fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

you will take my "good times" from my cold, dead hands

when someone kills you for still saying it in 2012

whenever someone says "good times" like that, it makes me want to sing the theme song to the Good Times tv show - sometimes I do, esp. the "temporary layoffs" lyric

I can't think of the "temporary layoffs" lyric without the following "easy credit rip-offs" lyric.

The expression 'you say that like it's a bad thing'

xp - that song is a real jam

On Facebook, for example: "Jane Smith can't wait for the weekend! Woop woop!"

never heard it used this way! woop woop is australian for bumfuck egypt

in the 90s there was this spate of people saying goodbye or leaving a party by saying "it's been real... and it's been fun... but it hasn't been real fun.." like for NO REASON other than they thought it sounded clever but it just made them sound like dicks

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:08 PM Bookmark

People's choice of ironic expressions tends to inadvertently reveal things about them imo.

The expression 'you say that like it's a bad thing'

YESSSSSS God I hate this.

yeah Hurting, it was also weird because they didn't actually mean what they were saying - but the temptation to reuse this stupid joke was just too irresistable. it's similar to the trap that subeditors can fall into of being unable to resist making a pun or joke in a headline, which subtly alters the meaning of what they're saying and ends up misrepresenting the substance of the article underneath it.

some of the things here are sort of useful...i really think if you collated ilx's collective phrase hate there'd be nothing left

EXACKLY

I like exackly. :(

yeah me too i was just agreeing with garda

Most of these are still in use. I'm tired of the phrases "I'm just sayin'", "You mad" and all tired-out forms of the word "hate".

"please to be..."

all that cheezburger cat stuff needs to die, I cannot understand how this became a big thing when it wasn't even funny the first time.

also pretty much everything related to Family Guy

"thanking you"

"what had happened was..."

is that a "thing"?? seems pretty unobjectionable to me

it doesn't look like much on paper, but ... oh nevermind. maybe it's just an annoying habit some of my friends have.

Local Garda OTM – I feel like my choices in life after reading a thread like this are either, you know, running the risk of irritating someone with language, or never talking or writing ever again.

oh i've got one. when someone says "correct" in place of "yeah".

"so would you like cheese on your burger?"

"correct"

pure pure hate

A comedian friend of mine once complained about other comedians' use of the phrase "So that happened" as all-purpose filler between jokes. It was interesting because, even though I'd never really noticed it before, I could see how it could become fairly endemic (and thus annoying) within that particular culture.

I use "correct" all the time, esp over the phone, and esp with things that might cost me extra money like dealing with messed up utilities or business deals or w/e. Because a lot of the people on the other end may not speak English so fluently and it just seems clearer, more definite than "right" or "yeah" and less likely to be in any way mis-interpreted.

Or, I don't know, confirming details at the doctor's office or something. You can get lost in the system in a hurry if anything in your record is entered incorrectly.

"so would you like cheese on your burger?" is more annoying.

What's wrong with "yes"??

I can let it slide with bureacratic stuff I guess - it just sounds like you're setting yourself up as a judge: "correct, well done. You have positively aligned with my own opinion."

I don't know, I guess! I suspect that one-syllable words are easier to mistake? I'll have to think about it.

why not shake things up with "correctamundo"

I don't know that it would occur to me to use it like that? It's mostly for confirming factual information. Some of the phone calls I've been through with Dish Network about suspicious charges, I'd do anything to make sure my records were 100% correct.

that's grand ya sound fine

"yesh" ala michael scott

i'm with Laurel here. Only use "correct" like that in the situations she described.

i knew a funny, loud girl who used to say "correct" when good songs started playing, in a really deadpan way. this sounds like a real annoyance, but i liked it about her

she also was an indie girl who wore a comical moustache at times, and an aspiring music critic. basically she is everything ilx makes fun of embodied into one human, but she was great!

the thing about most of these phrases is that there's always a minority of people who actually use them in a non annoying way

please describe to us these people who say "foodie," "om nom nom," "food porn" and "i just threw up in my mouth a little bit" with style and flair

come on tho i feel like most of the things ilx collectively hates actually manifests itself in totally cool ppl

except comedy moustaches

fuck comedy moustaches

This thread reminds, me I had to take a drug test and there was this approx 15 feet wide x 3 foot tall display of stickers and little posters of that terrible rabbit that has phrases:

http://www.sotattooed.com/ezine/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/happy+bunny1.jpg

mis,placed comma

sorry

what's the problem with the rabbit?

the ostensibly annoying phrases iirc

what is wrong with that rabbit

i'll be nicer COMMA when you're smarter

i'm still sick of chipotle

The eatery? It is so good!

The pepper? It is so good!

she means the style of dress