Phrases you hate...

How is "binge-watching" not on this page yet.

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?'.

What. The. Fuck.

'Learns' is popular here. Infuriating.

there is literally no need for this. are they trying to avoid the word 'lesson'? why not say 'what have you learnt from this?'?

'learns'
no
no
NO

I lessoned some learns at school today.

I've heard "learnings" but "learns" is some next-level wrongheadedness

Here endeth the learn.

getting all the learns

i guess you learns a new thing every day

sick learn

feel the learn

3rd degree learn

learn notice

ha that sounds like a real thing

when your CIA handler calls you and tells you.... you've been learned

so many feels about this

"There's no 'there' there" is the worst expression of all expressions. Far worse than "think outside the box."

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.

there's no 'tree' there

"caping for"

caping for???

"by far one of the _____" is my new least favorite phrase

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.

"good shoot"/"bad shoot"

herding cats

caping for???

davey wrote this at 2016-05-12 20:22:51.000

I think it means "defending someone who you know has done wrong". I think I have just spent way too much time reading the gawker comments section and I should reconsider my life choices.

I find 'TTTT' functional and clever but it has suffered from overuse like anything else

caping = more polite way to use the "captain save a ____" idea? shameful.

I think "caping" has been around a while, typically means fighting for a view or cause without questioning whether it's something worthwhile or worthy

oh ok
new to me

never heard of TTTT

See Treesh above

"fur babies"

Fur babies is by far one of the annoying phrases, hands down.

"This is a story about...", usually on a BBC4 doc. I blame Adam Curtis.

xp

TT.TT
used in txt and chat rooms.
TT.TT = cry/sad
kind of like :.(
person:ur cat just died.

me:TT.TT
#tt.tt #t.t #txt misenged #space txt #txt
by barana December 10, 2008

Forever home

^yes hate this so much, seems like something that would repel as many people as it charms if not more. has it come into common use in the last few months or have I just started noticing it?

Few months ime

I've got a rolling list of awful phrases.

Lol at 1st response there

circle back

I'm happy that I only am guilty of using two of the phrases/words on Alfred's list, and only sparingly. I'm going to try to do better.

circle back

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)

Pleonasms don't offend me besides "refer back" or "reply back"

ok, we've got to stop firing off emails.

Forever home

Furever home is even worse.

"I'm sorry, but--"

Why are you sorry? Are you seriously remorseful here? If you are, why did you say what you said? If you're not, why did you say "I'm sorry"? Just say what you fucking mean and don't apologize for it, jesus

Sometimes that's like, a verbal tic that comes from being afraid people are going to get mad at you. I used to say that a lot - I've transitioned to "idk but" - but my goal is to purge all that stuff from my vocabulary.