I am so tired of the word like

It is a "filler word" like 'um'.

That doesn’t make it acceptable.

Last week I was walking on the trail near my house and a young woman heading toward me was braying on her phone. She was all, like, and then it was like and then she like so like. As we passed I rolled my eyes dramatically and said 'oh god' under my breath and it was like, lost on her.

I interview a lot of millennials (and others) in my current role. Three unnecessary “likes” and you’re out!

This drives me insane, as well, OP. If a candidate does this in an interview, I won't hire them.

I am so fucking fed up with everyone being interviewed on TV having to start their response with, 'Look . . .' It just sounds so arrogant and know-it-all, as if the interviewer is a complete moron. (Well, sometimes they ARE!)

OP is serving hot takes from 1983.

R7 No, it is worse than it ever has been. It’s made it’s way into professional journalism FFS

Yes, R8! People like Chris Hayes and sometimes even Rachel Maddow pepper their speech (and tweets) with "like". I expect better from someone with Maddow's education.

The 20-somethings at work do this and it makes me insane. Every third word is "like". They don't realize how STUPID they sound.

Like, people who say like are like, loosers

R6 yes! Another one they use is when answering a question is “So, ...” drives me nuts!

Or starting a sentence by saying "Anyways"

For reals!

I like my ‘Like’ fried, vocally.

What I’ll say is this .....

You know what I’m talking about? You understand what I’m saying?

I'm tired of hearing about medicine being put "into arms". There are other fine ways to express it -- "vaccinated" or "administered" -- even the British term "jabbed" would be preferable at this point.

Pay attention to how many times people say, "Look!"

It will drive you crazy

The word that annoys me is "Basically..." Judge Judy agrees with me.

You know, I’m like tired of it myself. Like, literally.