List some phrases you absolutely abhor..

[PepePeru]

basically any corporate buzzword bullshit but specifically, the phrase

"Soup to nuts"

fills me with silent rage.

 

[PepePeru]

Deeww Whut nao?

that isn't so bad, if you do it in conjunction with a Meatwad impression.

 

[overst33r]

all intents and purposes
all intensive purposes

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Generally hate to hear cliches:

Everybody knows this
I'm good
Unprecedented
Family values

Hate because they're wrong:

Jerry-rigged (Jury-rigged)
Duct tape (it really is duck tape)
Proscribe (when they meant prescribe; almost opposite meaning)
Toward (there is no s, ever)
Have your cake and eat it too (Eat your cake and have it too)
Hip cat (it's hep cat, are you hep to it?, etc)
There's an old adage (redundant, adage is always old)
I am adverse to doing... (averse)
Continuous United States (contiguous)

 

[Scouzer]

amen

i COULD care less

for SELL

payed

 

[Scouzer]

"git-r-done"

/thread

my blood pressure just raised about 30 points...

edit: and i honestly can't believe that i'm the first one, after 55 posts, to mention this motherfucking phrase...

goddammit... my whole night is ruined just because of this phrase... i honestly want to throw something and then force my desk through the window, regardless of whether it'll fit or not. i'm so filled with rage right now all because of that piece of shit redneck-ass phrase.

what low-life motherfucker would take pride in being a dumb piece of country-ass shit?

git-r-done, quack.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

i've used this one a couple of time but gets annoying when other people say it.

"you gotta think outside the box"

Others:
"Due to the fact that..."
"As per..."

 

[Miramonti]

I feel ya.

 

[meltdown75]

"good on ya"

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

Pretty much any politically correct phrase.

This.

and the word "practically" as in "its practically over". gah, drives me nuts.

 

[dank69]

hey, fuck ass, it doesn't make sense.

day = a short period of time, like a few months or less
age = hundreds to thousands of years

one day and one age (however long it may be) = HUGE frigging disparity

"in this day (short period of time) and age (extremely long period to time in which your day happens to be, since the person said "in this"), it makes no goddamn sense... it's like saying "in this house and this town" as opposed to "in this house in this town".

there are so many days within an age that not all of the days of the age are the same... you can't say "in this day and age, more and more people are going broke" or anything because you're basically saying that within every day of the age, more and more people are going broke and that is just ridiculous and idiotic.

however, if you said "in this day in age (meaning that in these few months within the past couple hundred years of history), more and more people are going broke", it makes perfect sense. you're not speaking for the entire age... you're speaking for a finite time frame within the age.

it's a stupid fucking phrase.

Haven't you ever heard the phrase "Back in my day..."?

'Day in age' makes no sense at all, mostly because it is a grammatical abomination.

OT:
"It's like trying to nail jello to a tree"

 

[overst33r]

literally

 

[white]

"touch base"

"you know what I'm saying"

 

[WolverineGator]

literally

Do you mean that figuratively?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Using the word 'presently' when they mean soon.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

literally

irlitterally

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Using the word 'presently' when they mean soon.

Presently means soon, and now. Depends on the use, but generally presently means soon more than it does now.

 

[joesmoke]

Lol, I slept with 2 more women last night alone than you have in your entire life. :awe:

were all sick of hearing about your magazine sales job...

 

[Rubycon]

Own/Owned and especially Pwn/Pwned.

 

[gaidensensei]

Own/Owned and especially Pwn/Pwned.

What would you think is a suitable alternative?

bring back moded!

 

[DivideBYZero]

A whole nother.

 

[ShawnD1]

Hate because they're wrong:

Jerry-rigged (Jury-rigged)

Jerry rigged is a term from WW2. Germans are called jerries. This is also where the term "jerry can" comes from. The Germans were the first to have the modern version of it, it was reverse engineered, and someone decided to call it a jerry can.

I also heard someone say "great person rigged" once. I guess that means hook it up as if you were from Africa? I'm not too sure, but he was still talking about doing a really shitty patch job because it only needed to hold for a short period of time.

Duct tape (it really is duck tape)

Or you could just look at the package

Hip cat (it's hep cat, are you hep to it?, etc)

Dictionary definitions for both hep and hip:
Hep as an adjective - Informed about the latest trends
Hip as an adjective - Informed about the latest trends

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Jerry rigged is a term from WW2. Germans are called jerries. This is also where the term "jerry can" comes from. The Germans were the first to have the modern version of it, it was reverse engineered, and someone decided to call it a jerry can.

I also heard someone say "great person rigged" once. I guess that means hook it up as if you were from Africa? I'm not too sure, but he was still talking about doing a really shitty patch job because it only needed to hold for a short period of time.


Or you could just look at the package

Dictionary definitions for both hep and hip:
Hep as an adjective - Informed about the latest trends
Hip as an adjective - Informed about the latest trends

You are flat out wrong on all accounts. You are plain misinformed on the derivation of jury-rigged. You are have no clue why duck tape is called duck tape. Hip derived from hep (probably due to mis-pronunciation/hearing), making hep correct and hip a perpetuated mistake (like great person or Gnome, AK for example).

 

[joesmoke]

isnt it because its "waterproof" like a duck?

 

[ss284]

Reach out.