Quote Originally Posted by kill_the_drum View Post
Listening to my 12 year old, 50% of the words used in any sentence are ‘like’ and ‘literally.’
Literally!
I like to travel on buses to various places for my pastime of rambling. On the buses I cannot help but hear conversations and the talk between ****agers is sooo annoying, it's filled with "like" and "yeah, no".

I have to say though, the worst of the lot are Americans who like everyone to know where they are from. A few years ago I was in a bus queue in Chesterfield and we were joined by an English boy together with an American girl who was doing most of the talking, he in a normal tone of voice but she needed to let us all know where she came from. The bus turned up and it was as if by an unspoken agreement between we "reserved English" we politely allowed the young couple on first. Of course they went and sat at the back while the rest of us crowded up front away from the girl's awful yankee twang. I'm sure the lad understood what had just happened but she didn't and just rabbited on.