I'm having a bad morning, this is cathartic. Stuff to ban.
Phrases:-
"He/she turned around and said......." - people rarely turn around before they speak, it's a ridiculous and irritating way to open a sentence.
"There's nothing worse than....." - usually followed by some inane, minor problem, such as cold tea or dropping keys, when in fact there are always many, many
things much worse. Where possible, I respond to this statement with " Cancer?"
Words:-
LIKE - My hatred of this word, now used a pause/punctuation universally by both teens and adults, is becoming almost irrational.
Pacific - when used incorrectly in place of specific. There are some utter morons out there.
Correspondence:-
Letters that open with the line "I/we are writing to say...." - I am aware you have been writing as I have your letter in front of me, you cretin.
Letters marked "important/addressee only" often in brown envelopes which transpire to be nothing more than junk mail but look to be official, rendering you with a mild panic that they could be an overdue bill, fine etc
Other stuff:
Stormzy and similar "artists". I am sorry, I am showing my age. I appreciate that this bloke comes across as a decent and entirely likable fellow (well, he seemed nice enough on Jonathan Ross) but he appears to me to have absolutely no discernible musical talent whatsoever, at least as far as I can make out, merely the ability to talk very quickly with a heavy accent. The song he did on the JR show was actually quite good but that was because he didn't really sing any of it, save a about 25 seconds worth in the middle, and that bit was 5hit.
Back to work now.
