I'd like to add people who spell 'Rediculous' to this thread as people who should be shot.

Yes! That one bugs me too.

Another is when people say "hence why". "Hence" essentially means "that is why" all by itself, folks. When you add the "why" in there, you are then saying "that is why why". It sounds fucking ridiculous.

That one doesn't bother me. "I could care..." makes you think well what is the threshold that a person suddenly becomes caring, then it crosses the line back into the don't care zone by ending it with "... less about the bastard." The sentence begins with hope but ends terse grumpiness.

In a way I disagree. A person saying they don't care is expressing apathy not that they are not fully disliking or hating. To quote Elie Wiesel:

Phrases that bother me are the ones that are illogical statements, or mixed metaphors the ones that make me waste timing trying to figure out what the heck the person is trying tp say.
"Noone" It's actually "no one." Writing it without the space makes it look look like Olde English for "noon."
Agree to disagree. It can't be both.
The same difference. An endless loop of contradiction.
Not my cup of meat. I hate that one, it's either "it's not my cup of tea" or "one man's meat is another man's poison." No one has meat in their cup....no one.
From the gecko. It's "from the get-go." I'm sure a tiny lizard isn't starting trouble eg "I didn't like him from the gecko."


Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:

• We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
• You could have knocked me over with a fender.
• He was watching me like I was a hawk.
• I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
• He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
• They’re diabolically opposed.
• He received a decease and desist order.
• I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
• Take a flying hike.
• I shot the wind out of his saddle.
• He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
• A loose tongue spoils the broth.
• It’s all moth-eared.
• I can read him like the back of my book.
• From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
• It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
• He’s like a duck out of water.
• These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
• It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
• I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
• I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
• It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
• He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
• You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
• It sticks out like a sore throat.
• It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
• People are dying like hotcakes.
• He’s a little green behind the ears.
• You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
• We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
• The fan is gonna hit the roof.
• I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
• I'm sweating like a bullet.
• She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't gather moss.
• Don't get all of your eggs out of two bushes.
• It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
• Right there on the tip of my brain.
• A leopard can't change his stripes.
• A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

Holy sh*t, yes.

I even hate the people who say it that way, which is probably the reason they spell it that way. I hear it constantly here in the south of the U.S. The proper American English pronunciation of it has an "ih" sound and not an "ee" sound. (You would think they would make the connection to "ridicule", but no.) Both "i" letters should be pronounced the same (according to how we've come together and decided on how we should uniformly butcher the Queen's English as a general standard), so when I hear people saying "ree-dic-you-lus", I automatically know that they spell it wrong.

Well go ahead and bitch about it in the bitch thread!





I knew someone would do that. Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)






Also, to all Americans



It is called Aluminium, not Aluminum!


And COLOUR! Not Color.



Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)









I could not care any less about the person, anothers i care so little about that person, that the not caring about that person has reached its not caring human limit.



Other mixed metaphors you care very little about, not could. Could is not definitive.

Actually, to be really pedantic (something in which I shine) it's no-one. You have to put in the hyphen. It's not one word, unless you're speaking of a choice as in, "no one contestant was better than the other". However I do agree that noone is nothing more than a surname, as far as I know.

Meh, could be this guy!
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...jrMMoNNdktq50Q

Oh admit it: you made all of those up, didn't you? People could NOT be so stupid. Unless you can show me at least one example where even one of those was used in a real context, I'm going to have to assume you're being super-ironic (don't you also hate it when people prefix the word "super" to things? Like, it really super-annoys me...!) :D

People saying FYI.

For your information is bad enough. But FYI? Makes my blood boil that one. (Apologies if that is a metaphor on anyone's list)

Well at least that metaphor makes sense.

We Americans actually have a different standard for English than you guys, understandably. It's considered correct to spell it as Aluminum here. In fact, the guy who discovered Aluminum actually named it that at one point, before changing it to Aluminium. The dictionary we used at the time still had the Aluminum entry and just became more ingrained. Then eventually, in 1925 actually, the American Chemical Society officially named it Aluminum, seeing as how it was becoming more commonly used, so that's what we say, since it's all up in our textbooks and all.

So, in that case, it isn't simply Americans completely not seeing the letters of the word they're pronouncing. We spell it, and say it, as Aluminum.


As far as colour vs color, I don't know much about the history behind that, but I do know that our official word for it is color, not colour. (Whether that makes as much sense as having a different voltage standard and measuring scale and temperature scale as the rest of the world, I don't know.)

So for that, I'll just quote something I picked up off a grammar website just now:

Hope that all at least introduces the idea that Americans aren't simply going to English class and refusing to accept spelling things with extra U's in them.

Yeah, I like to "keep it real"