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People in my office’s IT department seem incapable of speaking plain English. A typical e-mail of theirs reads: “We are currently experiencing intermittent issues. We are investigating these issues as a matter of urgency and will keep you updated as to our progress. Thank you in advance for your...

People who say "It is what it is". A bloke I work with often ends discussions with: "It is what it is, but, hey ho, ours is not to reason why."

Players who do knee-slides when they score. Nearly all of them do it nowadays.

It is more the sensibility that grates, it is pretentious, and I am not sure that specifying how something is fried adds value (I trust a chef to know how different foodstuffs should be fried). On a similar note, there is a restaurant in Oxford that proclaims proudly that its pizzas are...

Walk-in showers. How else do you enter a shower? By parachute? Pan-fried whatever. How else do you fry food? Oven-baked whatever. Where else would you bake food? Traditional English pubs that translate their menus into French and then double the prices. Drivers who treat zebra-crossings as mere...