Annoying, but the intent is clear enough:
Yes, I agree with you that {whatever you just said} is out there. And no, I don’t approve of it. Here’s my comment about it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah …
That’s not that new. I usually hear it as “she’s got a good handle.”
It’s a little like “he’s got hops”
I don’t think I will EVER not hate the term, “The Ask.” It’s used in my company all the damn time, and used to refer to what someone is asking for. “What’s the Ask, here?” It’s one of the douchiest things I hear all day, and I hear a ton of douchey stuff.
I am going to amplify this! 
“At the end of the day…” is also up there for work vernacular that is way overused and irritating.
The reason “ask” has turned into a noun is that it’s one syllable. “Request”, “demand”, “proposal” are all multi-syllable. There’s a general tendency in conversation to prefer to short terms over longer terms.
“Resiliency.” The word you are looking for is “resilience.”
Seems to me a perfectly croulent word if you are joining the Mild Resiliency, the adjunct to the Rebel Alliance.
I have no idea what that means. A beer thing?
I read that to mean he has the shits, but I’m gross like that (i.e., “He’s got the trots.”). Maybe it means he has energy?
[hijack] Several years ago, I was with my son outside of a grocery store selling Boy Scout (at that time) popcorn. One of the options they have is you can purchase a popcorn donation “for the troops”. Well, not many people are going to hand over $50 for that, so everyone always puts out a bucket for small donations. Well, one veteran was entering the store. He saw the bucket, and it touched a nerve. He was ranting a bit (not unhinged, similar to your message) about people not understanding the Services; at one point he said “I’ve never had someone thank me for my haircut”. Well, when I saw him again leaving the store, I made sure to thank him for his haircut, which made him laugh.
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Back on topic here.
“Product A is 3 times less than Product B” - are you saying that I get negative calories from Product A? How about a more mathematically correct statement of “one third of Product B”, or “two thirds less than Product B”?
I got “the ask” yesterday, as in, “can you tell me what the ask is here?”
I replied, “The sure, I the will.”
One that always bugs me is, in the context of a vehicle crash news report, " lost control", such as “when the driver lost control at the intersection and collided with the building at the corner”. No, the driver didn’t “lose control”, the driving gods didn’t take control, evil spirits didn’t possess the car; he/she was simply driving too fast, wasn’t paying attention etc etc.
I like that reply.
An additional irritation with “the ask” is that some percentage of the population has spent their entire lives pronouncing “ask” as “ax.” This can lead to some potentially odd locutions: Who is going to convey the ax to Mr. Grumbly? or It’s about time I got up the courage for that huge ax or My ax seemed to alarm Brianna.
I can’t wait for someone to start some new trend that will bury The Ask (or The Ax, as may be).
Most people laughed. Manager didn’t think it was funny, though.
Manager: “Can you tell me what the humorous is here?”
It’s a sad fact of many people’s working lives that they have humorless managers.
Also: good one, digs!
“Normalcy”. I have a vague feeling this came into usage after the 9/11 attacks. What the fuck was wrong with “normality”? Whether or not they’re both acceptable “normalcy” makes me angry.
Yeah, it’s been in use for a long time. WWII and after WWI I think. It is overused right now, with so many things not considered normal.
Interesting. I honestly don’t remember ever having heard / seen it until. . . suddenly I was hearing it all the time. For me, it’s less the overuse then the use period. I get why we’re all speaking about things getting back to normal but “normalcy” rankles.