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Post by drystyx on Oct 8, 2020 15:25:37 GMT
I remember when dorks were copying words from a TV ad saying "Ats what I'm talkin' about", and it was like fingernails on a chalk board. I remember a colt named "AtswhatI'mtalkingabout" running in the Kentucky Derby, and the dorks of the day yelling his name, and I prayed he wouldn't win so I wouldn't have to hear the dorks scream that name for the next two years.
Well, there was a god, or at least the devil wasn't working that day, cause he didn't win. Thank God.
Another phrase I hate is "just for shits and giggles". That doesn't even make any sense, and it's another chalk board fingernail phrase. The next six people who say that to me, I'm taking out to the wood shed. Let them "giggle" about that.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 8, 2020 15:27:02 GMT
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 8, 2020 15:44:30 GMT
Any phrase using the words "problematic" or "proactive."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 8, 2020 15:50:21 GMT
"I don't suffer fools gladly"
Very often used to justify a rude response to some point of disagreement.... especially if challenged by a third party about that rudeness.
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Post by drystyx on Oct 8, 2020 15:51:47 GMT
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" I don't know why people keep making the mistake of thinking Trump wasn't being perfectly honest, unless it's the fact that they misspell his slogan. It's He fulfilled his promise.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 13, 2020 23:46:20 GMT
Hey drystyx, what do you think about these? "It's a win-win situation." "I'm done."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 0:26:19 GMT
"not to be rude but ....."
"but" always followed by something rude !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 0:26:54 GMT
"Pardon my French" following no French
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Post by Rodney Farber on Oct 14, 2020 1:10:29 GMT
Hey drystyx , what do you think about these? "It's a win-win situation." "I'm done." "And Mexico will pay for the wall" "I'm not responsible for that"
What I fear is a lose-lose situation. If Biden wins, we're in for 11 weeks of uncharted waters. If Trump wins, we're in for 219 weeks of uncharted waters. It'll be the same s***, just spread out over a longer period of time.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 14, 2020 1:17:50 GMT
Hey drystyx , what do you think about these? "It's a win-win situation." "I'm done." "And Mexico will pay for the wall" "I'm not responsible for that"
What I fear is a lose-lose situation. If Biden wins, we're in for 11 weeks of uncharted waters. If Trump wins, we're in for 219 weeks of uncharted waters. It'll be the same s***, just spread out over a longer period of time.
How interesting!
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 14, 2020 2:03:23 GMT
When young people say:
I'm going to go "TAKE" a dump...
Take?
That's Disgusting!
Why would anyone "Take" their poop from the toilet, and carry it around with them?
What weirdo came up with THAT phrase, and why did it become so popular?
Why didn't the phrase make more sense, like...
"LEAVE" a dump...
As In: "Take It, Or Leave It..."
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Post by maya55555 on Oct 14, 2020 4:40:19 GMT
I loathe, "I'm done!" "Awesome sauce" and "...like..." "...totally..."
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 14, 2020 9:44:34 GMT
I remember when dorks were copying words from a TV ad saying "Ats what I'm talkin' about", and it was like fingernails on a chalk board. I remember a colt named "AtswhatI'mtalkingabout" running in the Kentucky Derby, and the dorks of the day yelling his name, and I prayed he wouldn't win so I wouldn't have to hear the dorks scream that name for the next two years. Well, there was a god, or at least the devil wasn't working that day, cause he didn't win. Thank God. Another phrase I hate is "just for shits and giggles". That doesn't even make any sense, and it's another chalk board fingernail phrase. The next six people who say that to me, I'm taking out to the wood shed. Let them "giggle" about that. I suspect it's the repetition that gets most annoying and the loose application. "At the end of the day" is found rather often in the current parlance. Also "in the current parlance" might get annoying too. Or ... or ... it could signal the end of the days of overly used expressions. I defer now to the experience of Toasted Cheese. Tiresome expressions are often the result of "regimented" thinking and often the result of "shallow" thinking or understanding. Those are annoying with or without clichés.
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 14, 2020 11:19:22 GMT
I suspect it's the repetition that gets most annoying and the loose application. "At the end of the day" is found rather often in the current parlance. Also "in the current parlance" might get annoying too. Or ... or ... it could signal the end of the days of overly used expressions. I defer now to the experience of Toasted Cheese . Tiresome expressions are often the result of "regimented" thinking and often the result of "shallow" thinking or understanding. Those are annoying with or without clichés. Are you mentally imbalanced Arlon? You talk trite world salad, using meaningless circular rhetoric and then give yourself a self-congratulatory pat yourself on the back for thinking you have said and claimed something profound and elucidate. You always struggled to meet with approval from your peers didn't you Arlon, and that's because they never saw you as an equal. You embarrassed them by embarrassing yourself. I do spend a lot of time on this board. I am also missing the point of the rest of your comment. By the way, "Whaassssup!" might also have been intended as an end of tiresome repetitions. There is a mild reassurance that people are at least paying attention to something when they repeat things from the media. I do not like unnecessary repetition at all though.
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 14, 2020 11:29:47 GMT
I do spend a lot of time on this board. I am also missing the point of the rest of your comment. By the way, "Whaassssup!" might also have been intended as an end of tiresome repetitions. There is a mild reassurance that people are at least paying attention to something when they repeat things from the media. I do not like unnecessary repetition at all though. You miss a lot of things Arlon and why you tagged me, is because you were goading. You get what you deserve from me and from others who can never get your points, because you hardly ever have one worth making. If you prefer not to take my observation of your creative and flexible use of language as a compliment, then don't. You do somehow manage to avoid being labelled a "solipsist" though (so far).
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 14, 2020 11:54:51 GMT
If you prefer not to take my observation of your creative and flexible use of language as a compliment, then don't. You do somehow manage to avoid being labelled a "solipsist" though (so far). If you were quoting something I said and meant it as a compliment, I don't recall writing it. It is easy to misrepresent you Arlon, as you can often misrepresent yourself. Perhaps that needs to be addressed. This board is not well designed to learn much about the personalities of the participants. That has never bothered me though. I prefer a discussion of public issues without regard to individual personalities. Facebook should be, and often is, more about personalities.
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 14, 2020 12:36:16 GMT
Years ago, there was a member of a radio morning talk/comedy show who liked to use the term "s***s and giggles." Well aware that he couldn't use the actual profanity on broadcast radio, he instead always said "esses and giggles," which was somehow more annoying--if he knew he couldn't use the actual phrase, why not just use a completely different phrase?
Tom Selleck pitching reverse mortgages on that TV commercial that runs a hundred times a day: "This isn't my first rodeo." I guess this is supposed to suggest that he's a tough, smart guy (and not at all a reference to the fact that he knows about scams like reverse mortgages, since he once scammed his neighbors in California by sneaking truckfuls of water from a fire hydrant in a neighboring town during a drought. Yeah, this is a guy you can trust).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 14, 2020 14:05:59 GMT
Not so much "irk' but more puzzles .... what does "Your mileage may vary." mean ?
It's being applied in "discussions" of late and to me seems to be another non-sequitur comment.
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Post by Karl Aksel on Oct 14, 2020 14:10:49 GMT
"The proof is in the pudding". The expression properly goes like this: The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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Post by MCDemuth on Oct 14, 2020 21:59:57 GMT
"The Bee's Knees"What is so damn great about Bee's Knees that people would come up with a phrase referencing them to mean "the greatest thing ever"? Most of the time, most people are afraid of bees and don't hang around them long enough to even look at their knees... "Knee High To A Grasshopper"Even the smallest of human babies, are so much bigger than any large grasshopper that is around today, and so that just doesn't make any sense... Are we talking about Dinosaur sized Grasshoppers then? Humans were not around 65 Million Years ago... The only grasshopper with knees that could be as tall as a human that I can think of is Insecticon Kickback from The Transformers cartoon... But the phrase was around before 1984...
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