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Captain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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Basically wankers
Pearoast alert, but people using the word basically out of context really boils my piss.

The problem has reached epidemic proportions with Stephen Fry using it 6 times on QI last week, and serious academics using it when interviewed on Newsnight.

It's time we started kicking people in the cunt/cock every time they use it.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:14, 11 replies)
Also people who use 'Obviously' as some sort of substitute for actually being obvious.

(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:20, closed)
I literally die every time I hear someone say that.

(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:25, closed)
'Actually' is another one that gets my blood up.

(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:32, closed)
Actually I use basically all the time, obviously. Fundametally it's blatantly just like an alternative to 'um', obviously, but it's like I literally don't care.
I used to, but then I mellowed out.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 19:12, closed)
Err
Your first sentence doesn't make sense, grammatically. It should have been:

Pearoast alert, but people using the word "basically" out of context really boils my piss.

Cheers
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:31, closed)

I'll not ninja edit it though. That can really sandpaper some people's nips.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 12:36, closed)
For That...
A hat-tip.

Cheers
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 13:28, closed)
Pearoast reply
'Basically'is what managers say when they don't want to swear.

Fitter: The fookin'pump's fookin'fooked.
Manager: Basically, the pump has become temporarily non-operational.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 13:56, closed)
But we need to know
Does it literally boil your piss?

If so I'm basically coming round to your house and basically saying "basically" a lot.
(, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 1:19, closed)
I'll put
the pissy kettle on.

sugar?
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 12:51, closed)
I once worked at a place where I was one of two supervisors...

The two of us would 'rotate' with the 10 minute morning team meeting - one day him, one day me.

Whenever it was the other guy's turn we had an on running joke that I would make a little mark on the board every time he said 'basically' to everyone.

He would regularly get past 15 in 10 minutes. It was like The fucker just couldn't stop himself.
(, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 14:13, closed)

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