“At the end of the day…” Unfortunately there is actually a country song out with this as the title/catchline.
Shade,
You my dear have a special dispensation for usage of the term “literally.” You clearly know the definition of the word and can refrain from being obnoxious- This dispensation also give you the obligation and privelege of teaching others the correct usage of above phrase.
Re: “jumping the shark” I feel a little cheated. I sort of live under a rock and that phrase came to my attention only days ago. I haven’t had the chance to personally wear it out, it makes me a little sad, can we keep it for just 24 more hours???
Me too, panache. I don’t even know what it means.
When we’re in a meeting and the manager says, “Let’s talk about this off-line” I just want to tear my eyeballs out with my bare fingers and throw them at him (the eyeballs, not the fingers.)
My brother told me about a guy he knew who was credit manager for a mobile home dealer. He said, "He’s the guy who has to tell people whether or not they qualify to be trailer trash
–Nott
quote from Soup_De_Jour
In that context, fine. But the people who say “My Man” like their man is a possession…they bug me. It’s very trashy talk show to me. And I don’t like that.
hella good
actually hella anything irritates me
“Jumping the shark” is in reference to Fonzie waterskiing on “Happy Days” and jumping over a shark that was gonna get him. It is looked at as the turning point from medoicrity to pure garbage. Or from a good show to one that should be cancelled. Someone else will probably post more succicnt details/reasons (they always do).
CIAO!
ADIOS!
Good post, no?
How about “I’m just saying!”? As if that could possibly justify any totally idiotic thing you just said.
For instance:
“If there’s too much garbage in those landfills, why don’t they just burn it?”
“Duh, because burnt garbage releases poisonous fumes and is terrible for human lungs, not to mention the atmosphere?”
“Oh. Well, I’m just saying!”
Ugh.
The only phrases that really irritate me are the ones that subconciously escape from my mouth out of habit. Lately I have gotten in the habit of saying “Well, to be perfectly honest…” at times when it is really stupid and pointless.
For example: friend is standing at fridge and says "I got Coke and Mountain Dew, which do ya want "
Me: “Well, to be perfectly honest, I’d like a Coke”
Ooh, I get dispensation. Thanks.
The only phrase I can think of is ‘could care less’ again.
No, wait, one of my friends is going through a buzzword phase. I nominate ‘Let’s put some structure on this.’
“You’re fired.”
That one bothers me a lot.
And my ex actually got me saying “hella,” which I have since passed on to others. So, shoot me now, please. I have done a bad, bad thing.
Another nomination to my list: “Well, that was more than I needed to know … too much information…” OK, so maybe it was, but those phrases in general have been worn into the ground and drive me absolutely batshit now.
-Dirty
“DUDE!!”
Spoken by a 12 year old is ok. Spoken by a 35 year old is annoying.
“I’d tell you, but I’d have to kill you.”
Worked with a guy that said these constantly. We wanted to kill HIM.
LOL, IIRC, IMHO, etc…
Only in really formal letters from higher positioned people in my company. I don’t mind it in emails, but a formal letter is a formal letter. Using this stuff is like showing you’re cool when you should be serious.
Or am I an old poop on this?
“This is so fun!”
“Be real”
But I was having such a wonderful time being imaginary.
BTW, I don’t think “jumped the shark” has jumped the shark yet. Probably if you spend frightening amounts of time on the Internet, you run into it a lot, but I don’t think I’ve heard anybody besides me use it in an actual conversation.
I think the guys who run the “Jump the shark” website have stated that they won’t consider the phrase to have jumped the shark until they start seeing it on t-shirts.
Original quote by masonite:
That reminds me of a lot of New Age jargon and cliches that get on my nerves:
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Everything is as it should be.
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“the God within”
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“into the light”
There are lots of others like this. My dislike has nothing to do with what I believe. It has to do with the shallowness of many of those who overuse these phrases.
I also can’t tolerate “impacted” as a verb.
I wholeheartedly second “hooking up” and “mighty white of you,” posted by Zoggie and EchoKitty respectively. I have always hated those expressions with a passion!
Also, “Talk to the hand,” with, of course, the hand held palm outward in front of the face. Makes me want to say, “I already know how old you’re acting, you don’t have to show me!”
Okay ladies and gentlemen,
This is clearly my fault- but I have never been so painfully cliched inside my head. All the various phrases that we’re mocking are crammed in a festive jumble between my ears-
I work in an office where 1st off, I’m the youngest person by a good deal, and, even were I NOT the youngest, telling my boss that he has “jumped the shark” simply wouldn’t do…but now all the responses I can formulate in my head involve some obnoxious phrase (sometimes several.) Am I the only one having this problem???
“Stop calling me ‘sister’! I think I would remember if you lived in my mama’s house!”
From the pilot episode of South Central: a terrific show that was never given a chance.
OK, Kaya, but I think No Doubt should be given a pass because their song “Hella Good” is just so damn catchy.
Holy cats!
You people are making me happy that I don’t have any english speaking friends or colleagues. I think my head would explode if I had to listen to this kind cliched crap all the time.
I’m not saying that german is any better. Its just that german is my second language and even after ten years there are old, worn out phrases that I’ve never heard. They aren’t cliches to me because I don’t know them.
Which reminds me of the time I jumped on by an english teacher in college. It seems I had used a cliche in a creative writing assignment. How in the hell was I supposed to know that a phrase that I had seen once in one story out of the thousands that I had read up to that time was a cliche? I wanted to ask her what kind of hackneyed crap she read, but I decided not to as I needed to pass the course.