maggie Never heard silos - perhaps more recent.

But "let's brainstorm", "let's run it up the flagpole" were common expressions.
:-)

" Any road up"..............."run that by me again?"