I Mean

[Soul Reaver]

If one more person on the tv starts a conversation with

"I mean"

I will scream very loudly.

Problem is once you have noticed it you then notice everyone is doing it Just like everything is basic now or basically.

[ImA20SomethingGetMeOutOfHere]

What gets on my nerves is, you know, when the BBC is, you know, inverviewing sportsmen during something like, you know, a rugby match and they just can't, you know, stop saying "you know" all the time. It's really irritating. You know.

[bomberbrown]

'Ja get me?'. That's my absolute worst one and seems prevalent in London.

Oh, that and 'arks' (instead of 'ask')

[JustYield]

'Ja get me?'. That's my absolute worst one and seems prevalent in London.

"You know what I mean?" after every sentence sounds funny coming from a skinny Singaporean surgeon. Sorry, not funny. Bloody annoying.

Oh, that and 'arks' (instead of 'ask')

I only heard this for the first time this year and discovered that it is in fact acceptable dialect pronunciation for "ask".

[Minos]

If one more person on the tv starts a conversation with

"I mean"

I will scream very loudly.

Problem is once you have noticed it you then notice everyone is doing it Just like everything is basic now or basically.

'Like' is my bugbear.

[swissy_fit]

and since when has "with you" been pronounced wi-chew?

[worzel]

I only heard this for the first time this year and discovered that it is in fact acceptable dialect pronunciation for "ask".

I don't really find it acceptable. Someone that works for me says it, she is lucky she didn't say it or me pick up on it in the interview or she wouldn't have got the job.

[Cat Herder]

Like! You know, like! Like, Like!

[Kingding]

"At the end of the day..."

Usually favoured by Jeremy Kyle participants and footballers.

[Minos]

Like! You know, like! Like, Like!

Can I arks you to refrain from that please.

[Bruce Banner]

If one more person on the tv starts a conversation with

"I mean"

I will scream very loudly.

Problem is once you have noticed it you then notice everyone is doing it Just like everything is basic now or basically.

Really annoying, isn't it. You could add 'obviously' to the list.

[right_freds_dead]

we have 'innit' up here. thats stupid.

[South Lorne]

....it's really, really good......this is really, really annoying ....really....

[Global Solutions]

Personal hate :-

He plays his football for ...

No! It's just he plays football for ...

My Mother gets very annoyed with people on the TV saying something is very unique or really unique. It's unique or it isn't.

[JustYield]

This thread is like a David Mitchell monologue.

[Tenubracon]

This thread is like a David Mitchell monologue.

No, it's really, really like a David Mitchell monolgue, know what I mean?

[huw]

Problem is once you have noticed it you then notice everyone is doing it...

...on a daily basis?

[JustYield]

No, it's really, really like a David Mitchell monolgue, know what I mean?

Totally.

[South Lorne]

Totally.

...absolutely....

[Austin Allegro]

Like! You know, like! Like, Like!

The absolute worst. Every time I'm on a bus or train some 19 year old trendie with nascent anorexia is talking on her phone in that manner - with 'like' every second word and using AUI (Australian Upward Inflection) at the end of every sentence. It drives me mad because it's usually educated middle class types, who should know better, who do this.

People who say 'Ya get me' 'arks' etc are usually sink-comp types who probably can't really help it.

A lot of young people seem to say 'shstchudent' now instead of 'student'.

[Austin Allegro]

This thread is like a David Mitchell monologue.

He's a bit annoying as well. The original labour-lefty-luvvie. :angry:

[monty1080]

I have another two sports related ones, "we had a great game of cricket today" when spoken by a professional cricket player who has just finished playing, why not just say "we had a great game blah blah...." ???? Everyone knows it was a cricket match... don't know why but this annoys me.... Same goes for "he had a good round of Golf" when spoken on the BBC during a Golf tournament.... really ?? I thought they were playing extreme croquet.......

[R K]

So and so is 36 years of age

no, they're 36

or they're 36 years old

Almost as bad as AKS innit

and

going forward

well unless you've got a time machine Mr Management Consultant wannabe (eeugh) everything is going f*cking forward.

[Mrs Bear]

What gets on my nerves is, you know, when the BBC is, you know, inverviewing sportsmen during something like, you know, a rugby match and they just can't, you know, stop saying "you know" all the time. It's really irritating. You know.

Sorry, but that's not, like, as irritating as when people like, say, like, every other word? And then, like, go up at the end of every sentence? Even when it's not, like, a question?

Sometimes I get the urge to, like, smack them over the head?

[Soul Reaver]

Really annoying, isn't it. You could add 'obviously' to the list.

What is weird Is I just clicked one day and went WTF is it with "I mean" all the time. It was like a light had switched on in my head and all of sudden I noticed something that had been there all the time!