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Points: 1563 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 22:32
Forgot to mention when people refer to a group of men as "bros". I feel a huge urge to slap them.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:42
inb4 crowdsourcing (or whatever other word that was coined in the 21st century), which I'm perfectly fine with.

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Way too much "like" though, yeah. 
Bugs me too every now and then, especially in writing (which is so unnecessary).

Edit: one more, and this one is rather a case of misuse: trifecta. Look, people, it's not a synonym for a general "three-piece" or "three-fold". I see this kind of thing in TV shows and hear it on comedy albums. No, read the definition.


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Points: 1940 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:41
"Streamlining the workforce" - nice way of saying "canning a bunch of people and throwing them to the street"
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:30
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

When people use the term "self-indulgent" to criticize music.
I can kind of understand why they use the word - a musician indulging himself way too much, implementing writing/playing devices in a manner that he can lose the listener. (Here "kind of" is not a filler. It's just another way of saying "I think I can understand why ... .") Then again, there's a chance that "self-indulgent" can just be in the mind of the listener.

Here are some words I just don't care for: pretentious (as was already mentioned), grandiloquent, pompous. I've said it before, I'll say it again: those words don't mean anything in the context of a music discussion. They don't make any sense. Where does all this come from? Even professional music critics use these words. I've never understood this kind of diction. Those words are supposed to describe a human quality, not a musical one.


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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 21:24
Originally posted by The Sloth The Sloth wrote:

I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:

It is what it is

A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.
Doesn't bother me. It's just another way of saying: "That's just the way of the world." Some people have difficulty dealing with reality, with facts. There's nothing wrong with defeatism when there are very few things you are in control of.

Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

preponing (as in the opposite of postponing)


The phrase instead reminds me of that redhead on That 70s Show.


Me too.


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Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:45
I guess my problem with it is, I'd say 99/100 times, a good point is not summed up with "it is what it is." There's a defeatism and last second faux-dignity to the phrase that I really can't stand. 

Another one I hate is bat sh*t crazy.
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Points: 65261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:36
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

"My bad."

This and its annoying counterpart;  "It's all good".
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."   -- John F. Kennedy
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:23
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Hipster. 
True. It has so many definitions that it has become people's word for just about anything. That table. It's so hipster.
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Points: 4671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:19
Originally posted by The Sloth The Sloth wrote:

I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:

It is what it is

A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.
Disagree.  I use this phrase often.  What is a better alternative?  "Deal with it"?
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 20:14
Hipster. 
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:43
Way too much "like" though, yeah. 
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:32
^Like, chill out maaaan. Clown

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Points: 6673 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:28
The unending use of 'grab':  as in 'can I grab the bill', 'grab a drink', 'grab my coat'. How degrading a word, using physical force constantly, pfff! 
Then we have the 'like' spasm . I know many who talk this way" Like, I saw her, like, she is pretty, like, a real hottie, like, really, like, lets go mountain climbling, like" . WTF is this ? 
This is not english, its Facebook-ese where you have like stuff and click on it ! AngryLOL


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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Points: 355 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 17:51
Pretentious, haters gonna hate, the usual really.
You left a note in your perfect script
Stay as long as you like
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 17:47
When people use the term "self-indulgent" to criticize music. 
New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 16:33
The On Demand part of my cable has this new banner that says...uh... Feel Free to Binge! 

The first time I read that I wanted to high dive into an empty swimming pool. Not only does it make it sound like they have a veritable smorgasbord of treasures to choose from (when in reality it's a couple dozen movies on the level of Bull Durham and Home Alone), but it's practically bullying me with this suggestion, all because the company wants to sit at the cool table with Netflix.
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Points: 2617 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:21
pushing the envelope
bottom line
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:21
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:


ture
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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:17
My bad
haters gonna hate
ture
having said that
per se
all things being equal
in a perfect world
Manchester United
I don't suffer fools gladly
I am what I am
going postal
to die for
drop dead gorgeous
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:04
okay, these may be cliched but hey...

YOLO
bae
i can't even

i can't think of anymore besides them.
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