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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 14, 2020 22:27:12 GMT
"Adam Sandler comedy"
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 15, 2020 1:08:45 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... - Probably a worse expression, "The bees' stingers."
- Maybe a grasshopper hopping on knee high grass.
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 15, 2020 1:14:24 GMT
"Just sayin'" is one that annoys me because I know someone that overuses it.
If anyone here uses Twitch, you know Twitch lingo is the worst. For those of you that don't, you wouldn't even believe it if I told you.
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 15, 2020 1:22:59 GMT
"Just sayin'" is one that annoys me because I know someone that overuses it. If anyone here uses Twitch, you know Twitch lingo is the worst. For those of you that don't, you wouldn't even believe it if I told you. Tell anyway.
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 15, 2020 2:02:17 GMT
"Just sayin'" is one that annoys me because I know someone that overuses it. If anyone here uses Twitch, you know Twitch lingo is the worst. For those of you that don't, you wouldn't even believe it if I told you. Tell anyway. Just to name a few, pepeHands means sadness. OMEGALUL means funny. monka or monkaS means nervous or worried. Pog or pogChamp or pogU or poggers are all different variations of excited. The list goes on and they're all dumb.
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Post by Arlon10 on Oct 15, 2020 2:34:35 GMT
Just to name a few, pepeHands means sadness. OMEGALUL means funny. monka or monkaS means nervous or worried. Pog or pogChamp or pogU or poggers are all different variations of excited. The list goes on and they're all dumb. I would not likely guess any of those meanings, not without more clues anyway. While it is indeed difficult to believe anyone does use them, a lot of things that are difficult to believe are no less true.
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Post by permutojoe on Oct 15, 2020 3:08:40 GMT
Most of mine have been named already, but I'm wondering if "dork phrase" could in fact be, a dork phrase.
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Post by Vegas on Oct 15, 2020 13:23:13 GMT
I loathe, "I'm done!" "Awesome sauce" and "...like..." "...totally..." That is, like, total awesome sauce. Totally. I'm done.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 15, 2020 15:41:43 GMT
Most of mine have been named already, but I'm wondering if "dork phrase" could in fact be, a dork phrase. That might be "pushing the envelope." On second thought, maybe it would just be "taking it to the next level."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 15, 2020 15:52:26 GMT
Let's run this question up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes !
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Post by goz on Oct 16, 2020 4:30:29 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. 'elucidate' is a verb
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 16, 2020 5:54:56 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. It means "you may not get as much from it/enjoy it as much as I did" At least when discussing something like film for example. "David Lynch's Blue Velvet, is a confronting exploration of the dark underbelly of smalltown America, I love it, but your mileage may vary." Meaning: "David Lynch's Blue Velvet, is a confronting exploration of the dark underbelly of smalltown America, I love it, but you may not enjoy it as much as I did." I'm not a fan of the phrase, but that's how it's used, more or less.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Oct 16, 2020 9:23:14 GMT
Something may be needed to give this thread "closure."
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Post by kls on Oct 16, 2020 9:54:25 GMT
"Pardon my French" following no French I remember my French Canadian grandfather answer people who said that after they cursed "I don't remember my mother using that word."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 16, 2020 14:55:56 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. It means "you may not get as much from it/enjoy it as much as I did" At least when discussing something like film for example. "David Lynch's Blue Velvet, is a confronting exploration of the dark underbelly of smalltown America, I love it, but your mileage may vary." Meaning: "David Lynch's Blue Velvet, is a confronting exploration of the dark underbelly of smalltown America, I love it, but you may not enjoy it as much as I did." I'm not a fan of the phrase, but that's how it's used, more or less. Thanks ... I have seen it used recently almost as a random catch phrase in political "discussions" of late and it reads more like a non- sequitur in the context used
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Post by permutojoe on Oct 16, 2020 19:52:53 GMT
What about "flat out"? I think we can agree that people who do things "flat out" are pretty great, but what does it actually mean?
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Post by mstreepsucks on Oct 16, 2020 19:57:38 GMT
The phrase 'not having it.'
Doesn't make any sense. Uh and it's annoying sorry.
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Post by goz on Oct 16, 2020 20:54:45 GMT
Something may be needed to give this thread "closure." Clearly.
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Post by goz on Oct 16, 2020 20:56:22 GMT
I am only guessing here butt I thought it had something to do with motoring where when you go fast you push the accelerator 'flat' to the floor.
Another one is ' pedal to the metal'!
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Post by divtal on Oct 16, 2020 21:17:26 GMT
I don't know if it's irksome, but I find it mildly amusing when a speaker interrupts his own narrative to insert: " ... long story short ...." On most occasions, it's too late.
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