Phrases that annoy you?

[Tripper]

Are there any phrases people use that just annoy you?

I really don't like when people say things like "No offence, but ..." or say something rude and then add "Only joking". I don't like that because generally if you feel you have to say that then you're joke isn't funny or you are being offensive.

[CharmedOne]

"I'm like totally". Why do so many people use that awful saying? It annoys me so much.

"You get me?". Some people say it after everything.

[torak]

"Pfiat di". Its a bavarian (german dialect) version of Good bye which means sth. like "May god protect you". Although i live in bavaria for nearly 2 years now, i still hate it if people say it and i strictly refuse saying it eather.

[wunderkind]

A suggestion for torak:

On the american tv show Seinfeld, Jerry didn't like saying "God bless you" after people sneezed, so he started saying "You are SO good lookin' ".

When people say "Pfiat di" to you, you could say things like "May the force be with you" or "Smell you later" or "Vaya con Dios amigo" (meaning 'go with God, friend' in Spanish). This will likely confuse them, and they will stop saying "Pfiat di" to you.

Let us know how it goes.


As for me, (and I realize this isn't a phrase but I have chosen this thread to express my being annoyed by it) I get annoyed when I see an asterisk on a printed page or webpage and when I look around for the note that the asterisk is referring to: THERE ISN'T ONE! I think the people who are doing this have no concept of what an asterisk is and their thought process is something like this:

"Ghee, I like all the neat little symbols above the numbers on my keyboard. I wonder if they have standard uses. Hmm when I was in English class I probably should have paid attention instead of daydreaming about poptarts & hotpockets and writing notes to my girl/boyfriend. Oh well, I went to school in the united states so my teachers probably didn't cover it anyway because they were busy teaching us how to write a three paragraph essay for the tenth year in a row. I never did master that three paragraph essay did I? Who cares because now I'm writing webpages on the internet where any old retarded thing goes. I could go for a pepperoni hotpocket right about now. What was I doing? Oh yeah, writing a webpage. Hey, I think I'll put one of those little star thingies at the end of the sentence I'm typing, that'll be cool."

I think people who make malevolent computer viruses are creeps, but I would like to make a virus that scans the internet and deletes all stand-alone asterisks that have no purpose other than to annoy and confuse.

Thank you to those of you who use asterisks intelligently.

That's all I have to say about that.