I never thought I'd hate any phrase...but "run the gamut" is starting to get on my nerves, especially when its use is not immediately followed by specifics in the same sentence; e.g., "It runs the gamut." (FULL STOP.)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
"That's just semantics."
Yes. I am discussing the actual meaning of the words you just misused, because you've expressed yourself so poorly I cannot construe what the fuck you are driving at.
― Aimless, Saturday, 3 October 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
'dead to rights'
idk why i hate this phrase, i just do. it makes me grit my teeth.
― just1n3, Saturday, 3 October 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
I kind of like "dead to rights" because I can't imagine anyone other than Yosemite Sam using it
― joygoat, Sunday, 4 October 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
"I hope my email finds you well"
it got to my inbox, if that's what you mean
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Monday, 5 October 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
Uergh yeah, I hate that.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 5 October 2015 09:18 (eight years ago) link
"I hope my unsolicited email finds you in a good enough mood to spend money with my company."
No, it never, ever does.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 5 October 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
"I hope my e-mail does a good job finding you"
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
I've always wondered about that phrase -- does it date back to a time when you actually couldn't be reasonably certain a message would reach its recipient? Or is it more like "I hope you are well when you receive this."
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
the latter!
― kinder, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Or is it more like "I hope you are well when you receive this."
i always thought it was this.
― 1998 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I thought that was more likely as well. Still a little pompous sounding I guess.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
"be a part of" used to mean "give me money for my project"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Not a phrase, per se, but I think my current least favorite utterance in the English language is that gross and dismissive "...Okaaay?..." response people give when you've supposedly said something incomprehensible or off the wall but, really, the root of it is that the person you're speaking to is just a rude asshole who doesn't want to continue the conversation.
― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpQgEyjNdM
― kinder, Thursday, 8 October 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
i'm sure it has been mentioned before but i just felt a wave of disgust for shareable content
― La Lechera, Thursday, 8 October 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
"*sigh*"
Seeing this in responses right before a paragraph of capital letters espousing Opinion Supremacy. Oh your disdain for me and my idiocy is at such a level that to lower yourself to my plane of existence in order to educate me on why YOU are right and I a blathering idiot causes you so much grief you must type out your irl exhaustion. It is ok, I realize you are only doing this for the good of humanity, and it is at your great personal sacrifice to have to explain your opinion to such a dullard as I.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
When people say (usually on facebook) that some minor act of goodness "restored my faith in humanity." These flighty fucks need to get a grip already!
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Are your feelings about humanity really so easily lowered and raised? Do you constantly find yourself forgetting that at any given minute humans somewhere are doing both wonderful and awful things and everything in between?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
Yes
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
STOP FUCKING USING "LEVERAGE" IN PLACE OF "USE"
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
i guess i don't *hate* it, but why is everything suddenly being 'gifted' instead of 'given'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
like thrifted
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
How is "binge-watching" not on this page yet.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
i was in a training session where the guy kept talking about 'learns' as in 'what learns are you hoping to take away with you today?', 'what key learns have you taken from this?'.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
What. The. Fuck.
― how's life, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
'Learns' is popular here. Infuriating.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
there is literally no need for this. are they trying to avoid the word 'lesson'? why not say 'what have you learnt from this?'?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
'learns'no no NO
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:39 (eight years ago) link
I lessoned some learns at school today.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
I've heard "learnings" but "learns" is some next-level wrongheadedness
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Here endeth the learn.
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
getting all the learns
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
i guess you learns a new thing every day
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
sick learn
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
feel the learn
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
3rd degree learn
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
learn notice
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
ha that sounds like a real thing
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
when your CIA handler calls you and tells you.... you've been learned
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
so many feels about this
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
"There's no 'there' there" is the worst expression of all expressions. Far worse than "think outside the box."
― Treeship, Friday, 6 May 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
The fact that it is an allusion makes it worse. It was smug and unimaginative when Gertrude Stein said it, and the same is true when internet commenters say it about an artwork they don't understand.
― Treeship, Friday, 6 May 2016 05:45 (eight years ago) link
there's no 'tree' there
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
"caping for"
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
caping for???
― davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
"by far one of the _____" is my new least favorite phrase
― davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
e.g. It was by far one of the better episodes of Game of Thrones. Hands down, it was pretty alright I guess. It was far and away an episode of television.
― davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
"good shoot"/"bad shoot"
― jmm, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link