“Grow a pair” Boobs are a “pair”, and if we let the menfolk grow 'em they’d never leave the house; rendering them useless as hunter-gatherers.
I like Betty White’s take on it: Grow a vagina cause those things can take a beating!
“Grow a pair” Boobs are a “pair”, and if we let the menfolk grow 'em they’d never leave the house; rendering them useless as hunter-gatherers.
I like Betty White’s take on it: Grow a vagina cause those things can take a beating!
This mostly bothers me because a guy I work with has an automatic signature that has one of those four robotic sign-offs for EVERY. SINGLE. EMAIL. He’s very stuffy and formal and it comes across as him trying to appear like a polite turn of the century gentleman. I like sign-offs that are more casual I suppose (and less phony/rote)… “Thank you”, “Take care”, “Talk soon”, etc. Even “sincerely” sounds better than anything ending with “Regards”. To be honest, it’s more of a beef with this particular person I know than email sign-offs in general.
“As a (parent, teacher, trash collector)” is grating.
“At this or that time” is annoying too. At this time = now and at that time = then. Now and then are perfectly good words that shouldn’t be abandoned.
I loathe the use of feel meaning think and share meaning tell or speak.
Yes. Yes yes yes times yes to the power of yes. Cubed. It’s like a nailfile in the ear every time I hear it.
Alas, the Season of Conspicuous Consumption will be upon us in another month, with its neverending commercials for “perfect for gifting” gifts for “all your gifting needs” when they’re not trying to convince me that the perfect thing to gift your loved ones is a luxury automobile.
For some reason, every time I’ve tried to type “gift” in this post, my fingers keep wanting to spell it “fight.” ![]()
Or even worse, “sammy.” Also “nanner” for banana, if you’re over the age of 5.
It drives me insane when people refer to children’s ages in “months” after the kid has turned a year old. “28 months?” WTF? The kid is TWO!!
Gnome Sane?
Any phrase followed by “just sayin’” is juvenile and/or insulting.
Just sayin’.
In what universe is cliché an adjective?
And things don’t “orientate.”
And “the blame game” is also a particularly overused phrase. How cliché.
I couldn’t agree more. And it seems to me to be getting more prevalent, or maybe I’m just hyper-sensitive to it. Either way, it’s making SportsCenter hard to watch.
Anywho always makes me embarrassed for the person who uses it.
I cannot stand, “What can I do ya for?”
It makes me want to punch them in the face.
That’s like the old, “Ya workin’ hard, or hardly workin’?! HAW! HAW! HAW!”
Which, fortunately for us all, seems to be on the road to extinction, if it’s not completely gone.
Read the comments at the bottom.
“Exsqueeze me?”
RIP for “Rest in Peace.” Reminds me of a Halloween decoration, not a statement of respect for the deceased.
My grandfather used to say “raining pitchforks and hammer handles.”
The one I can’t stand is “assume makes an ass out of you (u) and me.”
The one I hate is “Bless your heart”. Look, if you think I’m an asshole at least have the guts to call me one to my face rather than hide behind smarmy, passive-aggressive bullshit like “Bless your heart”.
Well ‘Bless your heart’. I would, but that means that I would have to start a thread in the Pit.
Just sayin’… ![]()
D&R
“Case the joint.”
AFAIK orientate is the more common term in Ireland and the UK.