<p>Here in GB, the word ‘Basically’ is used by so many people. It has no bloody context at all! </p>
<p>Also, the yanks use ‘Already’ one finds it so annoying!</p>
<p>Around here many people say “I’m not for sure” when they should say “I’m not sure.”</p>
<p>They also say “whenever I was a young man” instead “when I was a young man.”</p>
<p>Grrrrrrrrr.</p>
<p>I recently caught myself saying “basically” way too often. So I basically stopped.</p>
<p>British overuse of “bloody” – adjective challenged are we?!</p>
<p>Agree with all who find beginning a sentence with “so” thoroughly repellent!</p>
<p>“Try and…” – such numbskulls!</p>
<p>“Come to find out” – huh?!</p>
<p>My husband and I tried out a new place for dinner this week. After the first server used “awesome” in every sentence I figured it was his age. (a college student) But after two other servers used it I realized they must have been trained to use the word. It was one thing coming out of a 20 yr old mouth but out of the 40 yr old server it was just annoying. Between that and the food being bad we won’t be returning.</p>
<p>Hands down my vote goes to “nowadays” or “these days” or “back in the day,” or any other form of over-generalized temporal description. It is almost always accompanied by some form of B.S. about generational gaps delivered in a whiny tone. Makes me cringe every time. Can’t we be more specific than this??</p>
<p>What about “salad days?” Any idea what those are?</p>
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<p>^^^^^^Reminds me of something I once heard:</p>
<p>You know you’re an old fart when you begin complaining about the declining morality of the young. </p>
<p>My husband began a sentence the other day with “Back when we were in high school we didn’t…” I cut him off before he could prove that he is in fact an old man.</p>
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<p>Those are the days back when we were too poor to eat anything but salad, I think. Only now it’s more expensive to eat salad because we’ve gone organic.</p>
<p>When I was a school teacher right out of college, we got paid once a month. By the end of the month I was always down to a couple of bucks in my checking account. I remember eating cold spinach from a can for dinner for a whole week once. So those would be my spinach days, I guess.</p>
<p>I agree on the ‘no problem’, but (as we discussed in a ‘Southern’ thread) I LOVE the way Chick-Fil-A teaches their employees to answer a ‘thank you’ with a ‘my pleasure!’. Such a little thing, but so nice!!!</p>
<p>Yes, “My pleasure” in its place is very nice, however must news reporters end their reports with it – even when they are full of terrible news?! – it happens much too often.</p>
<p>I don’t know the origin of “salad days” but I thnk of it as meaning when I was a young adult, healthy, and unattached. I think of someone using that expression that might be in their 50’s or after referring to when they were in their 20’s.
“pulled it out” is one I think a bit rude, knowing the origin came from “pulled it out of his a$$”. Similarly, for “that sucks”, knowing that used to be “that sucks dic*s”[male genital] which was a crude phrase means something was very bad. Referenceing doing oral sex on a guy, just doesn’t seem like it should be considered ordinary polite conversation.</p>
<p>I was Ohio boy, met and briefly dated a Val gal in '75. That was different. Remember Zappa’s Valley Girl song.</p>
<p>Sure am tired of "you know what I’m sayin’ ", while a person tells something.</p>
<p>I’m sick of being called “hon” or “honey” by female strangers. One time it seemed like a server said that to me 50 times during the first 1/2 of my meal. I got so sick of it, I said to her: “I know you call me honey because you just see that as ‘just being friendly’; but I enjoy grabbing a woman’s butt and consider that ‘just being friendly’; you wouldn’t mind that would you?” I don’t know if she gave any long-term though to her habit, but very few words were spoken the last 1/2 of the meal.</p>
<p>I have often been guilty of calling any female a girl; a habit I got from my wife! It is her feeling under 20 can rightfully be called a girl, 20 to about 35 are insulted by it, believing it is a word deliberately used to “keep them down”, and that after 40 or so it is flattering! Her thoughts, at least.</p>
<p>^^ Younghoss, I totally agree with you about the phrase “that sucks”. When I was a kid, saying that was on par with saying the F word. It was really nasty. I still cringe a little when I hear it on TV sitcoms.</p>
<p>More annoying than “whatever”: w/e</p>
<p>i thought that “salad days” had to do with yeats (“a crazy salad women eat”) but it seems to have originated with shakespeare:</p>
<p>CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then!</p>
<p>whatever. (couldn’t resist) <g></g></p>