# Trendy catch phrases you've had enough of... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336 "2012-06-16T13:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/1 "2012-06-16T13:30:43Z")
Pet peeve - just wondering which grate on people the most 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/2 "2012-06-16T15:27:06Z")
“grate on people” ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/3 "2012-06-16T15:31:30Z")
None of them bother me all that much. I like to use “Really” in the style of “Really!?! With Seth & Amy” from SNL. Hate if you must. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/4 "2012-06-16T15:39:33Z")
I am getting a little tired of “By the power of Greyskull!” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/5 "2012-06-16T16:04:41Z")
“I hear you.” To mean, I disagree with you but don’t want to say why. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/6 "2012-06-16T16:07:35Z")
I’m pretty sick of “really?” I first started noticing it when that Windows Mobile commercial was airing a year or two ago. One guy fished his phone out of the potty after dropping it in by accident, and the guy next to him said, “really?” Other similar situations were shown in the commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/7 "2012-06-16T16:32:14Z")
Om nom nom. Srsly. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/8 "2012-06-16T16:34:56Z")
“Robust” I don’t hear it as much now, but there was a time when it was used to describe everything from software to diapers. ETA: So, I was re-reading the poll options and noticed the first one: needlessly using “so” to start a sentence. So, that’s another peeve. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/9 "2012-06-16T16:47:09Z")
“Yadadadada, yadadada…” for “and so on, and so on.” I heard some douchebag interviewed on Public Radio use it today, and I damned near tossed my laptop out the kitchen window to smash on the pavement 16 stories below. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/10 "2012-06-16T17:28:05Z")
Every last one of them annoys the living daylights out of me. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/11 "2012-06-16T17:33:18Z")
“Woohoo!” “Absolutely.” “Cutie patootie.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/12 "2012-06-16T17:37:33Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Om nom nom. Srsly. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/13 "2012-06-16T17:53:36Z")
Rebuttals that begin with “Um,” or “Erm,”, as in “Erm, you do know that X is Y, right?” It is bad enough that some people talk like that, it is just laziness to let it slosh over into prose. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/14 "2012-06-16T18:46:44Z")
“It is what it is.” I don’t know why this banal sentence enrages me. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/15 "2012-06-16T18:49:08Z")
yo mama knows which one i’ve had enough of. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/16 "2012-06-16T18:57:55Z")
Starting out with “So.” It makes people sound like stand-up comics. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/17 "2012-06-16T19:17:17Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > “It is what it is.” > > I don’t know why this banal sentence enrages me. I expected you to be from Boston 😉 This is the Hoodie’s favorite phrase. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/18 "2012-06-16T19:20:01Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Yadadadada, yadadada…” for “and so on, and so on.” > > I heard some douchebag interviewed on Public Radio use it today, and I damned near tossed my laptop out the kitchen window to smash on the pavement 16 stories below. :smack: Do you actually mean “Yadadadada, yadadada” or do you mean “yadda, yadda,” because I’ve got to tell you, I’ve never heard anyone say “yadadadada, yadadada.” ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/19 "2012-06-16T19:20:56Z")
I just want the word ‘meme’ banned from the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336/20 "2012-06-16T19:32:09Z")
Something I’ve mainly seen in Cooks Illustrated (but have seen or heard it elsewhere) is “mouthfeel”. Wtf? JUST SAY “TEXTURE”, DAMMIT. It sounds like a hamfisted attempt to create a word for “texture” if we didn’t already have the word. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-catch-phrases-youve-had-enough-of/625336.md?page=2)