More really annoying things that people say

I: "Thank you."

Other: "No worries."

Makes me want to tear their head off. Well, not actually, but it is infuriating.

G

There is a creeping tendency in healthcare to call people 'clients' or even 'service users' rather than patients.

This drives me nuts! I honestly do not see the idea of being a patient as in any way insulting/patronising/offensive. Grrrrr.

'Cool'

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Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:
There is a creeping tendency in healthcare to call people 'clients' or even 'service users' rather than patients.

This drives me nuts! I honestly do not see the idea of being a patient as in any way insulting/patronising/offensive. Grrrrr.

Rail companies did something similar making passengers "customers". No, No, No we are customers when we buy a ticket and passengers whilst on the bloody train.

Rant over.

Jono

Further to Bruce's post,
my brother-in-law is a fireman, & he now has to refer to the people he is called out to as "customers", not victims of fire or car crashes.
A person involved in a car crash, or house fire doesn't stand around shopping for the best deal, they just want the fire put out, or to be cut out of their wrecked car asap, therefore to me they are victims of an accident, not customers. Madness.
Likewise, in my profession, people on an aeroplane must now be referred to as "clients", not passengers.

In general, I intensly dislike all these phrases such as "blue-sky-thinking, floor-plate briefings",etc.
The one that makes my flesh really crawl is when people say "lets touch base soon". NO, I tell you what, I'll phone you soon instead.
matt.(currently auditioning for grumpy-old-man 2007).

When I get Blue-Sky Thinkers, Verbalizers, or people Thinking Outside The Box, they get 15% on my final bill. I call it my Asshole Tax.

Rasher - could you explain/define the people outlined your last post please?

..and if last week, green (for instance) was the "new black", shouldn't next week beige (for instance) be the "new green" instead?

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Originally posted by Fisbey:
Rasher - could you explain/define the people outlined your last post please?

Yes. They might better understand themselves by the term "Contained Excrementalizers".
I don't mean it though; most of the time they are really very nice people - just have annoying habits.
They still get taxed though.

"I'll borrow it to you if you like"

"I brought it for only a fiver"

"Can you draft something up and I'll take a look" (Meaning: "Tell you what, I'd like you to spend several hours, using all those years of your hard earned experience and practice and spend a bit of your money on research, technology and so forth to prepare a holistic report towards meeting my needs and objectives and then once I've read it and agreed it's absolutely spot on, I'll bugger off and do it somewhere else on an execution only basis because it's cheaper.")

People who tell me not to be so pedantic. But then don't know what I mean when I try to defend being a pedant.

'At the end of the day......'

It gets dark!!!!

Funny that "draft" (to draw up) is spelt differently to "draughtsman" - ught rather than ft.
Bloody funny this English malarky.

"I was devastated" when the speaker means "distraught".

"What you have to understand is..."

Heard in Disneyland:

"The train will be stopping momentarily."

"Actually" and "literally" being used at all. These words rarely add anything to the conversation or sentence. James Martin and some of the other celebrity thiefs, sorry chefs, manage to use them at least once per sentence....


Tony

You bloody bunch of pedants!

Yeah, alright, people who say 'could of' 'would of', 'should of' instead of 'could have (could've)' etc.

Mark

"I'm not a racist."

(You're not a racist what, exactly?)

"It's a quote from Shakespeare."

Well, unless he's your plumber, it's a quotation from Shakespeare.

People who start sentences with, "it was a case of..."

I'm always tempted to jump in and say, "scotch!"

People who end phone conversations with the "Bye, bye, bye, bye..." fadeout.

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
You bloody bunch of pedants!

That should read:-

"You bunch of bloody pedants!"

Cheers (/pedant mode off)

The Grinning Tosser when he goes banging on about nursuz and doctuz. Irritating isn' u'?

You mean shiny new (largely unstaffed by nursuz and doctuz) health centres springing up everywhere?

quote:

You mean shiny new (largely unstaffed by nursuz and doctuz) health centres springing up everywhere?

You want staff as well? Jeez, what do you folk expect!

The Health Centre was a PFI project which will make some company a fat profit over the next 25 years at the expense of the NHS (ie you). Staff budgets are a whole differemt ball of wax, no potential for profit there.

Bruce (having a very anti-Blair health policy day-don't get me started on The Choice Agenda whatever you do....)

Politicians who insist "The REALLY important thing is...." when they don't want to answer a difficult question.


I think we need to "unpack" that. And inverted commas-denoting irony, or something, whatever..

Conference last week their were so many F...ing Burning Issues I thought Guy Falkes was gonna do a Powerpoint presentation.