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I can't help it, if someone starts their sentence with "No offense, but...", I immediately take a dislike to them and assume that they are of low intelligence and probably really couldn't care less if we took offense or not.

I'm sure my assumption is not always correct, and I do wonder why this phrase bothers me so much.

I also get the heebie jeebies whenever anyone says "good girl" to a grown woman.


Is there a statement/phrase that irks you every time you hear it??

Those two things also drive me crazy. I hate this one. Sometimes I like to get my hair cut really short and dress like Mick Avory did, when he first joined The Kinks. I get, "Why do you present yourself that way? You're a girl." I just tell that person that I dress how I feel on the inside, not by what's between my legs.

Another thing that I hate, is female staff ask big, strong guys for their muscles, when I'm twice the size and 15% stronger than the majority of the men at my clubhouse. A lot of sexism takes place there.

Who does this? How condescending.

I don't like people saying "shut up" (unless they're joking) because I think it's terribly rude. Of course, I think mostly kids do this, so it doesn't come up too often. I'm sure there are many such things which irk me, but I'm afraid I'm otherwise drawing a blank at the moment. Oh, except that I also don't like "What's up?" because I feel awkward answering it and can't always tell if I'm meant to answer it at all.

If someone says "No offense, but...", there is a pretty good chance they're going to say something offensive.

That gives me the heebie jeebies too.

I hate terms such as "Aw yeah bud!! !!" and when girls call each other "Ho." "Biatch" makes me cringe too.

My parents would really give you the heebie-jeebies then, because whenever they see me doing something good/helpful, they tell me "good girl" or "atta big girl".

I dislike this too. because when ever someone prefaces a sentence with that, you know it's going to end up offensive. It's as though they think that saying that first will soften the blow. It doesn't, and makes me not like them.

When somebody starts a sentence with "no offence, but..." I take offence before they even finish the sentence...

When they say "No offense, but..." I say, "No offense but shut the eff up."

OMG!! ! When my sister worked as a nurse's aide, she couldn't stand it when hospital techs or nurses would talk like that to adult patients. They already had enough to worry about! What hell....to hear some young nurse say, ""Good girl" after you pass a kidney stone into a bedpan...how humiliating when you're 75 years old and know more about life than they do.

I always interpret it as they aren't saying it to be offensive and don't take it the wrong way like "No offense but you have a very bad landlord."
"No offense but I think you are being paranoid"
"No offense but aren't you worried about what people will think?"


But I have never seen anyone say it and then say something offensive.

No offense but I think you smell like a rancid skunk that fell in a sewer.

If anyone ever uses 'I' right next to 'seen' in a sentence describing that you have seen something, I will automatically assume you are illiterate. Extreme, I know.

How about "I seent"? At least there's a little effort there.

Hit the hay. Hit the sack. Words that mean something completely different from what is actually said.

Yes.... "I could care less".

Really? Does this mean you DO care?