Yes - apsolutely (sic)

Is anyone else as fed up with hearing the word absolutely (usually pronounced apsolutely) thoughtlessly littering conversations as I am?

It's creeping in everywhere. Even the simple 'yes' seems no longer acceptable without being qualified by it.

I should be a rich man were I to receive £1 every time I hear it uttered thoughtlessly on TV and radio, where the hackneyed "apsolutely (sic) fantastic" seems the almost universal response to even the most mundane of avhievements

I blame our hyped-up society, as exemplified particularly by sports commentators such as those covering Grand Prix motor racing where we have even been treated to "He's apsolutely (sic) overtaken him!"