Takeaway.
Key takeaway.
“Pet-peeve” itself is another one of mine.
It has been replaced with “Snooky.”
People saying “Dude, that was awesome! It was totally penultimate!” is one of my snookies.
Is “snooky” a direct antonym for “binky” now?
My wife, up to a couple of weeks ago, worked with a guy who would constantly say “Well, it is what it is and it be what it be!” Drove her nuts, as he used it in the sense of “Here’s something that I have no control over and couldn’t possibly effect in any way.” Completely B.S., as he had managerial aspirations, and it was usually said about something he could have had a positive effect on, but he was always afraid of being blamed for taking a chance.
He transferred away, so it’s up to me to drive her nuts with the phrase now. 
I never again want to hear “teachable moment.” Like when Chris Brown beat the snot out of Rihanna, and for weeks after that everyone was using it as an example for girls not to let themselves be pushed around by their boyfriends. That’s a good thing. But one more person nodding earnestly and saying “This is a teachable moment!” is going to get a lesson in cliches.
Ive been waiting since at least the turn of the century for people to stop using literally when they mean metaphorically.
This is the only one of these rants that I really agree with. So what if “more unique” is illogical by some strict definition… it’s certainly not ambiguous. Everyone gets what you mean. Whereas adding the new meaning for literally actually DESTROYS the old meaning, because now you can’t tell which one is being used.
(Well, some of the time you can, by context… “it was literally raining cats and dogs” is probably figurative, unless it started with an explosion of a pet airplane…)
You beat me to that one. I always feel like emptying a revolver into anyone who uses it.
Another one that drives me nuts is usually used by teens and young adults. Maybe out of fear of being ridiculed, they start with “I was bored so I…” and then go on to tell about some fun or silly thing they did.
I read wonderlust’s use of “used to mean” to mean “when employed to mean”, as opposed to “formerly meant”. However, wonderlust apparently accepts “I want to say” in such contexts as “I want to say a few words about our guest speaker before she takes the stage.”
Please, please, please purge NO WORRIES from the collective conciousness of the world! And take IT’S ALL GOOD with it!
Ooooh, yeah. I’m sick of that. Also, “No, you’re good! :)”, especially when the person saying it is the one who screwed up. Ex: someone bumps into you, you say “excuse me” and they say, No, you’re good! 
. I know I am, motherfucker.
I hear ya.
I hear what you’re sayin’
Thank you. I can not stand this, of “Moving forward”. When I worked at a corporate type company job, this phrase alone made me so angry I could hardly keep from audibly scoffing. Just say “from now on” one time please! just say it one time for my sanity.
I just want to second “going forward”. I spend a few years out of the whole earning-and-taxpaying cycle, and I come back and suddenly everybody’s saying “going forward” instead of the perfectly adequate and well-established “from now on”. These little linguistic changes are really noticeable when you’re out of the corporate bullshit loop for a while.
Also, people who quote posts they agree with with the single word “This” should be taken out and shot. That includes any knob-ends who quote this post in such a manner.
“My bad” Ugh, please. It’s akin to loudly proclaiming how stupid you are in addition to acknowledging your error.
“Alrighty then!” The woman I share an office with this sighs this in the most exhausted, dramatic fashion about 3 times/hour, as if she’s been enduring some huge ordeal and has finally come to terms with it and is ready to…uh oh…“move forward”.
Lady. You’re a fucking secretary, not a gravedigger. Shut. Up.
Er, “Move forward”. Ahem.
Let’s hope this plane never has a mid-air collision.
If I could somehow convey how much I truly HATE “It is what it is” as a phrase I would.
It is so stupid, and I have never been in a situation where an answer that trite and meaningless actually has a point.
Grr!!!
Yada Yada Yada
Adding “Gate” to any political scandal as in "Pensions gate"etc.
I’ve been in a bad/(fill space here),place when talking about your mood.
In a relationship. How pretentious is that?Your going out with someone…
I’m going to find myself.
Yes thats certainly a problem that needs addressing.
Like,as in “I was like, standing by the car” usually used with "And she was ;and I was "
Innit (English slang)is an actual bona fide term in English as in "Its bloody cold today innit?[isn’t it] but some ethnic groups with a poor grasp of English started inserting it more or less randomly into their conversation to sound more English and “Young people” started copying them under the impression that it was fashionable.
Young people. No you mean children.
Special needs/disorder/syndrome/challenged when used to describe bad behaviour,laziness,low intelligence or acting like a brat.
Going Commando.No we always wore underware whenever possible otherwise it chafes like fuck.
Developing world/nation. No you’re not developing ,you haven’t developed over the last five thousand years,you haven’t developed one iota inspite of receiving Billions of dollars of charity,hardware,education and short of a miracle in the actual religious sense of the word, show no sign of doing so.
Asylum seeker -as used in illegal,economic migrant seeking a country with more generous welfare benefits.
Oh fleeing for your life from from a despotic regime because of your political/religious beliefs are you?
So how come you’ve just passed through half a dozen liberal,western democracies in W.Europe by land to arrive at an island nation on the extreme western edge of the continent that is actually further away from your home country then the ones that you’ve just passed through?
Pressurise–No you aren’t a closed container thats been filled with gas at over atmospheric pressure ,what you mean is pressured,as in people are trying to get you to do something that you are reluctant to do.
Had this before but here we go Careened,when you mean careered.
As in the car careered out of control,if the car speeding out of control actually went up on two wheels frequently then technically you could say careened but people are usually using the word in mistaken ignorance.
And while I’m enjoying this rant,SPHERE is pronounced Sfear NOT fucking Spear,Genghis is pronounced Jenghis NOT GENGis and the Chinese capitals name is pronounced BayZHING NOT Jing.
How fucking difficult is that you bunch of cretins?
Oh yes that felt good,that felt very,very good,gasp,pant pant!
Try to be more ignorant and offensive next time. This stuff is only like an 8 or 9 out of 10. Maybe try painting the no-good foreigners as more of a threat. Just a suggestion. Otherwise keep up the good work.
-Chariman of the Dickhead Council on Public Relations