Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression

"basically"

and

"to be honest with you".

I do hate "clubbing experience", it's always used for those massive trance arena (barn) dances that are on in Dublin like Gods Kitchen 2003 or whatever.

My most hated phrase: "Just wanted to touch base with you."

Keep it real; keepin' it real

Peace out!

Cutting edge.... especially when something is "so" not cutting edge.

Also, I'm amazed no-one has mentioned "n'est pas?" to this list. Ick.
I think they need to add "Grabastic" to their vocabulary. For a week. No more than a week. After that, I wouldn't be "cute" anymore.

n'est-ce pas, even.

Does that phrase add any meaning whatsoever to the end of a sentence?

"I rode my goldfish all the way to Hastings, as it were."

I love when people use this phrase when it's something that you don't do.. like:
"I pulled a lamb shank out from underneath my thumbnail - as you do."
-or-
I got pregnant and went to an Iggy Pop concert - as you do."

I asked a secretary (sorry, "Assistant") for their bosses fax number ..

And she said, "So you want her fax number, as it were?"

and I said, "No - I want it as it is."

(I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitresses.)

Who do you think they stole it from??

I also hate "overrated" and "pretentious" -- for reasons we've discussed on these boards.

Speaking of "as it were," I heard a colleague utter this twice in a meeting just this morning.

callum, we have several pretention threads.

new unfavorite expression: "oh, what i wouldn't give--." heard twice today. like everyone here is so poor they would go bankrupt if they bought a piece of cake.

Also forgot to mention "pretend to like/love" but I don't really wanna open that can o' worms again.

MUST SEE TV

More of a trend that become pretty cliche: TRIBUTE ALBUMS. What did we do to deserve a tribute to a trifling band like ____________ (fill in your most irritating pet peve of a band here).

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)

No he isn't on money, he is on crack!

Just out of curiousity, what exactly is a craw, and what would you need to drive it up there?
A craw is a weird vegetable that Victorians used to boil mercilessly. What was odd about this -- now extinct -- vegetable is that it was part of the life cycle of a form of crayfish. This is why a crayfish that has given 'birth' to a craw is called a Crawdad.
As for how something can get 'stuck in yer craw', this has something to do with a perverse party game practiced my members of the Naughty Hellfire Club back when there still were craws to use in this twisted game. Lets just say it involved sticking things into a craw...and leave it at that.

Post of the day.

People who last week couldn't find x on a map are now all of a sudden an expert in y

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...also, when people say it was yay big, in stead of this/that big etc. What about elitist twats who refer to The Guardian as The Grauniad?? I'll stop now as I'm only winding myself up...
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 3:46 PM

I suppose that nineteen years ago this person not understand that “yea” in this context does not mean “this/that” but approximate? Perhaps enlightenment has come and their irritation has subsided.