Stop saying “You know?”

Am I the only person in the UK that this phrases drives round the bend!

Every time I turn on the TV and am watching something, lets say a chat show, and the presenter is talking to his/her guest about his/her latest film, book or religious experience the guests sentences are split up with the words “You Know” every five or so words.

It drives me mad!!!!

“Well, ‘You Know’ me and my boyfriend ‘You Know’ we were walking down that ‘You Know’ Oxford Street and ‘You Know’, ‘You Know’, ‘You Know’, ‘You Know’”…….

Arrrrggghhh! Speak properly, you bloody idiot.

If you slowed down and thought about what you where saying, you wouldn’t have to keep stopping to say “You Know”

Its like a more modern version of a stutter!

Its only recently that I’ve noticed it, mainly whilst watching the odd American on TV and they do say “You Know” quite a lot, but in the past few weeks I’ve noticed people on UK TV doing it as well.

I even got to thinking “do I do that, surely not” thankfully I don’t!

Now is this the latest buzz word or is it that the use of the spoken word is becoming a forgotten art. Or are people just getting more “You Know” stupid.

Personally I think it shows a lack of intelligence that you cant string a sentence together without using the words "You Know" or perhaps its just a more polite version of the F word?

"You Know"

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