What sayings or expressions are you hearing too often recently that deserve to die in 2007?
Right now, at the top of my list: *It is what it is. * :dubious:
Makes me foam at the mouth.
Yours?
Oh, and: I’m all about…
(Making a list now)
How is that trendy? I’ve been saying that for years.
Yes, but at the end of the day…
My bad
Gah! Hate, loath and despise this expression. Are people so lazy they can’t be bothered with the extra syllables for “I’m sorry”?
'Sup my bitch.
This phrase is rude. As a woman, I don’t appreciate the connotations.
“Drop the F-bomb” irks the fuck out of me.
Number one, I despise. Where did it come from? I first read it here and now I hear it !
Number 2, I’ve never heard. Thankfully.
You know what really bugs me, now that I think of it. “Hi there!” Usually uttered in a singing-type voice by 20-something female store clerks intent on serving me. Why “there?” Why not a simple, “hi,” “hello,” etc. No. It’s always (singing) “hi there.”
Phrases with “hella” as in:
“That’s hella messed up!”
“That guy was hella rude!”
I posted this to an earlier thread, but it bears repeating:
“On the ground” and especially “the reality on the ground” need to die swiftly.
A student in my lab greeted me with “'Sup my bitch.”
My response, “I ought to ‘sup’ on your disrespectful tounge! I am NOT a female canine, nor am I your property. The proper greeting is ‘Hello, Ms. Maven.’ A major component of research is articulating your findings to others. If you can’t cope with standard speech, leave now.”
Another term that can go away: Props
This falls into the same catagory as My Bad. Is there some sort of superstition that saying less will make you live longer?
Count me in on the “It is what is it”, and I’ll add
“At the end of the day, I’m over it.”
Both are used by my upper management all the time. If my attitude about my job was really “At the end of the day, I’m over it”, I’d deserve the pink slip they gave me.
I’ve never used “my bad” to mean “I’m sorry,” nor have I ever heard it used that way: to me, it means “that was my fault/mistake.”
It is what it is.
I’ve been hearing it much more in 2006 than before, and I’m complaining about when it’s used as a cop-out for saying something of substance. Yes, there are zen moments when it’s appropriate, but I think it’s being used more frequently, inappropriately.
I absolutely cannot stand “No worries!” (used as an affirmative) for some reason. It spontaneously cropped out a few years ago, and now it seems like I can’t have any interaction with hipsters without it cropping up. It just makes me want to punch someone when I hear it.
Another that’s really proliferated in the past year is white urban hipsters using the british slang “cheers.” Next person that does this to me gets a “Ferry down the mersey!” and a fat lip. Yeah, it sucks that we in the U.S. don’t have an analogue to the phrase, but that doesn’t mean that you’re not a douchebag if you use it.
Perhaps my influence is more pervasive than I thought. . .
The one I hate? “It’s all good.”
Oh shut up. Like you even know.
“Yeah, baby!” or “[sentence], baby!”
I heard someone interject “baby!” on to the end of a sentence a week or so ago (totally forget where I was) and I remember this feeling of thinking I just went deaf or something. It made the person sound boorish, childish, unoriginal and annoying to me all at the same time.
This isn’t a new trendy, but for some damn reason it is still here.
**“Word”/b]
Hey dude. The early 90’s called. They want their “word” back.
Of course, if it does go away I won’t be able to use my comeback.
Me: “So I said ‘you need to back off this now’.”
Them “Word!”
Me: “Sentence. Dog.”
I am sick of things having traction. You’d think there’s a SUV convention in DC, there’s so many things trying to get traction.
Bleh. Give up your Buzzword of the Week email subscription. Now.
I thought “hella,” “props,” and “my bad” went out in the 90s. I hardly ever hear them any more. Then again, I am 36, so maybe I’m not hanging out with the people who say them.
I used to say “yadda yadda” until I became aware of its association with Seinfeld. I hate that show with a passion, and I don’t want anyone thinking that’s where I got it. I kinda miss it. 