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Tired, annoying phrases

#181
Ayce said:
HELL, NO! :p
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Vince Klortho said:
Out of the gate, I think you have come with a fresh, new paradigm here. Let's run with that and see how the rubber hits the road. Hopefully, there's no blow-back.

:rolleyes: :)
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Hobobob said:
I could feel my blood pressure rising as I read through this... :)
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sloasdaylight said:
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Ha! :D Yes, my work here is done. I work in "the office". No ****, I mean, that is where I work.

Know what I mean? Yea, I thought so. Now it's time to go show the wife my O face. Yea. Oh, oh, oh....:o
 
#184
What about "Forward Looking".

I once saw an ad for a commercial aircraft that talked about its 'Forward looking cockpit'. I know that they meant that it was looking toward the future, but I couldn't help but comment that I had never seen a cockpit on an airplane that was looking rearward.
 
#186
So many examples here and I agree almost all of them.

Did anybody mention "awesome" yet?
If my ordering salad is so "awesome," what the hell do you say if you witness something that is actually awesome?

"Icon" - everybody and everything is a f@#%ing icon today.

"Back in the day" What? Are we all grizzled old prospectors now?

"Old school" - This used to mean something.

"That's what I'm talkin' about!" No you weren't.

Then there are the people who don't know the proper use of first person pronouns, so to sound intelligent they say "myself" even when the simpler "I" or "me" should be used.

Some mentioned already:
"At the end of the day"
"whole nother"
 
#192
Be advised.

Well, who are you to dictate that to me? Suppose I will not be advised. Suppose you try advising me, hmmm?

I guarantee you not one drop of what you'd say would penetrate.

I will not be advised. I'm inadvisable.
 
#195
And why is food now amazing?

"These hot dogs are amazing!"
"This pizza is amazing!"
Really, amazing? Many things can be amazing.

Food? Not so much.

And this "not so much" thing. Does this really sound as clever
as those who use it seem to think?

In "the office"

- that being the place where I actually work -
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having snappy little euphamisms and catch phrases is all the rage. I don't like it.

Then again, I don't like a lot of things.

But I especially don't like when my inner monologue gets hijacked
by the voice of Andy Rooney.

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#196
This thread is entertaining but a lot of these phrases are so common I don't get annoyed by them. While not a phrase, one thing that really annoys me is people who inject the word like into conversations in massive quantities. I think it gives them a moment to think about what they are going to say next.
 
#197
metron said:
This thread is entertaining but a lot of these phrases are so common I don't get annoyed by them. While not a phrase, one thing that really annoys me is people who inject the word like into conversations in massive quantities. I think it gives them a moment to think about what they are going to say next.
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Like, what, uh, do you, hmm mean?
 
#198
lowfreq33 said:
Smart dogs can be a hand full. I have a beagle mix that is too smart for her own good. Also very stubborn, which is common to the breed. While she was still being house trained she figured out how to use a door knob. Lost my deposit on that apartment.
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I feel you, man! My dog did learn to open doors too. This one is a stray dog, so I can't say what his breed (or breeds) is (are).
 

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