What is your least favorite saying?
Are there any sayings, idioms, or cultural colloqualisms that irk you?
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I hate the over-used term “a perfect storm.”
A couple of years ago the phrase
“eel be reet” or “i’ll be reet”
came into use amongst the English.
Most annoying thing ever.
Who pronounces “He’ll be alright” like that!?!?
IDIOTS! THAT’S WHO!
how the hell does ‘alright’ turn into ‘reet’?
“That just _____ my _____.”
Get ur done…..makes my skin crawl~
C u l8r <———DEATH to txtspk!!!
“Do you know why I pulled you over?”
@hahniam : good one, that rates up there with mine for me.
“It could be worse” makes me want to punch people in the face.
“Lol” AAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! is that a saying.
“Yo, where you at?” especially when teachers use it.
@c.gunningham: How about “nothing in excess”?
“It is what it is” and “sea change”.
one simply isn’t true and other is a incorrect usage.
“drinking the Kool-Aid” when said at corporate meetings. Yes, because convincing management to fund a new project is the same thing as forcibly consuming poisoned liquid from an insane, power-crazed monster and dying a horrible death. Jackasses.
License and registration, please…..
“You’ll feel just a small pinch.”
“Better out then in.”
Only friggin hogs say that.
@nocountry
txtspk is textspeak not a translation for that matter
“Have a good one”
I stopped using this when one time I said this to an older gentleman and he replied, “Ive got a good one, I just wish I had a bigger one”
“aks” instead of “ask”
“Fo Shizzle” and any other “izzle”
“don’t go there”
“I’d hit that”
“Does Barack Obama consider himself Negro, black, white, or mulatto?”
I hate it when people say things subconsciously. “Like” is the worst offender. “Uh” in between words every time one pauses can be annoying (Jimmy Kimmel). People say “as a matter of fact” all the time and that irks me. All in all “like” takes the gold.
Maybe {I, it, we, etc} will and maybe {I, it, we, etc} won’t.
My mother uses it in any situation where she either doesn’t know the answer or just doesn’t feel like telling me. I developed a hatred for it in middle and high school when I just wanted to know if she’d be home by a certain time (she was in school). She almost always answered, “Maybe I will and maybe I won’t.” But it’s not like I wanted to have wild parties or whatever—I wanted to know when to start dinner. It was totally impossible.
“Or not.” “For good or ill” Hunter S. Thompson used these.
@steve6 who wants to play the “or not” game? :P
“Everything happens for a reason” this one drives me crazy too. No shit, its called cause and effect.
My mother is a strange Catholic who believes in Karma as well. One of her favorite sayings is “God helps those who help themselves.”
I have an intense loathing of that assertion.
@Vinifera7 what bothers you about that phrase.. the God part, or the help yourself part? Just curious.
@scamp
I take issue with the message, not the wording. Specifically, the notion that one is helpless without God. In reality helping oneself helps oneself. It’s tautological. The sentiment of the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” gives God credit for one helping oneself.
‘Agree to disagree’ Urg. The only time this is used is when someone wants to get their last word in or shut the other person up while trying to appear civil when it’s really just passive-aggressive.
It’s just a complete non-statement that can be just said directly (’I disagree’) or really most times doesn’t need to be said at all when it’s clearly evident and doesn’t forward the dialog.
@artificialard I think the whole point is to not forward the dialogue.
As much as I find this saying annoying too, I don’t think it’s passive-aggressive per se.
To me, it’s just the cliche, cliff notes version of:
Can we stop talking about this shit now because it’s obviously not going anywhere.
As for the question, I hate the word chillax.
Whenever someone says it, I want to kick them in the shins.
@Nimis Dayaaamn. I use ‘chillax’. But I do so ironically.
I still think it’s annoying because by using ‘we’, it’s asserting something over the other party and it’s also just a very convoluted way of saying I disagree. The word count always seems to go up when people try to one-up each other in internet debates.
But I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. Just chillax there.
[kicks artificialard in the the shins]
Haha! It is what it is people.
thanks for the laugh so early in the morning!
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