Discussion » Words/jargon I hate

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Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Leverage - to use to gain advantage; to take full advantage.
Posted by ellipse, around August 2005:
 
any word my boss ever used to use to motivate me
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
This needs to be done by "end of play" today.

:/
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
"at the end of the day"

"know what i mean?" aka 'i'm incoherent and subverbal and don't really have a point-- just nod and agree with me, give me some attention'
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
"You get me?"

And "Innit" (or "Isn't it" for the posh ones) generally used by Asians (in my experience, particularly those from London) as a full stop, rather than with any bearing on it's use in a sentence.
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around August 2005:
 
Innit.
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
See, that's ok. It's when they say it at the end of every little pause in conversational flow, in place of "Don't you", "weren't they", or in fact in place of not using anything at all.

"Oooh, I've got to the end of the sentence..."innit".

Fuckwads.
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around August 2005:
 
I know what you mean, I was like just talking about this the other day with like my mate in the pub and he was like 'no way!' and I was like 'way' and he was like 'no way' *so on so forth*
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
That is the cue for the cricket bat, normally.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
ENTER cricket bat, stage right

CRICKET BAT:       "whack"

EXIT cricket bat, stage left
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
I have decided to make it a rule to refuse to do business with any company that uses 'leverage' in its advertising blurb e.g. The world's leading organisations use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands.

Bastards!!
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
Shop keepers and the like calling me Boss ("What can I get you, Boss", "That'll be tree fiddy, Boss"). I hate that. A friend of mine started calling me Drama the other day. I've no idea where he picked that up from but it fucking grated.
Posted by SuperFunGordon_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
'to touch base'
'think outside the box'
'give 110%'
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
We had a boy at school who called everyone 'pal.' The way he said it made it like an insult every time.
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
"take a helicopter view"
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Dell's Premier order website. I hate everything about it, but especially, when I've spent half an hour trying to order a monitor, and finally succeeded and it says 'Now sit back and wait for your order.'

WHAT IF IT TAKES 2 WEEKS!!!??? Or just until Monday!! I've got better things to do.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
(i heartily recommend dabs.com for uk purchases. always best or equalbest price, good availability of new stock, and excellent service.)
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
We have a call-off contract with Dell, so I have to use it. I don't mind that so much, and we're quite happy with the products, it's just the website that's pants and the idiot wording on it.

Which reminds me of another expression I hate. "Kick back" as in 'relax' rather than a bribe.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
yeah, the absence of the bribe really grates
Posted by lew, around August 2005:
 
"synergy and whatnot"
Posted by gilgamesh, around August 2005:
 
"Get all our ducks in a row" qualifies the perpetrator for a high-velocity round through the back of the head. As does "singing from the same hymn sheet".
Posted by jeffld_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
moist portion.
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around August 2005:
 
Tree Fiddy? Didn't I tell you not to give money to the Loch Ness monster?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
no, that was me. and i have followed your advice assiduously. that there loch ness monster is still begging outside tesco's, unassisted in its crack-smoking parasitism by my misguided philanthropy. thank you, o vic; thank you.
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Moist portion? WTF....
Posted by Pomeranian, around August 2005:
 
"triddy"
"to squeeze out the last of the toothpaste"
"we'd better pull the pick out of Trotsky's back" (my boss says this one)
"push the envelope"
"childless dog lover" (as a negative insult)
and worst of all "suck it and see"
ewwwwwwww
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
"suck it and see"

Although this phrase has many pleasant connotations in the right circumstances. I have used it myself more than once.

:)

*&%&^$^*%%**&^%^%
(Fuckola. When I completely change my mind about a gag, I really should change ALL the words. What a fucktard)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
write?
Posted by SuperFunGordon_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
Rong (;
Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
pomeranian
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
You appear to have cross posted, Miki. The thread for "most irritating single minded user" hasn't been created yet.

;)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
or the "person most likely to be the Doc in disguise" thread
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
You cynical old fucker, Alfie! Doc? Posting bollocks under a random user name?

Never heard such ridiculous nonsense.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, 16th August 2005:
 
:D
Posted by WarHead, 16th August 2005:
 
Tell me about it.


I don't mean I agree, I mean that I hate the phrase "tell me about it" when what you actually mean is "don't tell me about it."
Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
I don't think it's doc, it's not eloquent enough...
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
WH: Are you also opposed to "tell me about it"s sister "you're telling me!"

Not that I am. I'm just curious.
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Good question.

well, I'm opposed to 'Tell me about it, sister' as it's no different to just 'tell me about it,' as far as I'm concerned. Both are Americanisms, which I'm generally against.

I suppose, by the same rule, I should also dislike 'You're telling me' but I've heard people use that since I was a kid, so I'm used to it.
Posted by mjardine, around August 2005:
 
"Tree Fiddy?, Loch Ness Monster" - Southpark by chance?!?
Posted by robotnik, around August 2005:
 
"Going forward."

"Fortune favours the brave."

I hate when people say "Each to their own" instead of "To each their own."

I also hate when people go out of their way- often completely rearranging a sentence on the fly- to use a foreign word where an English one would suffice. Especially if they mispronounce it.

"Touch base."

"Customer Service Representative."
"Job Description Technician."
"Shelf Merchandiser."

"The next big thing..."

"Buzzword."

"Horny."

enough.
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
Personally I love management phrases like "touch base" and "take a rain check". They make me laugh and I can only see that as a good thing.

I'm trying to think of some words or jargon I do hate.
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Fork in my fricken eye?
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
only because it brings back bad eye damage memories.

I have an appointment at Brighton eye hospital now!
Posted by WarHead, around August 2005:
 
Then unless you are at a cyber cafe at Brighton Hospital, YOU'RE LATE.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
if it's nhs, so are they
Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
will they fix your coney eyes ?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
If not, he can open up a themepark called Coney Eye-Land
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
^Coney^Corney

you'll never be a conedian with lines like that, m'man
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around August 2005:
 
He will be if he gets a conetract.
Posted by Brock, around August 2005:
 
As long as he is fully aware of all the conesequences, too.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
points duly coneceded
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
Conedian?

Worst. Pun. Ever.

And believe me, I've heard a few. They don't call me The Man with the Golden Pun for nothing.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
How much do you have to pay them, O He Who Types In Braille?