“Stay the course”, “Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here”, or just about anything else Dubya repeats over and over and over again.[/quote]
Just about any catch phrase used in political talking points drives me crazy. It seems that they all have in common a total disregard for the actual meaning of the words they use and the English language in general. Every time I hear one of these catch phrases strung together with words chosen for emotional effect without the slightest regard for definitional accuracy I want to- ahem- I’ll stop here.
One of my least favorites is “Islamo-fascist”
Sorry to drag this into a less whimsical topic. Now back to our regularly scheduled fart jokes.
“Not for nothing, but…” as a preface to something that’s supposedly important. Does that mean that everything else you say is, in fact, for nothing, but this one thing is special?
“To be honest with you…” so you’re done lying to me now then I guess?
“Whatcha gonna do??” Whenever I’ve heard someone say this, acting exasperated, the solution of what to do was always blatantly fucking obvious and they were just being lazy.
I hate it when people use the poor spelling or grammar of others to prove their point in an argument.
For example; it’s Tachyon, dumb shit. Proves your just not smart enough to keep up with the creative machine that is the Star Trek writers.
[quote]TheWookie wrote:
I truly hated the use of [b]tachion fields or tachion particles[/b] by the lazy-ass writers of Star Trek NG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, etc. when they needed some voodoo-magic to solve some engineering problem. “Perhaps if we flooded the ship with retsin particles we could wipe out the halitosis?”
dollarbill44 wrote:
I know this rant has been done before, but one phrase has been used ad nauseum lately and I have to lodge a complaint - 'Nuff Said.
I fucking hate this dismissal, particularly when used in a heated debate. When someone makes a point and follows it with “nuff said” I want to reach into my monitor and throttle the arrogant bastard(s).
That’s all.
End of discussion. Case closed.
DB
P.S. Everyone feel free to add any more or jump on my ass.
[quote][u]TheWookie[/u] wrote:
I truly hated the use of [b]tachion fields or tachion particles[/b] by the lazy-ass writers of Star Trek NG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, etc.[/quote]
The needle on my Nerd Detector just went flying across the room.
I could care less about what you all think is annoying. Supposeably, you’re all a bunch of grammar experts, irregardless of the true fact that you all make tons of mistakes all the time. I see no upside to this argument. To be honest, I think we should all think outside the box, shift our paradigms, and get our ducks in a row, rather than worrying about what words might irritate our fellow forumites. I’m sorry, but this is just a waste of time. I’d tell you how much of a waste of space this thread is, but no one has provided me with a shoe large enough to guesstimate the insane amount of obesity this tangent represents.
[quote]nephorm wrote:
I could care less about what you all think is annoying. Supposeably, you’re all a bunch of grammar experts, irregardless of the true fact that you all make tons of mistakes all the time. I see no upside to this argument. To be honest, I think we should all think outside the box, shift our paradigms, and get our ducks in a row, rather than worrying about what words might irritate our fellow forumites. I’m sorry, but this is just a waste of time. I’d tell you how much of a waste of space this thread is, but no one has provided me with a shoe large enough to guesstimate the insane amount of obesity this tangent represents.
[quote]nephorm wrote:
I could care less about what you all think is annoying. Supposeably, you’re all a bunch of grammar experts, irregardless of the true fact that you all make tons of mistakes all the time. I see no upside to this argument. To be honest, I think we should all think outside the box, shift our paradigms, and get our ducks in a row, rather than worrying about what words might irritate our fellow forumites. I’m sorry, but this is just a waste of time. I’d tell you how much of a waste of space this thread is, but no one has provided me with a shoe large enough to guesstimate the insane amount of obesity this tangent represents.
'Nuff said.[/quote]
Verrrry nice - but you may have to add to it as the thread grows. Also, I wasn’t well tuned into this thread in my earlier reply. I was just thinking of forum dipshits.
My most hated general phrase is “at the end of the day . . .” Of course, in my organization we don’t have problems, we have “opportunities.” So the statement might be " At the end of the day, the building burning down will present some serious opportunities for us.
