Figures of speech

Yeah ~enger is really bloody crap, as is all the FTW, FWIW, IMHO and all that bollocks.

I often get a bit annoyed at 'actually' being used in odd ways like at the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma.

What about people constantly using 'jealous' when they actually mean 'envious'? As in 'I am jealous of your lovely DA crankset'! What?! In defence of the anal-retentiveness of all this, caring about this stuff shows that you strive to express yourself succinctly and exactly.

the boss i had before him used to say "that was a fraudulent slip!". which is so gloriously meta-wrong i still use it all the time.

'Meta-wrong'. Excellent phrase! If a bit anal-retentive.

I once blurted out "err that's a bit of a Freudian clit, umm slit, err I mean slip.'"

I like to say 'splitting ends' when I actually mean 'splitting hairs' but noone has EVER corrected me about it, for fuck's sake.