I agree with you, nineiron about “Can you say…” Both times you said it. (If I were the type, I would insert a smiley face here.)
I find the whole “Can you say…” phrase really irritating. My irritation is pretty irrational. I think that it comes off as pseudo-clever and pretty condescending.
Back to the OP, I no longer say “way” as a variation of “very” like I used to, like “That chick is way hot.”
I also say “Ol’ girl” when referring to someone - not always in the most flattering of ways. I’ll say something like, “Ol’ girl needs to do something about that outfit.” Rude, I know.
I also say, “Are you f***ing kidding me?!”
and then there is:
“Who DOES that?”
“No one wants to be that kid.” As in “She the only one who failed the exam…that’s horrible…no one wants to be that kid.”
And then if I do something and I can’t believe I did it, I’ll say, “WHO AM I?!”
whenever there’s an awkward pause in the conversation, i always say, “so how bout those yankees?” even though it’s not baseball season anymore. i especially do it to annoy my brothers who are mets fans
I always catch myslef saying “My Bad”. It’s funny, because this phrase bugs the heck out of me. I think I do it just to annoy myself.
I’ve also stopped saying :“Jumping German Jesus Creeping H. Crippled Christ on a Crutch”, basically because it was usually said in the heat of anger, and I almost always wound up flubbing it, which would only serve to tick me off further. Such is my life.
I’ve almost managed to break myself of saying “That’s what she said!” (Wayne’s World I think) and “Ree-hee-heelly?!” (Jim Carrey). It’s pretty embarrassing when they pop out and it’s only very rarely balanced off by being appropriate. Damn teevee.
As for things other people say that bug me: all of them. And I don’t just mean all the catchphrases. I think people are getting stupider as the millenium change approaches.