Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression

High speed low drag.

Suffixing "-ish" to a time: Let's meet at 5-ish because 4-ish is too earley and I'll be hypoglycemic by 6-ish.

Describing a band as a gene spliced concotion of two other bands:
If Band A had a head on collsion with Band B you'd get Band C... If Band D got fucked in the ass by Band E and some sperm accidently landed in the love canal and a love child was produced you'd get band F... blah blah blah

The general term: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC/ALTERNATIVE RADIO
In the same vein: COLLEGE RADIO

Boy Band Profiling: The guy with the goatee will always be the one to go to rehab

Hella: That band was "hella" rocking last night.

Genius: How is it that so people know so many geniuses (genii?)... you know I ain't that smart!

Stoked

Full-on: That guitar player was full-on raging, dude!

Describing anything over 5 years old as RETRO. Worse is describing at SO RETRO. The worst is describing it as SOOOOOOOOOOOOO RETRO! (Props to those who posted before me!)

Props: just don't like that word and the people who use it.

If not the eeeevil twin, the "lite" version .... for instance, COLD PLAY is actually RADIOHEAD-lite.

BUT OF COURSE! You must be French and a head chef in a restaurant that is not necessary French to get away with using this phrase. BTW, the only time that this phrase is used correctly is when you are drunk and abusing the staff.

very very true... also "on crack" "on speed" and "high octane version of"

also

they are (insert band name here) without the (insert quality ie: wit, intelligence, class, etc...)

2. not a phrase, but a way of speaking these days: making statements that sound like questions because of intonation. This drives me crazy!

Never come to Australia? Everything sounds like a question? Oddly, they never took to Therapy? though?

(you do get used to it after a while, thank god.)

and to answer the question: seconded, anything like "so-and-so ON DRUGS!!!" (oooh, I'm such a Hunter Thompson in the making with my reverences to Qaaludes...cnut)

-"a viable P2P filesharing product"
-"multiple revenue streams"
-"perhaps others will follow the robbie williams business model"
-"99 cents per mp3 is a fair price, we feel"
-"bundling our music product with video add-ons to add on perceived value for the CD-purchasing consumer"

There's a recent trend in speaking where people say questions directed at themselves out loud and then answer them. "Did I expect Justin's solo record to suck? Basically. Did I love it anyway? Absolutely ."

It's not the most irritating verbal mannerism, but it is kind of annoying.

See, I don't think "overrated" has to be a criticism. I can acknowledge that the Strokes are overrated (they are -- I mean, they just are, and there's no way in hell they could have been as earthshatteringly good as the critics/publicists promised), while still admitting that I enjoy Is This It. "Overrated" isn't really about the quality of the music; it's about a lot of external factors that rightfully shouldn't get in the way of your relationship with a record.

But my hatred of both is as naught (argh) compared with that of (argh) "deplaning" and my current bugbear "personal belongings".

_____ is back!

Expressions like:
One beer short of a six-pack!
The light's on but no one's home.
He's not the sharpest knife in the kitchen.
He's not the brightest bulb in the house.

Using the word "gay" to mean uncool.

Using the word "fag" to describe a person as uncool.

Throwing your arms and/or legs out and/or making contortionist quality hand gestures every time your lips move ala RAP artists/hood rats, especially when the closest you've been to the hood is when you watch re-runs of YO! MTv RAPS.

Lame metal bands thinking acoustic sets of their horrible songs will make those songs somehow sound better.

Oh amen, amen, amen. SWORDFISH is so OTM, he's positively a PROPHET!!!!

No, that DJ Virus track is still in my playlist, why?

"You just don't get it." I usually get it but either don't like it (if it is music, a movie, book or something else) or don't think it is funny (if someone is telling me a joke that I think is lame.)

.. I think the "with interest" is implied if you spent the time to write a letter about it...

"I'm not really about [...]"

and

"Its all good"

Words I use far too often on ILM: Irrefutably, Moot, Disquietingly, Worryingly, Rocktastic, Implausibly, Indefensible, Killing, Joke, Honor, The and Fire.

as in: I don't like [X] that everyone seems to be raving about - oh, it's just emperor's new clothes (ie: all the others are weak minded fools and only I can see the truth)(ie: I'm a pompous twit).