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I strongly dislike "oh my god". To me it reeks of cheap US soaps/sitcoms - and teenage melodrama. So it's two things eh, xenophobia as well as a dislike of teens.
The other one that bugs me is overuse of "actually".
Actually is used as a filler in the same was as (teenage version of ) "like". However for some reason, it comes across as classier or as being meaningful. Yet if your write the speech down and remove all the actuallys, it has the same meaning. Usually.
I remember some classes with a British IT instructor who used it in almost every sentence. She'd stress it very carefully. It was more like "UC-tu-ally". As in, "you will UC-tu-ally find...".
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