Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (1 Viewer)

[Snoopy]

Elementary/middle school use of “sigma”

That is so sigma
That is so sigma face
What tha sigma?

It is meme reference to a face Christian Bale made in his role in American Psycho

I hear this about 20x a day from my 12-year old boy.

It all adds up.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

my lady was not withholding enough on her taxes a few years ago and i said jeez lady you need to start withholding and she said ill start withholding and then i never brought it up again take that to the bank bromigos

Yeah you don't want your favorite bank to stop accepting deposits.

 

[TheBaylorKid]

Elementary/middle school use of “sigma”

That is so sigma
That is so sigma face
What tha sigma?

It is meme reference to a face Christian Bale made in his role in American Psycho

I hear this about 20x a day from my 12-year old boy.

It all adds up.

It took me a minute but I see what you did.

 

[SWC]

some of the girls i coach now say what the skib and i think that has something to do with a toilet so i say it too but i say what the skibideeee toilet and i know i say it all wrong and that makes them laugh and then i think it makes them feel dumb saying it because who wants to be like mr swc and i have noticed that if i just start saying whatever they are saying they stop saying it so win win chickin din take that to the skibideebank bromigos

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

some of the girls i coach now say what the skib and i think that has something to do with a toilet so i say it too but i say what the skibideeee toilet and i know i say it all wrong and that makes them laugh and then i think it makes them feel dumb saying it because who wants to be like mr swc and i have noticed that if i just start saying whatever they are saying they stop saying it so win win chickin din take that to the skibideebank bromigos

It's Parenting 101.

 

[jhib]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

 

[wlwiles]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

I feel the same way when someone says "Speak your truth". There is no "your truth". There's "the truth" and then there's "your side of the story"...

 

[Phil Elliott]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

Related to this, after any big win, every reporter asks someone from the winning team, "Just tell me how you feel right now".

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

Related to this, after any big win, every reporter asks someone from the winning team, "Just tell me how you feel right now".

Like I want to punch a reporter?

 

[mr. furley]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

Related to this, after any big win, every reporter asks someone from the winning team, "Just tell me how you feel right now".

"man, i just want to praise god, man. without god, man, i wouldn't be here, man. and i'm just happy, man, to be playing good ball, man."

 

[Gr00vus]

Can we stop asking people about their "journey". Last night after the game, the sideline reporter kept using that term. It's football, not an episode of The Bachelor.

I think this has been on my list for the last 20 years or so. I'm pretty sure I started making fun of it to my wife when we watched early seasons of Survivor. Still to this day, every time I hear some random question or answer refer to a person's journey, I mumble under my breath, "Journey..." and roll my eyes.

Related to this, after any big win, every reporter asks someone from the winning team, "Just tell me how you feel right now".

"man, i just want to praise god, man. without god, man, i wouldn't be here, man. and i'm just happy, man, to be playing good ball, man."

Seems like there's more and more of that lately. No me gusta. I figure god has better things to do than help you win a football game.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Carbs.

Not just because it’s an example of unnecessarily truncating a perfectly good word, a la “sus”, “deets”, “sitch”, etc., but also it suggests a movement away from eating food, as opposed to a bunch of macronutrients, aka “macros”. In the process, perfectly good carbohydrates are lumped in with ultraprocessed crap, and all sorts of less healthy junk is substituted, solely by virtue of high protein content.

Both the term and nearly all pop nutrition should be retired, imo.

 

[kupcho1]

I'd like to make a special plea that comics, specifically late night talk show hosts, cease and desist with the "seen here" jokes whereby a picture is shown and a "seen here" joke is made. For example, they might show a picture of Mitch McConnell smiling and then say "Seen here watching a homeless man's lottery ticket blow away"

It's run its course. Sure, 1 in 100 might still land, but the 99 that suck are retroactively ruining the time when the bit was fresh and funny.
Enough already.

 

[JohnnyU]

Line to gain & A football move & physicality

 

[JohnnyU]

You want to go with? Finish the damn sentence already.

 

[JohnnyU]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

 

[jhib]

You want to go with? Finish the damn sentence already.

Agreed. If it's about shortening the phrase, why not just, "You want to come?"

 

[kupcho1]

You want to go with? Finish the damn sentence already.

Big like. If it's about shortening the phrase, why not just, "You want to come?"

Not necessarily. It all depends on context. That could be a perfectly complete sentence.

 

[jhib]

You want to go with? Finish the damn sentence already.

Big like. If it's about shortening the phrase, why not just, "You want to come?"

Not necessarily. It all depends on context. That could be a perfectly complete sentence.

Which one? I'm not sure I was clear, but I'm on team 'come' and not 'go with.'

 

[wlwiles]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

my wife's grandmother wears this phrase out. Anytime you tell her something that's even 1 degree above mundane, this is her auto-response. If it's something that would normally elicit a "wow" or "no way" type of response she throws out a "*gasp* you don't mean it!"

 

[nirad3]

Line to gain & A football move & physicality

Red area. Something against the word "zone"?

 

[JohnnyU]

Line to gain & A football move & physicality

Red area. Something against the word "zone"?

Noting against the word zone. I don't believe I made a reference to that.

 

[kupcho1]

Which one? I'm not sure I was clear, but I'm on team 'come' and not 'go with.'

Yours, GB. Think about it.

 

[Gally]

If it's about shortening the phrase, why not just, "You want to come?"

Well now, that is a more personal question...

 

[MTskibum]

Garbage in

Carbs.

Not just because it’s an example of unnecessarily truncating a perfectly good word, a la “sus”, “deets”, “sitch”, etc., but also it suggests a movement away from eating food, as opposed to a bunch of macronutrients, aka “macros”. In the process, perfectly good carbohydrates are lumped in with ultraprocessed crap, and all sorts of less healthy junk is substituted, solely by virtue of high protein content.

Both the term and nearly all pop nutrition should be retired, imo.

The man, said to be in his 40s, told doctors that he had adopted a "carnivore diet" eight months prior. His diet included between 6 lbs and 9 lbs of cheese, sticks of butter, and daily hamburgers that had additional fat incorporated into them. Since taking on this brow-raising food plan, he claimed his weight dropped, his energy levels increased, and his "mental clarity" improved.

Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body

High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL.

arstechnica.com

 

[nirad3]

Line to gain & A football move & physicality

Red area. Something against the word "zone"?

Noting against the word zone. I don't believe I made a reference to that.

Uhh... I was just following your lead with football sayings.

 

[jhib]

Which one? I'm not sure I was clear, but I'm on team 'come' and not 'go with.'

Yours, GB. Think about it.

I was thrown by the fact that I think it's (almost?) always a perfectly complete sentence, regardless of context. I'm also sticking with my team, regardless of context (or completion).

 

[fatness]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

You just condemned 5 of my dead aunts. Now I'm going to have to dig them up so you can slap them.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I think I'm over "brotherly shove".

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

You just condemned 5 of my dead aunts. Now I'm going to have to dig them up so you can slap them.

yeah, it's definitely "of it's time" phrase.

my 91 yr old MIL (who is very together for that age) says that as an auto-response to just about anything.

 

[fatness]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

You just condemned 5 of my dead aunts. Now I'm going to have to dig them up so you can slap them.

yeah, it's definitely "of it's time" phrase.

my 91 yr old MIL (who is very together for that age) says that as an auto-response to just about anything.

"Oh my heavens" or "oh heavens" are similar ones I used to hear.

 

[arrow1]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

Spinoff: Oh my..lanta

 

[jhib]

"The Big Game"

"the big game" as it relates to the Super Bowl:X

Still annoying (15 and 12 years later). I understand why they can't call it what it is, but it's still stupid.

 

[TheBaylorKid]

We are on another timeline. Joe Rogan and his guests use this one often.

 

[arrow1]

IYKYK

 

[Al Czervik]

People who say "suck it up butter cup" are the same people who think they're cool when they say "been there done that".

 

[Da Guru]

IYKYK

I have a buddy who is in his 50s who always posts IYKYK, I am stoked, and "Sorry, not Sorry" All need to go bye bye.

 

[arrow1]

IYKYK

I have a buddy who is in his 50s who always posts IYKYK, I am stoked, and "Sorry, not Sorry" All need to go bye bye.

x1000

 

[Gatorade]

“Oh my word”. Slap anyone that says this.

My daughter says this all the time. My wife does sometime, but mostly when talking to daughter.

 

[SWC]

a couple of girls i coach have started saying it gets to a point when i am telling dad jokes and that just makes me tell them even more take that to the bank brohans

 

[SWC]

saying oh my word is like going back in time to the 50s and the 50s were pretty damned cool and you could roll out in a white tshirt with cigs rolled up in your sleeve and some jeans and some saddle shoes and that was pretty damned sweet take that to the bank joanie loves brochachis

 

[wlwiles]

IYKYK

When this is used with absolutely zero context, I hate it. Not so subtle way of letting people know "I know something you don't" and usually it's pure B.S.

 

[Keerock]

Space. Calling a room or area in your house a "space" makes me stabby. Especially on the home improvement shows.

 

[nirad3]

Space. Calling a room or area in your house a "space" makes me stabby. Especially on the home improvement shows.

Does your space have "clean lines"?

 

[MTskibum]

IYKYK

When this is used with absolutely zero context, I hate it. Not so subtle way of letting people know "I know something you don't" and usually it's pure B.S.

I like when i have to google phrases that other people think are overused

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

IYKYK

When this is used with absolutely zero context, I hate it. Not so subtle way of letting people know "I know something you don't" and usually it's pure B.S.

I like when i have to google phrases that other people think are overused

If you don't know, you don't know.

 

[nirad3]

Oh boy here we go again with more stupid phrases finding their way to sports talk.

The newest one is "giving someone their flowers".... as in giving them "props"

Heard this gem about 5-6 times over the past week so it definitely wasn't just some one-off.

I guess I should either just stop watching so much sports-related stuff on TV or relegate myself to knowing people are going to come up with stupid-azzzzz phrases to sound hip.

 

[Gally]

The newest one is "giving someone their flowers".... as in giving them "props"

Really???.............that is terrible

 

[arrow1]

"Getting out over your skis" As in getting ahead of yourself

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

"Getting out over your skis" As in getting ahead of yourself

If you aren't talking about ski jumping, this just proves you are a tool.