Irritating Expression

[Neil Morton]

Hi crew. Oh yes the "like" and the "um" are alive and well in Oz, the one that really twitches the ulcer is: "Oh my God". No exclamation of surprise or pleasure seems to be complete without the dreaded OMG as a prefix.

[happy daze john in oz]

At the end of the day the elephant in the room will be holding a surgery. the issue of that is very clear and may I say, like, you will find I am an honest and true person, like, and to be Frank, you know, the moment will pass and, um whatever, like you know what I mean like. But you know what, like, there are some like, who will understand this like, whatever.

[Tony Morcom]

OMG they're now in the OED. IMHO we're f***ed!

Dictionary

[john sutton]

people who say "cheers" instead of "thankyou"
And Hazel Blears whatever she says
john sutton

[Pete Leonard (Bruno)]

Another irritating expression which has entered the language recently is"going forward". It is used more and more by politicians and government spokesmen. To me it is meaningless.

[robpage]

How about the one shouted up the gangway by the passing guys off another ship ," Wey Hey Mun gore eny Geordies aboard "

[Keith Tindell]

Hi Robpage,
Remember the call from adjacent ships well, and the standard reply *No we were fumigated last trip*, only joking all you geordies ,, Keith Tindell

[Captain Kong]

They used to shout back "Whites on Deck and Geordies down below.

[Colin McClelland]

The press and TV refer to JOY RIDERS instead of Thieves, this just glorifies the thieving gits.

A few years ago my car was stolen, it was found in a vacant council garage.
The thieves in this area just tell the local council they want to rent a garage and can they please have
a list of all the vacant garages so as to pick one.
They get the list and now stow there stolen goods in one of the garages.
The council and the stupid police know this goes on and do very little to stop it.

[happy daze john in oz]

Another irritating expression which has entered the language recently is"going forward". It is used more and more by politicians and government spokesmen. To me it is meaningless.

We have a look alike prime minister who used those words 42 times in one pre election speech. Problem is we have been going backwarsd ever since.