Things to Quit Saying

[unixfish]

curate brings the irritate.

artisanal makes me wanna buy a bomb vest

Buy them all you want. Just don't wear them or arm them. KnowwhatImeanVerne?

 

[archetype]

Government types and their hangers-on gratuitously use a lot of acronyms and other silly words common to their environment. Their jargon is infected with the use of vice as a substitute for vice versa.

They use TLAs. TLA = Three Letter Acronym.

 

[getbent]

Oh man, there was a guy at the office that would frequently say he was "Stuck between a rock and the eight-ball...."

Thing is it wasn't deliberate, he genuinely meant it.

I'm gonna write a song with stuck between a rock and your mama's heart as a key lyric!

 

[StoneH]

Oh man, there was a guy at the office that would frequently say he was "Stuck between a rock and the eight-ball...."

Thing is it wasn't deliberate, he genuinely meant it.

Mixed metaphors could be a "whole 'nother" thread.

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I like saying Living the Dream & I refer to pickups as pups.

So there!

 

[Midgetje94]

That's smart. Annoy a man who could probably wring your neck like a chicken.

I grew up with him. Plus being in the military as well. There’s a brotherhood. He knows I’m joking. But yea. If he wasn’t a lifelong friend. I’d probably be afraid of him lol.

Anyone in the Army can go to Ranger school. And get the tab. He’s 75th. So when you see actual Ranger stuff that’s them.

Heard a story from his brother (awkward positioned phone video caught some of it) in a rougher side of Dallas. This kid was talking **** to Scott. Lifted his shirt to reveal a handgun. Scott egged him on to pull it. Eventually he did. Scott instantly ripped it out of the guys hand. Dropped the magazine and racked the round out. Laughed and handed the pistol back. I wish to god I was there to see it.

 

[telleutelleme]

"He'd fall on a sword for you."

I'm taking odds he won't.

 

[dsutton24]

That's smart. Annoy a man who could probably wring your neck like a chicken.

A chicken can wring a neck?

 

[Lou Tencodpees]

Look, they're just words.




Ok, I thought of one. Starting a sentence with "Look".

 

[Frontier9]

Doing a "chef's kiss" is bad enough without then saying "chef's kiss".

 

[Dave Hicks]

Mike drop.

D.H.

 

[NoTeleBob]

“It is what it is” also annoys me!

"Not for nuthin', but...".

 

[NoTeleBob]

Right, right, right

 

[John Backlund]

Starting a sentence with...'So,...'

I hate that. Really, I hate that.

 

[runstendt]

In police narrative......"I observed a group of individuals........etc."
If they're in a GROUP, they're no longer individuals! Just say people, or men, or potential perps.

This seems appropriate.

 

[RodeoTex]

People saying "unconscious" when they mean "subconscious".

 

[Si G X]

"literally"

+1 on "Literally."

When people say it when they don't mean it, or just generally?

 

[black_doug]

Along with "like" I usually hear, "I feel like . . . ".

 

[John Backlund]

When people say it when they don't mean it, or just generally?

Drive a bus load of high school females to their soccer match sometime. I'm almost certain that EVERY THIRD WORD, that comes out of them is 'like'. I sit up there, running the bus down the road, and invariably start counting how many times they can utter that word in a single spoken sentence..two?...three?

"It's, like, when my mom, like, goes shopping...she, like, never buys any, like, frosted flakes"

 

[Kandinskyesque]

curate brings the irritate.

artisanal makes me wanna buy a bomb vest

A curated vest, I hope.
No fast fashion vests allowed.
One made by a guy with sleeve tattoos and an Edwardian beard, in some gentrified part of a previously heavy industrial town, who also makes hickory shafted scythes from bicycle parts.

I recommend Etsy as a resource.