Words and phrases I hate

[Airplanedoc]

I should probably add tom my list

______ Kardashian
Honey Boo Boo
Debt ceiling

 

[Marauder]

"Not right now, I have a headache."

 

[Lushife]

This court finds your behavior offensive.

 

[ronsky]

Agree. "Foodie" just gives me the creeps.

Re: "IMO," there are some who argue that phrases like that are "obvious" and should never be used (because what other opinion could you be expressing?), but I think it's ok occasionally. When you start by making factual statements, then switch to opinions, giving a clue to the reader is worthwhile. Also, if your opinion could be mistaken for a factual statement, it's ok.

But if you're doing it more than once in a while.... you suck (IMO).

See, you should have left the (IMO) off the last sentence. State it as fact, and people will believe you.

And should we start a thread for the emoticons that annoy us? Would it make you or :-( ?

;-)

 

[Airplanedoc]

I hate how everything has to be sugar coated.

Creamy --- Your Okra Mead had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness.

Translated -- this tastes like $hit, don't ever make it again

 

[zeg]

And should we start a thread for the emoticons that annoy us? Would it make you or :-( ?

;-)

The main thing that kills me is displays that swap emoticons for icons... I've been using ascii emoticons for 22 years now, I'll be damned if I need to be told what they're supposed to represent.

That aside, my main peeve with them is don't like the recent trend toward backward smilies

(that, and proportional width fonts)

___/|
\o.O
=(_)=
  U

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

"...and I was all 'OMG!' and she was totally like 'whatever!'

Hearing this makes me want to clean my ear canals with a soldering iron.

"I'm a Foodie."

Translation: "I'm a pretentious butthole and I'm about to tell you all about my superior ability to enjoy what I eat."

 

[JoeyChopps]

I hate the word debunk. As in that myth was totally debunked. It makes people sound like idiots. Why not just say the myth has been disproven?

 

[sendkyleanemail]

The misuse of the terms "less" and "fewer" kind of drives me nuts. Less refers to a decrease in or a relatively smaller contiguous mass, as in "less traffic" whilst fewer refers to a decrease in or a relatively smaller group of individual entities, as is "fewer cars". It irks me when those terms are not used properly.

 

[bobbrews]

Translation: "I'm a pretentious butthole and I'm about to tell you all about my superior ability to enjoy what I eat."

Haha, the funny thing is that half of the time these self-proclaimed "foodies" are eating at places like Chipotle, PF Chang, or Benihana, and then posting a picture of their meal on Twitter with an equally retarded hashtag. It's especially funny when they don't even know how to cook well themselves, and just eat out all the time.

Labeling yourself a "Foodie" is a slap in the face to good chefs if you're not actually what you say you are... But yeah, I don't like the sound of the word itself either.

 

[ronsky]

Translation: "I'm a pretentious butthole and I'm about to tell you all about my superior ability to enjoy what I eat."

Hmm... This definition makes me wonder how come I have never heard nor seen the term 'beerie'.

 

[JoeyChopps]

Hmm... This definition makes me wonder how come I have never heard nor seen the term 'beerie'.

The term isn't beerie is home brew on HBT...... I kid I kid

 

[Brewtah]

When a server says "jewscream". I am thinking they are in a hurry? Just say "do you use cream"?
Uber
Flip
BFF
Anything "gate". Even beergate.

 

[Lushife]

When a server says "jewscream". I am thinking they are in a hurry? Just say "do you use cream"?
Uber
Flip
BFF
Anything "gate". Even beergate.

Never heard that before. It sounds like something the nazis were doing.

 

[zeg]

Haha, the funny thing is that half of the time these self-proclaimed "foodies" are eating at places like Chipotle, PF Chang, or Benihana,

That's the thing, it's a term specifically designed to imply self-important arrogant food *********gery without any of the baggage of actually developing a discriminating sense of taste. As far as I can tell, it means that you randomly take traditional recipes, arbitrarily swap in obscure ingredients (buffalo or ostrich for beef, duck fat for oil or butter, if there's a French or Italian version of anything, use that instead), and perhaps (if you're feeling saucy) toss something extravagant on top (usually, foie gras or truffles). Then you update twitter and post a poorly-taken photo and declare that everyone else is "doing it wrong," whether or not it is edible.

There's a word for people who appreciate true excellence in food, but I guess "gourmet" isn't an obnoxious and unnecessary neologism.

 

[thadius856]

Obviously this doesn't apply to speech so much, but I'm incredibly irked when "then" and "than" are used incorrectly. Doing so demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the difference between correlation and causation.

 

[GarageDweller]

you guys are a bunch of whiney *******. just sayin....

 

[thadius856]

you guys are a bunch of whiney *******. just sayin....

Also, "whiney *******". Drives me up a wall.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Did someone mention "cool story bro?"

I think if I have a kid I'd rather hear them drop the F bomb than "cool story bro".

I dont mind cool, or story, or even bro... put the three together and I want to want to lock the offender in a glass box full of fire ants.

 

[bottlebomber]

Did someone mention "cool story bro?"

I think if I have a kid I'd rather hear them drop the F bomb than "cool story bro".

I dont mind cool, or story, or even bro... put the three together and I want to want to lock the offender in a glass box full of fire ants.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

oh bomber... sometimes I want to absolutely obliterate your kneecaps.

 

[CGVT]

Disrespected as a verb.

It has just really come into common use over the last 15 years or so, and I know that it is correct usage, but it still makes me cringe every time I hear someone say "don't disrespect me".

 

[CreamyGoodness]

But... if respect is a verb, why wouldnt disrespect be?

 

[CGVT]

respect is a noun

edit: until recently respect was used as a noun much more that a verb

As in "show some respect". As it has been used more as a verb, disrespect has become more common.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

But you can respect authority, you can respect the sanctity of another man's bedroom...

 

[mpride1911]

Conversate.

 

[CGVT]

But you can respect authority, you can respect the sanctity of another man's bedroom...

It is just getting lazy with language.

We used to show respect to authority more than we respected authority.

The same as using athleticism rather that athletic ablilty.

BTW, I didn't say disrespect was incorrect, but it is a word that I hate

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Aha gotcha. Carlin was full of these.

One of his favorites is "an eye for an eye" which has taken to mean "get revenge". If you are looking for a cliche for "get revenge" "pound of flesh" would be better. "An eye for an eye" (when used appropriately) is mitigatory. Let the crime, the taking of an eye, result in a punishment as serious as the infraction, but no more so.

If a local teenager smashes your jack o'lantern on Halloween, and you call for "an eye for an eye", the judge should allow you to go to his house and smash HIS jack o'lantern. No more, no less.

 

[bottlebomber]

oh bomber... sometimes I want to absolutely obliterate your kneecaps.

Ha, that's why I keep you in NYC

 

[CGVT]

I guess part of my dislike for disrespect is that it is usually uttered by someone thumping his chest at some perceived slight.

"Don't disrespect me. I'm a grown assed man"


I remember thinking that it was out of control when I saw it as part of the dialogue from a movie that was set in the seventies. (Roller Girl was stomping some guy in Boogie Nights and screaming "Don't disrespect me) I don't remember anybody ever using disrespect in that way back in the seventies...