What conversational gambits/tics REALLY irritate you?

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  1. RRxing

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    Slightly OT, but when someone calls and is required to speak to a specific individual (e.g. the name on the credit card), my wife and I love to respond by saying "Speaking" when she picks up and they ask for me, or I pick up and they ask for her. Talk about an uneasy pause on the other end of the line...
     
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  2. Mendel Leisk

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    In the tic category: people peppering their talk with "no-yeah". Somehow saying:

    No, that's not me, I'm not that, but yeah, I agree, you're so right.
     
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  3. rufaro

    rufaro WeePoo, Gen II

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    NOT at ALL OT: Variant of the Do you mind if I ask.../Yes exchanges!
    Umm...no...yeah...not so much...(As the verbatim reply to whatever.)
     
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  4. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Using "literally" when you mean "figuratively".

    Tom
     
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  5. rufaro

    rufaro WeePoo, Gen II

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    ...And people who take jokes literally...?:cool:
     
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  6. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    I'm no prude, but adding an f bomb every third or fourth word irritates me. The word's lost its effectiveness when people do that.
     
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  7. Chuck.

    Chuck. Former Honda Enzyte Driver

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    "How are you doing?" or some other question that implies they have time, then cut it off about ten seconds later....IF YOU DON'T HAVE TIME - DON'T ASK!
     
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    When someone emphatically says "trust me" I feel like running.
     
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    When someone asks you for a signature when they really only want your signature.
     
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    :pound: Your killing me, quit it! :pound:
     
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    F#*K, I must be doing something F'ing wrong if'n I can't F'ing annoy you or that F'ing Hyo! :p

    You know what annoys me? People that use "Freaking" or "Freeking" or that damnable SyFy Battlestar Galactica "Fracking" instead of F#*K. What's the big deal with that it's been used so often it's lost it's offensive characteristics. :noidea:
     
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  12. Shin Chan

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    No what I am saying. That is crammed into "nowhatimsayin" that bugs me to no end.
     
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    When one of your fellow employees comes in every morning and says exactly the same thing for the last 3 years running! I mean EVERYTHING as parroted out yesterday, the day before that etc... .
    Sorta like "Groundhog Day", just not as fun! :eek:
     
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  14. tonyrenier

    tonyrenier I grew up, but it's still red!

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    Don't know if it's been mentioned but "these ones" drives me up the wall, I've heard it used on TV, not just the 15 year old next door.
     
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  15. rufaro

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    They get cured of that one pretty quickly when you answer, "How much time do you have? ":D
     
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    What irritates me? People who say,
    1. "..with that being said,..."
    2. "yeah-no" as if it is one word.
    3. waiters/waitresses in better restaurants that call you and your wife "guys".
    4. mothers that call their children "mommy"
     
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    What irritates me? People who say,
    1. "..with that being said,..."
    2. "yeah-no" as if it is one word.
    3. waiters/waitresses in better restaurants that call you and your wife "guys".
    4. mothers that call their children "mommy"
     
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    Also, people that say things twice...oops how did that happen?
     
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    Ones that really get my goat are;

    "Have you been on long?"

    "What time do you finish?"

    "You're the taxi driver, you should know where it is" - usually when the instruction to me is "erm that big hotel near a bridge I think" and it turns out to be in a city 50 miles away.

    Hmmm think I'm having a grumpy day today.
     
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    "A whole 'nuther level."
     
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