# Phrases/terms that aggravate the hell out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894 "2020-10-26T02:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/321 "2020-11-27T22:28:01Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Vajayjay - If you’re old enough to be talking about it, you’re old enough to use the real word. Can we throw in “girly bits” and “privates” as well? Also, can we refrain from proclaiming that someone “won” a thread? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/322 "2020-11-28T00:45:25Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Also, can we refrain from proclaiming that someone “won” a thread? I heartily agree! In fact, I proclaim **Mean\_Mr.Mustard** the… oh, ah umm, the _runner-up_ of this thread. Regrets, **digs** (who _won the internet_ once, and all it took was a lowly comment here in The Pit) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/323 "2020-11-28T00:50:03Z")
> [@digs](#): > > all it took was a lowly comment here in The Pit) Kind of by definition, aren’t all the comments in The Pit low? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/324 "2020-11-28T02:07:51Z")
How are we about jiggly bits? Hooha? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/325 "2020-11-28T03:07:54Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > Also, can we refrain from proclaiming that someone “won” a thread? > > I heartily agree! In fact, I proclaim **Mean\_Mr.Mustard** the… oh, ah umm, the _runner-up_ of this thread. > > Regrets, > **digs** > (who _won the internet_ once, and all it took was a lowly comment here in The Pit) I’ve actually “won” a thread once as well; don’t think I’ve ever won the internet. Still waiting for my prize money/certificate/trophy. mmm ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/326 "2020-11-28T03:21:02Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Still waiting… “The cheque is in the mail.” That was my dad’s most aggravating phrase… he worked for a lender, and he always said that if people just admitted they didn’t have the money right now, he’d have given them an extension. But once they said “Oh, the cheque’s in the mail.” or “I TOLD my admin to send that payment! They’re off today, but Monday morning I’ll find out what they did with it.” Then he’d start the clock on punitive financial penalties. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/327 "2020-11-28T05:41:33Z")
Pfft! I win every thread I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/328 "2020-11-28T16:46:15Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > LOL or the King of the Water Table - his royal wellness. > > But really it’s like inventing the word “warmness” when “warmth” already exists. Of course “wellness” was coined as a parellelism to “illness”. A state of being well/ill. So not an insane idea to begin with. > [@digs](#): > > “The cheque is in the mail.” Or as a wannabe comic I used to work with had it: > Dont’ worry, the check’s in your mouth. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/329 "2020-11-28T21:42:40Z")
“Revert back” is something I hear often. Makes my nostrils flare. ---
**Author:** ![ElDeLuxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@ElDeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElDeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/330 "2020-11-28T21:57:30Z")
_“with all due respect”_ Oh, dear. I use that one fairly often–to preface a statement that varies greatly from that of someone i do, indeed, have considerable respect for. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/331 "2020-11-28T22:04:56Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > “Revert back” is something I hear often. Makes my nostrils flare.   Yeah, I like to “revert forward” sometimes. 😀 However, happy-go-lucky descriptivists might argue that the redundancy serves as a form of emphasis and is thus harmless and even – God help us – not wrong. At least it isn’t blatantly contradictory, like double negatives or the deplorably contrarian use of “literally” as a meaningless emphasizing filler. Also the dreaded “I could care less”. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before we are treated to “I literally could care less”. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/332 "2020-11-28T23:49:46Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > just a matter of time before we are treated to “I literally could care less”. I literally couldn’t care less. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/333 "2020-11-29T00:03:16Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My actual contribution? Verbs turned into nouns. Like “ask”. I know it’s a bit late, but the whole “Ask” thing steams me. “What’s the ask?” or “It’s a big ask” or whatever variation of it can just as easily be replaced with “request” or “demand”, depending on how insistent it is. I generally make a point of NOT using “ask” like that, nor do I use the term “leverage” as a verb either. Both are the worst of 21st century business-speak and make communication worse more often than they improve it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/334 "2020-11-29T06:23:13Z")
“Black Friday”. It’s a marketing invention, not a holiday. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/335 "2020-11-29T16:29:26Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Of course “wellness” was coined as a parellelism to “illness”. A state of being well/ill. So not an insane idea to begin with I would agree with you if “health” was coined as a parallelism to “illth” 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/336 "2020-11-29T17:04:25Z")
I think you mean _woundth_. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/337 "2020-11-29T19:29:15Z")
Two different things really. Health is typically meant to mean an absence of disease/illness. Wellness is more of an ongoing state/process of getting more healthy/more well/feeling better than the baseline of not being unhealthy. Of course, wellness tends more toward the woo, and less toward medical science in today’s world. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/338 "2020-11-29T23:50:18Z")
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the people of Boston came together and worked to bring some normalcy back to life as a Bostonian. I do not, at the time, begrudge them the slogan “Boston Strong.” Tragically, the slogan was too catchy, too pithy, too _good_ to not get hijacked by everybody who went through anything inconvenient enough to get mentioned on the network evening news broadcast. So now it’s a trite little bromide that gets repeated ad nauseum. We’re still doing our jobs in the USPS, so in between PSA’s and tutorials reminding us how to wash our hands, we get video pep talks from the PMG calling us “Postal Strong.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/339 "2020-11-30T00:03:12Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > We’re still doing our jobs in the USPS, so in between PSA’s and tutorials reminding us how to wash our hands, we get video pep talks from the PMG calling us “Postal Strong.” . Yikes. Here’s hoping that when DeJoy goes, that goes, too. But you’re certainly right that the “\_\_\_\_\_\_ Strong” construction has been hijacked by many causes less worthy than the ‘Boston after the bombing’ original. It’s at least mildly annoying. ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/340 "2020-11-30T00:06:33Z")
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