To be honest, at the end of the day...

[Razor]

Argh! I've been working with a dude that sez the above 2 phrases constantly, all day long, now I've started saying To Be Honest with almost every statement, just like he does, it's like some illness I've contracted... It's not even management speak, he's a pipe fitter FFS!!

Somebody shoot me and put me out of my phrase loop misery!!

[CarlosSV650S]

LOL, i know someone exactly like that !

[fenjer]

oooh... you could always invent some new phrases for him...

or just start the annoying weegie habit of putting "but" at the end oh every sentence, but.

[Baph]

To be honest, I think you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

At the end of the day, you shouldn't get so wound up by stuff like this.

HTH. :D

[Rich]

These are also two of my pet hates, at the end of the day you go to bed, and to be honest these phrases pi$$ me off :-)

At the end of the day why the hell people feel the need to chuck these phrases into sentances is a mystery to me, and to be honest it's totally unessecery :-D

[Milky Bar Kid]

Fenjer, no totally sure that many folk will "pure" get this unless they are from Scotland, but. Know whit a mean? But.

[Kalessin]

To be honest, at the end of the day I try to avoid clichés like the plague. :D

[mattSV]

To be fair, it's like well annoying, yeah?

[fenjer]

Fenjer, no totally sure that many folk will "pure" get this unless they are from Scotland, but. Know whit a mean? But.

Och, I think aww folk ken aboot the weegie but, but. ;)

[Kalessin]

To be fair, it's like well annoying, yeah?

Innit.

[Razor]

oooh... you could always invent some new phrases for him...

or just start the annoying weegie habit of putting "but" at the end oh every sentence, but.

Fenjer, no totally sure that many folk will "pure" get this unless they are from Scotland, but. Know whit a mean? But.

Och, I think aww folk ken aboot the weegie but, but. ;)

A strange dialect indeed! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7LFk7DuBA)

[Milky Bar Kid]

Are ye dancin'? Are ye askin'? Am askin'. Well am dancin'!

"Is yer sister in?" "Naw, she's at Arbroath." "Al jist wait til she's finished then...."

[Razor]

Look hen, ah dinnae cum oan threads aw yurs an start spraffin' in a weird lingo, so dinnae dae it oan mines! ;)

[Milky Bar Kid]

Class!

[Sid Squid]

To be honest.
Follow this as quickly as you can with: 'What! Were you lying before?'

At the end of the day.
This always gets the response: 'It gets dark?' in a questioning manner.

I find this strategy has at least reduced the frequency of these annoying sayings.

[fenjer]

A strange dialect indeed! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7LFk7DuBA)


Ach, ye cannae beat a bit o Ricky, but.

:D

[davepreston]

Ach, ye cannae beat a bit o Ricky, but.

:D
enough ov the jockaneese lol

do what i do throw more at them like
could you touch base with
im not being funny but
as they say in kentucky un f***ing lucky
and my personal fav
you know what i mean

[northwind]

I keep saying to be honest... Can't stop now :(

[Alpinestarhero]

well, Basically, Its All About...

....being as annoying as possible wthout realising it. I was at a chemistry conferance the other day, and the guy making the closing remarks kept saying "eeerm" alot, and each time exactly the same tone and duration.

ARGH!!

[Biker Biggles]

We need to corrall our thoughts on this so we have a positive attitude going forward.

[Spikenipple]

This one is brilliant :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48HUdzoKiPA

[Ed]

'Basically' and 'hopefully' - arrrrgggghhhh

My pet hate legalism - I see it all the time - is when a document refers to (for example) 'a [Conveyance] of even date herewith' or even worse 'of date first hereinbefore written'. YUK YUK YUK. Why don't people simply say 'dated today's date'? Sorry that was a slight derail...

[fenjer]

This one is brilliant :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48HUdzoKiPA


LOL chavness at it's best! :smt043

[Stu]

Follow this as quickly as you can with: 'What! Were you lying before?'


This always gets the response: 'It gets dark?' in a questioning manner.

I find this strategy has at least reduced the frequency of these annoying sayings.

What's the answer to "You know what I mean?" :-dd

[Paul the 6th]

Well, you know what they say. Salads for rabbits

[Balky001]

thinking outside the box, learning curve and lost in translation. I hear this almost every day

[Jabba]

or just start the annoying weegie habit of putting "but" at the end oh every sentence, but.

Also same in S Wales Valleys...

[Ceri JC]

I keep saying to be honest... Can't stop now :(

I occassionally say TBH too, but the majority of the time manage to keep it to situations where it makes sense: Ones where I would in some way be disadvantaged/look a bit daft, but in the interests of honesty come clean.

For example, "To be honest, the fit and finish of this Airblade DB screen I'm selling isn't that good. This is reflected in the price, but I thought it only fair to make people aware of it."
Or,
"To be perfectly honest a lot of that went over my head, but am I right in thinking that..."

[Ceri JC]

Also same in S Wales Valleys...

...but us Taffs use two t's and 'butt' is a different word, analgous to "mate". If I understand my dealings with Weedgies, the way they use 'but' seems to mean, "know what I mean?"

I've noticed some even only seem to use it in instances of disagreement; often sentences that are not quite outright arguments. In this way it's almost as if they are suffixing, rather than prefixing the sentence with the objection, 'but'.

Me: So you don't back know why my car has broken down?
Weedgie: It's running fine now though, but.

[sinbad]

Now...pause.... people starting every sentence or speech with "now" annoys the hell out of me. It's just a word to say instead of making the "errrrrrrrr" sound which is blatantly all they can hear in their own head and they need time to construct a sentence.

Funny how these things are so contagious though. Seems many people round here almost invariably replace "those" with "them".........."pass me one of them forks", "remember them 205gtis?". I stab myself in the eye with a biro if I ever do it, which helps me to associate it with pain.