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Most annoying "spoken phrases" you hear

Blue Velvet said:
Oh, and anyone referring to something as being 'gay' when they really mean awful deserves an ice-pick through the forehead...
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I know a lot of gays that use that terminology. Like when someone walks into a room and says, You know what's gay?. And they point at the gayest one in the room and we all laugh. 😛 Seems to be a similar situation with ****** or negro (which is just Spanish for black). It's not funny to be gay or black, but our usage of the words throughout history and our perception of tolerance have made them hilarious in (or out) on context. Ignorance is not talking about it. 🙂

Who are you calling a homeowner?

*****
Wherever you go ... there you are.
Stop it! Just stop it already! 😡


peace | neut
 
PowerBooks next Tuesday!

'Cept this time, it might be true. 😉

We need to be more retroactive and do a paradigm shift by thinking outside the box. People actually talk like that! Just admit you're dumb and get on with it. Misusing your and you're, they're and their. And there. Starting a sentence with and or but. But I do that all the time, so I shouldn't complain. 😛

Ending a sentence with of.
 
Going Forward

As in, "Going forward, we need to make sure that..."

Considering the linear, unidirectional nature of time's flow in most offices, we really don't have any choice but to implement such a change "going forward."
 
Checked but didn't see:
"No problem"........[slap]
And this one melts my listening ear: "To be honest with you"....which puts me in to retro mode thinking all rhetoric up to that point has been the blowing monkeys thing.
 
We nailed "no problem" a couple of time already. Apparently one of the kings of annoying expressions, which makes one wonder why it gets used so often.

But you're right about "to be honest" or "honestly." Terrible expressions, which imply that everything up 'till that point has been a lie.
 
IJ Reilly said:
We nailed "no problem" a couple of time already. Apparently one of the kings of annoying expressions, which makes one wonder why it gets used so often.
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Eclipsed only by "no problemo", especially when pronounced with the "surfer dude" accent.


Uh, about those TPS reports....Um, yeah....
 
"At the end of the day..." really bothers me too.

Also, I used to have a friend who would say 'them ones' instead of 'those ones' argh!
 
FearFactor47 said:
"At the end of the day..." really bothers me too.

Also, I used to have a friend who would say 'them ones' instead of 'those ones' argh!
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I am so with you on the "at the end of the day.." nonsense
 
^^.....well, at the end of the day, people are still going to be saying all these things we hate so much.

😀 😡 😡
 
"If I was...." instead of "If I were..." It's an unreal conditional people, get it right.
"You bet" What in the hell is that?
"I'm gonna...."
"Proactive" Who made this non-word up?
 
stonyc said:
Not really annoying to me, but kind of interesting...

When someone prefaces their next statement with:

"Truthfully..."
"Honestly..."
"Being frank..."

So basically everything else you said to me up until now was a lie... OK, I see. 😉
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How about:

"Let me be brutally honest with you" So now they have the right to be rude.
 
IJ Reilly said:
We nailed "no problem" a couple of time already. Apparently one of the kings of annoying expressions, which makes one wonder why it gets used so often.
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Damn ... i use that one all the time. 😱

It's all good ... i hate it; especially when i say it. 😡


peace | neut
 
Lord Blackadder said:
Eclipsed only by "no problemo", especially when pronounced with the "surfer dude" accent.
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I blame Bart Simpson for that one.

Oh, and any use of "dude" not followed by "ranch."
 
Josh said:
""Touch base with me..."
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That's my pick, too. A stupid piece of management speak that basically means nothing. As for some others I've heard around the workplace...

"Blue sky thinking"
"Win-win situation"
"Empowering/Empowerment"
"Movers and shakers"
"Sing from the same hymn sheet/reading from the same page"
"He's a real team player"
"Guestimate"

I also enjoy hearing people pronounce paradigm as 'paradiggum'. 😀

And I have genuinely been given business cards stating the individuals job title as 'Imagineer'. Pretentious tosser would have been closer to the mark.
 
Here are some more:

conversate
guesstimate
you go girl
don't go there
at the end of the day
with all due respect
fantabulous
 
IJ Reilly said:
I blame Bart Simpson for that one.

Oh, and any use of "dude" not followed by "ranch."
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Dude and rad will never die! 😀


Jaffa Cake said:
And I have genuinely been given business cards stating the individuals job title as 'Imagineer'. Pretentious tosser would have been closer to the mark.
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Imagineer was used in a skit on Mr. Show, Imagineer It with Greg Sniper (1996, #204, "IF YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE A COMEDY SCENE, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME RAT FECES IN THERE")


peace | neut
 
Blue Velvet said:
Anything picked up from TV, be it ad or show.

Talk to the hand... Whassup... etc.
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Badditude (Doge) was my marketing fav ... 🙄

TV picked up the hand and and the wassup from the streets (not to be confused with the Streets).


peace | neut
 
neut said:
Dude and rad will never die😀 peace | neut
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I'm glad that "gnarly" did 😎
And I've ceased from using modernity's ruination and cheapening of "awesome", pwoimenantly.
 
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