It just means someone who is basically a cheerful smiling individual.
I’ve been called “happy go lucky” my whole life.
Am I irresponsible and silly enough to not notice things like buses about to run me down?
Good grief, No. I just tend to go about my work with as happy and cheerful a disposition as possible.
If people get so annoyed over this description, perhaps they’d rather think up one that’s as short and descriptive and isn’t long and unweildy like “I’m a generally cheerful smiling person. I tend to have a sweet and nice disposition even while working…etc…and so on…”
Isn’t “she’s happy go lucky” SO much more a descriptive and easy phrase to say than having to describe the whole thing?
In fact, regarding that. Aren’t some of the catch phrases people are getting themselves SOOO annoyed about, much easier and descriptive than in using the longer, more drawn out descriptions to which they refer?
I can understand the pet peeves about incorrectly used and misspelled words etc, and some of the stuffy stuck up sounding terms, but just plain old adages, phrases, jokes and such? Kind of perplexing as to why they create so much annoyance.
(Pssst, I DO agree with “bling-bling” though, whoever thought up THAT inanity should be shot! :D)
“Broad”, “toots”, “skirts”… come on, that’s just silly! Swing dancing is fine, the trend is coming back but those words will just make me shoot someone in the nostril (a perk being that the whole head will come off, or so I hope).
I mentally sicken hearing this pretensious and misspelled word… “irregardless”… someone get the dork a dictionary! I’ve heard it used at my university by numerous co-eds, it makes me want to scream hysterically and slap their mouth! GAWD! Ponder knows what I mean!!
“yada yada yada”: enough already.
Hmmm, basically, in summary, everything that’s been posted! I’ve read through all the posts and I agree! Let’s make up a new language! YEAH! YEAH!!
But I do have one request…
I’d like to keep “methinks” on hand… sorry tee hee. I use it on purpose because I LOVE being a smart ass! And maybe “huzzah” because it sounds so damn funny when yelled into the drive through speaker at any fast food “joint” (ugh). Ummm, you want to know more about that, don’t you. Well, I’m not going to tell you. So there!
The term “ma’am” is polite, courteous and respectful. I use it every day and will continue to. It is no different than “sir”, which I also use.
Then again, I also open doors for people, say “please” and “thank you” and stand when a woman leaves and returns to the table. I guess I’m just an oppressor at heart. :rolleyes:
“Whatnot.” Usually found in a clause such as: “Jim and me was going to the movies and whatnot…”
I want to have a license to smack upside the head.
Given how badly grammar has deteriorated in America, this may sound pretentious, but it drives me twitchy when people misuse “who” and “whom”, most particularly when they do not use “whom” at all.
English is made complicated by its many exceptions, but the basic rules of the language are pretty straightforward.
When I’m made Evil Master of the Universe, people will be forced to learn and use them or move to California, which I will have walled shut and then cut off with giant bandsaws and dropped into the sea.
Thank you, Geezer. If someone were to seriously call me out about using “sir” or “ma’am” because it’s somehow degrading through whatever political filter they happen to view the world, I would either laugh in their face or be so taken aback as to be speechless.
I agree with you completely on the increasing rarity of civility, but at least some of us out there are trying to provide a good example. It’s weakened, but it’s not dead yet.
Kudos, both the word and the candy bar. 86’em. Note: I didn’t say it should ‘*go missing[/]’, because that is a phrase that should also meet an overdue death.
With any luck, the Atlantic will provide us some resistance against this taking hold in the US. Although we’re already stuck with “so I go…and then he goes…”