Words and phrases I will not use/hate

[cojak]

"Peeps"

Cojak

Hiya Peeps!



(Useful shorthand for texting and forums - wouldn't use it IRL)

But now I know it ticks DA off!!!

[cojak]

Although since I maybe needing his services very shortly this might not be the best idea...

[Sausage Surprise]

"the same" (another specialty from India I think)

One of my Indian PM colleagues used that 7 times in a very short email the other day. Couldn't understand WTF she was on about

[interested]

"I was like"

Amen to that. I just dumped a girl for saying 'like' excessively.

[EternalOptimist]

Amen to that. I just dumped a girl for saying 'like' excessively.

have you got her phone number like ?

[interested]

have you got her phone number like ?

That and a picture of her left tit goes to the highest bidder

[expat]

Amen to that. I just dumped a girl for saying 'like' excessively.

So you were like, I can't, like, get behind that. And she was like, Like take a chill pill. And you were like, no man I'm like gone.

Or was it not like that?

[Papa Maji wa Maji]

"know wot I mean?"

[NotAllThere]

One of my Indian PM colleagues used that 7 times in a very short email the other day. Couldn't understand WTF she was on about

"Please do the needful and revert the same."

To which my colleague replied - "the same to you".

[Moscow Mule]

"Please do the needful"

That's a sub-continent ism isn't it?

I had that from one of our chaps the other day. Made me giggle rather than annoyed.