Phrases you hate...

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Yeah, Scottish people have been saying YASSS for a long time.

I love when ILX gets all YAAASSSS'd out.

I kind of want to post this subthread with everything but "YAAAASSSSS"es blacked out

Did we talk about the odious phrase "open the kimono" here or in another thread? I can't remember, but here's an article that attempts to trace its origins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744/why-corporate-executives-talk-about-opening-their-kimonos

yeah that phrase basically makes me think about old man bodies

Anyone come across 'pooing in the pool', meaning 'to kill somebody else's idea during brainstorming sessions' - e.g. 'I don't want to poo in your pool here, but I don't think this new logo plan is going to fly'.

"You already pooed in my pool just by using that phrase"

What's wrong with good old poo-free "rain on your parade"?

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Man I hate business, and meetings, and work, and capitalism, and productivity, and white boards, and jargon.

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Yeah, that's why the phrase got termed allegedly - you're not supposed to poo in other people's pools during brainstorms, although I will make an exception for the person who thought the term up in the first place.

Babytalk in general in the workplace.

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i do not like it when 'murcans say "preggers"

i have a hard time not saying anything when my friends call me "mama"

wow i totally blurted that out of nowhere after literally years of not saying anything but there it is

We say "pragnant" a a lot

As in how girl get pragnant

i have a hard time not saying anything when my friends call me "mama"

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, November 4, 2014 8:27 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait wait I'm taking notes.

people call you "mama"!?

taking notes? what for?

and yes -- i have several friends who seem to enjoy calling me mama as a term of endearment and frankly i hate it

i'm guessing it's just a habit/something they call their other friends
and i don't want to raise a stink or cut them off from me any more than they are
but i don't like it and i had a little outburst

Sort of in a hippieish way? I think I've heard that once or twice. It's not a very new york thing to do.

i don't even know
usually it's "thanks, mama" or "love you mama" or something like that
it's always done with love i just wish it were another word

Yeah I have heard that somewhere. Maybe at the crunchy baby products store, in which case it was referring to an actual mama but still.

Maybe even worse since it implies the woman is just generic "mama" now.

Oh I call people mama sometimes, I'm pretty sure. Also I've gotten a newfound appreciation for "ma" since I watched a lot of this Botswanan detective show and afaict it's a term of polite address for all women.

yeah i don't like that either

i might feel differently we were both in/from botswana but

that can be said about a lot of things

i understand it's meant as a term of endearment which is why i never piped up

One time I was in the parking lot of a Further show and I sneezed and a young hippie woman said, "Bless you, mama" and I felt like I had been promoted from maid to crone.

Fun fact: the entire time I was in the hospital for my daughter's birth, the nurses routinely called me mama instead of my name, my daughter's pediatrician calls me mama as in "Okay we'll be in exam room two, mama," and sometimes Ivy's daycare teachers call me mama. Easier than learning my name, I guess.

Er maid to mother, I should say.

Haha okay I'll dial it back I mean to the extent that I ever say it (which is prob very little really). Or save it for ppl who won't mind. I don't think it has anything at all to do with actual motherhood but that's just my take.

Oh maybe it does in some places like doctor's offices and etc. Just not in my exp.

i think in those circs it's helpful because it eases people into the idea of being a mother
in my case it just does not apply and i don't like it

i do not like it when 'murcans say "preggers"

― shoot skag listen to sotl (rip van wanko), Tuesday, November 4, 2014 12:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Preggers is horrible.

I have the term "hubby" more than most things.

Mama when said not to actual mothers totally sounds like a hippie thing to me. I don't really hear it that often tbh but it would probably weird me out.

xp Now there's something I can wholeheartedly otm.

do these 'friends' wrestle for bayside?

ok i LOL'd

Have never heard "mama" used by a friend or acquaintance – note even about their mother or mom.

The missionaries all call my dad Uncle, but that's a Mormon thing, from what I gather.

I did get a kick out of it when the nurses at the hospital called Jeff "papa."

pplains ime it's only said among women -- you are probably not privy to those conversations because you are a man! none of my male friends have ever called me mama (or wrestled for bayside lol). they do sometimes call me buddy but i like that alright.

Actually now that I think about it sometimes K's preschool teachers call me "Dad" when I drop her off in the morning.

i have a very hippie fb girl friend who basically calls all women she likes "mama"

Something-whatever "for the win." Honestly, I hate every internet cliche.

the dude who did my first tattoo kept referring to me as 'mama'. i really fucking hated it. i wouldn't care about friends saying this, since they're friends, but some rando dude saying it to me was pretty annoying.

I got an ad on facebook urging me to "Step up [ my] sock game"

My former coworker used to use hubby ALL THE TIME.

Jeff once randomly referred to himself as "husby-husb," which was amazing.