Words and phrases I hate

[CreamyGoodness]

I see what you are saying. How about "of course" or "any time"?

 

[mcbaumannerb]

I think this is one of those cases where we've muddled two things together. If someone thanks you then "you're welcome" is the appropriate and polite response. They are expressing their gratitude to you and you shouldn't cheapen that by saying "no problem." The other case is if someone says they are sorry to interrupt you or ask you to do something for them. In that case, "no problem" is fine.

 

[GuldTuborg]

I hate how "there's" and increasingly, "there is," has become an accepted way to state the existence of any number of things. "There are" has simply left the language, without so much as a "goodbye."

 

[cheezydemon3]

I hate how "there's" and increasingly, "there is," has become an accepted way to state the existence of any number of things. "There are" has simply left the language, without so much as a "goodbye."

Nevermind people getting they're words mixed up when their typing

Literally.

Actually one of my favorite words, is horrible when mis-used. Unfortunately, it has now been defiled by google who is trying to render it literally meaningless.

I started a separate thread to filter my hate into.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f96/google-literally-sucks-dogs-426921/

 

[DrunkleJon]

I heard two more today on the news.

'Social Media Expert' - OK, who has a life so devoid of anything meaningful to do that they devote it to Facebook and Twitter and MySpace? Can these people be added to the coffee table book?

and

'Twitterverse' - I hate this word about as much as I hate Blog (are we that lazy that we have to shorten Web Log?), Blogsphere, Tweet (shouldnt short for Twitter be Twit not Tweet?).

I am going to stop now before I get worked up.

 

[WesleyS]

I heard two more today on the news.

'Social Media Expert' - OK, who has a life so devoid of anything meaningful to do that they devote it to Facebook and Twitter and MySpace? Can these people be added to the coffee table book?

and

'Twitterverse' - I hate this word about as much as I hate Blog (are we that lazy that we have to shorten Web Log?), Blogsphere, Tweet (shouldnt short for Twitter be Twit not Tweet?).

I am going to stop now before I get worked up.

Agreed.
Hey since everyone loves to shorten things these days, why haven't they shortened Facebook. Two syllables is so 10 years ago. I nominate Fook as the official shortened term for Facebook.

 

[Goofynewfie]

Agreed.
Hey since everyone loves to shorten things these days, why haven't they shortened Facebook. Two syllables is so 10 years ago. I nominate Fook as the official shortened term for Facebook.

Didnt you see the movie about it? It was shortened from "the facebook" to "facebook". I don't know about you but not having to say those three little letters freed up tons of space in my day. I don't even know how I got by before

 

[WesleyS]

Didnt you see the movie about it? It was shortened from "the facebook" to "facebook". I don't know about you but not having to say those three little letters freed up tons of space in my day. I don't even know how I got by before

Ha! So it was originally meant to be said like old people say it?
"Hey grandma, what have you been up to?"
Grandma: "I've been looking at that Google and the Facebook on the intranets."

 

[beaksnbeer]

I get e-mails telling me that 3 people have "unfriended" me on facebook WTF! I don't have a facebook account so who cares and when did that become a word why not "disfriended" rant rant rant

 

[Cathedral]

Tweet (shouldnt short for Twitter be Twit not Tweet?).

Tweet and twitter have precedence here. They've been used as singular/plural for many long years, since before the grandparents of whomever created Twitter was born.

What really irritates me is "my tweets." Don't you mean your twitter?

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I hate the use of "like these ones." As in the reporter is describing the animal(s) but doesn't have a pic of said animal(s). So they use a stock image/video instead. (Same thing for aircraft, boats, etc...) Then instead of saying "like these," they say "like these ones." Makes me want to spank their ass, send them back to school & then smack their teacher for letting them graduate in the first place.
Well, I guess that was my rant for the day.
Regards, GF.

EDIT: Had to rescind part of a rant cuz I was wrong...
I hate it when that happens.
Regards, GF.

 

[drainbamage]

I hate the use of the non-word "horrific." No such word. This is a term reporters & other media types made up. It's a mashup of "horrible" and "terrific." It was meant to describe a horrible event, like a car accident, where they got some footage that was horrible to watch, but made for a terrific news story. This started as "shop talk" & should never have made it to air, but it did & now every mofo & his bro are using it, simply because they heard somebody else use it on TV.

Are you sure? My Webster's Dictionary includes "horrific adj. horrendous."

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Are you sure? My Webster's Dictionary includes "horrific adj. horrendous."

Dammit. It's not a recent addition either. I was wrong. (that stings) This'll teach me to check before ranting I guess. "Thank you for correcting my English which stinks."

OK, I rescind the part of my rant about "Horrific" not being a real word; but not the rant itself; I still hate that it's become a buzzword.

"Even if horrific were a contraction of horrible and terrific, it would still be a real word, but in any case horrific is a regular formation that's actually a few years older than terrific.

Horrific, which means 'causing horror', is first found in English in the 1650s (terrific is first found in the 1660s). It is one of many words formed from a noun and the suffix -fic, which means 'making, producing, or causing (the thing specified in the initial element)'. Horrific 'causing horror' is one example, and some others are pacific, soporific, and honorific.

The -fic suffix is ultimately from Latin -ficus, a combining form of the verb facere 'to make or do'. It's not always possible to determine the exact order of the development, because a word can end up with a -fic suffix in several ways: as a borrowing of a Latin word that ends with -ficus, such as terrific, which comes directly from Latin terrificus 'terrifying'; as a borrowing of a French word that ends in -fique, itself of course from Latin, such as horrific, a borrowing of French horrifique (we know it's from French because the first occurrence in English is in a translation of Rabelais, who uses the French equivalent); as a borrowing from another Romance language (Italian and Spanish have the suffix -fico), or as an English coinage (acidific)."

Regards, GF.

 

[drainbamage]

Dammit. It's not a recent addition either. I was wrong. (that stings) This'll teach me to check before ranting I guess. "Thank you for correcting my English which stinks."

No problem.


I mean, you're welcome

 

[BadMrFrosty]

Tweet and twitter have precedence here. They've been used as singular/plural for many long years, since before the grandparents of whomever created Twitter was born.

What really irritates me is "my tweets." Don't you mean your twitter?

Twitter is the service and tweets are the individual messages so "my tweets" is correct in this case.

 

[Cathedral]

Twitter is the service and tweets are the individual messages so "my tweets" is correct in this case.

Irregardles, it's still irritating ;-)

I hate that every thing wants you to "follow them" on social media.

 

[TangoHotel]

Agreed.
Hey since everyone loves to shorten things these days, why haven't they shortened Facebook. Two syllables is so 10 years ago. I nominate Fook as the official shortened term for Facebook.

Mother: son what are you doing?
Son: Fooking!
Mother: what the fook?

 

[Brulosopher]

This is a great thread and nearly all of what I'd post has already been posted... but I'll say it again:

- The reality is... (f*ck you and your version of reality

- Literally (I always respond, "And figuratively?")

- Seriously guys!

- Every single internet/text acronym including but not limited to RDWHAHB, SWMBO, LOL, OMG, YMMV, FWIW, IMO, etc.

- Supposebly, irregardless

- Gratuitous use of "like"

- Business, as in, "I'm all about that business!"

- I'm all about that...

- Bomb, da bomb, bomb diggity, or any other use of the word "bomb" to represent something cool.

- Using "I feel" when it's really a thought, such as, "I really feel it was a good movie." Actually, you thought it was good, but I feel annoyed you said that!

I'm sure there's more.

 

[Cathedral]

Mother: son what are you doing?
Son: Fooking!
Mother: what the fook?

OMG. my grandma just fooked me!

 

[TangoHotel]

I just fooked my cousin... Eeeewww things just went all southern...

 

[Brulosopher]

Another one:

"Like a boss."

Well I can't stand my boss, so...

 

[HoppyDaze]

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[DrunkleJon]

Tweet and twitter have precedence here. They've been used as singular/plural for many long years, since before the grandparents of whomever created Twitter was born.

What really irritates me is "my tweets." Don't you mean your twitter?

I am aware of twittering birds and such, I think I just feel a twit is more fitting. Maybe I am just annoyed of the internet progression.

First there were Web Logs, where any idiot could write out their meanderings which the masses were too lazy to say so they become 'Blogs'.

Then came twitter. Where those too lazy to fully flesh out a thought could have the equivalent of a 'Blog' without the hassle of annoyances like complete sentences, and using too many words or thought. Now people can post anything from "I am pooping" to people with the last name Wiener showing pictures of his to co-eds.

I am starting to think I have anger issues. Maybe this is true, but I still consider it that I am intolerant to idiocy. But don't get me wrong, both web logs and twitting can be used for good, but far too many people use them for evil.

 

[GrogNerd]

I am intolerant to idiocy

boy are you in the wrong metro area

 

[BadMrFrosty]

I am intolerant to idiocy

I forget who this quote is attributed to but he/she definitely has the right idea:

"The problem with the world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" - Some smart fellow

 

[Subsailor]

"The problem with the world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" - Some smart fellow

While I agree with the thought, the lazy majority will use that oportunity to get rich via frivolous lawsuits:

Burned myself with my McD Coffee
Eating too much fast food made us fat
etc.

Then they can be funded for longer stretches of stupidity and laziness and teach the next generations.

 

[Cyclman]

You know.

 

[DrunkleJon]

boy are you in the wrong metro area

True. I have developed the most useful ability to ignore most people, and my short term memory has never been all that good so the dude abides. I second the lets kick natural selection in the butt and tell it to get back to work. It apparently isnt trying hard enough.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

If we can get some philanthropist to fund prizes for the Darwin Awards, I'm sure that would do the trick. The idiots would literally kill themselves trying to win!

 

[DrunkleJon]

If we can get some philanthropist to fund prizes for the Darwin Awards, I'm sure that would do the trick. The idiots would literally kill themselves trying to win!

"I never won nuthin before, Im gonna win this even if it kills me."