Annoying things people say?

[Trollheart]

What? Do they think time travel has been invented? When else could you be watching it if your comments are in this year?? Are people just getting more stupid, or is it me? No, it's them. Definitely them.

[Lexi Darling]

Half of the top comments on any popular music video on Youtube are long, emotional stories like recounting how "Gettin' Jiggy with It" was the user's great uncle Marty's favorite song and how the user would hear it while picnicking with him as a child, imprinting the song on their memory and how they still think of old Marty whenever they crack open their worn cassette of Big Willie Style which had been personally autographed "to Uncle Marty" by Will Smith himself, and the other half are "who's watching in 2025!??!?!?".

[Trollheart]

I'm going to make it my mission to answer them all, saying "Are you posting from the past? It's 2028 now!"
 
On second thoughts, maybe I won't bother.

[Lisnaholic]

Half of the top comments on any popular music video on Youtube are long, emotional stories like recounting how "Gettin' Jiggy with It" was the user's great uncle Marty's favorite song and how the user would hear it while picnicking with him as a child, imprinting the song on their memory and how they still think of old Marty whenever they crack open their worn cassette of Big Willie Style which had been personally autographed "to Uncle Marty" by Will Smith himself, and the other half are "who's watching in 2025!??!?!?".

lol. You forgot their other comment, about how music today cannot compare with the '70s, when music was real.

[DJChameleon]

What? Do they think time travel has been invented? When else could you be watching it if your comments are in this year?? Are people just getting more stupid, or is it me? No, it's them. Definitely them.

Think outside the box it ends up creating a time capsule and you get to see each year how many people were watching based off of those that chose to thumbs up a comment. Not highly accurate recounting of how many people saw it that year if people don't participate in the like farm but it still looks cool to me.

[Trollheart]

"It's a gamechanger". If I hear one more fucking person say that I swear I'll...

Also, Americanisms that have been adopted over here: "Step up to the plate". This means nothing to us, being a baseball term, but we all use it. Ditto "Touch base with you". Fucking hell. Can we not have our own phrases?

On another note, does any other country use the word "altogether" at the end of a sentence to mean and signify nothing? We say "Sure you're a grand person altogether" or "Isn't it a lovely day altogether?" or maybe "Best match I ever watched now, altogether." I bet nobody thinks that makes sense outside of Ireland. It doesn't. Divil a man'd say it does. 

[jimmy jazz]

I agree. Period!

[Janszoon]

"It's a gamechanger". If I hear one more fucking person say that I swear I'll...

There is a kitty litter ad with Martha Stewart that I've seen a lot recently where she says "it's the game changer" in the most annoying way possible. I hate it. 

[Buck_Mulligan]

"It's a gamechanger". If I hear one more fucking person say that I swear I'll...

Also, Americanisms that have been adopted over here: "Step up to the plate". This means nothing to us, being a baseball term, but we all use it. Ditto "Touch base with you". Fucking hell. Can we not have our own phrases?

On another note, does any other country use the word "altogether" at the end of a sentence to mean and signify nothing? We say "Sure you're a grand person altogether" or "Isn't it a lovely day altogether?" or maybe "Best match I ever watched now, altogether." I bet nobody thinks that makes sense outside of Ireland. It doesn't. Divil a man'd say it does. 

Another Americanism that became fashionable overnight, lasted a while and now seems to have thankfully disappeared:
"It's not (his/her/their) First Rodeo" to indicate experience in some subject matter.

Your use of the word "Divil" reminded me of another Irish expression, used mostly in Ulster border counties.

On meeting an acquaintance you might ask "how's she cuttin" and get a reply "ah shur I'm draggin the divil be the tail".

[Trollheart]

This is true. It's also extended to "pullin' the divil be (by) the tail and hopin' it won't break!"

Does anyone else use the term "The sun's splittin' the trees?"

[Trollheart]

More possibly unique Irish phrases:

"Work away" (go ahead) - usually said when someone wants to cut a queue: "Mind if I go ahead of you?" "Ah sure yeah, work away."

"I'm scarlet" (pronounced scar-lih, the "t" is silent) - I'm embarrassed

"Go on ya good thing, ya!" - general form of encouragment

We also ask and answer a question: "Will ye have a cup of tea, you will?" or "Is it raining out? It is?"

"Ah sure ye know yerself" (noncommittal answer; sort of a verbal shrug) - "How's she doin' today?" "Ah, sure ye know yerself." etc

"Are ye wide or wot?" - Are you joking/do you not realise?

"Get in there and bathe your feet" - seize the moment (perhaps similar to the English "fill yer boots"?)

"Ye feckin eejit!" (You stupid person)

"Brains to burn" (very intelligent - "He's a clever lad, brains to burn, that one")

[jimmy jazz]

Do you know this one Big T:

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans,
There'd be no work for tinkers' hands.

[Marie Monday]

Imo the problem with expressions like 'touch base' is not so much that it's an Americanism as that it's a symptom of the same linguistic disease as ugly corporate lingo

[Saulaac]

Whenever I worked a summer job in my teens and had earned a bit of cash on the side, my Mum would tell me: "Mind how you spend it now. Don't be flahool".  Which I took to mean a mixture of don't waste it on useless things/ don't be too generous/ don't piss it up the wall.

Another word I used to hear was something like "shoffauge" or "shofforge", to mean a ragamuffin or naughty person. I never saw it written so I've no idea how the Galwegians spelt that one.

A Dad joke I remember from years ago was the tourist who was having a bit of trouble with the parking regulations in Dublin. A traffic warden approached him to offer some help.
Tourist: Excuse me sir, can I park in this part of the street with no markings?
Traffic warden: Indeed, that's fine.

T: And what about on the single yellow line over there?
TW: No, during peak hours that means there is no parking at all.

T: And what do the double yellow lines mean over there? Can I park there?
TW: Certainly not. That means there is no parking at all at all.    🙂

[Buck_Mulligan]

Whenever I worked a summer job in my teens and had earned a bit of cash on the side, my Mum would tell me: "Mind how you spend it now. Don't be flahool".  Which I took to mean a mixture of don't waste it on useless things/ don't be too generous/ don't piss it up the wall.

Another word I used to hear was something like "shoffauge" or "shofforge", to mean a ragamuffin or naughty person. I never saw it written so I've no idea how the Galwegians spelt that one.

A Dad joke I remember from years ago was the tourist who was having a bit of trouble with the parking regulations in Dublin. A traffic warden approached him to offer some help.
Tourist: Excuse me sir, can I park in this part of the street with no markings?
Traffic warden: Indeed, that's fine.

T: And what about on the single yellow line over there?
TW: No, during peak hours that means there is no parking at all.

T: And what do the double yellow lines mean over there? Can I park there?
TW: Certainly not. That means there is no parking at all at all.    🙂

I believe the term is Flahooloch, = spendthrift.