my latest dislike is fairly specific - I saw someone doing it on the tele last night and it drove me insane: it's..
..people that use one of their hands (fingers curled inwards) to bend back the fingers of the other hand (one by one) when making a series of connected points, and hold the pose...
(true story). A couple of weeks ago a bloke driving a yellow Renault (down here in Dorset) narrowly avoided disaster when an large oak tree blew over in the wind and collapsed onto the road in front of him. The car was slightly damaged but he was OK.
The local paper/website reported the...
An ex-girlfriends mum once said to me (after I'd been cheeky to her) "You're shootin' for a bootin'" .I think she meant to say "You're cruising for a bruising"
people that say "I'm sorry, but.."
e.g.
"I'm sorry, but if you think that's acceptable, then you have another thing coming"
or "I'm sorry, but, people like that don't deserve a second chance" etc.
You're not sorry, are you? So why say sorry?