most annoying modern phrase or saying

[IggyB]

Which modern phrases annoy you the most. I personally can't stand it when people say "simples" like that meerkat advert a few years back or "end of" when discussing something... I know its petty but what annoys you?

[baza]

people on a mobile asking where the other person is, do we really care, then they proceed to to say where they are, we already know you halfwit, youre on a bus/train making a complete richard of yourself.
oh, that feels better, nothing like a good rant.

[jno]

gotten is just older English, which the Americans kept while the British became lazy. The British still say forgotten, however, just to be inconsistent.

[MarkRae]

Not to mention "ill-gotten gains"... :-)

[cupid04]

of course I love you!

[jno]

and misbegotten. There may be other examples I've forgot.

[SpikeyBush]

Wharton don't have nightmares about falling down drunk in spikey bushes :-)

[baza]

the cheques in the post, or was that another thread.

[gingerflaps]

my boss has a thing of asking ''are you all o-fay with that'' its not a speach impediment, its not so annoying but i really wanna ask why he says it. oh and i knew an old man who instead of saying the f word he would say 'bucking' which i found highly ammusing

[Answerprancer]

I also hate "simples" and find the advert almost as annoying as "go compare".
"End of" is a phrase which afaic is a favourite of dictatorial bullies.
Here are a couple more from me:
"so" as in "That is SO not good" "Oh (pause) my god", "parenting".

[Answerprancer]

Gingerflaps - just fyi the expression your boss uses is "au fait", it means 'fully informed' and is in fairly common usage.

[slinky.kate]

hate it when people say'brain dead'especially in the crosswords section

[Quizmonster]

People tend to forget that 'bad' is not just an adjective but also a noun and that, consequently, there is nothing actually wrong with putting 'my' in front of it.
Someone might say, "The good I have done in my life may be remembered and I hope my bad will be forgotten."
Surely that is all the current Americanism means...ie "It was my mistake."

[tearinghair]

'ahead of' and 'in the wake of'. What's wrong with 'before' and 'after'?

[LochNessMonster]

You know !

[JonnyBoy12]

Does it annoy any of you when people say "Get a life" as that is what I am saying to some of you now? I have seen all of your postings and none of them annoy me at all. Some of us have got thick skins, you know.

[ummmm]

They don't annoy me either.

[Sheenamf]

Tv presenters often refer to 'the top of the show' meaning the start of the programme, but not yet, to my knowledge, the bottom, for the end.

[emmie]

at this moment in time, aghhh

[murraymints]

inappropriate use of ...like.....tagged on at end ...used as a form of punctuation..etc etc...GGGRRRR

[emmie]

innit, yer know, being in second place