Phrases you hate...

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__________ 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?

pplains, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 20:23 (twelve years ago)

"sorry not sorry"

clouds, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:15 (twelve years ago)

_____ hair don't care

(blonde, red, long, etc.)

bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:32 (twelve years ago)

"That's right, I said it"

I think you mean

"That's right, I went there"

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:37 (twelve years ago)

"mouth feel"

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:56 (twelve years ago)

"You're welcome."

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

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:32 (twelve years ago)

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

You're welcome.

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:32 (twelve years ago)

Like that.

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:32 (twelve years ago)

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

jmm, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:34 (twelve years ago)

Not that I would use it myself.

jmm, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:38 (twelve years ago)

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.

clouds, Thursday, 27 February 2014 14:58 (twelve years ago)

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

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:01 (twelve years ago)

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

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:24 (twelve years ago)

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

my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:23 (twelve years ago)

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

my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:25 (twelve years ago)

"you don't get to dot dot dot"

Mordy , Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:26 (twelve years ago)

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

james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:30 (twelve years ago)

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

Aimless, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:36 (twelve years ago)

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

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:13 (twelve years ago)

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.

pplains, Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:17 (twelve years ago)

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

james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:18 (twelve years ago)

any nailing not involving metal fasteners

blot it out (Hunt3r), Monday, 3 March 2014 02:52 (twelve years ago)

"that happened"

Danity Faxath (contenderizer), Monday, 3 March 2014 10:53 (twelve years ago)

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

inside out trousers (dog latin), Monday, 3 March 2014 12:26 (twelve years ago)

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

james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 15:54 (twelve years ago)

"Oh [dramatic pause] my God."

cwkiii, Friday, 7 March 2014 15:44 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

pplains, Monday, 24 March 2014 14:23 (twelve years ago)

Thatz not okay.

"Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 March 2014 15:00 (twelve years ago)

bad taste. ironic, eh?

I wear the fucking pin, don't I? (Aimless), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:09 (twelve years ago)

Ewww.

Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:10 (twelve years ago)

"I'm gonna have to call out ___"

james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:18 (twelve years ago)

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

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 28 March 2014 00:24 (twelve years ago)

be that as it may

nakhchivan, Friday, 28 March 2014 00:36 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

the expression "cool beans"

joygoat, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:32 (twelve years ago)

or "spill the beans"

take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:21 (twelve years ago)

alright cool your beans

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:27 (twelve years ago)

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

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:40 (twelve years ago)

*incredulous tone, roll eyes* "pass."

ale burphard iii (Hunt3r), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:00 (twelve years ago)

xp /"is that even a thing"

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:08 (twelve years ago)

"is that a thing that happened?" etc.

kms

i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:52 (twelve years ago)

This a thing that happened.

Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:55 (twelve years ago)

oof forgot the "is"

failure

Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:55 (twelve years ago)

This happened.

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:56 (twelve years ago)

This
Is this a thing
Is this a thing
that happened
Is this even a thing
that happened
this happened
this is a thing
that happened
this

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:58 (twelve years ago)

is my poem

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 16:58 (twelve years ago)

lcd soundsystem song

ale burphard iii (Hunt3r), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:00 (twelve years ago)

it's a thing
it's a thing
it's a real thing
it's a thing
it's a thing
it's a real real thing

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:01 (twelve years ago)

even better than the real thing

clouds, Monday, 14 April 2014 22:45 (twelve years ago)

I know the feeling. It is the real thing. You can't refuse the embrace.

how's life, Monday, 14 April 2014 22:47 (twelve years ago)

All right, kind of hate to say it, but it's time to stop telling ugly guys married to pretty women that they've "outkicked their coverage."

Phrase had a good run and - needless to say - scored a lot of points, but no, it's over.

pplains, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:35 (twelve years ago)


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