What makes you cringe #2

[Lovestolurk]

Or "give it a wide birth." It's "berth", FFS.

We could do this all day. Best nip it in the butt now.

 

[Lulu Goss]

When people say “battered an eyelid” instead of “batted an eyelid”. My friend says it all the time and I can’t help thinking of actual battered eyelids and then making myself feel sick

 

[watermelon sugar]

Lads who do that thing to their car exhaust to make it sound like they've got a pure whip but really it's a banger from 1993

 

[Pinkblush]

My old boss used to say 'worse place scenario'

 

[no-no]

Wannabe influencers who pose in multi-storey car parks (usually in camel joggers) hahahaha, what’s that all about? And they have a little “seize the day” type quote in the caption. #IndustrialChic

 

[Lulu Goss]

Or when people say "spare of the moment" instead of "spur of the moment"

Or underlining health issues instead of underlying health issues!

 

[Lovestolurk]

Or when people say "spare of the moment" instead of "spur of the moment"

My mother in law is the worst for butchering any sayings. The weirdest one is you know when “shut the front door” became popular (wtf) she would say and still sometimes does “shut the box” which is a dice game but she obviously has it in her brain and gets it mixed up.

 

[sheleg]

Or when people say "spare of the moment" instead of "spur of the moment"

Or "give it a wide birth." It's "berth", FFS.

 

[HowlOwl]

Re the early posts about people who think they’re photographers and set up in business, I know someone who did this - just because they’ve bought an expensive camera doesn’t make them a good photographer! They clearly haven’t studied or learnt anything about light, composition etc. They were doing shoots with pregnant mums and partners cuddling their bumps, etc. Fair to say though that people did buy some of them. I follow another local wedding photographer and she’s brilliant. All credit to them actually, I couldn’t do it (I have it as a hobby, keen amateur).

 

[Imonlyme]

When people say “battered an eyelid” instead of “batted an eyelid”. My friend says it all the time and I can’t help thinking of actual battered eyelids and then making myself feel sick

Or when people say "spare of the moment" instead of "spur of the moment"

 

[watermelon sugar]

Laura Whitmore and her dances she does on IG

When you're out somewhere with someone and a song they like come on and they start singing it dead passionately and seriously. And you're just sat there like

 

[1001 others]

"Airmails" instead of emails ... I've even heard Gen Zers refer to them as this!

 

[karmadrama]

Never made a thread before so hope I’ve done this right

 

[grumpy-nosy-cow]

Eurovision

yes especially now the votes are all political rather than who sings the best sing!
Balkan countries all giving max points to their neighbours..especially those they may have been at war with, same with Turkey and Greece..and why the hell are Australia and Israel included ? Neither are part of geographic Europe

 

[watermelon sugar]

The cbeebies presenters

 

[bubbadabut]

Reviving this thread as I've been watching some Reading Festival performances.

When the camera cuts to someone in the crowd trying to belt the song out, but they clearly dont know the words

 

[under the ivy]

Eurovision

 

[emm]

The cbeebies presenters

I never understood how children's presenters were so insanely enthusiastic but I read an interview with Holly Willoughby that said she basically went in drunk from the night before as it was on weekend mornings

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Or when people say "spare of the moment" instead of "spur of the moment"

Oh my god not heard that one before.

 

[emm]

Re the early posts about people who think they’re photographers and set up in business, I know someone who did this - just because they’ve bought an expensive camera doesn’t make them a good photographer! They clearly haven’t studied or learnt anything about light, composition etc. They were doing shoots with pregnant mums and partners cuddling their bumps, etc. Fair to say though that people did buy some of them. I follow another local wedding photographer and she’s brilliant. All credit to them actually, I couldn’t do it (I have it as a hobby, keen amateur).

yeah I have seen the same, even when I am just out around london, where I live, now it seems almost everyone has a huge professional style camera