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Post by mikef6 on Jun 28, 2020 22:33:49 GMT
“New normal” To say “new normal” is the old normal but the phrase has made a comeback because of the current health crisis.
“Game changer” The only game I would like to play is the one where I don’t have to hear these two words spoken together.
Amazingly people are still saying things like “get a life” (dating from around 1983) and “been there, done that” (about 1981). IOW, they are about 40 years old.
If you had the power to totally ban the use of certain tiresome words, phrases, and sayings, what would they be?
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 29, 2020 0:00:26 GMT
It'll pass mid-winter.
New normal is valid when seemingly everything changes in an instant. 9/11. COVID-19. $10 cans of beer at a Jays game.
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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 29, 2020 0:08:29 GMT
All those stock phrases you cited I do find annoying. I mean one could apply "the new normal" to every day that passes.
My number one hated phrase is "It is what it is."
Huh? I hate the saying. It is quite meaningless. I hardly even know what it means. What? That nothing that ever happens in life is very important? That we shouldn't take things that happen in life more - or less - seriously than is warranted? But how do you gauge that? The saying isn't useful or helpful at all. In fact, it eradicates our bearings.
I just want to say "AND WHAT IS IT?!"
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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 29, 2020 0:13:59 GMT
“New normal” To say “new normal” is the old normal but the phrase has made a comeback because of the current health crisis. “Game changer” The only game I would like to play is the one where I don’t have to hear these two words spoken together. Amazingly people are still saying things like “get a life” (dating from around 1983) and “been there, done that” (about 1981). IOW, they are about 40 years old. If you had the power to totally ban the use of certain tiresome words, phrases, and sayings, what would they be? "Been there, done that" is highly annoying as well as useless. It might have been thought provoking and handy the first seven times it was spoken, but no more. |
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 29, 2020 2:34:15 GMT
The only people who say that crap (along with that annoying 'stay home, stay safe' BS) are those who blindly accept what the "higher ups" tell them and can't think for themselves. COVID-19 is obviously way overblown by the media etc. sure, it's worse than your typical flu season but it's far from legitimate plague level of deaths to live in fear (like people are dropping like flies) and keep playing it up like the shady mainstream media does.
hell, in a typical year worldwide I think tens of millions of people die from a quick look online. but suddenly people get a virus that's a bit outside the norm and they act like it's a hardcore plague and it's not even close.
hell, even the so-called experts have differing opinions on COVID-19 it seems. I tend to side with the less paranoid approach simply because a virus is not worth fearing that only has less than a 1% chance (maybe 2% or so(hell, even being generous 4%)) to kill you. so all of this more recent paranoia of the virus is rising in certain states etc it's not worth flipping out over it as eventually once enough people contract it, heard immunity takes over. the virus will eventually play itself out as I figure some basic measures are keep a bit of distance between others and be more cautious around the elderly and chances are you will be fine.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 29, 2020 15:03:42 GMT
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Post by enigma72 on Jun 29, 2020 20:17:38 GMT
No problem in response to thank you
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 20:40:09 GMT
"reverse racism" ... implying that racism is a one way street
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 20:43:21 GMT
hell, in a typical year worldwide I think tens of millions of people die from a quick look online. OT question to an OT response ... but Is that a slow and painful death or do they go pretty quickly ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2020 20:43:24 GMT
Not many colloquialisms bother me.
I suppose if I had a pet peeve, it would be excessive and incorrect usage of "literally" as an amplifier. A lot of younger people do this and I cannot help but want to correct them.
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Post by alfromni on Jun 29, 2020 20:44:42 GMT
I detest how the word "gay" has been hijacked into meaning something quite different from way back when. It used to mean "happy" and "carefree".
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Post by Catman on Jun 29, 2020 21:04:03 GMT
Catman is more annoyed by how people mispronounce words like niche, cache, comptroller, err, and Katsura.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 21:06:01 GMT
Catman is more annoyed by how people mispronounce words like niche, cache, comptroller, err, and Katsura.That happen a lot? Btw, how is Katsura pronounced properly ... have only read it non-phonetically. |
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Post by Catman on Jun 29, 2020 21:12:20 GMT
Ka-tsura. The a's are pronounced more like in caw than in cat.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 21:15:56 GMT
Ka-tsura. The a's are pronounced more like in caw than in cat. please convey my apologies to Katsura ... I have indeed been reading her name incorrectly for forever !  |
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Post by Catman on Jun 29, 2020 21:16:41 GMT
Ka-tsura. The a's are pronounced more like in caw than in cat. please convey my apologies to Katsura ... I have indeed been reading her name incorrectly for forever ! She will probably want to bite you. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 21:17:52 GMT
please convey my apologies to Katsura ... I have indeed been reading her name incorrectly for forever ! She will probably want to bite you. nah .. she knows I have catnip in the garden !
mikef6 sorry .. forgot where we were for moment(or three) back on track soonish ! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 21:28:39 GMT
OK .. here's one
EVERYONE keeps saying "It was so fun ! "
"It's so MUCH fun " ...dag-nabbit !
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 29, 2020 21:31:03 GMT
She will probably want to bite you. nah .. she knows I have catnip in the garden !
mikef6 sorry .. forgot where we were for moment(or three) back on track soonish ! We grow a catnip cousin, catmint, next to our backdoor patio for the pleasure of our own cats who get a few minutes of supervised time in the back yard each day. This is, I think, the third summer it has grown but the first that has attracted roaming cats from the neighborhood. I could never understand how people can put their cats out of doors. Invariably there will come a day when the cat is let out never to return. Oops. I'm OT on my own thread. |
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Post by loofapotato on Jul 1, 2020 21:34:49 GMT
I can't stand this phrase, "for what it's worth"
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