Phrases you hate...

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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)

I didn't even know that was a thing?

1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:40 (twelve years ago)

"please and thank you"

clouds, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:44 (twelve years ago)

I didn't even know that was a thing?

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You may have dodged it since you all haven't seen as many field-goal attempts from the 48-yard line as we have.

pplains, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:49 (twelve years ago)

let's destroy all sports metaphors while we're at it

clouds, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:00 (twelve years ago)

is this also the wordhate thread? because i heard the word "plump" on tv this morning and felt sick to my stomach

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:10 (twelve years ago)

Referring to anything as "heady", which becomes infinitely worse when followed by the word "brew"

joygoat, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:41 (twelve years ago)

xxp as much as i don't mind both npr and baseball i hate hearing "step up to the plate" constantly during npr pledge drives.

fit and working again, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:47 (twelve years ago)


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