I find that usage somewhat dry… 
Or maybe you asked someone to list all of the environments in which they might find camels?
Agreed on the second part.
Maybe it’s just the environments where they find the things they deserve. See also McKean’s Law.
I don’t think I’ve heard this IRL, but it’s everywhere on TV and in the movies:
“Can I ask you a question?”
I would rather hear a two-hour loop of Wilhelm Screams and "Let’s get out of here"s.
Ah, the feedback sandwich. I find this to be BS and I barely hear the first part because I’m waiting for the critical middle of the sandwich. and then I’m brooding over the middle critical part and barley hear the other piece of bread. Just give it to me straighter than that.
What a spot-on description. I had my year-end review today (not unusual to happen in March at my place) and I wasn’t really listening too carefully at all of the good stuff at the beginning because I kept waiting for the “meat” of the sandwich. Thankfully it was just good stuff this time around so that made my day.
Your “feedback sandwich” describes the sensation quite well.
((((HUGS))))
Still, that says more about your listening style than Larry Borgia’s hypothetical message.
You hear, “You gave a good effort out there,” and you instantly hear it as the start of a criticism.
What happens when the middle bit is further praise?
Well thanks mucho for dispelling my ignorance. :o
Never heard that IRL? Man, I hear it all the time. The best - and incredibly common - usage is in a training or at a lecture, when the speaker/presenter takes questions. Some idiot is raising their hand, and then when called upon, the say, “Can I ask a question” or the variant, “I have a question.” :smack:
^ Steady, Dinsdale, we’ll get through this together. 
Vaguely related:
When you’re at the end of a phone conversation, just say goodbye or 'bye. Not mmGoodbye or mmmmbye.
Just a mmminor peeve.
“So to say,” “If you will,” “Yaknowwaddamean,” and all it permutations.
I hear it fairly often. I enjoy replying, “You just did.”
(IIRC, J.K. Rowling has Dumbledore give that response to that question in one of the Harry Potter books, but I’ve been using that smart-ass answer longer than that.)
If I’m feeling kind, I follow it up with “Feel free to ask me another.”
“I’m sorry, but. . .” preceding whatever self-righteous, uninformed opinion some knucklehead wants to spew, e.g., “I’m sorry, but I just don’t think vaccines are necessary.” The preface doesn’t excuse the ignorance, dear.
‘I’m only being honest but…’
Teenage girls use this all the time.
On the other hand, if someone is doing well in a lot of areas and poorly in a few, if they only get feedback on the negatives, it can give an inaccurate impression about their overall performance. So sometimes giving a mix of positive and negative is justified.
In my previous team there was a lot of unhappiness about managers only ever giving feedback when you’d done something wrong, never when you’d done great.
That’s how I tend to use it. It’s a useful phrase for a situation where person I respect (or at least don’t disrespect), needs to be stopped or corrected or interrupted because at that moment something is off.
I wouldn’t tend to use it for someone I didn’t respect at all.
When I hear “with no further ado” I interpret that as, “you know, I realize that I’ve been rambling and you’re all bored. Sorry. I’ll just shut up now and let things get started.”
Because “with no further ado” is fewer syllables that that I’m okay with it. It may help to keep in mind that you can’t just stop talking or abruptly change the subject, as a speaker you have to have a natural flow to your words or you sound weird. “With no further ado” provides a succinct and natural way to cut off any prior subject and get on with things.
All this “-mageddon” stuff is really wearing thin. Windmageddon, snowmageddon, and on and on. It’s not the end of the world, it’s just a bad storm; enough! Make your point, and gedd on with it.
You’re suffering under a mageddonmageddon.