I Don't Like It When People Say ... sayings people trot out that make you angry ...

I've intentionally added you all and y'all to my speech and writing. Since the plural you seems to be going the way of the horse and buggy we might as well choose the best alternative.
 

Nathan said:
Or "hi guys", as if we were in the same social group as the waiter. Just seems a little out-of-place, as the wait staff is usually in the same age group as our grand-children. However, when supermarket staff offers to help me take my groceries to my car, I feel like telling them: "you should know that I can out-run and out-box you..." :p
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You know, people get so irritated with customer service people when they offer to help. You do realize we're told to be helpful don't you? People complain if you don't help and they complain if you do. I'm surprised more customer service workers don't just tell people piss off.
 
MarkinPhx said:
Lately people who I hardly know or don't even know at all seem to be using the phrase "Know what I think ?". I want to say to them no I don't know and I don't care.
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Which reminds me- doesn't make me angry, just a little frazzled: "Do you know what I'm saying?" and "Do you know what I'm talking about?" because they imply the person they're talking to is a total dope.
 
“Hey, Boomer“ It’s just another way of implying that you’re old and senile. Downright rude.

(Maybe this has been mentioned. I didn’t read all 9 pages.)
 
Marci, a lot of customer service people have accents so heavy who either come from other nations or actually live there, that sometimes it is impossible to deal with them. This is what I find so frustrating.
 
MarciKS said:
You know, people get so irritated with customer service people when they offer to help. You do realize we're told to be helpful don't you? People complain if you don't help and they complain if you do. I'm surprised more customer service workers don't just tell people piss off.
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As I mentioned- my attempt at humor appears to have suffered misinterpretation when presented in print form.
 
Lewkat said:
Yeah, it is Holly. Been here for years.
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Well it was actually first used as a plural ''guys'' meaning people, in the 1800's London.... didn't want to have to labour this point, but here's the proof ...

Meanwhile, while no candidate was attractive enough to step into the shoes of “thou,” a word was born that would twist and turn on its way to success. It came from the terrifying near-success and utter defeat of the Gunpowder Plot, a scheme to explode 36 barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords in London on Nov. 5, 1605, when Lords and Commons and bishops and other nobility and royalty gathered in that one room for the annual opening of Parliament. The arch-villain who nearly succeeded in blowing to bits hundreds of leading officials of King James’ Protestant government so that Catholics could take their place was an English Catholic gentleman and soldier named Guy Fawkes. He was in the basement under the House of Lords, ready to light the fuses, when a search party caught him just in time.


Soon his name was on everyone’s lips, as he was interrogated, tortured, tried, convicted and executed before the end of January 1606. But that wasn’t enough for the relieved legislators, who realized that they would likely have been killed if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded.


That led to the pivotal moment in the history of “guy”: Parliament approved a “Fifth of November Act,” that is, “An act for publick thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth day of November.” The new holiday would feature special religious services during the day and bonfires at night, lighting fires to mock the man who hadn’t succeeded.


In the fires they burned effigies of the Pope, Guy Fawkes and other archenemies of the moment. They referred to the effigies of Fawkes as “guys.” And then some people began to use “guys” to refer to actual people: men of the lowest and most depraved kind. This was early in the 18th century, more than 200 years ago.


Scarcely anybody noticed, but speakers and writers then began to view “guys” (not Guy) more positively. “Guys” began to shift meaning, to become a term for working-class men, then every human male, from baby boys to ancient men. Speakers and writers found it useful to have a generic term that didn’t require differentiating among categories of males.
The whole story here....


https://time.com/5688255/you-guys/

Personally I couldn't really care who started it, but you know a point is a point :LOL:
 
Thanks @hollydolly we used to celebrate Guy Fawkes in Australia on 5th November but it ceased in the 1970s for safety reasons
My sister and I used to enjoy Cracker Night when we were kids
butI do remember one day we got to School early and there was a small dog lying in the schoolyard
barely alive covered in blood and the Teacher on Duty had called the Police
Some people can be so very cruel but you know I still remember that and it was 60 years ago :cry:
 
peramangkelder said:
Thanks @hollydolly we used to celebrate Guy Fawkes in Australia on 5th November but it ceased in the 1970s for safety reasons
My sister and I used to enjoy Cracker Night when we were kids
butI do remember one day we got to School early and there was a small dog lying in the schoolyard
barely alive covered in blood and the Teacher on Duty had called the Police
Some people can be so very cruel but you know I still remember that and it was 60 years ago :cry:
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We still celebrate it here very much Pera...fireworks go on from about a week before and for a couple of weeks after the 5th of November...and of course on Guy Fawkes night there's bonfires throughout the land , I wish they would ban it, it's sooo loud these days and it scares the heck out of the animals
 
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Lewkat said:
Marci, a lot of customer service people have accents so heavy who either come from other nations or actually live there, that sometimes it is impossible to deal with them. This is what I find so frustrating.
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Totally with ya on that one.
 

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