Phrases that need to die a quick, excruciating death

[CreamyGoodness]

"Welp."

I have an unnatural hatred for this expression.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I enjoy talking with people that end a sentence with "so...". When they do it I'll just stare at them sipping coffee waiting for them to continue. Might as well make it awkward.

One of my friends also likes to ask me how my day was while we are having a beer and proceed to respond with, "huh?" after I have told my story. Quite often, he'll do it multiple times in a row in which case I change the story each time throwing in unicorns and goblins.

Huh is another good one. I just talked for 5 minutes, Im expecting an answer. When people respond with "huh?" I make them as uncomfortable as humanly possible. "Where did you get lost, I had a lot of information there" "uh... I didnt get any of it" "so you let me go on for 5 minutes? what were you doing in that time?"

This is particularly true with store associates.

 

[jcoxen]

Politically correct.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

No offense...

Often followed by something racist, ignorant, sexist, or a personal attack with no constructive part of a conversation in sight. People act like its a get out of jail free card that allows them to be pricks.

"it's in the Geneva Convention. look it up."

 

[wrm]

xxx-gate. Enough with that already.

(Yea I know. It's not going to go away. *sigh*)

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I think we need to have a scandal, real or produced, that involves an actual gate. I dont think the media would keep it up with xxx-gate after "Gategate"

 

[Homercidal]

xxx-gate. Enough with that already.

(Yea I know. It's not going to go away. *sigh*)

XXX- Gate??

How did I miss this one? Sounds awesome...

 

[TheZymurgist]

Isn't quick and excruciating a contradiction?

How do you figure? It's certainly possible to experience an extreme amount of pain in a short period of time.

 

[Falcon3]

"Global climate change is a farce"


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[CreamyGoodness]

How do you figure? It's certainly possible to experience an extreme amount of pain in a short period of time.

Just look at that song "Royals".

 

[BreezyBrew]

it goes with out saying, if I can be honest, that I personally feel the ultimate life hack is YOLO. to be fair, it's generational to think outside the box and gift someone an app. I know, right? seriously? it may or may not be a reach out, but I got news for you. :hashtag:YOLO, yo.

Haha made me laugh. I was waiting for your post BK. Top of my list are "Needless to say" and pretty much any 90s slang that my wife/friends/coworkers say. You're 3X years old, it's time to stop the "holla" and start "holler" ing.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

I dont think the media would keep it up with xxx-gate after "Gategate"

I don't know a XXX-gate could very well keep it up......
Sorry, just had to.


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[Barley_Bob]

Nooooooo! Someone beat me to gate-gate! I've been bitching about this for years! Gate watch, 2014: When will it stop?!

I'm also in complete agreement with the analysis on "No offense, but..." My wife does this all the time, and I always have to mentally pause the conversation to put on my boxing gloves.

"-hack" is also really awful. Life-hack is pretty bad, but I hate "Food-hack" more. You cannot hack a watermellon, and whatever fancy trick you have to show me is already in a cookbook somewhere. Let's just call this "cooking" and move on.

Next on the list is ending a sentence with a trailing so. As in, "I have to travel this weekend, so..." "So shut the f*** up!" says Barley Bob. Whatever was supposed to come next was probably a total waste of my time anyway, and, if you really can't piece a complex sentence together in your head before you open your mouth, just don't speak at all.

 

[TheCADJockey]

"Phenomenal" because it is more often than not blurted out pretentiously as "phenaaawmenal".

 

[619Brewer]

Kids seem to like to use "ratchet" as a pejorative, which makes no sense. All I picture is this:
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This has been a recent discovery of mine as well. I'm 33 years old and I'm just now hearing this term for the first time a couple of months back. I'm told it means a hoe or slutty girl. I know every generation has their phrases or words that are nonsense but is used all the time, but this one shined a light on the fact that I'm officially out of touch. You know what? I'm ok with that.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I always liked "no offense". it's a fun way to let someone know that you're going to insult them before you actually insult them. they know it's coming. they just don't know the severity of the insult. it can range from "No offense, but you're a d!ck." to "No offense, but the most intelligent thing to come out of your mouth was my grandma's balls."

 

[TheCADJockey]

I always liked "no offense". it's a fun way to let someone know that you're going to insult them before you actually insult them. they know it's coming. they just don't know the severity of the insult. it can range from "No offense, but you're a d!ck." to "No offense, but the most intelligent thing to come out of your mouth was my grandma's balls."

Thanks, now I'm craving spaghetti.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

No offense...

Often followed by something racist, ignorant, sexist, or a personal attack with no constructive part of a conversation in sight. People act like its a get out of jail free card that allows them to be pricks.

Twin that with "With all due respect"

Of course, that means they are about to disrespect you.

With all due respect, you are a total bell end. I'm not surprised your wife left you, I bet your skin would do the same if it could.

 

[TheZymurgist]

I totally forgot about the "words and phrases I hate" thread. I guess I should have just posted this there...

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I totally forgot about the "words and phrases I hate" thread. I guess I should have just posted this there...

I've never heard that phrase before. I don't get it.

 

[Trox]

Anyone who uses the word "hella" needs to be high fived, in the face, with a cinder block.





Repeatedly

 

[TheZymurgist]

Anyone who uses the word "hella" needs to be high fived, in the face, with a cinder block.





Repeatedly

That's hella harsh, brah.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Anyone who uses the word "hella" needs to be high fived, in the face, with a cinder block.





Repeatedly

they hella tried, son. I tried hella harder. my smile ended up hella prettier.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Why do we have to have a hyped up name for a winter snowfall.
Snowmaggedon
Snowpocalypse
Snoverkill
Snowicane
Kaisersnoze
Etc....
We used to just call it WINTER, now suddenly post 2009 snow has to have a fancy name to drive the hysteria, and cause a run on beer/liquor, smokes, milk, bread, and the meat counter at the store. At least our priorities are clear.

Also a run on bottled water, which I never understood. I think there is a way to convert snow into potable water.

 

[biertourist]

"may or may not be".


Also, when a sentence starts out with "Personally, I...".

"Thank you for calling. Department of Redundancy Department. Thank you for calling."

 

[cfonnes]

Wait, what?

 

[TasunkaWitko]

I was going to stay out of this threads, precisely for the reasons stated by a member early on in the thread:

me being mad about it is going to make people stop doing it, so why get riled up? People do things I find dumb/pointless/ridiculous all the time, but I generally just chuckle inside now instead of getting angry. Makes things a lot more pleasant.

But I gotta say - for me, the one that really grinds my gears is when people start a story/monologue/whatever with "So,...."

I know it's dumb, I know it's petty, I know its inconsequential, but it makes me see red for some reason. It's bad enough when spoken, but then when people do it in writing, it's even worse.

Rant off! Carry on!

 

[jafo28]

I don't know what it is, but when someone says trending, or when something is trending, I want to smack them silly. It's usually a TV reporter saying it, so you don't need much of a reason to want to smack them.

 

[boydster]

... YOLO would probably take second, but I don't believe that one to be harmful in any way. Just incredibly annoying...

YOLO: The new, dumbed-down way for kids to say "Carpe Diem".

Also, to add to Airplanedoc's list of unnecessary suffixes, I'd like to nominate -gate. Every new issue that comes up does not need to be inflated in this kind of way. Sometimes a snow storm is just a snow storm. Sometimes emails are just emails.

Finally, "You never know." It only irritates me when it is used as an excuse to justify taking some absurd action related to a circumstance or event that is not physically possible or to rationalize an otherwise completely irrational belief. Sometimes you do know, and telling someone otherwise doesn't make your cockamamie idea or suggestion any less cockamamie. Flying monkeys? Yes, I do know they aren't waiting in the trees outside my front door right now.

 

[petey_c]

I hate "think outside the box." My son once asked me if I think outside the box. I responded "No, but that's because my box is bigger than everyone else's."

See, when I hear that phrase I think of "Terry Tate Office Linebacker"