Words and Phrases You’ve Come to Hate

[mayfair70]

Hippy

Hipster

Hip
Outside the box

You do you
Thank you all for reminding me why I don't like people. :rofl:

 

[mso489]

"Back in the day" is one we don't need. Give a decade, or say "when I was a kid," or give some other time frame. Back in the day could be yesterday or in the ages before the dinosaurs.

 

[mso489]

Another stinker, although pretty well dead now, is, "It's all good." Well, clearly not.

 

[warren]

"I'm offended."

 

[mso489]

It's just a space filler to gain time to think, but "actually" sounds pretty sophomoric to me. Sometimes "um" isn't all bad.

 

[brian64]

I have a robust hatred for "the reality is". Not "in reality

You know...somehow using it as an adjective for hatred doesn't sound so bad.

In answering a question, beginning: "So, ...."

"Back in the day" is one we don't need.

Man Cave

Big +1 on all of those.

 

[agnosticpipe]

"There's a reason for everything".

 

[mso489]

Some young folks get infested with "like" in their speech. Like, I went home, and like I went up the stairs, and like my mother was there. Life is a simile -- it's like life, but it isn't life. We're impelled to keep making noise. He who keeps talking holds sway, too often.

 

[tinsel]

Absolutely any phrase approved by the "PC police" makes the hair on my neck stand on end.
Also, pretty much everything previously mentioned in the thread.
Also the word "clearly" when used at the beginning of a statement. For example, "Clearly, the pipe smokers on this forum are a highly antisocial bunch"

 

[mackeson]

Literally, when figuratively is meant

+1 That one really bugs me on a regular basis

"Tell it like it is," which simply means, be rude as hell, especially toward anyone I don't like, and never mind how it is.

Yeah, you just know whoever says that enjoys being an ass and thinks that position gives them a pass.
One that's bugged me for years is "Emails. One wouldn't say, "I got a lot of mails today." So why is it acceptable with email? The word should be both singular and plural just like it's traditional counterpart.

 

[perdurabo]

Uber

Hyphenated American

 

[phil67]

Just have to get this one in as it drives me absolutely insane!
After every phrase/sentence that is spoken is followed by: ya know what I'm sayin.
Ya know what I'm sayin?

 

[deathmetal]

it's all good

 

[dochudson]

Single mom.. as in I'm a single mom of 5 kids with 5 baby daddies
Whatever

 

[ravkesef]

The word "unique" with any sort of modifier. If it is unique, then no modifier is possible, and if it is modified, then it isn't unique.

 

[phil67]

'Who's the baby daddy', and 'My bad'. Both sound as if spoken by a three year old.

 

[jpmcwjr]

That's a really a very unique and completely unusual take, nav!
XYZ "informs" our decision. Yuck.
"I'm good" as a substitute for saying "no thanks" when offered something (usually food) One should say, "Thank you so very much, kind sir; I have had an ample sufficiency". Well, maybe not.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Burned down to a fine white ash.

 

[stephenw]

I work as a help desk tech. 90% of my work is dealing with emails. I have come to dislike the word "issue" when a more suitable would like difficulty or problem could be used. Issue for the most part is something that is sent forth or spewed out as in smoke and lava issue from Mt. Etna. Another phrase that has come to irritate me is "please advise" as in "My computer crashed, please advise". My best advice has always been buy low, sell high. I deal with many ex-military people I have come to dislike "military speak". I admire the people who serve, but one must communicate in plain English if one wishes to get their ideas across.

 

[warren]

What if it is a unique modification, the only one of its kind? That's unique, right