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What words do you dislike ?

A guy in my company will literally, actually hurl on the spot if he hears the word "discharge", we have a lot of fun with that!!!

The poor bugger has been to therapy and everything!!


I know it's wrong, but I'd never be able stop saying that word around him, just because the premise of someone throwing up at the sound of a word is something I'd probably not tire of laughing at.

I know...it's terrible.
 
So if a chick says to you "I get moist when you touch my boobies" you're in a cab?

Let me know if you ever need help in such a situation. Not that I can help you with your aversion to the words...but I can help hail you a cab, and take your date off your hands.

:p


I don't have a phobia against those words, but I wouldn't get excited about them either :P boobies is just such a weird sounding word, especially for referring to women's chests.
 
"white stuff" when referring to snow. I always cringe when I see it in the news... I've never heard people actually use it in conversation, but I'm sure I would get violent.:D

oh, and canoodling, only because there are so many better words for it.
 
Oh there's a few that I really hate when people say, I just can't think of them right now.

Not really a word as it's more of a phrase, but whenever I have to work with a math equation for something, it just irritates the crap out of me whenever someone says something "and just plug it in". Okay, because that totally tells me what to do with the equation. I don't care if I even understand what they mean, it just sort of undermines the process, I think. Sure, it might be simple to you, but it's not simple to other people who didn't just sit in this class for three months just to learn that.