If you leave the dinner table to go to the bathroom, I don’t want to hear you say, “Excuse me, but I’m going to go take a shit now.” Why not? After all, it’s not wrong or shameful; it’s a natural body function. Well, I don’t want to hear about yours. Why do you feel it’s necessary to force the image on someone by saying “having sex”? Sure, sometimes that’s the right phrase, but sometimes “making love” is the right phrase. We choose words for the occasion like we choose clothes for the occasion. I might take a shit, take a crap, defecate, have a bowel movement, go to the bathroom, or feed the toilet, depending on the situation and who I am talking to–even though they all mean the same thing, the way you choose your words also is part of the message.
Ok, you’ve got a point. Maybe I’m just not fond of euphemisms because they seem like a waste of time to me. “Making love” is just so cutesy and almost childish, which I don’t think applies to “going to the restroom”. I’ll take back what I said about “sleeping together”; it’s a good, non-offensive, non-gag-inducing term.
I also watch way too much HGTV, and agree with the “pop” and a bunch of the other HGTV-isms. I’m getting kind of tired of “opens the room up”, normally used to describe the results of demolition. It’s a perfectly good descriptive term, I just hear it too damn much. I should probably change the channel.
In general use, I’m ready to hear the last of “toxin” except when used in an actual clinical setting or in a technical article. I’m really tired of hearing it in conjunction with colon cleansing and foot pads and other snake oil woo-woo.
I prefer “Fuck off and die”, but it’s becoming a bit passe itself. Good ol’ “Fuck off” or “Fuck you” are timeless.
As for “making love”, I used to giggle every time I’d hear “When we make love…”, the first words of some country song, I think. I’d always think to myself, "What he really wanted to sing was, “When we fuck doggy style”.
Like the OP, I watch a lot of HGTV. However most of that stuff doesn’t bug me too much. What I can’t stand anymore is the term “Clean Lines”.
They overuse it on so many shows, that it doesn’t mean anything anymore. Not every single room design or piece of furniture has clean lines!
For myself, I wish I could stop saying, “like” so much. I don’t know when or where I picked it up, and it surely isn’t used like valley speak, but I use it a lot, and I know it is irritating.
Grow, as a verb. “Use our software to grow your business!” Urg.
But above all, “Fail.” Look, I’m a gamer and know leetspeak and lolcatspeak and all that, but in most cases, it is utterly lacking in wit or style or anything else worth having. When something is so obviously fail but all you can muster is “Fail”, you’re better off saying nothing at all. I hate Failblog for this reason.
And a most excellent one, at that! Had brunch there a year ago October and plan on doing so again at the end of the month. Best Bloody Mary and vegetarian fare ever! The waitstaff are charming, gracious and fun to hang with!
I got my husband and “Irregardless” apron for Christmas. They were more than happy to ship it to me. Can’t wait to go back!
