List some phrases you absolutely abhor..

[zinfamous]

"Stranger Danger!"

Okay its more like it makes me lol, but still.

I suspect you hear this one a lot?

:hmm:

 

[chr6]

"I know, right?"

yup

 

[Lumathix]

"I could care less."

It's 'I COULDN'T care less' you fucking idiots!!



Actually, it is a very good way to quickly judge someone’s intelligence. Whenever I see someone write 'I could care less' I immediately know to disregard anything that person has to say.

This x 1000

 

[DivideBYZero]

Here's the thing.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

"no means no"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uByz10skckI

 

[Danwar]

probably gonna get flamed for this since the majority of people who post here are from the US but anyway , mine would be:

"America & American" - when talking about the US or its citizens. America is a continent not a country.

 

[SagaLore]

Everyone knows this.

:thumbsdown:

 

[SlitheryDee]

probably gonna get flamed for this since the majority of people who post here are from the US but anyway , mine would be:

"America & American" - when talking about the US or its citizens. America is a continent not a country.

Yeah, but United statesians doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Yeah, but United statesians doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

Not to worry: "Yanks" does

 

[PrinceofWands]

Irregardless

THIS x eleventy billion

 

[grrl]

Your half-concession is a perfect example of the idiom itself. I am right about the original order, but why is not important? This is the only piece of illogic thus far.

Pedantic, absolutely!

The original order is important, my last post was responding to the idea that an idiom has to be inherently logical. I've always heard "have your cake and eat it too" and imagined the word order to suggest regardless of how much you eat, you will always have it. I never expected the phrase to have to "make sense."

 

[Skillet49]

I don't get it. It most certainly is "John Hancock." If that's supposed to be a joke, still, I don't get it.

It's supposed to be a reference to "Tommy Boy" (one of the movies with Chris Farley and David Spade) where the question was who signed the Declaration of Independence and he put "Herbie Hancock" instead of "John Hancock".

 

[SphinxnihpS]

The original order is important, my last post was responding to the idea that an idiom has to be inherently logical. I've always heard "have your cake and eat it too" and imagined the word order to suggest regardless of how much you eat, you will always have it. I never expected the phrase to have to "make sense."

I see your point. Like head over heels.

 

[skooma]

just saying...

 

[Shadow Conception]

"Wooooooooooow"

FUCK that

 

[Adrenaline]

I forgot one more:

Buh bye.

I had an annoying manager who said this because she thought she was always right and she was a total idiot over half the time. When she got demoted I did not even bother to talk to her anymore unless she really needed some help. She had annoyed so many people by being a prick when she was a manager that she had to transfer to another store eventually.

 

[Cogman]

Organic.

Stop it. Organic doesn't mean "Whatever I feel is good. Or natural" It means "living". Plants covered with pesticide are still organic, the pesticide doesn't suddenly change it into a mineral.

Every time I hear someone describe something as "organic" I want to punch them. IE "That's just an organic furniture arrangement."

 

[gaidensensei]

Organic.

Stop it. Organic doesn't mean "Whatever I feel is good. Or natural" It means "living". Plants covered with pesticide are still organic, the pesticide doesn't suddenly change it into a mineral.

Every time I hear someone describe something as "organic" I want to punch them. IE "That's just an organic furniture arrangement."

I tried to stop a few mentally excessive people with that thought by letting them know that plastic is also considered "organic".

However it's a well known fact that a majority of americans don't pass much general chemistry.

 

[CZroe]

It's supposed to be a reference to "Tommy Boy" (one of the movies with Chris Farley and David Spade) where the question was who signed the Declaration of Independence and he put "Herbie Hancock" instead of "John Hancock".

Ah! Thanks. I bought the Holy Schnikies Edition w/ Best Buy bobble head but haven't watched it since it first came out on VHS way back when. I still remember that I totally called the heart attack and my sister got mad claiming that I had seen the movie before and wasruining it for her (not at all!).

 

[AlienCraft]

"At the end of the day"...

 

[ShawnD1]

I tried to stop a few mentally excessive people with that thought by letting them know that plastic is also considered "organic".

However it's a well known fact that a majority of americans don't pass much general chemistry.

Most recent definition of organic I've heard:
All carbon compounds, not including carbonates, not including cyanides.

Organics:
Gasoline, diesel, urea, alcohol, wood, most pesticides, skin, my leather jacket, my felt jacket, nicotine, cocaine, my stuffed bear, my carpet, turpentine, varsol, real sugar, fake sugars like sucralose, corn starch, tobasco sauce, soy sauce, etc.

The most common elements in the universe are hydrogen, helium, oxygen, then carbon in that order. Naturally the most abundant molecules are hydrogen gas, water, then the rest is mostly organic. There are more arrangements of carbon-based molecules than there are for every other molecule possible that does not include carbon.

Inorganics:
Mineral acids like sulfuric acid, glass and other silicon compounds, water, most gases in the atmosphere such as oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2), pure metals like copper, ammonia, some salts, most fertilizers, carbonates, cyanides. That's pretty much it.

There are so few inorganics that I can't even make generalizations like "salt" because salts like cocaine*HCl, potassium benzoate, and pyridinium chlorochromate are all organic salts.

I like saying things are organic. It makes me sound like I'm an environmentalist when I'm really just a chemist looking for attention.

 

[mjrpes3]

look,

 

[mjrpes3]

Organic.

Stop it. Organic doesn't mean "Whatever I feel is good. Or natural" It means "living". Plants covered with pesticide are still organic, the pesticide doesn't suddenly change it into a mineral.

Every time I hear someone describe something as "organic" I want to punch them. IE "That's just an organic furniture arrangement."

I don't share your hatred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_architecture

 

[shortylickens]

Organic.

Stop it. Organic doesn't mean "Whatever I feel is good. Or natural" It means "living". Plants covered with pesticide are still organic, the pesticide doesn't suddenly change it into a mineral.

Every time I hear someone describe something as "organic" I want to punch them. IE "That's just an organic furniture arrangement."

Actually, it doesnt mean living. It means "containing carbon".
But, you are correct in that its way overused as "natural" when it really doesnt mean that at all.

 

[Cogman]

Actually, it doesnt mean living. It means "containing carbon".
But, you are correct in that its way overused as "natural" when it really doesnt mean that at all.

As was pointed out above, it doesn't necessary mean "contains carbon" either. There are a couple of carbon containing materials that aren't organic (cyanides, and carbonates).

Though, living or coming from living things is probably a little too narrow of a definition. ShawnD1s definition is spot on, I just don't know that I would use it talking to someone that uses organic to refer to furniture arrangements or architectural designs.

I agree, using it to mean "natural" is so wrong it makes my head hurt.