I hate that too. It makes the speaker sound patronising, as though they're checking that you've managed to grasp what they've just said.
Bingo, I should have added this to my long list - invariably you end up with the stewardess taking your carry-on and stashing it miles from where you are seated and you cannot access it until most of the fkn plane has disembarked, so you might as well have shoved it in as hold luggage and waited on it at the carousel... Another one is idiots that sit in escape rows but have no clue and need to be repeatedly told they cannot stash their shit on the floor...
Starting a conversation with "To be honest" or "I'll be honest with you" Hmmm, you're not honest the rest of the time..?
Like snapping your fingers in order take the floor, the word Look commands attention and cuts short anyone expressing an opinion midstream An old friend used up use this method and it got properly on my tits.
One of my mum's friends had a fridge magnet that said "I'm not one to repeat gossip, so listen carefully..." A great opener.
Starting a sentence with “Let me be clear…”, particularly when you sound like a less likeable version of Zippy from Rainbow and look like a fat version of Kryten from Red Dwarf
To be be honest, to tell the truth, to be frank: these expressions serve to call into question their honesty, truthfulness, and frankness even if they were not in question before
or to bring to the attention of the recipient that maybe the diplomacy being deployed before wasn't being appreciated or recognised, and now is the time to tell it as it is. a wee example. i generally enjoy working with you but the buck stops with me. "SO...maybe now is the time to shut the fuck up"
There should be more than enough overhead locker space if everyone played by the rules, but there seem to be an increasing number of people who think that steamer trunks qualify as hand baggage and very few airlines that send such baggage to the hold as they should.
People who after being served in a shop continue to engage the assistant in conversation about fck knows what while athere are people waiting to be served. Mate the young lady* isn't interested in your 1980 allegro now jog off and let me be served. Daughter and Son have previously worked in retail and it's like been tortured by customers.........mental cruelty even.
People with penetrating voices that carry over your conversation. We're in a restaurant, not on a ships deck in a storm. I'm not interested in you or whatever bollocks you are talking about. STFU.
Drivers who can’t or won’t overtake. I rode home on a punctured rear tyre the weekend before last but even though I was gutter-running at c.20mph, I still had a crocodile of cars behind me and when one brave soul finally stiffened their sinews, summoned up the blood, disguised fair nature with hard-favour'd rage and decided to pass me, they did so at about 27mph. Un-be-fucking-lievable
