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12:22 / 06.04.05

Lookey Likey. Die with wounds.
Like many other atrocities we have Andi Peters to blame for that one. Up until about oooh, 1986ish, everyone called them look-a-likes, then this pillock pops up and introduces a cutsey fucking neologism to generation of schoolkids in the broom cupboard (Brits of a certain age will probably know what I mean) and BAM! Everyone starts using it instead. Grrrraaaaghh. I echo your rage, Bizunth, just as I did as a pedantic teenager.

Mourne Kransky

12:51 / 07.04.05

The phrase: Passed on is annoying.
Passed over deserves a smack.
Passed (in that American way of eliding the preposition entirely) enrages me.

If you want a euphemism, what's wrong with Joined the Choir Invisible?

Sax

13:02 / 07.04.05

I might have mentioned this before, but since when did majorly become accepted usage?

jeed

14:02 / 07.04.05

itty-bitty

Generally used as 'can you do me an itty-bitty favour?' by my supervisor when asking me to do something incredibly time consuming.

Please...die. With knobs on.

Smoothly

14:40 / 07.04.05

A new colleague of mine is a veritable geyser of irritating turns of phrase.

Things she thinks are very good are vee good.
Whatever she's eaten, she's always literally eaten her bodyweight in it.
She is all about some activities.
She is so over others.
She thinks it's funny that I find these things uber annoying.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:18 / 07.04.05

Saint John Paul/ John Paul The Great

Just thought I'd slip them in now, avoid the rush. And people that use literally to emphasise, rather than to mean that they were actually doing something.

ibis the being

15:31 / 07.04.05

And people that use literally to emphasise, rather than to mean that they were actually doing something.

David Cross does a funny bit about this. He tells an anecdote about a guy who said something to him like, "I was so scared I literally shit my pants." And Cross said to him, "Really, dude? That must have been messy! So you actually had shit all over the inside of your pants??" But the guy didn't get it and just said, "No, man, I didn't really shit my pants, I mean I literally shit my pants, y'know?" I wish I had the balls to call people out on that when they say it, but I don't want to be too rude.

But I should add to this thread... okay, it's probably just regional, but I've always hated the expression "cool beans." What is that? I'm not even sure why it irks me so, it just sends a flash of pain through my spine.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:02 / 07.04.05

Seconding Xoc on the whole "passed on" thing.
I've never known anyone who "passed over". In my experience, they tend to die. Shit, when I die, I'd be mortified (possibly literally) to think that people weren't even acknowledging the enormity of what I'd just done.

Brigade du jour

23:11 / 07.04.05

I thought you meant 'passed over' for promotion or something.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:12 / 07.04.05

Admittedly, most of the dead people I know do tend to get overlooked by HR...

Brigade du jour

23:19 / 07.04.05

It's prejudice, I tell you, pure bloody prejudice!

wembley can change in 28 days

09:14 / 08.04.05

it's probably just regional, but I've always hated the expression "cool beans."

What region? Who the hell started cool beans? Because I can't stop saying it and I'm even annoying the hell out of me. And now my friends and colleagues are starting to pick up on it.

Loomis

09:21 / 08.04.05

I've always hated the expression "cool beans."

That is rather crap, and far inferior to "cool bananas."

wembley can change in 28 days

09:26 / 08.04.05

I <3 Loomis.

"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said no, but I might want a regular banana later so... yeah."

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:43 / 09.04.05

Someone asked me yesterday "how do you spell diarise".

To which I replied "I don't".

Charlie's Horse

03:42 / 09.04.05

Whatev

Ok, for starters, you're saying whatever. That's bad, but the abbreviation makes me froth at the mouth. Plus, the 'a' in whatev is the accented vowel, making the 'ev' a nasty little syllable someone tacked on to make me wince. Jesus. And the general invocation of such a word occurs in such a miasma of snootiness that I have trouble breathing.

sketchy or sketch

For some reason, this has always struck me as analogous to 'you're just not normal enough, bra.' It rubbed off onto me, so I've said it a time or two, and it always makes me want to sock myself in the gut.

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15:13 / 11.04.05

ergo and per se

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:18 / 11.04.05

Really? I like sketchy. I find it describes the way I feel during a partial, aura or other period of epileptic melty-headedness: Like I'm not all there and can't fill in the gaps properly.

ibis the being

18:24 / 11.04.05

What region? Who the hell started cool beans?

I really don't know. Maybe it's not regional, but I've lived in Massachusetts most of my life so it could be. I hadn't heard it in probably a decade, and then I started working with this painting contractor who says it to me all the time. I like the man, but stop that please.

wembley can change in 28 days

06:39 / 12.04.05

I love using per se in official communications at work, because "perse" means ass in finnish, and i know every native-speaking finn does a double take...

Spaniel

15:31 / 24.07.05

we enjoy each other

Sorry, Ibis, no offence but that's one Americanism I can really do without. I can't stand it.

Weird what freaks people out, eh?

Jake, Colossus of Clout

19:22 / 24.07.05

"Think outside the box" is my most hated phrase of the moment.

Also, the overuse of the word "inspirational." For example, Chrysler's current ad campaign is "The Inspirational New Chrysler." Inspirational in what way? It infuriates me.

Also, I think someone needs to explain "teh" to me. I realize that it has it's origins on the internet, but how and why? For years I thought it was just lazy shitheads making typing errors.

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:24 / 24.07.05

It's a parody of lazy shitheads making typing errors.

Can I just put another shout out for "semantics" as meaning "I know I am right, but I seem unable to work out how. Therefore, you are cheating".

Spaniel

19:26 / 24.07.05

"teh": the kind of typo made by over excited, ranting, fanboys, usually followed by absurd hyperbole.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:28 / 24.07.05

Seeing the compound word 'paranoidwriter' to the left of a Barbelith post certainly set my teeth on edge these days.

Spaniel

19:36 / 24.07.05

I think we're getting into barbannoy territory.

Mistoffelees

19:44 / 24.07.05

My boss sometimes used the word Shaloemchen. He thought it´s funny.

Essential Dazzler

20:41 / 24.07.05

Even if you're not paranoid, Flyboy's still out to get you

ibis the being

22:17 / 24.07.05

we enjoy each other

Ack, did I write that? Ew. I should have said "we enjoy each other's company."

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17:39 / 20.01.06

Challenge.

If you mean problem, FUCKING SAY PROBLEM!

Oh, and deprivation instead of poverty.

Quantum

17:54 / 20.01.06

Proactive, as opposed to what, antiactive? What's wrong with 'initiative'? Stupid fucking C.V. job description word.

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17:58 / 20.01.06

You know what's strange? Moments after I posted that some idiot on the news used both in quick succession, something along the lines of: "Deprivation in Wester Hailes is a real challenge."
Twunt.

The Natural Way

18:19 / 20.01.06

Titties is so much worse than boobs or boobies. It just sounds disgusting. Like teets, or something.

Totally w/ wembley and my bro about experience and enjoy, but I'll see you guys and raise you a typed ya'. This kind of talk IS NOT okay, especially when it's preceded or followed by words like honey. The implied tone of voice nauseates me.

And where's somethink on this thread? I swear people like Janet Street-Porter use it to give themselves a bit of I'm-down-with-the-common-man approachability. Regardless, most of the people who use this word, in my experience, should bloody well know better. I think I'm more fascinated by this one than annoyed, however.

Dead Megatron

19:07 / 20.01.06

Since my first language is Portuguese, the word I hate would have no meaning for most people here, but I do loathe people who say things such as "like" or "you know" (and their equivalents in other languages) five times in every sentence...

And I would like to ask Our Lady of Firecrackers, as friendly as possible, why she has a problem with the "Saint John Paul / John Paul the Great" names? I like the guy, I do thing he's a saint, and I already have a little altar for him, "you know". Santo subito, yeah!

Jack Fear

19:16 / 20.01.06

The simplest reason, Voltron, is that sainthood is not something that is conferred by popular acclaim.

Another reason some people might not share your high opinion of John Paul is that he was a deeply reactionary old crank, and his backward, illiberal views on human sexuality and papal authority have gone a long way toward making the Catholic Church irrelevant. He was and remains a widely despised figure, even by those who, like myself, love the Church.

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