What's your least favorite word or phrase?

ilovemuffin

My least favorite phrase of all time is 'brain drain' also known as 'human capital flight'. More reading here:


https​://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight


The reason I dislike it, is that it treats humans like livestock and covets their precious brains, but nothing else. Not their character, personality, or their person-hood, just their (often encyclopedic) accumulation of knowledge.



A person is well within their right to emigrate and scout for positions in other countries. They shouldn't have to pledge an allegiance to the country that educated them. After-all, why educate in a certain field if there's no job guaranteed after, and people are forced to emigrate?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Mother-f*cker. It’s a disgusting horrible choice of word.

iamstop

Snog

TheValeyard

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Mother-f*cker. It’s a disgusting horrible choice of word.

Made a great bad guy in Kick Ass 2 though

JohnnyFlash

Staycation at the moment.

TheValeyard

'were all in the same boat'



Would ya fcuk off. Some people are on private super cruisers while the rest are clinging to life rafts.

EmmetSpiceland

Holibobs.

Sterling Archer

Prick ... Not sure why as I swear like a sailor but find that highly offensive

RandomViewer

Going forward, we are where we are, basically anything Biffo ever said

pgj2015

wine o clock

sound out

Capitalism.

Wanderer2010

Coola boola
Coolio
Thats the job

Rodney Bathgate

cis

Wibbs

ilovemuffin wrote: »

My least favorite phrase of all time is 'brain drain' also known as 'human capital flight'. More reading here:


https​://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight


The reason I dislike it, is that it treats humans like livestock and covets their precious brains, but nothing else. Not their character, personality, or their person-hood, just their (often encyclopedic) accumulation of knowledge.

Bwaiiiinssss

Uncle Pierre

"Reached out to".

A horrible, unnecessary, and stupid Americanism.

I grimace very time I read "we reached out to .........". What's wrong with just saying "we contacted"?

pgj2015

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

"Reached out to".

A horrible, unnecessary, and stupid Americanism.

I grimace very time I read "we reached out to .........". What's wrong with just saying "we contacted"?

Touch base is even worse, Id be close to throwing up if someone said it.

Edgware

Staycation..FFS

Harry Palmr

Impacted

Plumbthedepths

"wash yer hands"

Reason, that whineline prick says it at every opportunity.

tuisginideach

ec cetera (instead of et cetera)

going forward (instead of in the future)

meeting with (instead of meeting)

hoi polloi (when used incorrectly. It means 'the common people/great unwashed/ the masses'; it does not mean 'the high and mighty')

Uncle Pierre

pgj2015 wrote: »

Touch base is even worse, Id be close to throwing up if someone said it.

Yup, that one is bad too. But I don't think it's as common here yet as that other one, which I can't even bring myself to type again......

emeldc

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Mother-f*cker. It’s a disgusting horrible choice of word.

Except when Samuel L Jackson says it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSas8nwnnU

dirkmeister

Staycation

Living my best life



They make my teeth hurt.

pgj2015

dirkmeister wrote: »

Staycation

Living my best life



They make my teeth hurt.

That is why im not on facebook, id imagine that is here people say $hit like that? they wouldn't say it in person?

"Aligns with my/our values". Corporate bollocks.

whisky_galore

Sustainable.

Most overused officespeak bullshıt buzzword now gone mainstream.

Deja Boo

Happy Hump Day


:rolleyes:






...really???

ShatterAlan

Oftentimes




Do you also say "seldomtimes" to describe a rare occurrence, you fucking spanner?


Probably.

NomadicGray

Staycation at the moment

ThewhiteJesus

The C word,
anyone who uses it needs a lesson in class

Immortal Starlight

Soiled

touts

Socialism: Means you work hard so others couldn't be arsed.

ThewhiteJesus

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

The C word,
anyone who uses it needs a lesson in class

Christ?

coolbeans

Cuck; used by those who can't make a point.

whisky_galore

dirkmeister wrote: »

Living my best life

People who say this have "Live, Laugh, Love" in huge letters as part of their home decor.

Sardonicat

'Revert back' and 'reach out to'

If that's how you speak, kindly don't bother.

NapoleonInRags

Two imports which a scaringly increasing number of people here are using:

My bad (US)

and

Oh my days (UK)


puke....

garbanzo

Like.....yeah....no.... !

pgj2015

Like if said too much by a person is horrendous to listen to.

Littlehorny

"Happy Holidays!" anyone who says this deserves to be minus a few teeth.

Gregor Samsa

"I want to say..."

Q: When was the contract signed?
A: I want to say November?

Not only did you want to say it, but you did say it. And not only did you say it, but you said it in a way that shows that you don't actually know whether what you said was true or not. So while you pretended to answer the question, what you actually said is "I don't know".

cannotlogin

"Zara King, Virgin Media News"

Insufferable!

pgj2015

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

Yup, that one is bad too. But I don't think it's as common here yet as that other one, which I can't even bring myself to type again......

I heard it said back in 2015 in Dublin, not sure if it is used much now as im out of the corporate game thankfully.

Rick_Rack

parabolic

Edgware

"We need to"

Usually said by some Minister for stating the bloody obvious

Littlehorny

Banter..what an insufferable word mostly used by insufferable people.

EmmetSpiceland

All Lives Matter. A tired “call” by knuckle dragging asshats.

Rodney Bathgate

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

All Lives Matter. A tired “call” by knuckle dragging asshats.

Well done E, you win the “woke” stakes again today. Have you ever had an original thought or opinion of your own?

RMAOK

The word "chat" - hate it

Neames

Moist.

Edgware

Neames wrote: »

Moist.

Especially if used in a sentence with "gusset"
e.g. her gusset was quite moist