It's not that I'm not spelling them out due to some kind of pearl-clutching predisposition . . . it's just that they sound so "80s drunk redneck" or "80s male porn star" or "nasty old man from any era"; like I have to take six showers after someone says either one. They just make my skin crawl with imaginary bugs.

In fact, it's pretty much a given that any slang term describing a vagina . . . besides "vagina" . . . is pretty much along those lines, ain't it?

I must be having a major brain-fart. Because I have no idea what word that is.

That's all I got, but maybe it's just over-Nugent exposure.

(I wasn't going to post it, but I just heard it used on Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word. Good enough for MSNBC, good enough for DU... )

Ecccccccchhhh.

the bedroom door was just slammed on me.....I just couldn't stop laughing!!!!

I'm not surprised I didn't think of it. Heh. I never hear it.

Heard it a lot.

Blame it on two years of high school Latin.

It creeps me out.

That's beyond disgusting. Even for you.

you mean like "lozenger?"

Zackly.

It's not the word, it's the overuse.

Kinda like Awesome.

like, totally.

I've taken to using "Epic Awesome!" in an ironic way to mock the blandishment of the English language due to overuse, meme-creation and mimesis.

At this rate, some words are not going to have any meaning outside of irony pretty soon.

...used as a noun. Dreadful.

nothing personal! but...... ick

Though I suppose there's case to be made against butt-ick, as well.

dig, ditch, hole

All that's left is "break", "lunch", and "clean up"...

And most of all "Republican"

It's my experience that they translate to: "I'm not humble enough to admit I'm being a douchebag by saying offensive or ignorant shit".

Hi,
This one just recently started bothering me. Are more people using the phrase these days? Is it used in some popular TV show or something? It just seems like I'm hearing it a lot. Now I will have to avoid ever saying it.

I like your definition though!

Peace

...either because I don't understand them or because they get in the way of my point... so I'm just going to keep talking like what you just said was in Swahili or something.

"I'm Just Sayin" is the tweeker second cousin of "With All Due Respect."

finalize, and other bureaucratese.

"Tickler" As in, "Send me a tickler"--meaning "send me a note to remind me". UGH!!!!

"Reach out" Meaning "contact someone'.

Yet even still, I'm such a people person.

e.g. "grow the business"

Me too. Hate it. Also, "plate" as a verb. "Let's plate this up."

It sounds ridiculous to me.

Drives me up the wall when someone is being interviewed and keeps speaking that phrase over...and over...and over...and over.

than an individual word (other than the usual offenders like the n-word, c-word etc.)

I have to be very, very angry to use that word. And if I do, you will know that I am seething.

CaliforniaPeggy uses it with reckless abandon, for instance.

this is what I have heard.

Also, 'guesstimate' and 'synergy.' FUUUUUUUUU-

Nasty.

That asshole mangled the English language like nobody else ever could!!!

It's gone beyond cliche to completely lame.

If there was a problem then I would expect to be told there was. Such as "I need you to fill up the soda machine, thanks" and they answer back "no problem". What ever happened to just saying your welcome? Plus if that was your job why are you telling me it's not a problem, do your job as directed.

also people who thank you before you do something instead of saying 'please'.

Saying "no problem" is a natural reaction for me but I'm aware of people like you who don't like it so there have been times where I start out say, "no prob.... you're welcome". Once, I ended up saying nothing at all deciding what to say. I once apologized to my friend for saying, "No problem" and he said, "What? If it's no problem then it's no problem. Don't worry about it." No one ever gave me shit for saying, "no problem" so I don't worry about it too much.

"Team Player", hate that phrase. What the hell does that mean? That I can't/won't think for myself? That I will follow the leader of the pack like a lemming?
I refused to do Diversity training. They blindfold everybody, put your hand on the shoulder of the person in front of you ,,, and be led.. somewhere.. NO F'n way! Supposed to build trust. FYI, I trust no one. (it's really just brainwashing)

1- You don't complain when the boss dumps all his work on you
2- You don't complain when the boss takes credit for your work
3- You don't complain when the boss passes you over for promotion so he can continue to take credit for your work
4- You don't complain about taking the blame when the boss fucks up
5- You don't complain about working unpaid overtime to fix the boss's fuckup

From Webster's Dictionary- Office Edition

The reason was not allowing someone to smoke in my car.

I quit that job the following day.

. . . they all fucking suck.



But it's six of one and half dozen of the other . . .

Way overused and not terribly creative.

God that one drives me up the fucking wall!!

If it helps I also *HATE* the over usage of the term "baby momma / baby daddy". It's "mom" or "dad" - not that complicated folks!

Glad to know I'm not alone!! Don't know why that drives me up a wall so much, but I want to smash things when I see or *worse*, hear that.

Current Tory-speak for 'reward the rich and punish the poor'.

as in suck tumors out with thin tubes

Who would have thought in the land of the free, I'd have to pay for somethin.?

Shit has become the new um. I heard a conversation between youths and shit was almost every other word.


"Like I said shit, that is a shit bridge, I'm not shitting you...Fucking shit..."

I have a problem with that single two-lettered word. It shuts out dreams and potential accomplishments.

Just don't like "no".

Damn, that word got so over- and mis- used throughout the last decade and a half or so... every time I hear it now, I get the unrestrained urge to elbow myself in the face

oh.. and incentivize,

Five-dollar word for a 1-cent concept.

their "baby bump".

ARGHHH!!!!!!! Shove it, you schmuck brained water balloons!

boy I'm being reminded of a lot of words I can't stand in this here thread.

Dreadful, "tinny " sort of word.

n/t.

Makes me think of snotty tissues

dumbest words in the English language! SO childish!

I'm going to add Yummy and Goodies. aarrrrgh.

say "tummy" all the time. HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT.

It's like those tampon and pad samples you used to get in the mail, decades ago, addressed to "The LADY of the house", in cursive writing that, if it could have made a sound, would have simpered. UGH!!!!!!! *gack* *SPEW*

"nuptials." Why not "wedding?" It just sounds so dumb. Like they are purposely trying to find a "cooler" word to use.

If I had one of those kinds of rags in front of me (ain't happening, but hypothetically speaking...) I could fill up three threads with idiotic words and phrases that are popular with them. BARF!

"ight". I hear it all the time. Gets on my nerves. Will throw "sup" in there too.

Of course, I don't know if anyone really uses them anymore, but I used to hear them all the time when I was a cubicle-dweller in the '80s.

It just sounds gross.

Which to me is not even a word, but I read it a lot. "I'm going to conversate with him about that tomorrow."

Used to dodge the question of whether one is "religious".

Or to mean that someone who is a total schmuck has a better side.

While I will, to a limited extent, respect others' wishes to attach the taboo process to words, I consciously work on not doing so myself, and encourage others not to do so. One reason is that if you are going to use a risky word, you are going to have to learn how sensitive you want to be with it, rather than avoid the issue entirely until you are forced and, unprepared, make a bad decision.

If I wouldn't say it in a word, I most CERTAINLY wouldn't watch it in a movie, or read it in a book, or otherwise expose myself to it except in a purely educational context.

I actually find "wholesome", for example, to be a useful, sensible word, a simple way to suggest that something is by its nature good for one in general, and appropriate to consume in any reasonable quantity.

Ex. 1 When I have to deal with marijuana users, I prefer people who use it in a wholesome manner, and try to avoid those who make a conspicuous drug fetish of it.

Ex. 2 If one's sex life tends towards daily practice, practices involving infectious materials and bodily damage are best foregone in favor of more wholesome activities.

See? Perfectly useful word. At least for a writer. Some people wouldn't find three uses for it in a lifetime.

So trite & overused

and they say it all the fucking time on teeveeeeeee too, like it's so clever and funny. Oooooh!! Shock Value!!

sorry, I had to go there. It's not the item, it's the sound of THAT word! EeeeeeeeWWWWWW!!!!!! Ack!!! PTUI!!

Who the hell came up with that?

And of all things, with the male testoreoney issues over their masculinity and size and staying power and aggression and manly manniness.....they had to come up with THAT for the appendage at the center of it all?

Yeesh!

It it often used about "garnering votes." Why not gather or just "get" them like we did before?

Groovy (Thank goodness that one's not popular anymore...I used to cringe a lot during the 60s - early 70s)

Nu-cyu-ler (the ignoramus pronunciation of "nuclear&quot

Drug (as in, "I drug the boat out of the water&quot

Expresso (used instead of "Espresso&quot

for starters