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The Sloth 
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 12:20 |
I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:
It is what it is
A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.
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chopper
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 12:26 |
There's plenty of phrases at work that get on my nerves -
"scope creep" "reaching out" preponing (as in the opposite of postponing) and the best one ever which I fortunately only heard once - "we're having a stir fry in the strategy wok".
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:00 |
 chopper wrote:
preponing (as in the opposite of postponing) |
The phrase instead reminds me of that redhead on That 70s Show. 
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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TeleStrat
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:19 |
Words I don't particularly care for (I don't know why)... prequel genre
Phrase that I cannot stand... "My bad."
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Dean
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:32 |
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timothy leary
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:39 |
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because folks here are so damn stuck on crap and a "style", that they have lost the ability to even bother listening to anything else.........
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Dean
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:40 |
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King Only
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:43 |
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Progressive (honestly).
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Polymorphia
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:51 |
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"pretentious"
"fandom"
"Who are we to say... ?"
Finally, badly coined and redefined terms, the overuse of words such that they lose whatever meaning they had previously, and bad-arguments-turned-slogans, all of which typifies activism, sadly.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:57 |
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Getting seriously: I mostly hate words and terms that are coined to describe political ideologies by their opponents, half because they're almost inevitably used as thought-terminating clichés utilized to describe a standpoint as wrong without explaining why in further detail. It doesn't just refer to more obvious cases, though. When was the last time you heard a follower of the Frankfurt School of Marxist sociology self-identify as "Cultural Marxist" or a follower of the Chicago School libertarian economics self-identify as "neo-liberal"?
Have you ever witnessed a single discussion that got more productive after one of the participants accused the other of being too "politically correct", let alone a "social justice warrior" or "cryptofascist"? That kind of terminology's what in the philosophical blogosphere referred to as "ideological applause lights" or perhaps more damningly "rhetorical super-weapons".
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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sublime220
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 14:55 |
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"To sum things up" always makes me cringe for some reason when people use it while speaking a point or writing a paper.
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Michael678
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:04 |
okay, these may be cliched but hey...
YOLO bae i can't even
i can't think of anymore besides them.
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Progrockdude
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:17 |
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My bad
haters gonna hate
ture
having said that
per se
all things being equal
in a perfect world
Manchester United
I don't suffer fools gladly
I am what I am
going postal
to die for
drop dead gorgeous
(the list goes on)
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Polymorphia
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:21 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
ture
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haters gonna hate
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Guy Guden
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 15:21 |
pushing the envelope bottom line zeitgeist
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The Sloth
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 16:33 |
The On Demand part of my cable has this new banner that says...uh... Feel Free to Binge!
The first time I read that I wanted to high dive into an empty swimming pool. Not only does it make it sound like they have a veritable smorgasbord of treasures to choose from (when in reality it's a couple dozen movies on the level of Bull Durham and Home Alone), but it's practically bullying me with this suggestion, all because the company wants to sit at the cool table with Netflix.
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irrelevant
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 17:47 |
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When people use the term "self-indulgent" to criticize music.
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Terakonin
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 17:51 |
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Pretentious, haters gonna hate, the usual really.
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You left a note in your perfect script
Stay as long as you like
I haven't left your bed since
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tszirmay
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:28 |
The unending use of 'grab': as in 'can I grab the bill', 'grab a drink', 'grab my coat'. How degrading a word, using physical force constantly, pfff! Then we have the 'like' spasm . I know many who talk this way" Like, I saw her, like, she is pretty, like, a real hottie, like, really, like, lets go mountain climbling, like" . WTF is this ? This is not english, its Facebook-ese where you have like stuff and click on it !  
Edited by tszirmay - March 25 2015 at 18:29
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Polymorphia
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 18:32 |
^Like, chill out maaaan. 
Edited by Polymorphia - March 25 2015 at 18:33
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