Expressions You Hate!

[Front-Ranger]

Other candidates for loathing, as published by Lake Superior University in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English include:

• perfect storm
  
• Webinar
  
  • waterboarding
    
  • organic
    
    • wordsmithing
      
    • author/authored
      
      • post 9/11
        
      • surge
        
        • give back
          
        • blank is the new blank
          
          • Black Friday
            
          • back in the day
            
            • random
              
            • sweet
              
              • decimate
                
              • emotional
                
                • pop
                  
                • it is what it is
                  
                  • under the bus

[CellarDweller]

Calling everyone, men women, elders or whomever.. DUDE!!  That bugs me bad DUDE.....ukk

lmao!

Oh Janice......thanks for the memory!

Years ago, my father was ranting about something, and I said to him:

"Whoa dude!  Calm down."

This ticked him off, he started yelling at me, "I'm not your "dude"!  I'm your dad!  Don't call me "dude"!

I should've been serious, but I just started laughing out loud.  I had just returned home from a camping trip with friends, and one of the songs that got played by the campfire was one I never heard before, a song called "Don't Call Me Dude".

 

[serious crayons]

I like "blank is the new blank" if it's something so absurd it's funny. Like, I heard of someone saying they were vacationing in Minnesota in winter because "Cold is the new hot."

But not when it's used sincerely, as in, "50 is the new 40," or "Brown is the new black."

[delalluvia]

I like "blank is the new blank" if it's something so absurd it's funny. Like, I heard of someone saying they were vacationing in Minnesota in winter because "Cold is the new hot."

But not when it's used sincerely, as in, "50 is the new 40," or "Brown is the new black."

Or the tagline to Jim Carrey's new movie "Yes is the new No."

[LauraGigs]

Another one that bugs me a lot, my family does it all the time, and I could just cringe..
Calling everyone, men women, elders or whomever.. DUDE!!  That bugs me bad DUDE.....ukk

Oh sorry Janice!  Heehee... I've definitely been doing that a lot. I especially tend to use it as an exclamation (like listen here or tell ya what): "Dude, you won't believe what almost happened..."

For the past 3 years, I worked for this young entrepreneur from California, so that was the office lexicon, which rubbed off on me. 

Like bosses do, he would come by my workstation and look at my computer to see how my work was going.  If he liked it, he would just say, "Totally".

[Jeff Wrangler]

Other candidates for loathing, as published by Lake Superior University in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English include:

Webinar

Hunh? 

[Front-Ranger]

Hunh? 

A Webinar is a seminar on the Web. I've never actually attended one that worked...the graphics usually freeze up on me.

[Jeff Wrangler]

A Webinar is a seminar on the Web. I've never actually attended one that worked...the graphics usually freeze up on me.

Thanks, FRiend Lee!

Just reminds me of another word I dislike: Podcast. 

Like, is that a broadcast for or by the pod people? 

[Marge_Innavera]

Other candidates for loathing, as published by Lake Superior University in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English include:

They left out "agenda" and "the blame game" ! 

[serious crayons]

They left out "agenda" and "the blame game" ! 

Why don't you like "agenda"?