The Banned List (a book of annoying phrases) may appear in your stocking from Santa this year, but for a bit of festive fun how about adding your most annoying phrase to the Independent's Top Ten :

David Cameron "Let me be absolutely clear for clarities sake" is not in the list

1 puh-lease

2 must-have

3 deal-breaker

4 Not (as in “I’m so going to send him a Christmas card. Not.”)

5 so (as in same)

6 basically (time buyer at beginning of sentence)

7 bring it on

8 rule of thumb

9 take it or leave it

10 lunatics running (or taking over) the asylum

At this time of day you are all under the radar but .......why not have fun with your pet hate words and phrases?


Pauline xxxx

I think it's just jealously. I love all of these.

Someone once said using "Clearly" before you say something is pointless. If it's that clear why the f*ck are you saying then?

I don't like 'piss-up in a brewery' only because most people would actually really like to give it ago. Hic.


Do One!

I am guilty as charged i do use some of them a lot lol sorry hun (oops) im mean Pauline (see what i did there lol)
i i am very good at organising a very good piss up in a brewery and any where else ya wanna get squiffy lol but i must admit Pauline and Shar are very good at getting pished by themselves lol

i will stop waffling now

hugs xxxxx

Birds Eye Potatoe waffels are quite nice, there waffly versatile !

now thats a fab quote liz lol i love em ha ha hmmm with melted cheese yum x

Lovely jubbly

I hate that "we" have to be politically correct and say "Happy Holidays" at Christmas. The reason for the season is Jesus, and not about Santa Claus and a zillion gifts. Its about love coming into the world,. NOT commercialism.

oh dear, I clearly haven't grasped the nettle on this issue, but not to worry we can put it on the back burner until after piss up in which brewery hic

See ya later - when it really means "see you again soon" !!! Also shop assistants saying " Are ya awrighr d'ere when they should be saying " may I help you ! !!!

We don't HAVE to say "happy holiday" at Christmas !!! Who the hell are these PC people anywway, and who gives them the right to pontificate as they do ?

<blockquote><strong><a href="/se4/profile/ErinJogue">Erin Jogue</a> said:</strong><br />I hate that "we" have to be politically correct and say "Happy Holidays" at Christmas. The reason for the season is Jesus, and not about Santa Claus and a zillion gifts. Its about love coming into the world,. NOT commercialism.</blockquote><br />

In actual fact (now there's one that should be on the hate list!) Christmas as we celebrate it has more to do with the Pagan Yule festival than the notion of it being Christ's birthday.

One that is commonly used in the TG arena is the word 'girlie', as in 'It makes me feel more girlie'.

I have seldom heard anything more ridiculous in my life as we can only feel like th person we are. GRRRR.

Merry Christmas
This post was edited by Deleted Member at December 21, 2012 1:02 PM GMT

My absolute dislike is for the expression of affirmation, as in "yes", or "I agree" to become, ...
"Absolutely"
It is an easy way to say, "Don't ask me any questions, all is revealed."
When, in fact, all is not.
If anyone says to me "absolutely" when they mean "yes", I will be tempted to strangle them, absolutely !!!

I hate people saying to me "Have a nice day" . Grrrrr I'm not in America where it is normally heard! A simple Good morning or afternoon with a smile would be far more appreciated.

The word 'Literally' as in "I literally woke up this morning", my reply, "I can see that". Or "He literally ignored that red light", my reply, "call an ambulance"!
I don't know why its wrong but it just sounds wrong!
Stella xxx
This post was edited by Deleted Member at December 22, 2012 7:44 AM GMT

Wish someone would bury forever 'kind of' as an overused idiom. An idiom for idiots, i.e. mostly fellow creatives, sadly. 'I was kind of walking down this kind of street and I had this kind of idea about a kind of red cloud...' etc. Add the Aussie AQI lilt at the end of the sentence and I can *literally* feel my IQ going into prolapse.

You've touched a nerve P!!!!.......I have spent far far too many years in corporate meetings listening to a cacophony of muffled voices, as people spoke energetically through their arses! My motto is always, where possible, to call a spade a shovel and to use words sparingly with the aim to reveal meaning not obscure meaning!
Here’s a few I've witnessed in board rooms across the world.

Back in the day
Cool
You rock
The devils in the detail!...... He’s not..... the actual quote is ‘God is in the detail’ ...attributed to Gustave Flaubert
To be honest
I’m not prejudiced or anything ...but
I’ve got nothing against ...BLANK (fill in blank as appropriate) ....but
Speak to the hand
We need a more granular version of the localisation strategy
That’s a big ask
I’ve got ten balls in the air and two of them are mine
Can we park that for a mo
We need to reduce the anti to vapour! (heard by me and said by someone very low on the food-chain in a senior board meeting, I still have no idea what they were talking about ....happens to me a lot in my work)
It’s a complete nightmare
Not my parish I’m afraid vicar (said by an utter corporate aresehole in an EMEA meeting!)
We need must engage better with our key stakeholders
To sustain an inclusive culture
I’ll just put it out there
On this one we’ve all got our plonkers on the table and the clients holding a big hammer
We thought it was an elephant in the room, I’m telling you now its actually a herd!
Accountability!?....accountashimility!
I’m just gonna have to play hard ball

We could be here forever with managerial speak. 'Let me helicopter above this problem for more top-down look' was the last straw for a friend of mine.

The word "Political Correct" or pc to the ignorant..lol.

Short, sweet and to the point suits me fine :-)

"The proof is in the pudding". Should be "the proof of the pudding is in the eating!"

moving forward, run it up the flag pole, send it out there etc etc management jargin drives me mad x x x

Love to hate hearing management telling us "Increase your productivity", when they really mean "do more work in less time for the same amount of pay or less so we can get a big bonus."

On the affirmative side I do like,
"Suck it and see." or "Thanks for the heads up!"

hi words are just words what ever makes one happy who cares merry
christmas hapy new year xxxxx rita

Any word that comes out of a Tories' gob goes straight on my banned list - even if it's a word I like.