when americans say “i could care less” because it’s always used incorrectly in the context the person is using it. if you could care less, then that means you’re not that bothered. “i couldn’t care less” means you care so little, that you have no care left to give. ive gone insane explaining this to people. it makes me so mad when it really shouldn’t, because who cares! lmfao
when you first see someone and the first thing they do is ask “how are you doing?” or “hows it going?” the majority of the time the person asking doesn’t care about how I am doing or how it is going.
Blood is thicker than water… everyone thinks it means that you should support family over friends. While there is disagreement on wikipedia, another interpretation is that bonds made by men who have spilled blood together is stronger than the water of womb.
You can choose your friends, but you have no say in who your family is. I don’t think we should always defer to family over close friends.
Many times throughout my life, my friends were there when family couldn’t help me.
Choose your allegiances based of merit, not arbitrary pairings.
“I could care less”. This phrase has literally no impact, all you’re saying is that your capacity for caring about that particular subject could go lower. Thus it gives no real indicator on your actual level of care. “I couldn’t care less” makes sense because you’re clearly communicating that your care for that subject is so little it quite literally could not go any lower.
“POV” in labeling reels and short videos, when they are not filmed from the camera’s point of view and are really just videos about situations (POV: you drove your car into a snowbank; POV: when your dog is an idiot).
There are only 24 hours in a day. That phrase can be legit. Like, here in the Eastern Time Zone, I don’t have time to drive to somewhere six hours away before midnight EST. There’s literally not enough time to do so.
I think where it really irks me the most is at work. Coworkers just had 45 minutes to gossip, but not 10 minutes to fucking do their job.
Using “Salty” as a positive. You’re not “Salty” you’re just a miserable prick who would rather shit on everyone around you than grow up and deal with your emotional issues.
I’ll “do” an iced tea. We “do” Florida in the winter. I “do” a turkey chili that everyone loves. Stop already with “do”! Have an iced tea, go to Florida in the winter and make a turkey chili that everyone loves, dammit.
Well any new young slang and/or phrases are fucking stupid because are lazy and make little sense. It’s basically verbiage from mumble rap. A lot of the ones mentioned in this thread seem pulled from decades ago that doesn’t get used much. However phrases like getting a vibe, vibing with it, killing it, getting gains, respect the hustle are just infuriating and juvenile. Cue old man yelling at cloud.
When people say “my person”. Ex: “oh he’s my person”, “that’s my person”, or “he really feels like my person”. Just say it’s your soulmate or that they feel like the one. Idk why it just irks me dare I say even PMO😭
It was funny at first but holy shit was it overused for years. Maybe it’s a regional thing but it was used so much around me that it was like 10% of every conversation for months. It’s not used very often anymore but every time I hear it, I still roll my eyes.
I hate to hear someone say “Bullshit”. It implies that lies are being told, or that the speaker has bad information, or is uneducated. It’s a pretty ugly insult.
What a stupid comment! The Democratic Party has some other biggest idiots in the world. How about your buddy Biden, Camilla Harris, Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, all much lower than average intelligence.
Have you ever watched an interview with Kamala Harris?
“Have fun!” As a throwaway ending when someone declines an invitation or reneges on plans. As if that makes up for their lack of effort in maintaining a friendship
“Do what?” I moved from the Northeast to Louisiana 22 years ago and I hate this expression now with every bit of passion as I did when I first arrived.
You’re not asking me what I just DID, you’re asking me to repeat what I just SAID. Aaaaarrrrrgghh!
I wear a mask in public and one thing that I’m so fucking tired of hearing is “you know getting sick can build your immune system?”
There’s various strains of COVID, flu, and the cold. Just because you build immunity to one doesn’t mean you’re immune to them all. Also, health care isn’t free here, I can’t afford or have the time off to “build immunity”. How about I just don’t get sick in the first place? IM JUST FINE!!
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At work: “Optimization” usually means a reduction of service.
I could care less. It really….
“My bad” Instead of “I screwed up and I’m sorry”
“Karen”.. I guess I’m a real Karen when it comes to the word Karen
when americans say “i could care less” because it’s always used incorrectly in the context the person is using it. if you could care less, then that means you’re not that bothered. “i couldn’t care less” means you care so little, that you have no care left to give. ive gone insane explaining this to people. it makes me so mad when it really shouldn’t, because who cares! lmfao
Unironically
Optics
Ick
Hustling
For me it’s, “winner winner, chicken dinner.” Why? No clue.. I know what made it popular, I saw the movie with the MIT kids playing blackjack.
It’s stupid I know but it got me curious what other people might think is cringe
The use of ‘finna’ is cringey.
Tsk tsk tsk
It is what it is. That’s defeatist
It is a game changer!
“Very unique,” “extremely unique,” “somewhat unique,” stuff like that.
“Unique” means “there’s only one of this.”
It’s a binary descriptor. Either something is unique or it’s not. Either there’s one of something or there’s more than one of something.
You can’t be “very” one of this or “extremely” one of this or “somewhat” one of this.
Life hack
I dont like “sus.” Sounds like pus
“If I can do it you can do it” especially if I don’t really know you and you don’t know me.
Awesome sauce
Say it louder for the people in the back.
It just sounds so stupid.
“Iconic” is being massively overused lately.
Literally when used wrong & irregardless
When people say “woof” instead of “wolf”.
“Hot minute”
“slay” the word literally makes me itch
when you first see someone and the first thing they do is ask “how are you doing?” or “hows it going?” the majority of the time the person asking doesn’t care about how I am doing or how it is going.
“Humans use only 10% of our brain.” That statement is so wrong, it’s dumb. I especially hate how it was used as a basis of a movie.
Blood is thicker than water… everyone thinks it means that you should support family over friends. While there is disagreement on wikipedia, another interpretation is that bonds made by men who have spilled blood together is stronger than the water of womb.
You can choose your friends, but you have no say in who your family is. I don’t think we should always defer to family over close friends.
Many times throughout my life, my friends were there when family couldn’t help me.
Choose your allegiances based of merit, not arbitrary pairings.
“Gifting”
Anyways
“That’s so cringe”
“You’re good” when someone is in my way.
I know Im good! I said “excuse me” to be nice!
Bro
Chief
Yes I’m chiefin
Yes I’ll fvk you up
Stop giving me false respect
I’m baf deal with it… before I start prayin for rain.
It’s 45 acp. Ain’t growing the garden.
My bro banged my babies momma. You ain’t no bro
“Blah, blah, ‘adulting’”
“illegal aliens” is a deliberate attempt to dehumanize people.
“Food for thought”
I’m obsessed 🤪
“No shade” or “very demure” especially that second one I hated that trend!
“Prolly”
Makes people sound idiotic
“Are you out and about?”
My dear mother asks me that on every. Single. Call, and it drives me absolutely nuts.
I have told her this, yet it continues. I cringe when I sense it is about to come out and then recoil in pain when it does.
“I could care less”. This phrase has literally no impact, all you’re saying is that your capacity for caring about that particular subject could go lower. Thus it gives no real indicator on your actual level of care. “I couldn’t care less” makes sense because you’re clearly communicating that your care for that subject is so little it quite literally could not go any lower.
Perfect storm, spot on, nosh, dosh, drop some coin, nana, automagical, methinks, an historical. I could go on forever…
yeah, I should seek therapy.
BAE
using lol’ing in real life conversation
“POV” in labeling reels and short videos, when they are not filmed from the camera’s point of view and are really just videos about situations (POV: you drove your car into a snowbank; POV: when your dog is an idiot).
Locally sourced and lovingly hand-crafted artisanal [drek]
“Out of pocket” when the person doesn’t mean paying for something themselves.
I’m going to “hold space” for you.
Any-who
“In it to win it.”
“It is what it is”
“Thats just the way it goes”
“Blood is thicker than water” Not in my generation its not, fuck off with that 🤣🙄🙄
The dumbass phrase” I cannot wrap my head around” something. Who the hElL came up with this?
snooze you lose, its just irritating and never helps a person feel better.
“Double-down” & every other moronic gambling reference used by people who have never shuffled a deck of cards. Stop.
“Like literally“
Livin’ the dream
“I could care less”
It’s COULDN’T! You couldn’t care less! If you could care less then you care a lot.
Cheap at half the price when people mean cheap at twice the price. Of course things would be cheap if they were half the price.
Always bugs me.
I swear to God or I swear on…
It’s always a lie.
“Would of” (and could of/should of)
It’s would HAVE, etc. Or the contractions of those, like would’ve.
Oh boy this has been a long time coming…
•Rizz
•’bro is’ (especially this one, everyone says it in the comments and think they’re original)
•High-key / low-key
•Living rent-free bs
•Main character energy
•Gnarly (stupid word)
•Goat (the word has lost it’s meaning)
•THANK YOU FOR 1000 LIKES OMGGGGGG!!!!!!
•”ahh” like in “ass” (example: wit yo stupid ahh)
•pov (word lost meaning, people use it whenever)
•the fcking lego gif everyone does when there’s
even a mildy attractive woman in the post
•slay
• me: him: bs
•people in the comment just repeating what someone said in the video and add an emoji
I bet there was one of you thinking of a way to say them all at once to try and annoy me. Don’t lie😂
“I don’t/didn’t have time to do ______”)
There are only 24 hours in a day. That phrase can be legit. Like, here in the Eastern Time Zone, I don’t have time to drive to somewhere six hours away before midnight EST. There’s literally not enough time to do so.
I think where it really irks me the most is at work. Coworkers just had 45 minutes to gossip, but not 10 minutes to fucking do their job.
Using “Salty” as a positive. You’re not “Salty” you’re just a miserable prick who would rather shit on everyone around you than grow up and deal with your emotional issues.
“the ick” sounds like a toddler
When people say “said” to refer back to something, like “I didn’t use said umbrella when I visited London”.
Ya’ll
I’ll “do” an iced tea. We “do” Florida in the winter. I “do” a turkey chili that everyone loves. Stop already with “do”! Have an iced tea, go to Florida in the winter and make a turkey chili that everyone loves, dammit.
kids saying something has a “good aesthetic”
Everything happens for a reason!
My bad..ugh
Rizz or any phrase involving it.
Well any new young slang and/or phrases are fucking stupid because are lazy and make little sense. It’s basically verbiage from mumble rap. A lot of the ones mentioned in this thread seem pulled from decades ago that doesn’t get used much. However phrases like getting a vibe, vibing with it, killing it, getting gains, respect the hustle are just infuriating and juvenile. Cue old man yelling at cloud.
Let’s agree to disagree.
I hate the word “utilize”. There is almost never a time when the word “use” isn’t a better choice.
“I could care less”
It’s I could NOT care less. As in, you care so little, you cannot care any less, it’s impossible. Thats the point of the saying
It is what it is
“To be fair to the argument”
An argument is an inanimate object. It doesn’t care about fairness.
“drinking the koolaid”
The vast majority of people in Jonestown were murdered.
Calling someone a Karen. It’s ageist, sexist and racist all rolled into one. Boomer is bad too, but it’s typically just ageist.
Nuke-yuh-ler
Price Point on those home buying shows. Buyers don’t have a Price Point. They have a budget.
“Dialed in” 🙄
My 2 pet peeves are:
“For all intensive purposes”
-should be “For all intents and purposes”
And
“It’s a doggy dog world”
-should be “It’s a dog-eat-dog world”
There are a few others but these are my top 2
Oh there are so many…”Congrats” really gets to me. That’s not a phrase so I’ll go with “No worries.”
When people say “my person”. Ex: “oh he’s my person”, “that’s my person”, or “he really feels like my person”. Just say it’s your soulmate or that they feel like the one. Idk why it just irks me dare I say even PMO😭
“Hot mess”. A YouTuber I despise over-used it to the point where hearing it in real life pisses me off. Where is my cold mess representation?
Fail Fast
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. No it’s not!
“That’s what she said”
It was funny at first but holy shit was it overused for years. Maybe it’s a regional thing but it was used so much around me that it was like 10% of every conversation for months. It’s not used very often anymore but every time I hear it, I still roll my eyes.
“I was today years old when…”
people needing to fill silench with gd ‘uhhh’. silence is ok, we dont need u filling up silences. stop gd already.
“Whole nother,” the combination between “a whole other” and “another” drives me up the wall.
Pet peeve
I hate the word leery. Even though I looked it up and people are using it correctly, I just always feel like it’s a fake word. Idk it bugs me
vinyls
Let’s touch base
WHO IS BASE. DO THEY CONSENT TO BEING TOUCHED?
“.. if that makes sense..?..” 😡
One-stop-shop
“sweet summer child”
“Whatnot”, “gal”. There are more but those are the two that are like nails on a chalkboard.
I hate to hear someone say “Bullshit”. It implies that lies are being told, or that the speaker has bad information, or is uneducated. It’s a pretty ugly insult.
Calling a sandwich anything besides a sandwich.
That’s the way it’s always been.
“It is what it is”….often said by the most stagnant person ever.
“Where has the time gone?”
it’s not the phrase itself that irks me but when people say “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”
Axe a question
“Boots on the ground” when talking about soldiers going to war. They are far more than just a pair of boots.
“Excuse my French.” – When an English-speaking person swears and wants to apologize. It has to be the one of dumbest things I’ve heard in my life.
That “ikrs me” or “that’s my pet peev”
“It is what it is.” Not untrue, but it sure is getting overused.
At the end of the day…
“That’s my pet peeve “
Baby daddy/momma. To my ear it just sounds ghetto and ignorant. Why not just say my kids dad/mom? Do what you do. It just sounds low IQ to me.
“It is what it is.”
Well yeah no fucking shit. If it was not then it would be something else. Fuck off.
Irregardless
“But I digress” in writing. How about just edit whatever you’re trying to write?
What a stupid comment! The Democratic Party has some other biggest idiots in the world. How about your buddy Biden, Camilla Harris, Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, all much lower than average intelligence.
Have you ever watched an interview with Kamala Harris?
GOAT
It is what it is.
“living the dream” when in fact they are not
Live your truth.
“Have fun!” As a throwaway ending when someone declines an invitation or reneges on plans. As if that makes up for their lack of effort in maintaining a friendship
“Real quick.”
Adding “real” to it doesn’t make it quicker than quick. It can’t be more quick than quick! It’s ALREADY quick!
Sorry, oop sorry, ope sorry.
When it’s completely not their fault or they are still doing the thing they are “apologizing” for
“Do what?” I moved from the Northeast to Louisiana 22 years ago and I hate this expression now with every bit of passion as I did when I first arrived.
You’re not asking me what I just DID, you’re asking me to repeat what I just SAID. Aaaaarrrrrgghh!
” time heals all wounds..”
Cotton Pickin’
It’s giving
He bullies you because he likes you!
anything with “spicy” stop saying it it’s so icky
Maybe not the worst, but I hate “you can’t have your cake and eat it, too”.
The Unabomber was right: “You can’t eat your cake and still have it, too.”
Rizz.
I wear a mask in public and one thing that I’m so fucking tired of hearing is “you know getting sick can build your immune system?”
There’s various strains of COVID, flu, and the cold. Just because you build immunity to one doesn’t mean you’re immune to them all. Also, health care isn’t free here, I can’t afford or have the time off to “build immunity”. How about I just don’t get sick in the first place? IM JUST FINE!!
“This” and nothing else. Also “copium” for calling someone out for having hope.
My bad.
Saying “utilise” when the situation requires you to say “use”
Mostly mispronounced/misused phrases:
Anyone who says pasifically needs to die slowly and painfully
Triggered. Adulting. Blessed.
I’m worn out on these
Un/Comfortability. Dis/Comfort!!!! No need to complicate it.
“… the ick”
If you use those words in writing or in person, there is a 0% chance I will take you seriously.
It’s a joke … if you need to announce it, it isn’t funny
“As a person who” …
“I’m glad to be apart of” rather than “I’m glad to be a part of”
Most people use the world “penultimate” to mean the absolute peak, when it is precisely not that, at all
I see on Fakebook all the time people looking for something that “doEsN’t cOSt aN arM aNd a LeG”. Shut your broke beggin ass up.
You Good.
Irks
“Perfect”
“Incredible”
“No problem”
When people use “team” at work in an office environment.
Like, well like I’m not like so sure like.
The word random has suddenly gotten annoying
“The Ick”… So childish.
“That slaps” and “fam”. I’ve no relation to you, and I wouldn’t mind slapping you.
Live my truth
Fuck around and find out. So over used these days
“It is what it is”.
“and whatnot”. Added to the end of a sentence. It’s literally nothing yet so completely vague.
“nucular” This isn’t the 1950’s anymore; we know how to pronounce “nuclear”now.
You know what I mean
“Can I play devil’s advocate real quick?”
No. Just no. Nothing ever good comes after this phrase.
“Who are you and why are you hiding in my closet?”
I’m just so tired of hearing it
I was today years old 🙄