Phrases That Annoy

This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.  - then don't ing hit me!

Dean wrote: "don't shoot the messenger" ... actually sunshine we're going to keep shooting messengers until they learn not to deliver stupid messages.

Edited by Negoba - September 04 2010 at 08:07

Trouserpress   wrote: I also don't mind the use of "like". Yeah, it can dominate speech at times, especially the speech of self-conscious teenagers, but it's far from meaningless.

Henry Plainview wrote: Blah blah blah, "Not so much" It's not funny snarky internet people, stop reusing that joke. That every single damn political scandal or controversy is appended with -gate. And all the fricking Czars. THINK OF SOMETHING NEW MEDIA! What's even worse is the right wing airheads who complain about the "unprecedented" use of Czars in the Obama administration, when there's no such thing as a czar! It's a title invented by the media! The Onion has a classic, but vicious, article about battling with cancer.

Yes, a heads up, brain storming session to see if we are all on the same page (Ciao)

My perception might be skewed since I'm not a native English speaker, but I really dislike the term 'human resources'. It's a position for managing worker's strategies -- and it sounds like a penal labour in a camp.


Also, I hate the word 'celebs'. The context of usage is pathetic, but the word itself sounds like an exotic vegetable or salamander.

jplanet wrote: "Your cigarette smoke is bothering me" "Stop hitting me with that stick'"

Textbook wrote: I've actually heard a cancer person speak out against the "brave battle with cancer" cliche. I'm sure there are times when it's been meant well, it's just that over time it has become automatic and meaningless, it's a very plastic thing to say now.   "family values" is another one

I hate the expression 'family values' It's both offensive and meaningless in equal measure..if that's possible.

The right wing seem to think that once you're married and have children you start living like the f***ing Waltons. One third of familes in the UK are 'broken' the parents living apart, the kids unhappy and messed up as a result. What are the values there? In any case why should a family unit have moral superioty of any individual?

It's politicians speak really, and like most of the sh*t that spews forth when they open their holes, it's to be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

"Well, basically...."

translation - "you don't know about the subject, so I can bull as much as I like"

"Well, at the end of the day..."

translation - I'm not sure what to say next, so I'm faffing a bit"

Fail (or) Epic Fail

translation - "I don't have much of a vocabulary"

Jim Garten wrote: "Well, basically...." translation - "you don't know about the subject, so I can bull as much as I like" "Well, at the end of the day..." translation - I'm not sure what to say next, so I'm faffing a bit" Fail (or) Epic Fail translation - "I don't have much of a vocabulary"

Your post was an epic win   Seriously though, the Iliad is epic, the cosmos are epic, your last match in Call of Duty wasn't epic, as epic means long, or vast in size. People these days..