Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression

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)

-"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".

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.