Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
Instant downvotes if I see it on Lemmy too. HATE IT.
How about all y’all?
“no offense” then proceeds to offend said person, or people using the word “YALL” how did it become popular when 15-20years ago and was considered unintelligent. Also people saying “entitled to thier own opinions” but end up saying thier own opinions matter more.
I use y’all because my native language has a plural you and english doesn’t I use y’all because it’s the most neutral plural you english has. I suspect that’s part of the reason why it’s over-represented online, esl learners.
I don’t rember where I heard (must’ve been a TV show) it but it always stuck with me when a character said “yes offense”.
I tend not to boil people down to their habits. They likely don’t know it bothers you and don’t know why they’ve made an enemy of you. Their reaction to me bringing it up will absolutely determine how I feel about them, though. I can teach myself to get past almost anything if I can justify their action in good faith.
I often find my strong reactions tells me more about something within myself I need to find and address more than it says anything about the annoyance.
“Let that sink in…”
All I think about is what does the sink want, and why is it outside? Any point they were trying to make is now a joke to me. Better to say “think about that for a minute.”
Often used after saying something that they think is some big profound revelation. No, I was able to understand it all just fine in real time.
Instead of “et cetera”, the speaker says something akin to “dut da da”. Drives me crazy!
I don’t hate anything. That word seems to mean something different to most people than it does to me. I’m careful with my language, and hate describes such an extreme emotion that I’ve yet to encounter anything I’d genuinely feel that way toward - except maybe cancer.
There are, however, things people say that I do dislike. Not just the loose use of the word hate, but also trendy phrases and slogans like “fuck around and find out.” What bothers me about those is that if you’ve already seen two people use the same phrase, it’s already old and no longer clever or funny - it’s just recycled noise at that point.
I hate when people are pedantic 😉
I was taught never to use the words ‘hate’ and ‘swear’ 🤷🏼♀️
Do you swear by it?
There are only 2 things I can’t stand…
“It is what it is.”
If you don’t have anything valuable to add, say nothing. Like, silence is okay.
“Let’s agree to disagree”
This solves nothing, it just equates to a polite way of saying I’m done talking to you.
what is the solution? them conceding that you are correct?
But there are some of us who don’t even care if Star Trek is better than Star Wars.
Careful now, you’re on Lemmy
Farscape 4 lyfe, bro.
This argument dates back to the '80s, so we’re talking TOS & TNG vs the original trilogy. I would argue they’re not even really the same genre. Star Trek is proper scifi. Star Wars is action/adventure with scifi dressing.
I’m biased because I love Star Trek. But also I like Star Wars. It doesn’t have to be either-or, especially because it’s apples vs oranges.
I have umbridge with star trek as it made me think life would be better as I got older.
De-umbrage yourself - in Star Trek lore the world was a complete mess in 2025. The future Roddenberry envisioned could still happen, we just won’t be alive to see it. Which I agree is a bummer! :(
Sometimes you have to back the fuck up on an unproductive argument. I don’t like it either, but it’s often an honorable way out for both parties.
Very close friend and neighbor was arguing with me about 01/06, an event that gave me PTSD-lite. It came to the point that we either dropped it or threw hands. Still, I refused to shake his hand on “agree to disagree”.
What do you do if you realise you’re just arguing in circles and nothing will be solved by continuing discussing that topic?
Mine is finding a natural pause and kindly “Ah, darn, I have a (thing to do) but it’s been lovely chatting!”
“I call it as I see it.”
“I’m just very straightforward and honest.”
No, you’re a prick. That’s what you are.
Yeah, being truthful is generally good but that’s independent of being an ass about it.
People who champion “brutal honesty” generally seem much more excited about the brutality than the honesty.
I literally dislike it whenever anyone uses the word literally when they clearly mean figuratively.
Its just extra syllables to lie to me.
As I said in another comment, it isn’t just using it incorrectly that’s annoying, it’s also using it unnecessarily. People use “literally” for emphasis in sentences where no adverb is needed. It should only be used if you are clarifying that you mean literally when the sentence could otherwise be interpreted as figurative
It’s just become a stylistic habit. People do it in imitation of what they hear everyone else do. This actually makes it even more annoying to me, though I know this is just instinctive human behavior.
There’s this process in language where intensifiers — words that amplify the strength of the meaning of the rest of the phrase — tend to become used in areas that they aren’t really truly appropriate in and thus “weaken” in meaning.
So, for example, “awesome” once truly meant “awe-inspiring”, but it’s been used enough in weaker senses the past several decades here in California that it doesn’t really mean that any more. It just means “very good” now.
I don’t think that the Brits do that with “awesome” — or at least not as much — but they like to use “colossally” in a similar way.
The above Wikipedia link has a list of intensifiers, including “literally”, and you can probably recognize a bunch of them that have “weakened”.
brilliant!!!
Epic
Really blows my mind that so much ink is spilled over “literally” while “really” gets a pass for doing the same thing really.
Pure cinema
“Give something 110%”
Fuck no! 100% is the max. Even that is often too much to ask. Also, what’s in it for me? Your appreciation huh? Well fuck you.
“I have a challenge for you”.
No you don’t. You have a problem and want to make it mine. Piss off.
I am going through peoples replies sorta laughing to myself but what you have is the closest thing to something that irritates me. honestly 110 is like all the think out of the box bussiness speak to actualize externalities and such.
People who talk in buzz words as if this makes them insightful and intelligent and think others who don’t are ignorant and stupid.
I think ‘emotional intelligence’ is the one that has really bothered me the most really. It also can’t even be quantified but everyone goes around talking about how ‘high’ theirs is and how they only want to be with other people who are ‘emotionally intelligent’ as they are. It’s just another way of saying you don’t like someone because they don’t feel the way you do about whatever thing.
“It is what it is.”
It infuriates me because it is usually said by a person so mentally lazy that they are causing problems for others. You can’t say it is what it is unless you can tell me what ‘it’ is!
It’s not ‘acceptance’, it’s spiritual bypassing at best and it makes me want to puke.
You say it to end a conversation with someone you don’t want to talk to anymore dude. They don’t want to talk to you.
You may find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché?wprov=sfla1
It is interesting. Sadly I am very familiar with thought-stoppers as an escapee from an insidious cult.
“Common sense” when it actually means “something you would know if you’d lived my exact life”. There are very few things in this world that are actually “common sense”, and to be honest the whole concept should just be removed from cultures in which it is present.
“Not gonna lie…” Uh, good, I guess
