- People who stop dead when they step off an escalator. What are you waiting for, a map and compass?- When people call second-hand clothes Vintage Pieces. Puh-Leaze.
- Jazz music, post 1940.
- The phrase 'at the end of the day'. If you're a sportsperson, unacceptable. If you are in the chorus line of Les Miserables, acceptable.
- Squished credits at the end of TV shows, while they advertise what's coming up next in the rest of the screen. I'm talking to you, Channel 10. Yes, unfortunately you're legally bound to show who actually made the program, but it defeats the purpose when you play them at double speed, at a font size that you need a telescope to read.
This, friends, is why my goat is got.
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As for your first 'goat'....it's even more irritating when people come to a dead stop in the middle of the road for no reason!! Same question!! What are you waiting for?
Jazz music didn't get good until after 1940. Except for Scott Joplin.
And I know you'll think me unsophisticated, but I like "at the end of the day" and other fillers. I think they are all parts of the warp and woof of the language tapestry.
I'm not a huge fan of Jazz myself but it depends on whether you class Big Band as Jazz; and I think Dave Brubeck counts as Jazz.
It's not just Channel 10, I'm sure 7 does it too.
People on the train on the phone who say "I'm just on the train..."
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