# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1147 "2022-09-09T10:02:15Z")
I think the words _ **apparently** _ and _ **supposedly** _ are overused. Some people use one of these words at the beginning of each sentence they utter, and it’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1148 "2022-09-09T13:48:40Z")
Hey I groc you. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1149 "2022-09-09T18:00:34Z")
Or is that grok? Unless you meant you give them food or use them _as_ food. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1150 "2022-09-09T23:59:22Z")
UGH! You’re right! bloody google ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1151 "2022-09-10T01:43:55Z")
I was actually sorta hoping you’d school me that those pesky kids (and their meddlesome dog) nowadays were really using “groc” as some inverted ironic psychological spoof aimed at us geezers and our made-up, but nevertheless cromulent, “grok”. “I groc you” is so utterly contemptuous of corny geezer SF as to be a thing of great beauty. It’s a “sick burn” as I think they say these days. Or did a decade ago. Time passes largely unnoticed for me these days 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1152 "2022-09-10T20:03:24Z")
Hoping “dog pound” has become 100% obsolete. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1153 "2022-09-10T23:11:51Z")
Could be. I don’t know what it means. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1154 "2022-09-10T23:23:07Z")
By about the 80’s, or so, it became it lot less heard in my confines (and media, and such). I have vague memories of some Quinn Martin production back on 70s tv where maybe Kevin Tighe or Jack Albertson might make a brief reference to one. Today’s more benign ‘dog pound’ equivalent (in my area) - [the S.P.C.A.](https://spca.bc.ca/) ---
**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:** [September 11, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1155 "2022-09-11T01:59:18Z")
Oh, you mean the literal meaning. I thought it was supposed to be some kind of slang. It’s not a term that I either like or dislike. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1156 "2022-09-11T03:10:56Z")
Yes,this. Color me absolutely baffled about any upsetness by anyone over “dog pound” to refer to well, the dog pound, the local government’s impound facility for wayward dogs. The parking authorities tow illegal cars to the impound lot and the animal control officers, AKA dogcatchers, haul illegal or lost dogs to the dog pound. It’s perfectly cromulent American to my ears. if it has a slang meaning, I’ve never heard it. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1157 "2022-09-11T11:53:59Z")
I thought he was a football fan and complaining about the “dog pound” at the Cleveland stadium where Browns fans dress up with dog masks and whatnot. The timing even made sense with the NFL season starting this week. (Today, in fact, not counting last Thursday’s opener.) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1158 "2022-09-25T19:08:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I don’t like POTUS and SCOTUS. I don’t object to these terms as such, but they can make searching for articles and other online material somewhat more difficult. If I’m searching the Library of Congress catalog I know I’m safe using just “United States Supreme Court”\* or “President of the United States”\* because I know LOC uses a standardized list of subject headings. But if I’m using Google, then I worry that I might miss something important if I don’t search for “Supreme Court” OR SCOTUS. And the same with POTUS. \*Whatever LOC’s exact terms for these subjects are; I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1159 "2022-09-25T19:19:07Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > "How come. . . " If ya wanna know ‘why,’ just ask ‘Why. . .’ I thought this was a standard Americanism that’s been around for ages, and thus fully baked into the standard as well as all or most dialects. I know it sounds odd to other English speaking countries, to extent that it hasn’t been adopted there. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1160 "2022-09-25T19:19:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I don’t like POTUS and SCOTUS. Totally agree. Hates em. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1161 "2022-09-25T20:42:37Z")
I didn’t like them the first time I heard them on _The West Wing_ like, what?, twenty years ago? But I got used to them, and now I don’t even notice them. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1162 "2022-09-25T21:12:19Z")
23 years and 3 days 👨🏼‍🦳 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1163 "2022-09-25T21:14:22Z")
Man, and I thought I was being generous. 😢 I can still remember the episode I first heard POTUS. It was the one where Sam Seaborne finds out his date is a prostitute. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1164 "2022-09-25T21:27:28Z")
which was that first episode (I did not see WW first-run but probably two or three years later) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1165 "2022-09-25T22:08:59Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I thought this was a standard Americanism that’s been around for ages, and thus fully baked into the standard as well as all or most dialects. Has anyone mentioned “baked in” yet? It aggravates. You might say it has aggravation baked in but that would be obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/1166 "2022-09-25T22:45:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > which was that first episode > > (I did not see WW first-run but probably two or three years later) I was sure it was the first season, but I didn’t remember it being the very first episode. I did see it first run! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=59)