Grr Grr grr

I hate the car signs saying it though . Stupid.

Come on mate, father to 6 year old. He is not your mate he is your child.

I was shopping not an hour ago and heard " come on baby girl " to a toddler. Didn't she have a name then ?

Yes harrigran!!! Spot on . My DSIL says it to my DGS who's 6. Can't bear it.

Sorry for ranting haha

Iya, yar right? Instead of "Hello, are you alright?". If my hairdresser says this Just. One. More. Time.......

Me "would you like a drink?" SiL, "Can I get a coffee?" Always makes me feel like I'm Starbucks!

Bluebelle I once cared for a labouring woman who's DH dared to say We decided we don't want pain relief, even though the poor woman was screaming out for it. Made my blood boil

Current irritations (although there are many..): People being interviewed on TV who begin their explanation of something with "So..." and the phrase widely used nowadays:
"D'you know what....."

Being told I am someone’s ‘lovely’, I smile through gritted teeth, the person doesn’t mean any harm, but as I get older it feels quite patronising.

MischEEEEvEEEEEous. Aaarrrgh!

My pet hate are those car stickers "Princess on Board"....it came out of the serious sticker "child on Board" which was to alert emergency services in case of an accident, as small babies/young children usually end up in the well of the car! Most of the time there is nobody in the car apart from the driver...how stupid can people be!

It's a fun thing to do!

We need a society to save the adjective, as well as one to save the adverb!

It's the first time I've posted (I tried once before but couldn't get it to work). I agree with all the above and especially with acanthus about So...grrr. Has anyone else noticed disappearing t's in the middle or end of a word? In reply to "can I get a coffee?" I'd be strongly tempted to say yes help yourself

Fur babies grrr.myself can’t stand

I don't like 'for free'. How can anything be for free, surely it's just 'free'?

THAT is one of my biggest gripes. That, and the inappropriate use of 'MYSELF'. I cringe but then, my friends call me the grammar police. Another gripe is hearing FORT FINK FREE and FURVER.
A couple of the guys on The Apprentice this year, spoke in that manner and I personally wouldn't employ anyone in a p2p role who couldn't talk decent English. Dropping the letter 'g' is another no-no.

My pet hate is the expression "my bad".

Having just done some work for an American company, my new pet linguistic hate is when they use the term 'reaching out to' for 'getting in contact with' e.g. 'Thank you for reaching out to us about your unpaid invoice'! Look out for it, it's relatively new and I guarantee it will set all your hackles rising

And what about "you're joking me"!!! How I hate that one :D

I#Iam what about newsreaders who say "see you tomorrow"? No they won't but we will see them!

The wife - my DH did it once and apparently I have a ‘look’ the would turn a lesser man to stone ?

GrannyParker are you in the West Country? I am from Yorkshire & call everybody "love". I now live in Devon & love being called "my lovey" less keen on "my lover" as I'm not

inishowen my DD has started to say "my bad" Grr, daren't say anything to her though, just let it wash over me

"Thinking outside the box", "Blue Sky Thinking" etc although I suspect many of these have been overtaken by other expressions since I took Early Retirement in 2006

Jalima I wonder if ‘My colleagues and myself’ stems from worry about whether to use I or me? At school we were told to take the other person out and say the sentence to check.

Most of these don't annoy me. DH forever moaning about them does.

I do cringe at the "go toilet", though. So.....I suppose we'll just have to, like, suck it up going forward, dudes.