I agree about “baby bump,” “I know, right?” (or the kewl version, “Inorite?”) and “baby mama.”
I will add:
Baby daddy
Preggers
Push present
Also, I adore my cats, but I agree completely with “furbaby” and “furever home” (though I don’t mind “forever home,” because that’s what it should be).
Both of those are just an excuse for saying “I don’t want to buy this” without coming right out and saying it.
Asymmetric information. Just call it inside knowledge, okay?
I came to this thread to express this very same sentiment. I loathe the term “furbabies” to refer to pets with the heat of a thousand suns. It denies the fascinating and complex world of adult animals the slightest bit of dignity, reducing pets to infantilized child substitutes. Often the same people who use the term “furbaby” also refer to their human children as “skinkids” :eek: or otherwise noxious terms.
I get “it is what it is”; it’s sort of Zen and accepting in the right concept. Awesome is fine by me as well. Incentivise and Global Warming need to be nuked with extreme prejudice.
I’d like to think that this is already hopelessly outdated, but I still hear people refer to a random object as a “bad boy” or a “puppy,” as in…
…hell, I can’t even bring myself to come up with examples, but you know what I mean.
It takes great force of will to hold my tongue when I hear someone say this, especially as they imagine they’re being really clever while doing so.
What about beginning a sentence with: “So,…”
Does that fit the theme here?
“Already” at the end of a command for emphasis.
I’ve never heard this one. Tell me what it is so I can hate it, too.
Guy Fieri preparing a brisket for the barbecue: “Let’s get this bad boy on the fire!”
Yes! This one is really weird. I’ll hear an interview on NPR or a guest on the Diane Rehm Show and the interviewee begins *every *sentence with “So,–”
Here’s an articleabout this phenomenon. The article says
Fine. But EVERY sentence???
Lately the word “basic” has been popping up in weird configurations on my FB feed. It seems to be a new term aimed at insulting your average middle class retail-minded Mom. And I have no problem at all with insulting them, but can we please find a different word? Because this one just doesn’t fit.
Seldom does one get the chance to squash annoying slang at birth. Let’s kill it before it multiplies.
What’s wrong with 631,152,000 seconds?
I listen to NPR most work days. Most guests who persistently start sentences with “So…”? I hit the off button until I am sure they are gone. I hate it THAT much.
And they are usually younger, hyper-educated academics with interesting things to say. But “So…” is right up there with “and he’s like, then she’s like, and I’m like…” in irritation factor for my 50-something year old brain. I simply refuse to tolerate it.
My interpretation of “It is what it is”:
“I’m in management and here’s a screwed up situation we could easily correct which I intend to ignore and treat as if it was some immutable property of the Universe. So you peons just put up with it and quit your bitching. Besides, the status quo works to my benefit.”
So yes, the phrase and the thought behind it, is hereby banned in my kingdom.
You know what I mean. Especially when it’s somewhere around half what is being said.
You’re gonna need to brace yourself for this one.
It’s a present that a guy gives his wife/partner/whatever after she has their baby. For pushing, right?
There are so many things wrong with this that I can’t even. It seems to be an entirely US thing - I’ve never heard it here in Ireland; I think I learned it on this board - which is an excellent reason for living in Ireland.
No! 
I’m still waiting for a definition of “food babies”.
I refuse to Google it because I might start seeing those stalky picture-ads afterwards, and they might be food babies. That would be ooky.
Even worse is “Ya know what I’m sayin’” – after every other sentence.
ISTM that this came out if the black community, so it’s even more amusing to hear white guys use it and imagine they’re sounding really hip.
K (for OK)
What, do I work for Men In Black?
I just did. And I would advise against it, to be honest.
OK. Not really. Food babies are mostly really cute.
Until people learn to use them properly the words racist and misogynistic (and any variations of the same) should be banned.