Minty

Not an Americanism but a politicianism, it really pisses me of when you hear policitians reply to a question "The fact of the matter is .... " and then go on to answer their own question and no the one that was asked in the first place!!

No wonder politicians are considerred at the bottom of the food chain.

Minty

Patrick

The phrase means manners seperates man (the species) from the rest of the animal kingdom, woman as half of the man species are encorated by default as part of the species.

It really jerks my chain when the word "man' is being used to describe the species and people think that in these politically correct time they think they should say "and woman" so that no-one is offended. Change the name of the species to dog, cat, monkey or horse if you dont want to be part of the man species but don't say "and woman" because it is not gramatically or bioligically correct.

So sayeth the shepherd, so sayeth the flock

helenw

And a young Chap who was serving me at the grocery store told me (after grinning stupidly at me for what seemed like ages) that he should really visit Ireland. Hmm, so should I, I told him, I have never been there either. He looked somewhat confused. I said I was from ENGLAND and that it was like saying he had a canadian accent. LOL.

cindyabs

You mean grammatically and biologically correct?

I always took it to mean that it meant it was what distinguished an individual one from another-he has good manners, she has bad manners etc.
As for PC, no, that is NOT why I put that in there-I'm female, hence that reference.
There endeth the lesson.

Manc

Discussion in a bar awhile ago

him
"Where in Scotland are you from?"

me
"I'm not from Scotland I'm from England"

him
"Aaah well it's all the same"

me
"Where in Canada are you from?"

there endeth the conversation.

callé

I hate that as well! I cannot stand when you cant even get a response from someone. Or even worse, when people come in to my office and I ask 'may I help you?' and they continue to talk on their cell phone!!! as if I dont exist! I just walk away now and wait for them to call for me. and also on the 'can I axe you something?" No! you cannot axe me!! Or, 'she be here in a while...' or, 'you know what I'm saying?' AARGHHH!

mikehope

Whilst in a local pizza restaurant the other day, girl behing the take-away counter asked if I was from England, naturally I replied "yes from London, England"
And she then said "Oh, my dance teacher is from England, you might know her."

I resisted the temptation to say "Oh yes, the dance teacher! I am proud to say that even though there are only 60 million people living in the United Kingdom, I know each and every one of them"

cindyabs

In all fairness, the same thing happened to me when on holiday in Kos-everybody had a relative in the USA and they all expected I would know them,

Lord Lionheart

" oh my bad" is another one, what is that ghetto baby talk?

elfman

"Homicide bomber" irritates the hell out of me.

Patrick

Most Irritating phrases

"No I don't **** on first dates"

"especially not in the ass"

"No I wont kiss you"

"especially there"

"now please put it away, before I call the police"

"let me out the car"

"right now"

Another one is

"Sir, here is a restraining order"

woodsey

you've obviously been 'hanging out' with the wrong type of people......'hanging out' there's another irritating phrase

elfman

US TV coverage of football (soccer) throws up some irritating phraseology - commentators referring to a penalty kick as a "PK" particularly sets my teeth on edge.

Dan725

I've even heard the penalty area described as "the Red Zone"!! before

psb182

a guy once asked me "do you have running water in the UK"......same guy asked if I was glad that I lived here now at least your FREE.......