General Chat

"Ms." gets me - I am not married so I am "Miss", but "Ms." does work as a useful indicator of junk mail in the post because I always refer to myself as "Miss" or just "Kate".

People who call their children kids, don't mums and dads have babies, boys and girls anymore, or are they bringing up herds of baby goats.

texting --can`t understand it !!

When I was having my children OH`s dad said oh are you producing, made me sound like a production line, with no feelings. Hated it.

I agree with Sharron about the Mummy thing, what if the child started saying Mary will go to the toilet about themselves? Mummy would have something to say about that?

Agree with you Sharron about "There you go" instead of "thank you".....same as "Cheers"

"There you go" instead of "thank you (Sir/Madam) when serving a customer.

Mothers who tell their children to "talk proply".

Why do mothers talk about themselves as if they are somebody else? E.g."You get your library books and Mummy will get hers. Then we will go home."

I dread to think what the child must have made of this conversation because it confused me.

Karen, that used to get to me too.
A quick hair cut???
Five minutes??
Said by someone who has never cut a head of hair.

I have to say though, that i really do not mind how people talk to me, or what they say, as long as they are polite I can accept anything.

People being PAID TO TALK.
Now that is different. I spend a lot of time shouting at them on the TV.... Yes. I do understand that they can't hear me.
Deanna X

"can i have a quick haircut,it'll only take you five minutes"........yeh right,i igive you a haircut in 5 minutes you wont like the result

Karenx

"Cheers"..............Why do people say that when they mean "Thank you." Cheers is what you say when you drink a toast. Are people afraid to say thanks these days?

saying, for example ' at the end of the day, something needs to be done. For heavens sake, if something needs to be done, it needs to be done whether it is the end of the day, the middle of the day or the beginning of the day !! Also, and probably due to the fact that I am 'one of the older generation' the modern day speech which includes peeps for people (I always thought peeps indicated taking a discrete look at something), cool for 'up to date (always thought it referred to the temperature) and abbreviations to represent phrases IMHO for example. I realise this is probably used to cut down on the amount of typing when on the computer, but I still find it irritating. Oh what a moaning old soul I am !!

"Have a nice day,,,,"

"Enjoy!"

My hubby still says "in the family way". Why can't he just say pregnant? Makes me cringe every time!

To cut a long story short!!!! They then go on for the next thirty min zzzzzzzzz

Haitch instead of Aitch when spelling a word--don't (oops was going to say actually!)know which is correct -when I was at school,we had a ruler across our knuckles for pronouncing H haitch.
Delayed --at the airport!

ie eg

closed shops with signs saying
' closed for refurbishment'....what does this word mean! whats wrong with 'decorating, modernising etc, an awful nonsence word!

Oooo another one I hate...

'touching base'

meaning, having a word with or letting someone know, or finding out from...

One of the managers at my place has just learned the phrase and is busy going round telling everyone to 'touch base' with everyone else. AARRRGGHHH

Heather, that is also one of my pet hates...people who cannot tell the difference between there, their and they're, and use 'there' all the time. And using 'of' instead of 'have', as in 'should have'. As far as I am concerned it is laziness, both in the use of our language and in the writing.

Innit and you know what I mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also hate being called Babe,darling ,love by peeps I don't know

When somebody puts their two bended index fingers in the air when talking to me saying...'in commas'...agggggg! irratating!

also

When somebody says ' years and years and years ago!.....years ago is enough! isnt it?