Words and Phrases I Detest: rant thread.

[Roses]

Baby plums will drop as they mature and smell fantastic.

So, when get some dropped plums hold them and give them a big long smell, right next to your nose.

You'll thank me, later.

I don't like the taste of plums.

[Aruntraveller]

I don't like the taste of plums.

You don't know what you are missing.

[SqueakyVoice]

You don't know what you are missing.

That's right. Hold some dropped plums, give them a gentle stroke and they'll be ready to pop.

[Steve H]

You don't know what you are missing.

Since she says she doesn't like the taste of them, she is obviously familiar with them, and thus does know what she is missing.

[Roses]

Since she says she doesn't like the taste of them, she is obviously familiar with them, and thus does know what she is missing.

Thanks Steve.

[Aruntraveller]

Since she says she doesn't like the taste of them, she is obviously familiar with them, and thus does know what she is missing.

But there are plums and then there are plums. Friars plums for example or maybe try a couple of Black Beauty's. A couple of those....seventh heaven.

[SqueakyVoice]

Since she says she doesn't like the taste of them, she is obviously familiar with them, and thus does know what she is missing.

So how many plums has she stroked then?
(By implication) she must have held a lot of plums and not quite stroked them enough when they dropped to get their juice bursting out of them.

[SqueakyVoice]

(P.S. With apologies to Roses. If you want to take part then that's fine.)

[Steve H]

But there are plums and then there are plums. Friars plums for example or maybe try a couple of Black Beauty's. A couple of those....seventh heaven.

Well, you think so, but maybe not everyone agrees. Many people think apricots are nectar of the goods, but I detest them.

[Nearly Sane]

Some plums

[Dicky Underpants]

Some plums

They look awfy smale.
Almost bullaces.

As regards Steve's dislike of apricots, I generally prefer the dried version.

[Aruntraveller]

All this talk of plums has got me thinking about the phrase "Pick the low hanging fruit first" in work terms.

Maybe it's ok the first time you hear it and you do your best to get picking.

The problem I have with it is that the fourth or fifth time of hearing made me want to scream.

I mean by then you've already picked all the fruit on the tree, you've stripped it of leaves and chopped the tree down for fuel. There's nothing left. Let it go.

[Roses]

They look awfy smale.
Almost bullaces.

As regards Steve's dislike of apricots, I generally prefer the dried version.

So do I.

[BeRational]

Saying Fink rather than Think, and Free rather than Three etc

[Dicky Underpants]

Saying Fink rather than Think, and Free rather than Three etc

Radio 4,  no doubt wishing to appear to be 'down with the street kids' have employed a presenter who studiously affects the fs and vs for all the th's.

[Roses]

Pronouncing the letter H as Haitch instead of Aitch, irritates me.

[Nearly Sane]

Pronouncing the letter H as Haitch instead of Aitch, irritates me.

Generally pronounced itch in Glasgowk

[Udayana]

Pronouncing the letter H as Haitch instead of Aitch, irritates me.

Are you sure? Actually, I'm half convinced that all the items in this thread are made up!

I can't remember ever being irritated by the wording, pronunciation or grammar someone has used unless they clearly meant it to be insulting or offensive.
If something is just incomprehensible I tend to ignore it.   

[Anchorman]

The use of the term ' y'know' when encountering certain inhabitants of Glesga (Glasgow).
Sometimes a sentence of twelve words can have 'y'know' inserted at least four times.

[Harrowby Hall]

The near-universal inability of native English speakers to correctly pronounce "harass".


Amended to remove evidence of my inability to correctly spell "harass".

[SqueakyVoice]

"I was only joking."

What about? Racism, sexism or any other type of prejudice stereotype?

Morons. Idiots. Contemptible fools. Pretending they aren't accountable for their stupidity.

[Steve H]

"Said", immediately before a second or subsequent reference to something previously mentioned. I think it began life as a bit of boring officialese, in civil service memos and the like, before starting to appear in social media posts as a sort of joke. However, the joke died years ago, and it's now just tiresome.

[Roses]

I detest the phrase, 'What the F....".

[Spud]

A lot of these phrases are cool when they first come into use. Then everybody starts using them and they become annoying.
There was a lot of overuse of the word "perfect" a while back; this thankfully seems to have died down.

[Dicky Underpants]

A lot of these phrases are cool when they first come into use. Then everybody starts using them and they become annoying.
There was a lot of overuse of the word "perfect" a while back; this thankfully seems to have died down.

Not in Costa's Coffee, Tesco's Nailsea.
"No problem" also seems to be going strong there. One would hope there is "no problem" in making coffee in a coffee house.
Nice people though.