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  • Posts: 9,795 Member
    Whilst
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    Cyst
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    Redundant acronyms...

    PIN number = Personal Identification Number number

    PDF format = Portable Document Format format

    SAT test = Scholastic Aptitude Test test
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    laprimaJenny wrote: »
    Redundant acronyms...

    PIN number = Personal Identification Number number

    PDF format = Portable Document Format format

    SAT test = Scholastic Aptitude Test test

    ATM machine
  • 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!
  • Posts: 4,278 Member
    JimDew wrote: »
    Yummy.

    Absolutely hate it.

    but

    but

    How about tasty?
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    JimDew wrote: »
    Yummy.

    Absolutely hate it.
    your_future_ex_wife wrote: »
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    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
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    Root Canal
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    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).
  • Posts: 1,663 Member
    When I hear adults greeting each other using the "N" word. It just sounds ignorant and juvenile.
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    Savage - don’t know what it means but it’s annoyingly said by everyone now.
  • 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"!

  • 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.
  • Posts: 19,588 MFP Moderator
    edited June 2019
    *
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    Fustrated :s
    Nope, it’s frustrated
  • Posts: 4,393 Member
    Anything plural using apostrophe S
  • Posts: 4,278 Member
    Weary used in place of wary or leery.
  • Posts: 55 Member
    Orifice is a positively disgusting word!
  • Posts: 516 Member
    Taters, Maters, Fixins......ok I'm from the South but these word murders kill me!
  • 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.
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    Insufficient funds
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    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    show previous quotes

    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".
  • Posts: 548 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.
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    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
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    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
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    Literally used improperly
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    Can we go now ?
  • Posts: 18,438 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.
  • 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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