Your answer to annoying sayings

Call centre assisstant: "Could I have your name please?"
Me: (give my name.) Then,
Call centre assistant: Excellent!
Me: (thinking assistant thought I am so barmy I wasn't going to know my own name!)!!

A acquaintance of mine in her late 70s , has an amusing reply when asked if she has a ' partner '. She has been married over 50 years. She says No I do not have a partner. I don't do dancing '. Usually met with non comprehension by younger people.

Presenters on tv and radio who pronounce th as f - Fursday, fink, fank etc. It's nothing to do with regional accents, which I like hearing. It's childish and lazy. If you're in the public eye, shouldn't you make some effort to sound like an adult.

Realise this isn't strictly "sayings" but everyone has come up with the ones that annoy me and I just felt I wanted to join in with a grump.

I think voicing what we dislike does not make us rude especially since it is the topic of this thread.
The thing is, Lumerai, that isn't exactly the topic of this thread is it? The topic is Your answer to annoying sayings. But, as is the way with threads, many posters have strayed and simply used the thread to post sayings that annoy them, not their answer to them

Here in Northern Ireland it’s ‘wee’ everything - drives me nuts. What’s your wee name, what’s your wee number, etc! Especially when said name and number are not at all ‘wee’ but very long. Mostly said by hairdressers and beauticians for some reason,

While I think the meanings of the words antisocial and unsocial have shifted, I still bridle if I decline to attend a social event and am accused of being antisocial.

For me, antisocial means law-breaking and/or indulging in activities which make life difficult and unpleasant for other people: graffiti, littering, neighbour noise etc.

I used to retort that I wasn't being antisocial at all but rather unsocial on that occasion as I just didn't feel like going to that particular event.

Nowadays, I only seem to hear the word unsocial in the context of working hours which is odd as people are asked to work unsocial hours because that's when other people want to be social. I have yet to hear anyone say they have been asked to work antisocial hours

I live very nearby our main hospital and the bus stop is directly outside the entrance, so whenever I'm waiting there's ALWAYS someone bound to come beetling up to catch the same bus and though I try to get away with a polite smile and "hello" they always throw their opening gambit at me - "I've just had to see a Consultant...." which obliges me, out of basic manners, to reply "Oh - is there something wrong?"

And I get their full medical history, detail for detail, medication for medication, agony for agony Ad Nauseam.

And the worst thing is that I sense they revel in their 'horror' stories. Drone, drone, drone. Still, maybe their nearest & dearest have got tired and given them a sharp "shut up!"

Margs I sympathise but having been recently diagnosed I sort of know where they are coming from.
I would just avoid eye contact if you don't want to have the conversation.

Oh Margs I do feel for you, it can be tedious I know. If it were me, I think I'd walk to the next stop to avoid this situation, if it's not too far.

Rosyposy I hate it. I want to say its not wee, its the standard size. grrr. And I feel shops use it more with older ladies ( or maybe that's my paranoia).

Most of these expressions annoy me too, but I'm just wondering what we used to say in the past instead of some of them. Usually people are only trying to be polite or sociable when they use them. Having said that, I hate "different to" - surely if it's different it's moving "from". And "bored of" I've even seen in books.

Oh yes, I agree with so many of these!
Another is the confusion between lay and lie, as in, “I was laying in bed”. I want to ask how many eggs they produced.
Over use of ‘robust’, ‘I turned around and said’ and ‘obviously ‘ irritate me.
Might just be me, but two female weather presenters say ‘as well’ repeatedly in their bulletins. I’ve counted it used five times in a couple of minutes. I know I’m being niggly, but after all they’re professional speakers.

Amount: instead of number. You can't have an amount if people - custard yes, but think countable nouns. Sorry, I used to teach English and realised something horrible about myself: I liked to feel superior to those who misused language. Now I'm 75 and suffering the shame of old age: depleted hair, memory, mobility I intend to curb my irritability.