― Elly, Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
"slippery slope…""as it were…" "if you will…"
― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
"let's touch base""I hear what you say"
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PS - Check out Bullshit Bingo.
― Jack L., Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
- "Know what I'm sayin'?" -- Tell ya what, if I don't know what you're saying I'LL FUCKING ASK! Until then, let's just assume that I do.
- "Taking things to a whole `nother level" - Why must life now be reduced to a giant game of "Donkey Kong"?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― I AM OTM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
- Just triple-checking (never seems to check or double-check, though)
- Would you mind— and if you do, that's totally fine, just tell me, it's 100% perfect if you don't want to— but, could you possibly...
― I AM OTM, Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Going back to the very first one, my boss's boss is also inclined to talk about 'ticks in boxes'. I have tried to use "putting ticks outside of boxes" as if it represents a highly desirable combination of creativity and getting the job done, but no one is really buying it at the moment, presumably because they know me.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link
these two always come up in "phrases you hate" discussions. what's wrong with them?
― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― What a pisser, Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
pretty much
― What a pisser!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 20 November 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
This one isn't a phrase but it confuses me:"Excuse me" being used by people walking in your general direction who aren't going to crash into you & you're really not posing any kind of obstacle to them going on their merry way, which leads me to assume it's an attention-getting device, as in "Hi I'm walking past you now, saw you weren't really noticing me, don't freak out at my proximity to you". Very weird, uniquely American convention that I haven't quite grasped yet.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Sunday, 20 November 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 20 November 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 20 November 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 20 November 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 08:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― BOHICA KAMAREK (BOHICA), Sunday, 20 November 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 20 November 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― harvey d grace, Sunday, 20 November 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― BOHICA KAMAREK (BOHICA), Sunday, 20 November 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...Things you're sick of hearing: Single words, cliches, and tired phrases. Don't read if you hate pedantry. Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug youMost irritating cliche/phrase/expressionFour Words: Use Other Words Please"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!"Use other phrases pleaseBanal phrases that pepper everyday office conversation - report them here
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 20 November 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 20 November 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
alba, youre everyones fact checkin' cuz
― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Repeating the past isn't necessarily bad... especially if there is no past for a newcomer.Is this a semi-private board of stuffy folks bent on wanking off only in the company of fellow stuffy board members or what?
― BOHICA KAMAREK (BOHICA), Sunday, 20 November 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes. Precisely! For example, if you were burning to discuss bicameral vs. unicameral legislative bodies, there is already a thread for doing exactly that. Why start any more?
― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 20 November 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― tres letraj (tehresa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
The slowness of full-text searches isn't anything to do with your internet connection speed, btw.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
2. The best thing to do when a string is redundant is to jump right in and announce the fact you have identified it as redundant instead of ignoring it, right?
3. After a three hour recovery period I am perfectly sober again.
4. Boo!
― BOHICA KAMAREK (BOHICA), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
This sends me into fucking orbit for some reason.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― estela (estela), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
"He's burning both ends of the same candle"— I don't know what I hate about it, I just do.
"They're just talking" as a euphemism for two people not in a relationship fooling around up to but not including sex. I actually preferred "being with each other," back when that was the thing to say.
Also, in a previous phrases-you-hate thread I mentioned hating "Can I get..." when asking for something. The only time it should be used is by a Southern Baptist preacher asking for an Amen.
― naus (Robert T), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― estela (estela), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Woot woot
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 16 December 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
you gotta be a cold mf imo to hate on "forever home" / "forever family"
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
I think it's dumb and overly corny
― mh 😏, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Forever Home is definitely on some rainbow bridge fur baby shit.
― how's life, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
The concept that pets are part of your family and not disposable is not at all novel to me, though. I guess it's meant to appeal to people who are overly sentimental yet also shitbags to animals
― mh 😏, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
it's for use with sheltered or fostered pets who will be destroyed unless someone takes them in
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I know what it's used for, and I approve of finding permanent homes for animals who are in danger of being destroyed. 'Permanent home' or even simply 'home' seem like reasonable words for this.
― how's life, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
that's cool, i think that's a reasonable position to take. alls i said was getting ticked off at a bit of schmaltz that's trying to generate empathy to save animal lives makes you a cold mf.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 16 December 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
I hate it so much I just put my cat in the trash can
he liked it too much in there and I had to pull him out
― mh 😏, Friday, 16 December 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
"in this space" or "in the (x) space"
e.g., "We're the only company playing in this space right now," or "Next year we're looking to increase our presence in the home and garden space"
― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
Also "robust," but I see that was called out above
― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Pictures/stories of pets finding homes, particularly any animal saved from an abusive and/or life-threatening situation, are heartwarming. Forever just hits as an unnecessary, treacly superlative to a story that's good enough without it.
"libtard" is another, unrelated one that makes me wince - even "liberal" as a pejorative. So much for a respectful debate, sir/madam.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 16 December 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
"that can be debunked"
*posts link to video*
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 May 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
"claps back"
laughably lame, also strongly connotes 'ineffectual action of a powerless person performed for a day's worth of facebook likes and then forgotten by larger society'
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Basically all phrases used by salespeople for software-as-a-service companies and other vendors. "Hey, Phil, when would be a good time to connect and hop on a webex to see how our service might fit into your marketing stack?" Like, we live in a world where people have to talk to other people like this.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
"If you have a voice, use it"
it's has all the empty platitude of a politician. when spoken by a famous person this advice boils down to "Other people should say something"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
"Rare interview with Thom Yorke"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 June 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
breaking news
(that doesn't mean shit)
― montoya (Ross), Saturday, 6 October 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
Anybody who isn't a gangsta rapper who refers to someone as their "ride or die".
Just call them your friend, you're a 57 year old school teacher
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
"illegal votes"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 November 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
“on point”
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 November 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
"I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads""I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads""I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads"
― unregistered, Monday, 16 November 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
"it just hits different"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 November 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
you will love this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlMkMtK7-8
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Monday, 16 November 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
i like sza
it's just 38 year old blue wave twitter dorks using it in earnest like "the second episode of mandalorian just hit different" or some shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 November 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
'cuddle puddle'
― map ca. 1890 (map), Friday, 19 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
ums otm about 'hits different'. like, i will hit u, even more different
― map ca. 1890 (map), Friday, 19 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
"I work hard, and I play hard."
fuck you, alpha male poser, just do your goddam job and leave the rest of us out of it.
― henry s, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
'bragging rights'
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
^don't hate the phrase, hate the smug assholes who use it literally instead of playfully
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
i recoil with disgust at the entire concept of "bragging rights" because i think bragging itself is ugly behavior.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
I think the phrase "weaponize (anything)" can be dropped down the memory hole.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
"wow factor" on any UK makeover or competition programme. It especially annoys me when people say "a wow factor" instead of "the wow factor". Like "I used this special kind of door to give it a wow factor."
― trishyb, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 11:10 (one year ago) link
I hate dad-phrases that are money-based, such as "I'd pay TOP DOLLAR for blah blah blah", or "they won't get ONE THIN DIME out of me anymore."
― henry s, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link
otm
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link
Real dads don't talk about the money.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, August 15, 2023 6:18 PM bookmarkflaglink
why? it's a legitimate thing that happens and probably the easiest way to sum it up. like the Jonah Hill situation.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
Jonah Hill has been weaponized?
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
In aerosol form yes
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
It's overused, especially by the right. I heard someone--a Republican strategist--on ATL public radio last night talking about how the GA indictments were a "weaponization of the justice system."
What she really meant, of course, was that she was unhappy it was her people getting in trouble.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
“let’s make some memories”Seeing it a lot at the moment.
― Bob Six, Monday, 20 May 2024 10:04 (eight months ago) link
I am not fond of that one either.
*Goes on a camping trip with the kids* "Ah, yes. You're making memories."
Shit, I might have dementia one day. I'm just trying to enjoy the moment now, THANKS.
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2024 16:25 (eight months ago) link
I've worked in local advertising for years and yeah "making memories" is extremely overused, but it is useful in some contexts; like, I think it is important to remember to make memories - we can fall into repetitive patterns where it's the same old same. If you don't make an effort to make new and interesting memories, you're not really living
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:03 (eight months ago) link
we can fall into repetitive patterns where it's the same old same
Ok, hadn't heard the "making memories" vs "memorization" argument yet.
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 00:50 (eight months ago) link
For a while almost everything I read about pop culture contained the words "banger" or "slaps" or "liminal." Now I'm seeing the word "horny" in basically everything, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 December 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link
hella baller
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 2 December 2024 18:24 (two months ago) link
Gave them their flowers/gave him his flowers/gave her her flowers
Been hearing this crop up a lot lately. My understanding is that it means to give public praise and acknowledgement, perhaps to someone whose work has gone unrecognized. I don't know the origin. It just irritates me.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 15:57 (one week ago) link
lol I only know that phrase from Friends, meaning something completely different
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 16:22 (one week ago) link
Flatt & Scruggs - "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living"
Won't you give me my flowers while I'm livingand let me enjoy them while I canPlease don't wait till I'm ready to be buried and then slip some lilies in my hand
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 17:17 (one week ago) link
“victory lap”
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 17:21 (one week ago) link