Words that make you cringe

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  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Whilst
  • laprimaJenny
    laprimaJenny Posts: 1,495 Member
    Cyst
  • laprimaJenny
    laprimaJenny Posts: 1,495 Member
    Redundant acronyms...

    PIN number = Personal Identification Number number

    PDF format = Portable Document Format format

    SAT test = Scholastic Aptitude Test test
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  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    laprimaJenny wrote: »
    Redundant acronyms...

    PIN number = Personal Identification Number number

    PDF format = Portable Document Format format

    SAT test = Scholastic Aptitude Test test

    ATM machine
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    edited June 2019
    News reports about: Another person died from a selfie...... then goes on to say the moronic thing they did to get that perfect Selfie.
    Leaned into a Tiger cage,fell out the GrandCanyon ,when leaning over or climbing over safety rails,hanging off a moving train...etc etc.
    Impending Natural Selection my very elderly father nicknamed Selfies lol. He sent me a selfie yesterday with the title Naturally Selected. Showed him about to remove a wasp nest... he has allergies wouldn’t wait for help!
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    JimDew wrote: »
    Yummy.

    Absolutely hate it.

    but

    but

    How about tasty?
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    JimDew wrote: »
    Yummy.

    Absolutely hate it.
    your_future_ex_wife wrote: »
    JimDew wrote: »
    Yummy.

    Absolutely hate it.

    but

    but

    How about tasty?

    How 'bout when people call people/animals "delicious" "I could eat you/them up"...meaning they are cute/sweet/adorable...not actually edible
    ...kinda creepy/skin crawly to me
  • _Paparazzi_
    _Paparazzi_ Posts: 463 Member
    Root Canal
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    thanos5 wrote: »
    another one that kills me is often on this site.

    i want to 'loose' weight.

    Yes I hate that. MFP actually gave me some sort of penalty points for correcting a user on it when I first started. So I ignore it now, as I don't want to lose my account over other people's spelling and grammar. (Not sure there's still a penalty system anymore).
  • laprimaJenny
    laprimaJenny Posts: 1,495 Member
    When I hear adults greeting each other using the "N" word. It just sounds ignorant and juvenile.
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
    Savage - don’t know what it means but it’s annoyingly said by everyone now.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Chillax

    Lots of things that were cool(ish) 10-15 years ago that middle-aged white people have adopted more recently...like saying "I got you" and tacking on "AF" after everything. I'm a middle-aged white person too but I just can't handle this on memes and comments. The worst is when companies start using it to be "hip"!

  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Diatonic12 wrote: »
    Cheat meals
    Snowflake
    Crotchshot
    Tuck into (foods)

    Agree re: cheat meals/cheat days. Mainly because in my everyday life, the people who say it use it to mean one of two things

    1. eating everything in sight including a full-on sushi feast, fast food, most of a birthday cake and 2 bottles of wine, then griping about their weight loss progress
    2. "being so bad" and eating a 150 calorie Cadbury easter egg that's not on their diet plan.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    edited June 2019
    *
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    Fustrated :s
    Nope, it’s frustrated
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,371 Member
    Anything plural using apostrophe S
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    Weary used in place of wary or leery.
  • belladamjc
    belladamjc Posts: 55 Member
    Orifice is a positively disgusting word!
  • Steff46
    Steff46 Posts: 516 Member
    Taters, Maters, Fixins......ok I'm from the South but these word murders kill me!
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    your_future_ex_wife wrote: »
    Weary used in place of wary or leery.

    YES.

    I also hate the misspellings in "sneak peak", "take the reigns" and "straight jacket" and see all of these frequently, especially on Instagram and blogs.
  • laprimaJenny
    laprimaJenny Posts: 1,495 Member
    Insufficient funds
  • Susieq_1994
    Susieq_1994 Posts: 5,361 Member
    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    your_future_ex_wife wrote: »
    Weary used in place of wary or leery.

    YES.

    I also hate the misspellings in "sneak peak", "take the reigns" and "straight jacket" and see all of these frequently, especially on Instagram and blogs.

    I can definitely relate to hating these, they make me want to grind my teeth down to powder. Another one that makes me want to stab someone is writing "peaked" instead of "piqued".
  • texasredreb
    texasredreb Posts: 541 Member
    Sammich for sandwich.
    Waterburger for regional fast food chain Whataburger.
    Spade or spaded for spayed (ovariohysterectomy in female pets). The other is a garden implement.
    Misuse of their, there, and they're.
    Misuse of affect and effect.
    Seen instead of saw.
    Misuse of further and farther
    Disastrous only has three syllables; not four.
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    texasredreb wrote: »
    Sammich for sandwich.
    Waterburger for regional fast food chain Whataburger.
    Spade or spaded for spayed (ovariohysterectomy in female pets). The other is a garden implement.
    Misuse of their, there, and they're.
    Misuse of affect and effect.
    Seen instead of saw.
    Misuse of further and farther
    Disastrous only has three syllables; not four.

    you’re particular
  • Jen_philp
    Jen_philp Posts: 3 Member
    When people complain that "he/she is so bias" instead of biased, and when "verse" is used instead of "versus". They're competing against each other, not spouting bloody poetry!! Lol
  • Muddyboots85
    Muddyboots85 Posts: 164 Member
    Literally used improperly
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    Can we go now ?
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,759 Member
    "Hater" who came up with that, Kim Kardashian?
    "Butthurt" too many folks I know who use that expression happen to be bullies who said something nasty and then "Oh now you're all butthurt" and what does my butt have to do with getting hurt?
    "You don't want to" uh yes I do, YOU don't want me to. More traditional friends were very bossy when my husband and I were planning our wedding, and I kept hearing that expression from them.
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    Soulmate

    Karma (i prefer to dole out my own payback or just not care rather than waiting for some supposed cosmic justice.)


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