Phrases you hate...

"nailed it!"

ugh

any nailing not involving metal fasteners

― blot it out (Hunt3r), Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:52 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

nailed it first!

"hot mess"

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

This one really needs to go away now.

"right"

As in boss-speak, such as:

"We've got to get these numbers down to a managable level, right? That involves being more efficient in processes, right? Looking at our procedures and leveraging the other teams, right? etc etc etc etc , right?"

It's not a question, it's a way of assuming that people understand/agree with what you're saying without having to verify they actually do, and then to string together lots of these assumptions without ever having to take a break in speaking.

― Dominique, Thursday, April 24, 2014 2:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

similarly, i really hate "no?" super condescending like:

"that is a terrible argument, no?"

"surely your statement falls on its face, no?"

"there are clearly more factors at play, no?

i speak some spanish and "no?" is used all the time and i don't mind it in that language. it's so ubiquitous and harmless and not used at all in the sense i'm describing

i don't know if this is exactly appropriate for this thread but i want to unburden myself somewhere. a job description i read today had the line "the successful candidate will have a passion for winning"

"morning win".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un6kN5lmFnQ

a passion for winning

lance armstrong should apply

"bucket list" -- in addition to hating the concept, I just think it sounds gross. It makes me picture a bucket filled with fish guts, or manure, or harsh cleaning products or something.

I mean, when I think of "what is important to me to do in my life" I definitely tend to picture those important things just kinda slopped together in a "bucket." And then I have a "list" of the things that are in that bucket, because otherwise it might be hard to know what was in the slop.

I also hate "___ things to ___ before you die." Oh, before I die, that's clarifying, thank you.

yeah, that's so vulgar, i now use "place these x activities in your someday/maybe folder."

people who organize their lives that way are disgusting savages

that's how Romney organized his women iirc

now that i'm here -- "i want you to eat, sleep, and breathe ___________"
i think that phrase is sadistic

i think romney used binders which is good because if you just tuck them into folders they might get away, whereas binders, they are actually fastened in there.

The idea of living to check a bunch of things off a list is in itself depressing to me. It sounds more like anxiety about having someone think you didn't enjoy your life than actually wanting to enjoy your life.

it's the tyranny of goals

"Let's see, eat like five or more slices of pizza in one sitting, check. Masturbate in a work bathroom stall during business hours without anyone noticing, check. I'm doing pretty well here. Livin life to the fullest. *posts results to facebook*"

comportment and orientation are more impt than goals imo

"in terms of"

also bucket list is a phrase that came about because of that crappy morgan freeman/jack nicholson movie, right?

I think the phrase pre-dated the movie.

I've complained about this elsewhere but, and this is particularly endemic on Pinterest, when people will put up a list of fun activities and say "For the family's summer bucket list!" Like, are you planning on a family murder suicide in September or what?

All mortal things must pass... so we're takin' the kids to Wisconsin Dells!

lololol

lol carlagatha

links to news stories or status updates in the form of solitary sentences starting "So"

"So" _ *link about botched execution*

So that happened

"the new normal"

"here, here" instead of "hear, hear"

"The likes of"

using 'a' to refer to an actual person i.e. (I was hoping the team would trade for an Andre Miller or a Kirk Heinrich..)

Your Peyton Mannings and your Tom Bradys

"said" as in "said person." or "jim lost his hat on the train. the next day, louis found said hat." feel like people on facebook and in college newspapers use "said" all the time to try to be witty and funny but it just sounds dumb.

Lawyers use "said" a lot because they forgot how to write like normal people and it is very irritating.

also "____ porn" e.g. "food porn", "ruin porn"

sex porn

the expression "cool beans"

― joygoat, Monday, April 14, 2014 10:32 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I swore I had posted that on this thread but I hate "cool beans" so so so much.

Lawyers use "said" a lot because they forgot how to write like normal people and it is very irritating.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god we could do a whole separate thread on legal phrases

I have a theory that a lot of legal writing is anxiety-driven. "Assuming, arguendo, that Defendants' proposed reading of the statute is correct...." i.e. "Judge, just to be clear, I'm not conceding their point!!!!"

Same thing with "distinguishing" every single case that the other side uses even where it's a minor point or irrelevant. Oh and I hate the word "inapposite" although it kind of serves its purpose, like many legal terms.

I thought about starting a separate thread for legal terms but then I thought it would just be depressing. Although maybe a 77 thread of "shit lawyers say" could be useful. Some of the utter crapola that people will file just boggles my mind.

kind of a different thing, but you reminded me of this thread that I started a while ago and totally forgot about:
The thread where I post strange items I come across in my legal news reporting job

"what a coinkydink" and "cool beans"

ugh so much hate

i liked coinkydink until it became a widespread thing. i don't hear 'cool beans' enough for it to actively annoy me. I've heard 'cool your beans' which is just weird.

Someone at work used to say 'stop getting eggy with me' and i hated that.

This sort of fits:

lol everyone is always "lacerated." Plaintiffs never just be gettin cut.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 1:55 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate "cool beans" because my stepmother always used it, except she would spell it "kewl" because she is a ridiculous human being.

I am strangely charmed by "cool your beans," however.

deheat yr legumes, compadre

do people actually say "cool your beans" cause I thought I just made that up