How Shall We Tackle This Menace?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28708526
I must confess to fighing the urge for violence when I hear this!

[anneasquith]

immediate ban of ALL Australian/New Zealand tv programmes and presenters.

[royfromaus]

I must confess to fighing the urge for violence when I hear this!


Then you should seek some profesional help.

[factor-fiction]

I don't think you can 'tackle it'. I'm not sure why it's a problem though.

[royfromaus]

Or why it is news.

[dave50]

It's very annoying, even more so when they add an upward inflection 'yes' at the end.

[whiskeryron]

OK so they're all picking it up like y'r know innit?

[youngmafbog]

We, for one I would not employ someeon who did that in an interview

[ludwig]

// I must confess to fighing the urge for violence when I hear this!

Then you should seek some profesional help. //

Roy's right - hire some thugs to beat up the perpetrators.

[New Judge]

I've adopted a simple tactic for dealing with this ridiculous and nauseating habit when it gets too much for me (which is all too often). All I do is treat the statements as questions. e.g:

Imbecile: "I went to ^^the shops the other day"

Me: "I don't know. Can't you remember?"

Imbecile: "Yes, I bought a nice ^^new dress."

Me: ".I can't see how you expect me to know. Have a look in your shopping bag"

Imbecile: "I don't know why I'm ^^talking to you. You don't seem to ^^understand what I'm saying"

Me: "Correct"

And another thing!

Why do people ask if they can "get" something when in fact they'd like it to be got for them. e.g. (whilst in the pub):

Idiot: "Can I get a pint of Fosters?"

What the barman should have said: "No you can't. The public are not allowed this side of the bar. If you want a pint of Fosters I'd be pleased to get it for you" (Though he'd probably say "...I'd be pleased to ^^get it for you")

NJ takes two of his stronger tablets then goes ^^for a lie down. :-)

[Daffy6543]

My eldest daughter talks in this manner and despite me telling her to stop she still does it.

[New Judge]

Cut her off without a penny, Daffy.

Sorry, I meant to say "Cut her off ^^ without a penny, Daffy."

[kevanswerbank]

It's an affectation with some people - that's what's irritating.

[hc4361]

It gives the impression the speaker believes he is addressing an idiot?
Making sure the listener has the intellect to understand every sentence?

With some people it is the opposite, giving the impression the speaker is unsure he is using words in the right order or context. Am I making sense?

Ferlippiting annoying both ways.

[hc4361]

Audrey is Coronation Street does something very different but has the same effect. She puts 'hmmmm' at the end of the sentence which turns it in to a question, hmmmmmm.

It is impossible to hmmmm without the uplift.