What annoys you?

Like. When someone starts using ‘like’ when talking. By the third ‘like’, I’m counting and cringing.
I find myself turning off the radio frequently when listening to people being interviewed, because of all the "ugh", and "you know".

Is it really necessary to use "ugh" every sentence, sometimes two or more times with every sentence spoken?

I signed up as a, ugh, member of the forum, ugh, last year, and today is my, ugh, one year anniversary.
 

The misuse of these words "goes" and "like", along with "they for the singular, make me cringe too.

Edit: Another irritating nuance of speech these days is having nearly every sentence go up in pitch as if the speaker is asking a question instead of stating a fact.

Tony
 

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Setting digital clocks! Tried to set one in our trailer without digging out the manual. Must have taken me 30 minutes including finally having to locate the manual when I couldn't get it to work.
 
I find myself turning off the radio frequently when listening to people being interviewed, because of all the "ugh", and "you know".

Is it really necessary to use "ugh" every sentence, sometimes two or more times with every sentence spoken?

I signed up as a, ugh, member of the forum, ugh, last year, and today is my, ugh, one year anniversary.
So I'm like, here is a gift for you, Aunt Marg, you know?...


Tony
 
"Hell is other people."

From No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre.

I'm kidding, mostly. I like people and not much annoys me. Excessive "wokeness" gets on my nerves at times.
 
People that are constantly on their cell phones. I hate to think what would happen if all cell phone serve was suddenly interrupted. I am willing to bet 99% of those call are totally unnecessary. Even back in the day of rotary phones, I was taught over and over that phone calls were for emergencies only.
 
Walking up to a store with double doors and one of those doors is locked. First, it's against fire codes to have one door locked in case people are in a hurry to flee the burning building and getting crushed up against that locked door. But, for some reason, no matter which door is locked that, of course, will be the door I try to open first. :mad:
 
Walking up to a store with double doors and one of those doors is locked. First, it's against fire codes to have one door locked in case people are in a hurry to flee the burning building and getting crushed up against that locked door. But, for some reason, no matter which door is locked that, of course, will be the door I try to open first. :mad:
Next time, try the other one first. ;)
 
Walking up to a store with double doors and one of those doors is locked. First, it's against fire codes to have one door locked in case people are in a hurry to flee the burning building and getting crushed up against that locked door. But, for some reason, no matter which door is locked that, of course, will be the door I try to open first. :mad:
Always....
 
"Hell is other people."

From No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre.

I'm kidding, mostly. I like people and not much annoys me. Excessive "wokeness" gets on my nerves at times.
Wasn't Sartre talking about how being around other people made him self-conscious, and thus he was in "hell" when he was around other people. I may be wrong. It's been a while since I studied any philosophy.
 
fortunately we have the BBC to watch which has no adverts at all...
You good people with BBC have no idea how good you have it. Here in Canada it is just terrible. Our CBC used to be good, 20 years ago, but now, due to government cut backs in funding, it has gone commercial. The announcers giggle like like school kids, they interrupt the other person in the middle of their sentence they often laugh and laugh; trying to be sexy, I suppose. The radio news is just as bad for another reason. The news person talks for 3 seconds, then there is some sort of shouting going on (from Arab countries, mostly), then the news person talks for another 3 or 4 seconds and the shouting comes back. This is repeated over and over. The interviews, via those cell phone are so bad that I can't understand what the person is talking. Thank God for the internet where I can scan headlines, by pass all the headlines dealing with another year of Covid-19 and read what I am interested in; which is almost anything other than Covid-19 and all those hundreds of variants that are going to kill us all. LOL, only kidding about those variants.
 
People that are constantly on their cell phones. I hate to think what would happen if all cell phone serve was suddenly interrupted. I am willing to bet 99% of those call are totally unnecessary. Even back in the day of rotary phones, I was taught over and over that phone calls were for emergencies only.
May I recommend the novel "Cell" by Stephen King? Excellent. There's a movie version which is terrible . . .
 
I am so tired of wearing a mask but I don't hardly go anywhere so it's just a few minutes I have to wear one when I go into a business of some kind. When I walk the dog I pull my mask down. We have to wear one in our apt. building, too, so as soon as I get out of the lobby I pull it down.
I'm with you regarding hating those stupid looking diapers. The reason being is that I wear glasses that steam up all the time. When I remove them, I can hardly see anything. I also wear hearing aids so when I remove those diapers, the hearing aids fall out too. Ever pay for hearing aids? They are tiny and they are expensive. Plus I get dizzy spells when I wear those diapers too long. Man, 2 years of this is about to drive me nuts!
 
You good people with BBC have no idea how good you have it. Here in Canada it is just terrible. Our CBC used to be good, 20 years ago, but now, due to government cut backs in funding, it has gone commercial. The announcers giggle like like school kids, they interrupt the other person in the middle of their sentence they often laugh and laugh; trying to be sexy, I suppose. The radio news is just as bad for another reason. The news person talks for 3 seconds, then there is some sort of shouting going on (from Arab countries, mostly), then the news person talks for another 3 or 4 seconds and the shouting comes back. This is repeated over and over. The interviews, via those cell phone are so bad that I can't understand what the person is talking. Thank God for the internet where I can scan headlines, by pass all the headlines dealing with another year of Covid-19 and read what I am interested in; which is almost anything other than Covid-19 and all those hundreds of variants that are going to kill us all. LOL, only kidding about those variants.
Well of course we do have Commercail tv, with adverts galore as well , which we just zoom thorugh when we've recorded a programme... the BBC is only 2 channels out of 5 terrestrial channels without adverts, and 900 Satellite channels..fortunately and please God it never happens..we do not have adverts such as you describe.. that would make TV not worth watching at all :eek:
 
Maybe you need a lock on the door. I have been married for a total of 44 years and never had the problem. This is because in our home, a closed bathroom door always meant that someone was inside. If any doubt, then someone would knock.
same here..my husband has never once walked in on me.. a closed door means it's occupied , and if we have company the door gets locked
 
I find myself turning off the radio frequently when listening to people being interviewed, because of all the "ugh", and "you know".

Is it really necessary to use "ugh" every sentence, sometimes two or more times with every sentence spoken?

I signed up as a, ugh, member of the forum, ugh, last year, and today is my, ugh, one year anniversary.
I hear you loud and clear. It sounds like they are in the bathroom and are somewhat constipated.
 
Cable TV stations that air re-runs of the same show all day.
We don't have cable or satellite, but when we stayed at a hotel near the Mayo Clinic, they had one or the other and we could not find ANYTHING worth watching in all those channels. So fortunately, I brought a guitar along and my wife had her Kindle.

I can understand what folks in these forums complain about with the commercials now that I have had a brief introduction to these. What I don't understand is why people continue to watch that stuff. There must be other things to do with our time. There certainly was before TV came along and I am sure those activities still exist today.

Tony
 


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