# "At The End Of The Day" And Other Phrases To Kill Off Now, Part XVII **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150 "2013-03-28T02:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tollhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@Tollhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tollhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/61 "2013-03-29T15:19:35Z")
Maybe a good reply would be “Im fine right where I am, but if you want to move, go right ahead…Ive heard Johnson Moving is a good one to go with, or hey, how about Student Movers? and let me know how your move goes” Apparently the owners of this phrase have an innate knack for being incredibly clueless and insensitive. Both times it was muttered towards me in my life was at a time where I had very recently experienced a loss. Once, the person muttered it to me only a month after losing a significant relationship, the other time it was ten days, TEN days after I lost an immediate family member. That time, I literally told the speaker “just shut up dude, shut the f… up” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/62 "2013-03-29T15:36:34Z")
“Aren’t I?” It’s not something I hear a lot, but internally I cringe any time I hear it. Most of the others mentioned, while clichéd, I could care less about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/63 "2013-03-29T15:50:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Am I the only one who can’t see this thread title without the score from _Les Mis_ starting up in my head? Actually, I keep hearing it set to the tune of the Kinks song “Til The End of the Day.” Can we please stop using the word “surrounding” all the time? At least confine it to situations where something is actually surrounded by something else. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/64 "2013-03-29T16:00:09Z")
For me it’s “I’ll shoot you an email and blah blah.” You’re shooting an email to someone? The completely passive actual reality of sending an email is about as far from shooting something as you can get. I can just see people typing up some email, then hitting the send button with a little “bam!” sound. And then the data meanders through the interwebs, sitting passively in a mail server until it’s picked up by an every ten minute sweep by your mail program. It’s like they’re trying to cool and with it about the technology, and “send” just isn’t enough to describe their mad email skillz. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/65 "2013-03-29T16:19:32Z")
The Internet is a series of tubes, don’tcha know? When you shoot someone an email, the message gets shot through a pneumatic tube to its recipient. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/66 "2013-03-29T16:35:46Z")
What gets me is when I am explaining something to someone and they interrupt me and say “oh, what you are _trying_ to say is…” No, I am saying what I mean, it is you not trying to understand it and wanting the meat cut “just so”. I can _explain_ it to you again, but I can’t _understand_ it for you. That, and “Let’s get in alignment”. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/67 "2013-03-29T17:01:43Z")
“I hear you.” 80% of the time, they clearly did not. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/68 "2013-03-30T09:37:26Z")
> [@SpeedwayRyan](#): > > Lately, “reach out” is really annoying me. It’s entered the theatre of the aburd. The other day a numbnuts TV news reporter said the cops “reached out” with an arrest at a grow-op. I pictured the Dresden firestorm, when Churchill reached out to Hitler. Another one growing like Topsy is politicans and/or sports figures who ask and answer their own questions (usually with “that said”). “That said, am I sorry I caused my family so much pain when I was caught with my underwear down to my knees in the back seat of a convertible with my best friend’s Great Dane and the top down? Of course I am.” “That said, does the team have to put the last 25 consecutive losses behind them, realize that at the end of the day tomorrow’s another day and the name of the game is to win? Yes, and it’s my job to help turn it around.” ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/69 "2013-03-30T09:44:09Z")
That said, aburd = absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/70 "2013-03-30T09:57:50Z")
Oh, jeez. Ninj . . . I mean, upon a closer read, I see that Senegoid’s questions and answers, along with Dickerman, beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150/71 "2013-03-30T14:31:13Z")
unexamined privilege partner (as, in “You’ll need to partner with Nina in Corporate Accounts Payable.”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-the-end-of-the-day-and-other-phrases-to-kill-off-now-part-xvii/654150.md?page=3)