Phrases you hate...

interjections have the porn market cleaned up though let's face it
oh! ah! uh! ooh! wait!

The first time I remember being aware of the "___ porn" construction was during the housing bubble, when it seemed like shows and magazine features and the like about oversized homes were suddenly everywhere, and I thought "Real Estate Porn" was actually a great descriptor because it captured the vulgarity of it all. Now it's definitely overused and has lost its bite.

Not to mention it takes away from actual real estate porn where participants are eager to show off their open house.

i can't even with all these feels

"Man Cave"

"hot mess"

"eyeballs"

In content meetings about our online readership, I hear questions like "How do we get more eyeballs looking at the page and how do we get those eyeballs to stay on the page?"

And I'm like, I don't know, don't advertise at pirate or purple people eater conventions?

"meatspace"

"hot mess"

― nackt nacht (doo dah), Monday, December 16, 2013 7:01 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hate this so much. or hot minute.

Apropos

'A mail' instead of 'an email'.

Every time someone uses "blue pill/red pill" I don't know whether to punch through a wall or cry.

Depends on which pill you choose.

And whether the "wall" I want to punch through is the wall of illusion.

"Too soon?"
"tough on crime"
"That's right, I said it"
"first world problem"

idgi -- what's red pill/blue pill?

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."