Phrases you hate...

http://www.hometalkies.com/lucia/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/matrix.jpg

Metaphor from Matrix, favored by libertarians, bitcoins, and MRAs, all of whom are basically the same people.

huh. i don't encounter any people of those groups on a regular basis and i fell asleep during the matrix. what does it imply?

look, do you want to take the red pill and google this for yourself, or take the blue pill and remain blissfully in the dark?

-let's table this for now

lol for a sec I thought you meant our red pill/blue pill discussion

i didn't want to google for it sorry
i think i'll choose to take no pills and remain in the dark with this conversation tabled for now

which reminds me -- i have seen a swift uptick in the usage of the word "conversation" to mean "hashing out a particularly vexing issue" -- "join the conversation" or "start a conversation"

i don't hate it necessarily i just wanted to have the conversation

__________ No Longer a Hidden Jewel

I should have my hands cut off for the number of times I've written that headline. These places are nothing like jewels and why would they be hidden in the first place?

"sorry not sorry"

_____ hair don't care

(blonde, red, long, etc.)

"That's right, I said it"

I think you mean

"That's right, I went there"

"mouth feel"

"You're welcome."

When not followed by someone saying "Thank you" first.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/02/29/taxes-for-beginners/

You're welcome.

Like that.

Ha, I actually like that one. The aggressive preemptive "You're welcome."

Not that I would use it myself.

that particular use of "you're welcome" has ruined (for me) the usual usage of it so that i can't imagine anyone using it without a shade of irony or annoyance. it's bad.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hi4TbVj_QiY/SYoVFcsMGQI/AAAAAAAADyQ/X2YOKIi5tSg/s400/You

Yeah I always associate it with that GWB thing, whose title is such an brilliantly compact piece of verbal comedy that I give the phrase a pass forever

I only use the phrase "you're welcome" when I am trying to literally make a person feel welcome

in my mind, the phrase comes tagged with an implied "[here]"

"you don't get to dot dot dot"

the blogiverse just proliferates these awful colloquialish phrases at a disturbing rate

Most bloggers have no gift for phrase making, so they use ready made.

a hands-on experience in state-of-the-art classrooms

What the hell is state-of-the-art anymore? They have computers? How does the "the art" come into play. "See this calculator? It is state-of-the-art technology."

And hands-on. I would hazard a guess that pretty much 75-percent of life is "hands-on."

I'm not trying to be http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/2641/716435-jerryseinfeldcharportrait_tiny.png here, but I see those phrases so much.

I like when businesses say they use "best practices" like that's the end of the conversation.

any nailing not involving metal fasteners

"that happened"

"you've got too much time on your hands"

My mom just used the sardonic "you're welcome" in a facebook post.

"Oh [dramatic pause] my God."

Guy at work offering his positive review of a dining establishment ended his monologue with "It is to drool for."

Thatz not okay.

bad taste. ironic, eh?

Ewww.

"I'm gonna have to call out ___"

"Can you talk to that?" when they mean "Can you talk ABOUT that?"

be that as it may

the expression "cool beans"

or "spill the beans"

alright cool your beans

"is that a thing now?" / "is this is a real thing" / "is that a thing"

*incredulous tone, roll eyes* "pass."

xp /"is that even a thing"

"is that a thing that happened?" etc.

kms

This a thing that happened.

oof forgot the "is"

failure

This happened.