Ha ! It’s my sister that says the “are you sure ?” phrase as well. I know she’s just trying to be hospitable and I love her. But it drives me crazy no doesn’t mean I’m not sure. It means no thanks.
Sometimes I’ll say no, wait a few seconds and throw in “I’m sure” right after followed by her asking “how did you know I was going to say that ?”
Hmmm maybe it’s because you ask me that almost every time I say no to something ?
The use of “Coke” to describe carbonated beverages other than Coca-Cola or Diet Coke (or their derivatives, such as Lemon Lime Vanilla berry Diet Coke Zero with Lemon Lime)
ie:
“Hey Rags, you wanna Coke?”
“Sure.”
“What kind?”
“Diet.”
“Diet what?”
“… Diet Coke. What have we just been talking about?”
I went 12 rounds with a friend once over whether Pepsi could be considered a kind of Coke or not.
Someone I work with who was promoted to supervisor about a year ago and let it go straight to his head. He now talks down to everyone, and ends almost every sentence with “Know what I mean?”, “See what I’m saying?” or some other variation. When talking to his supervisor, he tends to avoid giving a straight answer to anything, as to avoid being wrong. Which leads to the annoying phrases “It is, but it isn’t” and “It’s yes, but it’s no”. The funny part is, the boss knows exactly what he’s doing, and it drives him up the wall for the same reason it drives the rest of us nuts.
Another thing I’m sick of is calling people “douchebags”. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an effective label for some people. It’s just become too much of a general purpose insult, like “retard” used to be.
“Yes, Regis. Final answer.”
Nitpick: It’s “coke.” Pepsi isn’t Coke, but it could be a coke.
“A gentle reminder…”
to clean out your tupperware from the break room fridge before Friday (as an example).
Just say it like it is. I hate the gentle reminder thing.
Makes me want to get out the razor blades.
Except that it’s not a coke, nor a Coke. It’s a Cola (not to be confused with a COLA, which can be used for buying cola OR coke, but not coke, cause that’s illegal…)
Aha! Well cool, you learn something new every day. And now… I know why I don’t like the phrase 
How IS it pronounced? With the p? Or like owned? And what exactly does it mean?
I think this may be a regional thing. It’s common here to say, when one is going to get soft drinks “hey, I’m going to get some cokes, what kind does everyone want”?
it’s pronounce “ownage” or “owned” like woot (we owned the other team). Not sure about the “p” - could be 1337 speak (leet speak). There’s even a 1337 speak converter.
My friends and I always pronounced it “Powned!” But never in a serious context.
Kinda like how a buddy of mine who worked in IT would, after solving some problem on a computer, tended to jump up and triumphantly shout “I AM LEET HAXOR!” Mostly just an in-joke amongst those who would appreciated the humor.
Oh, speaking of computers, one phrase that always pissed me off:
“RTFM”. Maybe I don’t want to RTFM, maybe TFM assumes that I’ve R’d the ten other FM’s I’d need to understand what the hell it was telling me to do to the X whatever the heck. Maybe RTFM just wasn’t worth the required effort when all i was trying to do was get a printer to work. And all this when I was using Mandrake, supposedly the “easy”, or as they called it back then, “Point and Drool” distro of Linux.
Oh yeah, Point and Drool is another phrase that always irked me, but I haven’t heard it in over half a decade. MicroSerfs was another one I’d hear a lot of.
Both mentioned before:
“At the end of the day” (Let’s skip all discussion and accept my position)
“The reality of the situation is” (The Speaker’s version of reality… probably not reality at all)
As **Raguleader **said, I have heard it pronounced ‘powned’, to rhyme with ‘owned’. But I have heard it used without humorous intent, as in “My friend won’t play this video game with me anymore since I completely pwned him last time”.
A friend pronounces it “pooned,” which is even worse because it bears zero relationship to owned.
Don’t let the door hit you on the … 
Reading nothing but or hearing nothing but perfect grammar is boring. I am not sure if you are all ‘haters’ but you all lack ‘happy’ IMO.
I want to see the look on faces when I ask them the location of the AT machine. More ‘huh?’ than an actual answer I bet. Accept that you are not going to win this one, but enjoy you time being pissed about it.
::: the above is snark IMO. I just love to be snarky to people… ::::
Poor working slave down on the floor ‘facing’ products on the lower shelves looks up as I approach, makes eye contact and since I do not know her in any way, shape or form I should just look away and step over her like a dead goose in the sunshine? That would not be cool and I am sooooooo cool, got that dude???
No. for me at this time & w/ malice of forethought I will look right @ them and say, “Workin or hardly workin.” as a pleasant and friendly, in a general way, of acknowledge their existence in this temporal plane, if you know what I mean, so as to not be a ‘stuck-up n00b’ as most ‘hear abouts’ seem to think would be preferable on any given Sunday…
YMMV & catch ya on the flip-flop…
I could, should & would go on & on & on but, like, it is just toooooo hard, like, to be a cool beans type of uniquely special person so, like, I may ummmmm, well maybe, ummmmmmm stop presently. Ya think? 
