Phrases you hate...

lately lots of people have been writing "nom" as in "yummy" as in cookie monster as in "enchiladas? NOM!" mostly on facebook. And I can't fucking stand it.

if it's on facebook, it's cool, didn't you know?

Thread of

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/images/king-canute-commands-the-sea.jpg

serious LOLS at bewilderment @ "my bad". Don't worry brits, I just learned "taking the mickey" the other day.

Does that have something to do with Mickey Finn?

something about getting a belly button ring, iirc.

"everything happens for a reason". I've seen this dropped no less than 25 times in the last few months, usually after a tragedy.

You know what ? I don't fucking believe everything happens for a reason. If someone close to me dies, I don't want to hear how it was God's master plan and how it's going to even out in the end because it isn't. Life is random*, which is why the bullshit that happens to people is not evenly distributed.

*with the caveat that people do have control over many things that happen to them, just not all.

"i'm just throwing it out there"

"i'm not going to lie..."

guy in work says this constantly and i've started copying him :(

"there are other fishies in the sea". I'm not really interested in having sex with aquatic life

http://simpsonleblog.s.i.pic.centerblog.net/9swzumo4.jpg

"kindle app"

"Lovely little boozer"

"a cheeky pint"

"It is easier to ask forgiveness than get permission."

"cheeky" anything is satanic

I don't know, I think of this LJ sentence nearly every time I take a photo: "Moreover, how could I resist one of my peers requesting me to uncork my blingiest pose for a cheeky snap or two?"

^^a phrase I don't hate fwiw

I associate it with laddish bullshit stories in FHM; "Me and this accounts bird were having a cheeky shag in the bogs at work, when..."

As an American person, I pretty much only associate it with Thomas the Tank Engine. One or another of those trains was always being cheeky.

"A little ____ never hurt anybody" (which is only said about the things that have very definitely hurt people)

Also, I loathe corporate speak
"touch base with"
"reach out to"
"I would be interested in discussing"

"Threw up in my mouth a little bit" was on spongebob last night. I sure hope it doesn't catch on with my kid.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:51 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

I say this verbatim sort of frequently whenever anyone says/suggests something really awful or stupid.

I saw "leverage our synergy" seriously used in an email recently.

Also, I loathe corporate speak
"touch base with"
"reach out to"
"I would be interested in discussing"

Yup. Add: "X has the opportunity to..." and adding "up" to prepositions, as in "I want to change up my wardrobe."

"The boy," as used by adult women to refer to their male partner. You see this shit on Yelp a lot, like "So the boy and I decided we wanted tapas on Friday..."

That is as bad as "hubby."

"hubby" needs to die

My mom called my husband "hubby" and then immediately recanted bcz I guess I shot her a look.

hahaha "hubbles" is acceptable though, i'd say

I really hate the word "tush". Great ZZ Top song and all but such an icky word. "Tushie" is even worse.

No, I hate the ZZ Top song, pretty much exclusively bcz of that word.

I like the Ghostface song.

"Tush" is said by the same kind of person who would call a man a "hunk."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KbcYnP2ZWQ&feature=related

pretty sure Billy Gibbons has never called anybody "hunk"

xp Ha, totally.

also you hate ZZ Top!? I am sad

"leverage our synergy"

A+++

This one isn't a phrase but it confuses me:
"Excuse me" being used by people walking in your general direction who aren't going to crash into you & you're really not posing any kind of obstacle to them going on their merry way, which leads me to assume it's an attention-getting device, as in "Hi I'm walking past you now, saw you weren't really noticing me, don't freak out at my proximity to you". Very weird, uniquely American convention that I haven't quite grasped yet.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, November 19, 2005 9:01 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm not sure I understand. I don't recall this being a thing people do if we are talking about someone approaching you. When passing someone from behind I say "excuse me" b/c I don't want to surprise them and I want to let them know that I am not a mugger or a creep.

I'm also confused by "yup." It seems so standard and normal, like "uh-huh" or "nah" or "hmm?" Is this, too, an American thing?

by some people's aversion to "yup," I mean

"cringe inducing"

I just used this on another thread, but in doing so I realized that I don't like how much it just focuses on a physiological reaction, rather than the emotional reasons for that reaction.

"_________ goodness"

kind of hate the genericness of this, like "ohh this pastry is filled with creamy goodness" or "oh yeah give me some of that football goodness"

"My bad" goes back to at least 1992. One of those things I made fun of people enough for saying and it wormed its way into my vocabulary.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:39 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I am still haunted by a memory of a girl saying to me "oh, I bet you're one of those guys who says 'my bad', aren't you?" circa 1990.

I was. I stopped immediately.

Did you see this?

Manute Bol R.I.P.

Saying:

Anyone?

Beuler?

Vastly overplayed, long since not funny.

File under the same category as people who say "whatchu talkin' about willis?"

that's a good one but the problem is people jump to it too quickly. if you play like it like the original scene it's okay imo

Someone posted this on ilx today.

Anyone?

Beuler?

A server at a fine dining restaurant I worked at was trying to get the attention of a large party (of business people) to tell them the special, and they ignored her completely until she said "Anybody? Beuler? Beuler?" and it was divine and it got their attention, and some even laughed.

That was about two years ago, and it was the very first time I had ever heard it, and I don't know if I've heard it since, so it's still funny to me.