Given that we’re prone to exaggeration and hyperbole, it doesn’t bother me that such exaggeration or hyperbole indicates a period of time before the Big Bang. Such outrage literally causes my head to explode in a Big Bang like manner.
Is it just me or do you want to strangle people who use the phrase"Hundreds of billions of yearsold"
I could care less 
Do one hundred billion degrees below zero F and one hundred billion degrees below zero C converge on a really big chart?
People have different sayings and sometimes they put their own spin on an old adage. Nothing to knot your knickers over. Just smile and kick on.
Don’t get me started on that song from about seven years ago, “Written in the Stars,” where the singer sings, “written in the stars, a million miles away…”
To avoid strangulation, I routinely measure great distance and unfathomable amounts of time in kajillions.
Have not been strangled yet.
I was watching a stupid little local PBS show just the other day, and these three turds out “hiking” about 100 yards off the road, and the “expert” says, “These rock formations are trillions of years old!”
No. No, they’re not.
If we know that the big bang happened 13.7 baziillion years ago or so, why can’t we see that little peep hole and look back into it and see wazzup?
Bricker, while it’s true that there’s no known upper bound on the Universe’s size, and that it therefore might well be larger than trillions of lightyears, the paper you quoted isn’t a good support for that argument. Their estimated lower bound for the Universe’s size is only a hundred and something billion, not a trillion. And anyway, that’s probably a really bad use for Bayesian statistics, and they also neglect the possibility of nontrivial topologies.
Back on topic, one egregious example I recall was an article in my college’s student newspaper that blamed the infamous Freshman 15 on cheese, and claimed that the average student eats the equivalent of a million Kraft singles while at college. Granted, the author admitted that they just made up that statistic themself, couldn’t they at least have made up a statistic that was remotely plausible?
They turned the freezer up to eleven.