[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I don’t know why it bothers me, but I kinda find it annoying when someone quotes a movie (usually a comedy) and then his buddy quotes the same movie in response (not necessarily in chronological order) and before I know it they’ve had an entire conversation with each other using nothing but quotes. When The Hangover came out, I saw this a lot.
It’s different if someone uses a quote from an older movie or a movie that isn’t the flavor of the month. Like if someone goes “well, if I could only do this” or “if” that and so on, and someone buts in and yells “But you ARE in that chair Blanche, you are!” Or someone bursts into the room with a sick smile on their face and says “Heeeeere’s Johnny!”
My roommate would refer to EVERYTHING as either “Wunderbahr!” or “a bingo” after we saw Inglourious Basterds. Made me wanna puke after hearing that shit about twenty times.[/quote]
I do agree with that, its like most of the quotes they steal are from the fucking trailers too. although depending on the situation it can be appropriate, i was on a smoke break at work with some buddies, and they were chatting it up about something work related (we sell stock) and i followed up a comment about the P/E ratio of a stock with “but if you must know he didn’t even cum inside her”. times like that are when its appropriate to drop hangover quotes
I love Jeopardy, but if I hear one more motherfucker say “what is…you’re an asshole!?” I’m gonna lose it. I know I’m an asshole, but for Christ’s sake do people have to insist on putting it to me like that?
As for The Hangover quotes, I didn’t find it that quotable either. Plus, I didn’t see it until it was out on dvd so when I finally watched it, the whole fucking movie was ruined for me since it sounded just like most of the conversations I’d heard in the squat/curl rack.
“Is that your final answer?” NO YOU MOTHERFUCKER! IT’S YOUR LAST GODDAMN ANSWER IF YOU EVER SAY THAT STUPID SHIT TO ME AGAIN WHEN I’M AT STARBUCKS AND YOU ASK ME IF I WANT ROOM FOR CREAM AND I TELL YOU NO, I TAKE IT BLACK LIKE MY WOMEN!!!
sorry about that, the caps lock button got stuck for a minute there…
“for all intents and purposes”
not too bad on it’s own, but I used to work with a guy who managed to fit this phrase into almost every sentence. the best part is he was actually saying “for all intensive purposes” and I never corrected it because I found it hilarious.
‘No worries’. I don’t like hearing this after thanking somebody.
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Man, don’t ever come to Australia. Even I say this up to 20 times a day. It feels as natural as breathing.[/quote]
Exactly.
“Wealth building” - you can suck my balls.
“Empowerment” - I’ll put my foot on your empowered throat, you retarded self help fuck.
“It’s a new paradigm in…” - I’ll believe you if you can tell me what “paradigm” means.
“going forward” - the dude who said this earlier is spot.
“Solutions provider” - Solutions is THE most over used word on the planet. I saw a document from a company last month that said they were “a global solutions provider providing solutions in…”. Take a pick-axe to your marketing team if they suggest it.
I’m lost.
Unless someone is looking for you, you aren’t lost. You just don’t know where you are. Applying it to something else works in my opinion, applying it to yourself doesn’t work. I used “in my opinion” because I don’t want anyone to confuse what I said with a fact. It is not a fact, it is merely my opinion. “I am confused” or “I don’t know where I am” both seem much more correct to me.
[quote]Massif wrote:
“Solutions provider” - Solutions is THE most over used word on the planet. I saw a document from a company last month that said they were “a global solutions provider providing solutions in…”. Take a pick-axe to your marketing team if they suggest it.
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I see this one so much and it drives me nuts. It’s used a lot in IT, but now even low-rent businesses which serve corporations are using it. “Providing custodial solutions to your fast-paced work enviroment” for example…way to spice up saying you’re a janitor!
Corporate speak tends to drive me nuts, simply because people use it so freely without actually thinking about what it means (which is often nothing). Proactivity, synergy, cohesion, etc.
Unrelated to the corporate world, my LEAST favourite saying is, without a doubt:
“I hate to be ‘that guy’, but…”
This somehow gives them carte blanche to say whatever the hell they want afterwards, no matter how blatantly rude or socially unacceptable. I don’t know who “that guy” is, but I bet he’s a real asshole.