Turn of phrases you hate

[ptirman]

I here you.

 

[Cagey]

I suppose so.  I just don't run into people who use it a lot aside from philosophical discussion.  I asked my brother, and he said it's used annoyingly in middle management buzz word hype meetings, so maybe that's the annoying popular culture reference point.

I used to work for a mega-corp, and one of the most valuable talents you could learn was to keep from laughing at middle managers in the middle of a meeting. Especially when it was obvious they were using words they didn't understand, but knew were politically powerful due to their low use in normal conversation. I mean, who says "paradigm" or "facilitate" in real life? Sometimes they'd even mispronounce them, so they were busted right out of the box. "It's a paradidgem we aren't familiar with, so we need to proactively facilitate an ongoing methodology for out-of-the-box thinking." (Triumphant and defiant pause while changing the slide on the neverending mind-numbing poorly-produced PowerPoint presentation...)

 

[AprioriMark]

I suppose so.  I just don't run into people who use it a lot aside from philosophical discussion.  I asked my brother, and he said it's used annoyingly in middle management buzz word hype meetings, so maybe that's the annoying popular culture reference point.

I used to work for a mega-corp, and one of the most valuable talents you could learn was to keep from laughing at middle managers in the middle of a meeting. Especially when it was obvious they were using words they didn't understand, but knew were politically powerful due to their low use in normal conversation. I mean, who says "paradigm" or "facilitate" in real life? Sometimes they'd even mispronounce them, so they were busted right out of the box. "It's a paradidgem we aren't familiar with, so we need to proactively facilitate an ongoing methodology for out-of-the-box thinking." (Triumphant and defiant pause while changing the slide on the neverending mind-numbing poorly-produced PowerPoint presentation...)

Man, that would drive me insane.  I have a low tolerance for stupidity, and I have a near inability to keep my mouth shut when it comes to arrogant, aggressive stupidity.  It's my biggest personal flaw. 

-Mark

 

[Superlizard]

(terms not phrases)

"scalable"
"robust"
"media-rich"
anything + "phobe" i.e. "Islamophobe"

OTOH, "grab the greased elephant by the balls" is a classic.

 

[Cagey]

Man, that would drive me insane.  I have a low tolerance for stupidity, and I have a near inability to keep my mouth shut when it comes to arrogant, aggressive stupidity.  It's my biggest personal flaw. 

That's one of the reasons I don't work there any more. It was a soul-sucking job. Paid like crime, but it wasn't worth it. You were constantly walking around with the stink of deception on you, which is hard to sustain if you have any personal integrity at all. Alcohol helps, and I don't think I've ever met so many alcoholics in my life outside of an automotive plant, but that only lasts for so long before you have to say "uncle" in order to get back up.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I here you.

Eye here ewe two.

 

[Soylent]

France.

 

[Alfang]

" It is what it is"  gags me

"Hey Joe, what's new?"............"Word"      whaaat?     Word?

" LOL"  Overused, and no one is really laughing outloud, nevermind ROTFLMFAO, never happens

Let me ax a question

You want another Beer? That's a dumb question of course I do.

And I get  tired of people in stores telling me  "have a nice day" They don't really care, my nice day is not up to them. It's really not up to me either because "It is what it is"

 

[Graffiti62]

As far a my least favorite, the thing I hate is when people use the word "perturbed."  I had an ex-girlfirend who said it to sound smart. The best moment of my relationship with her is when we broke up, and she came over to pick up her things. At the moment she walked in, no bulls**t, the radio came on with Elton John's "The Bitch Is Back."

I do have to share my favorite phrase, which comes fromy little brother:

".....and the next thing I knew.....there was fire"

 

[OzziePete]

"Outside the box" is right there with "thrown under the bus."

PLEASE!

No throwing things under, at or anywhere the bus.............us bus drivers have enough to contend with, let alone bad phrasing.....  :icon_tongue:


My pet peeve is "absooooooluuuuuutely", as used in a million info-mercials. Though 'at the end of the day' usually gets me gnashing my teeth.

 

[lidesnowi]

That's impossible!