Retire these: "In terms of" "Parameters" "Get it turned around" "Fist City" "At the end of the day" "Fly in the buttermilk" "Thinking outside the box" 'HELLO!" "off the hook" "All the bells and whistles" "I'm down" "Good to go" "Get in touch with your feelings"-I don't know anyone who says this, but I hated it in the '70's I hate cliches-I work with a psycho gentlemen who speaks in nothing but cliches- I counted him saying "at the end of the day" 22 times in a 1 hour 15 min meeting-torture
Haha, the guy whose whole vocabulary consists of tired cliches. The Man Show said he was an ancient species called " Jokus Repeatus Shut The F-upus"
Let me add another one: I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT when I'm in the Subway line and when the lady asks the person in front of me "mustard, mayonnaise, cheese?" the person responds "Cheese, Please". This drives me utterly insane. It's very much an instinctive reaction by the person, and you'd be shocked at the frequency at which it occurs -- if you are listening for it. Are people that mindless that they cannot think before speaking? Simply responding with rhyming phrases that you've heard before is the epitome of mental laziness.
What are they supposed to say? "Gimme some cheese, you stupid, sandwich making pinhead!" What is this world coming to when people resort to using MANNERS?!
I have carefully studied this phenomenon. People in the Subway line rarely say, "Mustard, please" or "Mayonnaise, please." It is not the manners that drives me nuts, it is the rhyming. Some even grin after saying "Cheese, please" which almost provokes me to the point of explosion.
maybe you should find another line of work then . . *grin* Just kidding I'm tired of . . . . .PLAYA HATA Rocket River
Sorry for digging this back up again, but just had to get this one off my chest: "I'll hang up and listen" Doh!
* I'm all about never hearing another living soul telling me that they're 'all about _________.' * I really don't like the whole positive spin on the word 'pimp'...the first couple of times I was called that, I seriously thought I was being insulted...cause usually the police are so negative...but I seriously don't like that phrase, or it's implications. * And last, but defintely not least, I go absolutely bonkers with the amount of 'like's your average 13-22 year old girl can get into a converstaion. It's beyond punctuation. I have, on my life, heard girls fit 9 or 10 likes into a single sentence, and it's akin to hearing a chalkboard being scratched. I have heard back to back likes on several occassions. I believe there ought to be a law against it.
