Phrases you hate...

Your memory is much better than mine.

You saying "husby-husb" was pretty memorable. Like how if one day I was like, "Ronald Reagan was a pretty good president."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWuZMBtrc1E

One of Beeps' teachers always calls me "Beeps' Dad" so I call her "Beeps' Teacher".

lol

Hubby is just awful and so is 'DH' for Dear Husband. Makes me feel like we're all in a terrible 70s British sitcom.

DH means Designated Hitter to most Americans, so

"lick"

in the context of a guitar or bass part

http://agilepartners.com/images/lotd/lotd-detail-feature.jpg

I'm amazed this one hasn't come up yet, "End of". As in, "That's all I have to say on the matter. End of." (Not sure if this is used in the US or not).

In the US it's often phrased as "Enough said." Or worse, "'Nuff said." It's horrible.

Believe me, this is worse.

"End of" reminds me of "To die" which I love.

I've never heard that one. As in "to die for"?

Yes!!

like "oh my gauhd that cashmeeuh sweatuh is tuh die."

"How goes it?"

"tuck in" when referring to eating

fill your boots

When I worked at Ruby Tuesday the training materials had scripts that included "tuck into" as well as extensive use of "wash down." "The Church Street is great washed down with a strawberry Megarita." Fucking nauseating, and we had to rehearse the lines aloud in shift meetings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZBHtCh69TY

Business school teachers apparently have not yet stopped telling their students to claim to have a "passion" for _______. Nobody is impressed by these passionate claims; on the other hand, the use of the word indicates a certain willingness to say whatever the boss needs to hear, which might be a factor in getting hired if toadying is an important job function.

The word passion has become boilerplate: your thoughts.

The most inadvertently funny version of why-not-to-do-this I ever saw was an ag student who claimed to "have a passion for livestock."

"passion for livestock"

About 62,800 results (0.54 seconds)

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22here+at%22+%22we%27re+passionate+about%22

Follow your passion: livestock

"lick"

in the context of a guitar or bass part

but all the best guitar and bass parts are licks!

Unless yr playing it with your tongue a la jimi then gtf imo

Not exactly a phrase, but the derisive "Um" or "Uh" before a correction--on a message board, let's say. Just say what you want to say. Not necessary.

tildes

The only valid use for a tilde ime is as a symbol for "approximately".

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um, sorry.

"passion for livestock"

About 62,800 results (0.54 seconds)

― jmm, Monday, January 19, 2015 5:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even better phrase early in those results is: "Kevin's passion for the meat trade".

Cue REM "talk about the passion"

"champagne socialist' seems to be muscling in on the same turf as 'political correctness gone mad' as far as stock rightwing reactionary bollocks phrases go recently.

It took me a while to realize that what they really mean is "class traitor"

It's a red herring that only goes to show up the fallacies of morons who go around using it.
describing someone as a champagne socialist assumes that wealthy people shouldn't care about the welfare of those less well off than them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy about certain rightwing values; as if monetary wealth should work as an automatic tranquiliser that halts any empathic or idealistic thoughts, or that once you have money, you've joined some special club and shouldn't ever have to worry about people less well off than you again.
That, or of course donate all your money to charity and live like St Francis of Assisi the rest of your fucking life while the world keeps spinning and nothing changes.

"and I couldn't be happier." [usually about the purchase of a consumer good.]

Really? You've either got some A-level zen shit going on or you're bereft of imagination.

"Natch." "Aaaaaaaannnnddd...."

'stupid people' - it feels like whenever i see someone moaning about 'stupid people' it's always part of some sort of prejudiced rant that reflects more about the complainer's limited worldview than those he/she is disparaging, e.g. 'we should introduce taxes for obesity and cut costs on stupid people coming to the hospital for self destructive reasons'. see also 'stupid people who like top 40 radio' and umpteen other examples.

i'm aware i am sort of self-clowning here, but w/e

most of our interactions seem to be built on an innate desire to congratulate ourselves for being more intelligent than others, among other self-aggrandisments.

my personal choice of stupid person to lambast in order to make me feel better is the person who lambasts stupid people.

'stupid people' is a tautology tho eh? eh? do i get a prize?

there are loads of stupid ppl and they are v easily correctly grouped by behaviours and traits that are stupid, denied, next

'real women'. As in ad agencies should start using 'real women' in their commercials as if the women they now use are unreal in some way.

Dove in particular can massively fuck off with that one

I hear you, dog. Lot of time, you can sub "straw" for "stupid" too.

"Only reason they make you wear seat belts is to protect the stupid people out there who don't know how to drive."

this ^

although it does raise questions about whether it's okay to ever describe someone as 'stupid'. somehow, calling someone 'stupid' feels like the last bastion in socially acceptable but ultimately offensive/derogatory terms.
i mean, you can get high and mighty and zero-tolerance about calling someone (or a group of people) 'stupid' and at the same time i understand what someone means when they say something is 'a stupid idea' or that someone is 'acting stupid'. what does it mean to call someone a 'stupid person'? i could very well be tempted to call, for example, a right-wing rent-a-gob 'stupid', but that's wrong because I think people like Jeremy Clarkson and Katie Hopkins are probably fairly smart - they just exhibit dangerous and selfish behaviour. In that respect, calling them 'stupid' is an understatement and offensive to those who are under-schooled or suffer from learning difficulties.

https://33.media.tumblr.com/4f0a92bcf9214cb680fb206f7710b954/tumblr_n4bukpiT8a1qbbjkio2_250.gif

Dove in particular can massively fuck off with that one

― kinder, Friday, April 24, 2015 12:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

O! T! M!

"Apples to apples"

'real women'. As in ad agencies should start using 'real women' in their commercials as if the women they now use are unreal in some way.

― pandemic, Friday, April 24, 2015 1:17 PM (2 days ago)

What I really hate about this is that what it actually means is "we're okay with using models who are of (actually just below) average weight, but fuck no we're not using ugly women or women with any body hair or birthmarks or scars or anything else like that, GOD that's gross".