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re: Sayings that just don't make sense or irritate you
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:19 pm to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:19 pm to Tiger Ryno
quote:
"6 and one half dozen of another.:"
You mean "six of one, half a dozen of the other"?
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Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:20 pm to Tiger Ryno
quote:
"6 and one half dozen of another.:"
It makes more sense if you get the saying worded correctly. It's "6 of one; half dozen of the other."
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:21 pm to dewster
quote:
"Have your cake and eat it too...." Seriously, what else would one do with a cake?
The correct saying is "eat your cake and have it too." It's just gotten turned around over time.
This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:30 pm to medtiger
Jinx. You owe me some coke.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:37 pm to rebeloke
"For crying out loud"
Omg it makes me cringe
Omg it makes me cringe
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:42 pm to rebeloke
YOLO
Ratchet
Ratchet
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:44 pm to Beef Supreme
quote:
Also, whenever someone uses the "definition of insanity" quote. "der, hay u kno wut the definition of insanity is? its doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" - yes. everyone knows that quote.
And it is not the definition of insanity. If anything, it is the definition of stupidity
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:57 pm to jose canseco
quote:
And it is not the definition of insanity. If anything, it is the definition of stupidity
Posted on 6/30/14 at 10:59 pm to medtiger
war damn eagle ...
tiger bait ...
pig soooey ...
whoooooooop ...
tiger bait ...
pig soooey ...
whoooooooop ...
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:04 pm to lsunurse
"The truth lies somewhere in the middle." This only applies if both people are lying.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 11:05 pm to rebeloke
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rebeloke
Why does everyone hate you? Do you have a shitty personality?
Posted on 7/1/14 at 5:09 am to Spaulding Smails
I try not to worry about the haters too much. They are the ones with the problem after all. If it weren't for the grace of God, I might be as miserable person as them. 
Posted on 7/1/14 at 5:36 am to rebeloke
I cant stand when athletes or anybody really says how "humbled" they are by their accomplishment. If I just won a championship or whatever, I would feel like a badass. Humbled is being put it in your place. This phrase gets repeated so often they dont even think about it.
This post was edited on 7/1/14 at 5:37 am
Posted on 7/1/14 at 6:25 am to rebeloke
a hoist on your own petard.
although that's from Hamlet, so I'll let is slide. but just don't use it.
although that's from Hamlet, so I'll let is slide. but just don't use it.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 6:59 am to rebeloke
"please advise" in a casual situation,.
cliche business phrases like "touch base" "close the loop" or "low hanging fruit"
cliche business phrases like "touch base" "close the loop" or "low hanging fruit"
Posted on 7/1/14 at 7:27 am to Sevendust912
Blah, blah, blah......"if you will." I fricking hate that!!!!
Posted on 7/1/14 at 7:36 am to Geekboy
or the professorial "as it were," as it were.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 7:42 am to mostbesttigerfanever
quote:
business cliches
I got pissed off just reading that list
Posted on 7/1/14 at 7:49 am to McLemore
and then there's the whole list of legalese and other BS words (often found in academic writing also) and phrases i've been trying to extricate from my lexicon and from any forms or go-bys I use. Some top offenders:
hereinbefore
pursuant to
seriatim
"Further Affiant Sayeth Not."
infra and supra (ok in formal citations, but don't make me think through what this means in text, even for a nanosecond)
"i am in receipt of" --really? so you got it?
penultimate (I kind of like that because it takes the place of three words, but it comes off as pretentious in conversation and actually has the same # of syllables as "second to last.")
deem --as in, "If you continue letting your wife talk to you in that tone, you shall be deemed a beta, baw." What you really mean is you're a freaking beta.
notwithstanding--so what doesn't withstand? it's usually technically ambiguous even if the reader intuitively knows what you're saying. "Everything I just said notwithstanding...." Everything you just doesn't withstand what you're about to say. Great. Dumb. Worse, "Notwithstanding everything I just said," so what you're about to say doesn't withstand everything you already said? Just fricking say what you're trying to say.
i could go on for days.
hereinbefore
pursuant to
seriatim
"Further Affiant Sayeth Not."
infra and supra (ok in formal citations, but don't make me think through what this means in text, even for a nanosecond)
"i am in receipt of" --really? so you got it?
penultimate (I kind of like that because it takes the place of three words, but it comes off as pretentious in conversation and actually has the same # of syllables as "second to last.")
deem --as in, "If you continue letting your wife talk to you in that tone, you shall be deemed a beta, baw." What you really mean is you're a freaking beta.
notwithstanding--so what doesn't withstand? it's usually technically ambiguous even if the reader intuitively knows what you're saying. "Everything I just said notwithstanding...." Everything you just doesn't withstand what you're about to say. Great. Dumb. Worse, "Notwithstanding everything I just said," so what you're about to say doesn't withstand everything you already said? Just fricking say what you're trying to say.
i could go on for days.
This post was edited on 7/1/14 at 7:50 am
Posted on 7/1/14 at 7:51 am to McLemore
Keep your friends close and enemies closer
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