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My new most hated phrase.

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  • #32
    Ish66
    Registered Users Posts: 462 ✭✭Ish66


    ''From The Get Go''
    Hate it so much


  • #33
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Live laugh love.

    Die cry hate?


  • #34
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    "The new normal"
    "we're all in this together" ...

    we are at a "tipping point" ...

    "This is still ONLY the beginning" (has been only the "beginning" for almost 8 months now)
    "long long long long way to go"


    F*ck off!!!


  • #35
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Wet pubs
    Social Distancing and all its derivations
    Covid-19 and all its derivations
    Such and such is cancelled....."Due to Covid-19"
    The new normal
    Anti-maskers (bunch of w4nkers)


    For me, the same thing happened during the recession - I began to hate (and still hate) the word "recession". The amount of talk about it just made it worse IMO.


  • #36
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    What about golf Gate?
    Anything involving a politician just put gate after it.....


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  • #37
    littlevillage
    Registered Users Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    What about golf Gate?
    Anything involving a politician just put gate after it.....

    Show the next Politican who comes canvassing to your door.....the gate.


  • #38
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,609 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    imme wrote: »
    It Is What It Is.

    This has to be the worst, most idiotic phrase of our time.

    :mad::mad::mad:

    Closely followed by 'we are where we are'


  • #39
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,518 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Closely followed by 'we are where we are'

    This is it.

    The tide is turning…



  • #40
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,441 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    It's great to see that the English language is still evolving. It always has, and always will resist the attempts to censor new words and phrases.


  • #41
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,683 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Now more than ever.


    Sweet baby jaysus.


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  • #42
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,707 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    All HSE/NPHET corporate-speak that has trickled into daily use.

    Fcuking "roadmaps", new normal and cocooning are just three of my most hated.


  • #43
    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭storker


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Real "Throw Momma from the Train" vibes here

    "Sultry pubs?"


  • #44
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    bertiebomber wrote: »
    b lack lives matter !

    i'm so sick to death of this and now i can't even watch sport without political
    messages and a rainbow panel of pundits where ability as a pundit doesn't seem to matter anymore.
    I don't care what colour, or what gender as long as they are good !


  • #45
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Ish66 wrote: »
    ''From The Get Go''
    Hate it so much

    Even worse is when I though they were saying "from the gecko"


  • #46
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,596 ✭✭✭Feisar


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    i'm so sick to death of this and now i can't even watch sport without political
    messages and a rainbow panel of pundits where ability as a pundit doesn't seem to matter anymore.
    I don't care what colour, or what gender as long as they are good !

    Says yer man called white Jesus:D

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #47
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,088 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    I thought the purpose of language was communication?

    If everybody knows exactly what is meant by the term "Wet pubs" then what exactly is the problem?


  • #48
    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,480 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Only seen it with chadwick boseman's death but it's been around before that.

    "Rest in Power"

    and people calling other King/Queen, especially when from people on social media commenting on some celebs post.


  • #49
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,777 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    All HSE/NPHET corporate-speak that has trickled into daily use.
    Fcuking "roadmaps", new normal and cocooning are just three of my most hated.

    Roadmaps and new normal been knocking around for at least a decade...
    Dont think you can pin that one on NPHET.

    And we all know who to blame for cocooning... you know, the same people who made Steve Guttenburg a star...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #50
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    My pet peeve is the phrase 'Reach Out' as in "Reach out to me" or "I reached out to him/her". Fcuk off.


  • #51
    i57dwun4yb1pt8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭i57dwun4yb1pt8


    Wet Pubes

    sorry

    Pubs


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  • #52
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,707 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Roadmaps and new normal been knocking around for at least a decade...
    Dont think you can pin that one on NPHET.

    And we all know who to blame for cocooning... you know, the same people who made Steve Guttenburg a star...

    The only roadmap I know of is in the glove compartment. Never heard of new normal before the covid shıtshow.


  • #53
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,904 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    I thought the purpose of language was communication?

    If everybody knows exactly what is meant by the term "Wet pubs" then what exactly is the problem?

    Same as that. If you use a term in common use then it creates confusion because the term has 2 common meanings. If you use an analogy like a cocoon, then the meaning and the imagery are strong and clear.

    I don't get upset by language changing while I'm use it. Language changed before I started using it and that doesn't annoy me, and language will continue to change after I'm finished using it and that doesn't annoy me either.


  • #54
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,904 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    My pet peeve is the phrase 'Reach Out' as in "Reach out to me" or "I reached out to him/her". Fcuk off.

    What should they say? "I initiated communication with them"?


  • #55
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Wet pubs became a phrase when somebody heard of the wet markets in Wuhan. Never heard the term before and also used as a sort of boogeyman term for those evil pubs serving only drink....


  • #56
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    What should they say? "I initiated communication with them"?

    I phoned them/emailed them etc. Give me a call etc.

    Reach out sounds sh1te, to me anyway.


  • #57
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Drill down or worse still my bad !


  • #58
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,904 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I phoned them/emailed them etc. Give me a call etc.

    Reach out sounds sh1te, to me anyway.

    It's just another way of saying the same thing though, isn't it?

    It's not a phrase I use but I'd like to know why these things annoy people so much.


  • #59
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    It's just another way of saying the same thing though, isn't it?

    It's not a phrase I use but I'd like to know why these things annoy people so much.

    I can't answer for Battlecorp but to me it immediately tells me the person is up their own a*se, pretentious ect .


  • #60
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,904 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    I can't answer for Battlecorp but to me it immediately tells me the person is up their own a*se, pretentious ect .

    I think most people I hear use these phrases are just using the popular term that gets their point across.


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  • #61
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,707 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    It's just another way of saying the same thing though, isn't it?

    It's not a phrase I use but I'd like to know why these things annoy people so much.

    Mostly used in the business world by types who like to sound more intelligent than they really are by parroting these phrases they heard in a management course. They're David Brent style clichés.


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