Things you're sick of hearing: Single words, cliches, and tired phrases. Don't read if you hate pedantry.

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"get a grip"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"below zero"

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

"literally", when it clearly isn't.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

"it's a french irregular verb."

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"... European countries are so much more *civilized* in their drinking habits..."

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"taking things to a whole `nother level" or "next level"

"dawg"

"tony" as an adjective

McDonald's referred to as "Mickey D's". This was old in 1986.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

(on phone) "What can I do you for"

unbelievably this is still in regular use in my office.

― Bidurd, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"socialist"

("Mickey D's" is acceptable in the context of being rhymed with "licky these" in a song by the Coup)

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"random"
most things you describe are not random.

― dewey, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

adding to sgs: 'impactful' wtf is that supposed to mean?

DESTROY: RED STATE/BLUE STATE

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

also, "Ported" transported? deported?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

"I just want to make sure we're on the same page"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

bi-curious

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

because they really mean bi-desperate

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Clearly." I am getting angry just thinking about it.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

radical Shiite Muslim cleric
brand, branding, brand penetration, etc.
any substitute for 'their' as a singular pronoun ("his or her", etc)

― Augustine (Augustine Bearse), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

any substitute for 'their' as a singular pronoun ("his or her", etc)

Prithee explicate.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"Get over it"/"Snap out of it"

Add me to that one. GAHH. People who say 'get over it' are people for whom thinking is too difficult.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"wheelhouse"

as far as i know this may just be an LA phenomena, but everybody who thinks they're Somebody says wheelhouse all the fucking time and it drives me nuts. i'm pretty sure it started with agents.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Wheelhouse! How's it used?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

red state, blue state

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

they say wheelhouse like... "Hey, we need to get this deal in the wheelhouse! What's up, bitch?! You're my dawg, right? Right? Take it to the fucking wheelhouse baby!"

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Or, "I wanna work with this guy so that I that I can have that in my wheelhouse. You know, just... for me."

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"my bad" is no apology

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I used the throw up in my mouth line last night or something on here. I didn't mean for it to be funny but I hated myself for using it anyway. I wish firearms were easier to get here.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah "my bad" is annoying. Also, "how embarrasment" ,but thats a specifically Australian one.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

On that note Im getting sick of "not happy Jan" as well, even though I still say it :/

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Two years ago EVERY time ANYONE got sick some wanker'd go 'oh, SARS?' It wasn't even funny the first time.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link

oh shit i didnt realize someone else had already beat me to the red state/blue state punch.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

After a couple of job interviews, I'm ready to disembowel anyone using:

"think outside the box"
"join our team"
"we like to think of ourselves as a family"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Also "metrics" (as in "the metrics of this marketing campaign are..."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

people say pretentious, ridiculous, or whatever, p.s., aka, remember when, too bad...., honestly, and many many more

― Sabrina Kaiser, Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

____ _____...not so much

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

'anyways'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

this reminds me I missed Life in Hell's forbidden words list for '05.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"that is not ok"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

"YOU CAN DO IT"

Actually I still like that one. Someone shouted it at Safin during the final and I was gleeful.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"Now we're cooking with gas!"

― kate/papa november (papa november), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"until such time"

― Aaron A., Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I have worked with several people who think that instead of "fleshing out" ideas that we should be "flushing it out". I can't stand either phrase but at least get it right.

"My bad" is so idiotic and annoying.

Where did the "I threw up in my mouth" thing come from?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

jess i think

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the "i threw up in my mouth a little" thing came from the movie dodgeball.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I looked to see if that Life in Hell was online earlier but alas I could not find it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

affect/effect

bought/brought

The latter is a peculiarly English thing I think and it annoys the hell out of me. There's no need for it! "I brought a CD in HMV today." Jesus...

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Dodgeball is newish, though - that phrase has done the rounds.

I have always hated the word "uni" as an abbreviation for university, but that's my problem.

There's a bloke I know who's sharp, bright, passionate and motivated and he thinks the 1st person plural imperfect of "to be" is "we was". I so so so want to correct him!

I used the word "actioning" earlier. It totally fitted the context, but that's no excuse. Please kill me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate the word "canoodle."

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Mark, is your friend a footballer? They have their very own verb tenses that no one else uses.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

'lend/borrow'

Seriously, why are these two mixed up as often as they are?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Martin, funnily enough no, but he's on the AFC Wimbledon board!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

the use of the word 'loaned' instead of borrowed:
'i loaned that book off 'im...'

'back in the day' (which seems to have died a while ago anyway - good)

'whatever'

'talk to the hand' and all anatomical variants of such

'what ppl want is *choice*...' as used in contexts such as choosing yr own hospital and course of complex and dangerous medical treatment and then yr own fuxoring coffin

* AARGH beaten to the loan/borrow thing by x-post time !*

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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& all facebook tag group type witticisms should be punishable by ducking stool/tank of cat poo

― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Friday, 1 April 2022 08:33 (two years ago) link

of course i dislike shit like "the conversation(/issues) around [x]" etc but surely this has been said at least once (thread's too long to read the whole thing)

― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Friday, 1 April 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link

"I think it's time we begin to surface some of these issues"

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 1 April 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link

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