Reply to: Words and phrases I will not use/hate

[Spacecadet]

How are you? when the person does not know you.
Mate
When addressing someone by their name they say "guilty as charged"

gets me everytime

[Another Dodgy Agent]

On the phone I get cross with anything apart from goodbye.

I really do not like the phone.

We've got a trainee recruitment consultant that feels like that!

[zathras]

How are you? when the person does not know you.
Mate
When addressing someone by their name they say "guilty as charged"

'outwith'

Cannot stand it - use outside or anything else

[NotAllThere]

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

And you'd be the right tit?

... IGMC

[voodooflux]

"WHS"

Should only be used in the context of, I'm just popping into WHS to pick up a paper.

WHS

[DodgyAgent]

"to be fair" and "to be honest" are great phrases to set up an insult. Not so good in the context of a serious conversation.

[Bagpuss]

"WHS"

Should only be used in the context of, I'm just popping into WHS to pick up a paper.

[oracleslave]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7733264.stm

[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.

[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".

[Papa Maji wa Maji]

"know wot I mean?"

[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?

[interested]

have you got her phone number like ?

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

[EternalOptimist]

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

have you got her phone number like ?

[interested]

"I was like"

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