Soccer - just had a row with an Aussie in the streets of Hanoi 2 days ago over this.
Super as a substitute for really. As in I'm super hungry or that's super great. Americanism that's being used more and more.
I've been correcting my in-laws for close to 20 years on soccer, and I suspect they continue to deliberately use it to wind me up. On the few occasions the Mrs watches football and a couple of players are squaring up to each other, she'll ask me if they'll hit each other with their alice bands.Welcome to my world.
Been trying to enforce “football” for 30 years.
The trouble is, football over here is Rugby League or AFL exclusively (except among the true football fans). So if ever you talk to anyone who’s not into football, they think you are talking League or AFL.
It is very hard to resist saying “no, I mean soccer”. I like to tell them it’s the only game of true FOOTball. The others use hands predominantly and should be called handball.
That gets to them for 5 mins, until they counter with “well, at least our games are played by true men, not snowflake prima-donnas who cry like soccer players”. That’s hard to counter as well.
I get a lot of emails which mention "reaching out" - when "contacting" would have been quite sufficient and far less irritating. Also, any talk of a "journey" when no one has physically travelled anywhere.
White kids talking with a Jamacan yardy boy accent.
Ya na wot ar min.
Theres a "buzz phrase" going around at work at the moment whereby any sort of new system is reviewed by saying "we're just waiting to see what that piece of work looks like".
Grips my shit every time (there'll probably be someone who will add that to their list)
"Hey just wanted to touch base with you quickly"