Words and phrases I hate

[JonM]

"Gift" as a verb. Nope.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"who wudda thunk it?" is getting rather old too

Misuse of "literally". "I got scared and literally jumped 50 feet in the air"... impossible.

 

[HoppyDaze]

"Gift" as a verb. Nope.

I was going to gift you a "like" to this post until I read it...

 

[m_c_zero]

"It's Monday, you're already two hours late; are you planning on showing up to work?" I hate that one...

 

[BorealBrewer]

Working in a park, my pet hate is "Gophers": with apologies to Minnesota's Golden variety...gopher as a catch-all for chipmunks, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, moles, voles...arrgh! The park is home to all of that list -except gophers!

"No, sir, the gopher did not eat your tent. The chipmunk did, and it's didn't so much eat your tent as chew the spilled cola out of the fabric."

Also, "lime" and "beer" in the same sentence, worse if the term "lite" is involved, too.

Gopher Lime Lite Beer - yeah, I'll pass.

 

[kingwood-kid]

When It's All Said And Done, The Bottom Line is that I am irritated by the overuse of At The End Of The Day.

 

[cluckk]

Working in a park, my pet hate is "Gophers": with apologies to Minnesota's Golden variety...gopher as a catch-all for chipmunks, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, moles, voles...arrgh! The park is home to all of that list -except gophers!

"No, sir, the gopher did not eat your tent. The chipmunk did, and it's didn't so much eat your tent as chew the spilled cola out of the fabric."

Also, "lime" and "beer" in the same sentence, worse if the term "lite" is involved, too.

Gopher Lime Lite Beer - yeah, I'll pass.

"Gopher it!"

 

[wickman6]

"that said...". Usually when I see that one, its followed by some statement that totally contradicts what came before it.

"no you shouldn't pitch an entire yeast cake, its overpitching for sure. That said, I do it all the time with no problems."

 

[brick_haus]

I can't...
I think (If you don't know, say so)
Anything that starts with "Dad, I'm running a little low on cash...:"

 

[wickman6]

And "yeasties"

 

[superbob404]

touchdown packers

Funny....are you a Viking fan by chance?

 

[CGVT]

Score the basketball as in, The Nets need to score the basketball. For most of my lifetime score was enough

The quarterback position as in: what is needed to play the quarterback position... See above

Pretty awesome. There are no degrees of awesomeness. Either something is awesome or it is not.

And of course the usual suspects of At this point in time and On a daily basis.

Stop it!

 

[turvis]

Stay cation and vaca I wanna punch babies ( figuratively of course ) when I hear those.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My wife refers to breakfast as "brekky"... I dislike this.

 

[cluckk]

I don't like the far too common use of expletives. And I don't mean only the curse words, but also include those words we use to fill in for them or just to fill space with a bit of emotional emphasis. Does every single thing said demand an expletive to convince me the person is serious? Is the speaker incapable of putting emphasis in a sentence without peppering it with expletives? Try something new: build a vocabulary, say what you mean and use the words themselves or the word order to give emphasis. For example:

"Get out of here!"
"Get the Hell (f, frick, heck, etc.) out of here!"

Is the second really more powerful than the first? The first is what the second is saying, but the second is used to make it an exclamation. Isn't that what the exclamation mark (in writing) or tone of voice (when spoken) is meant to do?

Believe me, as a former NCO, when I raise my voice people know I mean it.

 

[Homercidal]

Creeper!

or even

Get away from me, old man! Security!

 

[jsguitar]

I hate it when political pundits on TV say 'look' right before they give their opinion. I guess it's supposed to be some kind of assertive statement that their opinion is the valid one, but look..... it's just annoying.

 

[JonM]

This kind of stuff:

www.theonion.com/articles/manager-achieves-full-mastery-of-pointless-manager,2622/

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Here's one I am personally guilty of. When explaining something with some measure of authority (in my case, often the American Civil War), starting a paragraph with "You have to remember."

No, they dont have to do anything.

 

[BorealBrewer]

Just had to send an email off to a colleague in Saskatchewan - made me think of another one:

Bunny Hug.

For some reason hooded sweatshirst are referred to as "Bunny Hugs" in the province of Saskatchewan.

You ever see a 220lb farm boy hockey playing touch guy whine that he spilled beer on his favourite "Bunny Hug"? It's a sad, sad scene. And not because of the spilled beer - because a grown man is whining about his Bunny Hug.

Than-you, everyone! This post has been cathartic, and helped me work through some deep-seated stuff regarding word choice.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Oh, I really hate "no homo"

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

 

[Beer_is_good_for_you]

Gangnam Style or _____ Style for that matter. Also, shortening random words, like Creamy mentioned above. My fiancee's sister said "rando" yesterday instead of random. WTF? Just say the whole word!

 

[Pilgarlic]

I hate it when political pundits on TV say 'look' right before they give their opinion. I guess it's supposed to be some kind of assertive statement that their opinion is the valid one, but look..... it's just annoying.

Yes, emphatically.

 

[Subsailor]

I agree with many examples supplied here and would like to include the hand gesture for "Quote:Unquote".

 

[CGVT]

With all due respect...

With all due respect? I call bull****. When someone starts out with those words there is no respect coming. Just have the balls to disagree ffs.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

With all due respect...

With all due respect? I call bull****. When someone starts out with those words there is no respect coming. Just have the balls to disagree ffs.

Sometimes I'll qualify a comment with "my disagreement is both respectful and complete." Basically "I think you are totally and completely wrong but I dont think you are an idiot"

 

[JonM]

"Legit." It's okay when it comes from a gangster who's trying to get on the right side of the law in an old movie, it's annoying as hell when a 20 something uses it to refer to everything, as in "the dress is legit red" or "he was legit skiing" or "she was hammered, like, legit hammered, OMG."

 

[worksnorth]

In the shortened words category, it messes with me when people use the term "meds" for medicine.
Then there is the usage of "unthaw" while the person is describing the act of thawing something.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

People should be fined for using "axe" rather than "ask."

 

[turvis]

In the shortened words category, it messes with me when people use the term "meds" for medicine.
Then there is the usage of "unthaw" while the person is describing the act of thawing something.

Wouldn't unthaw be the act of freezing.