| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/14/2007 10:01:19 AM | I'm an actor, I do live theatre and I hear these dreaded cliches over and over again:
"I have to learn my lines while blocking." In other words, you don't know what you're doing.
"This line doesn't make any sense!" No, it's you who aren't making any sense.
"I'm not trying to be difficult." BIG PAIN IN THE ASS. | |
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| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/14/2007 5:45:27 PM | And after a list like that we get
Getting offended over something so innocuous is absolutely ridiculous.
delivered without any apparent irony.
This does indeed belong in the humour section. | |
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| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/14/2007 10:33:08 PM | Harviej -
Getting offended and getting irritated are two very different things.
Maybe you should look them up in the dictionary.
Perhaps you should also get a better grasp of irony. Your attempt here to insert it into your viewpoint shows a desperate need to attempt to use a word that doesn't mean what you think it means. | |
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| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/15/2007 1:23:49 PM | I hate:
This too shall pass.
Duh - everything passes but that does not take the sting out of whatever it is that is bothering me ! | |
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Posted: 5/15/2007 3:30:06 PM | To my fans: thank you for recognizing my epistliary faculty;
To the rest of you: wasssuuuupp?!
Real men read Tom Clancy.
Re: "tards"
I say 'gay' to call something lame, like a movie. I don't think that movie is going to go have sex with movies in the same genre. I do, other times, also use it to mean 'homosexual' to tease male co-workers. They can tell from context. "hell-looooo!". | |
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Posted: 5/16/2007 6:49:37 AM | | Nationality. Nothing wrong with the word, but people use it without knowing what it means, making obvious and ignorant mistakes: "Hi! I'm of Spanish and Irish nationality." That doesn't mean what you think it means. A person's nationality refers to the nation that he/she is a citizen of. That's all. It does NOT refer to your heritage. Unless you hold dual citizenship in Spain and Ireland, your statement is false. When someone asks, "What's your nationality?" I say, "American, thank you very much. I was born in the United States, as were my parents and grandparents." And if I were to move to Uganda and become a naturalized citizen, my nationality would be Ugandan. See how it works? | |
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Posted: 5/16/2007 5:28:35 PM | It cracks me up when people are tyring to be cool and they'll say something that they think sounds cool like "my bad" or when my mother says "chill out". | |
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Posted: 5/16/2007 6:14:59 PM | | Often. Another innocent word which has been slaughtered by people and their horrifying speech habits. "Often" rhymes with "coffin". It is not, I repeat, NOT pronounced "off-tin". When did this sickening, idiotic trend begin? Is this supposed to imply intelligence? There's nothing intelligent about mispronouncing such a simple word. Especially when you do it six hundred times in a two minute conversation. And don't give me that whiny crap, "/off-tin/ is listed as the second preference." There's a reason it's second: because it's not FIRST! | |
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Posted: 5/16/2007 9:09:04 PM | | FYI. For your information. Isn't that nice? Someone is taking the time to furnish me with information. This one has outgrown any usefulness it may have had. "FYI, your boss is on the phone, the toilet is overflowing, the kids are on fire, Grandma's colostomy bag exploded, and the meth dealer is at the door, demanding his money." Thanks, but you don't need to start by telling me it's "for my information." Somehow, I figured that out. Apparently, that's why you're telling me in the first place! | |
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Posted: 5/17/2007 3:04:02 AM | Oh, here's one that I didn't know about until I came to Plenty of Fish:
'pity party'
So stupid. Sounds like it's directly from Sally Jesse Raphael or Ricki Lake. | |
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Posted: 5/17/2007 2:32:32 PM | | Hate crime. An absolutely moronic term. Somebody chains somebody else to the rear bumper of a pickup truck and drags him to death, and gets life imprisonment -- plus another twenty years for committing a "hate crime". As if anyone would do that to someone else out of affection. | |
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| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/18/2007 7:00:37 AM | The misspellings on this site are appalling. Especially in thread titles - they are so glaring.
"My Boyfriend is a Syco"
"My Hart Is Broken"
The misusage of they're, their and there is pretty much a given in any thread.
Also two, too and to.
I have given up even worrying about it. It's really sad. People will probably think I'm elitist for mentioning it.....like I'm the 'bad guy' or something. I try not to point it out even if I want to help someone....it always will be taken the wrong way. | |
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Posted: 5/18/2007 7:09:33 PM | I think that 'they' refers to a secret collective of scientists and various experts.
Here are some ethnic specialties:
Mouf (mouth)
Berfday (birthday)
Aks (ask) | |
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Posted: 5/18/2007 11:28:11 PM | "-gate. " After the Watergate "scandal" (another overused word) of 1972. In the past few years the media have given us the terms "Irangate, Iraqgate, Contragate, Monicagate." Isn't that clever? Take the topic of the "scandal" and add -gate. Fascinating.
"Uncle Tom". A disparaging, racist term. To call someone an Uncle Tom, with a negative connotation, is ignorant in extremis. I'd be willing to bet that very few people who use the term have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin". If they did, MAYBE they'd know what they were saying.
"pimp". When did this word start to refer to something positive? "Pimp my ride. Pimp my phone." The term used to be an insult, and rightfully so.
"jew", used as a verb, as in "I got jewed" or to "jew someone down". Just plain stupid.
"Don't be doin' that"
"I'm like, no, and she's all, whatever" teenspeak. Even more annoying when spoken by people in their forties, and older.
"It's the economy, stupid." Remember that cute pearl of wisdom? 
"Aw, HELLLLL, naw/yeah"
"The MAN, the MYTH, the LEGEND"
"Illegal war" If someone can tell me the difference between a war that's legal and one that's illegal, I'll drop that one from the list. | |
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| Words And Phrases That I Despise !!
Posted: 5/19/2007 12:26:25 AM | "Aw, HELLLLL, naw/yeah"
Even worse than that one is this version:
HELLS YEAH !! or of course it's polar opposite HELLS NO !!!
The man, the myth, the legend is very annoying. I'll have to add that to the list.
I hate when people say "There he is !!" when you arrive. This is a weird one....it's supposed to convey that everyone has been expecting you anxiously, yet no one really is. It usually comes from some shallow sales dude who also calls everyone 'boss' or 'guy'. | |
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Posted: 5/19/2007 5:50:06 AM |
"Page 3 of 2". How is that possible???
Only on POF have I see this one. Maybe math is different on here than what we are taught in school? | |
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Posted: 5/19/2007 8:11:07 AM | | I got about a quarter of the way through the first list before I realized that this has nothing at all to do with humour. At first I thought you were trying to be funny, but after a while I realized that wasn't so. I have no idea why this thread is in the humour section. The only thing funny about any of it is how you could spend so much time making such a dumb list, then use the word "tard" in one of your posts. How does THAT not make the list? | |
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Posted: 5/19/2007 9:20:30 AM | "There's no 'I' in 'team'. " You know what? There ARE "I's" in "idea", "think", "individuality", "creativity" and "integrity".
Here are a couple from the retail world:
power items -- for things that sell the most
visual impact area or VIA -- for display
And on the mirror in the employee bathroom : "Would you buy _____ from this person?" Oddly enough, yes, I would. At least I'd know who I was dealing with. | |
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Posted: 5/19/2007 9:37:57 AM | FYI. For your information. Isn't that nice? Someone is taking the time to furnish me with information. This one has outgrown any usefulness it may have had. "FYI, your boss is on the phone, the toilet is overflowing, the kids are on fire, Grandma's colostomy bag exploded, and the meth dealer is at the door, demanding his money." Thanks, but you don't need to start by telling me it's "for my information." Somehow, I figured that out. Apparently, that's why you're telling me in the first place!
This is just sooo funny. Maybe not funny to some but that list just gave me shivers. I dated a man who used these slang words or phrases a LOT and it began to drive me freaking crazy. If you never encountered an extreme case of this, you'll never quite understand. In fact his humor was making me want to duck tape his mouth closed everytime I saw him. Sad thing is we did get along great. Aside from his goofy humor and dumb jokes constantttttttttttly. Kinda killed the whole thing though. | |
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