The word 'like'
being used as punctuation by gormless people. The red mist descends, and my knuckles start to itch, because they never do it once, but pepper the word throughout statements without ever once constructing a coherent narrative or argument.
I know it's a small, petty thing; there are many like it, but this one is mine.
( uncle bastard last night a DJ shaved my wife, Mon 5 May 2008, 11:03, closed)

Not small or petty. It's a scourge...
See also: Utterly thick people who use the word 'Fucking' in the same way, i.e. to fill in the pauses as their almost-flat-AAA-battery-powered brain struggles to keep up with the turbo-charged jet of bollocks spewing from their vacuous gobs. "You should've fucking seen her, she was... fucking... driving all over the... fucking... road, like a... fucking... Jesus..."

In extreme cases, advanced morons can even BEGIN a sentence with this spacefiller. "Fucking... Who's that bloke who does that... fucking... thing on the TV? Fucking... 'Top Gear'?"

I'm a big fan of swearing. A well-placed obscenity can put a thousand volts into a sentence. This is why I hate to see such powerful words squandered by people who I wouldn't trust to wipe their own fucking arses.
(costas, Mon 5 May 2008, 11:46, closed)

That's it exactly
devaluing language by slobs and idiots.
( uncle bastard last night a DJ shaved my wife, Tue 6 May 2008, 20:00, closed)