I did free lance work for a social service agency that did this, too. Instead of clients, they said consumers. I told them that everyone else in this type of work refers to their clients as clients and I don’t want to have to explain to every funder I’m writing to what you mean by that word and how that is the same thing as client. If they’re clients, that’s what I’m going to call them. It’s hard enough to raise money without having to explain basic terminology.
or “closed shop” for have to join a union
I hate word type euphemisms such a the F word or the N word. Everyone knows you are saying fuck or nigger, just say it.
Well, actually I was going to fornicate some negroes… you’re making it sound dirty.
I understand why “consumer” is better (at least, from the point of view of the people advocating the change) than “patient.” But what’s wrong with “client”? If anything I would think a client has more of a say than a consumer does.
Similarly the employees are “associates” or some other buttfucking term. Now, in some sort of high end profession like lawyer or something, yeah, but the guy cleaning the crapper and stocking the shelves in your big box store is an associate? Sure…
Heheheheheheheh
I hate the use of “adult” for “erotic”.
There are lots of adult things out there that aren’t at all erotic. When I see an “adult” video store, sometimes I want to go in and ask if they’ve got the latest federal budget debate on DVD. Use your gonads and give your products their proper name.
Fair enough. I hate the use of “erotic” for “pornographic.” I’m a busy man, and I don’t have time for stuff that is only “erotic.” 
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Wow, I dunno about you, but this paints some pretty i*n-ter-esting *pictures in my head… I like the pictures.
When my mother-in-law died last year, we were pretty blunt with the term ‘died’ so that our kids would know that Nana was, in fact, not coming back. But someone said something to my son about his grandmother “passing away” and that phrase almost stuck with him.
He now talks about “Nana getting passed out”, which is probably not how she wants to be remembered.
When something is called a “tool” that is not an actual tool that you’d buy at Canadian Tire or something. (Website, spreadsheet, advice, etc.)
Cashier at Wendy’s: Will this be for the dining room this evening?
Listen, I am standing in Wendy’s. You don’t have a dining room. You have tables and chairs with snot and ketchup smears on them. There will be no candles and violinists at my table.
What self-important marketing prick came up with this little gem?
In the bible, “knowing” means “having sex with.”
Well, everyone who knows me. . .
I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets annoyed at the “passed away” thing. I got spanked on the Roger Ebert thread for objecting to stating that an out and proud atheist “passed away”.
When my mother died, her obituary made it clear that she died.
“Progressive”-Whiny, self-righteous, washed-out ex-hippies without any sense in foreign policy and hypocrites who engage in rapid apologia for Islamist reaction as long as its against “American imperialism”. The only exception among self-described Progs these days is Bernie Sanders and even he panders to anti-nuclear bullshit. Would leave classical Progressives like Teddy Roosevelt spinning in his grave
“Libertarian”-When applied to pro-pot legalization Pat Buchanan, ie Ron Paul who was rated the most conservative politician in the United States. Or those sociopathic Islamophobes who thinks nuking Mecca is a good idea.
You: “We’ll be at that corner table by the window. Please send the sommelier over promptly, and the violinist after we choose our wine.”
I didn’t know that one was still around - I’ve only heard it a couple of times, and that was 15-20 years ago.
I remember being confused the first time I heard it, because my mind more readily associated “the dining room” with the one in my house, rather than the tables in the fast-food joint. I can’t recall for sure at this remove, but I think I may have said something like, “no, I’m eating here,” which undoubtedly confused the person behind the counter.
I think what I’d say if I heard it again is, “Let me explain: you do not have a dining room. What you have is the ‘here’ of ‘here, or to go?’ Either way, I’m not eating in the dining room: you don’t have one, and if I order this ‘to go,’ I’ll eat it at the kitchen table.”
Hell, why do they call them restrooms? They’re about the last place I’d want to take a nap in!
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To know, know, know you
is to love, love, love you
What do you want to call them, shitters?
Sometimes euphemisms are good things.