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Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (5 Viewers)
- Thread starter Mr. Pickles
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Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Score the basketball
Ilov80s
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
cstu
Footballguy
The sanitizing of death bothers me, that's about it. People don't 'pass away', they die. Pass away makes it seem like they floated off into space or something.
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root of all aliai
I think that's mostly used in mixed company to be polite. You need to have some kind of soft phrase for death around people you don't know well.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Agreed, I am usually for being direct, but there is something coarse about telling a person that a loved one has died. For all we know, they may have floated off somewhere. Many people believe in an afterlife and if it exists, then death is indeed a passing on to another phase of existence. Even if their is no afterlife, the person has passed from real to a collective memory. To say, "pass on" is empathetic at most and compassionate at the least. Sanitizing death isn't telling one's sister that their mother has passed away. The sanitizing of death happens when people send off their sick mother to the hospital so she can die there. If the dying are out out of sight they become less of a burden on the living for the living our busy living and least of all want to be reminded that they won't always be so busy or so living.
This. Nobody in the universe is named "XXX" or any variant thereof. Just say "Jenny" or "Tom" or whatever if you're going to make up a name.
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SacramentoBob
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Using a letter to describe a word. The N word, the R word, if you a female the C word. It is ridiculous when you think about it. So I say "The R word" but don`t really say it. Then in your mind you process it and say the actual word to yourself. Just say the fu$%^ng word.
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
It's also too bad around here you have to change a word in print in order for people to know exactly which banned word one meant to say.Da Guru said:
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TheIronSheik
SUPER ELITE UPPER TIER
"S" you in your "A's", don't wear "C" and "J" all over your "B's".Da Guru said:
SeaDogStat
Footballguy
Who's Maurlie? Safer?TheIronSheik said:
satch
Footballguy
"Price point".
This phrase is completely unnecessary. The word "price" is sufficient. What's the difference between saying "I think we should sell these shoes at a lower price point" vs "I think we should sell these shoes at a lower price". No difference at all, other than one of them sounds really douchey. Stop saying price point.
This phrase is completely unnecessary. The word "price" is sufficient. What's the difference between saying "I think we should sell these shoes at a lower price point" vs "I think we should sell these shoes at a lower price". No difference at all, other than one of them sounds really douchey. Stop saying price point.
Rove!
Footballguy
this one implies a profit optimization to me. More than picking an arbitrary price that works, it's picking the peak point at the profit curve that fits the criteria being referenced... I'm sure it's misused, though.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Awesome sauce has become the go-to "I'm saying it ironically because I know it is stupid" phrase both at home and at work. Like a Pavlovian dog, whenever I hear the phrase, I instantly think of this usage. Thanks Kee!
Keerock
Footballguy
It's a legitimate phrase in the microeconomic context along the lines you mention (where $4 can be a price without being a price point), but business people almost always use it as a synonym for price, which needs to stop.
Posterize
Sorry but Tony Wroten is not getting his poster made, nor the 3rd string backup for the Knicks who had one good dunk that was most likely a charge anyway.
There would be a sea of unused posters if one was made every time I heard this on sports and basketball shows. Drives me nutso.
Sorry but Tony Wroten is not getting his poster made, nor the 3rd string backup for the Knicks who had one good dunk that was most likely a charge anyway.
There would be a sea of unused posters if one was made every time I heard this on sports and basketball shows. Drives me nutso.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Team ___________.
#### you.
#### you.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
I actually told my wife your comments from this thread. She still uses it...in front of our kids. If they only knew...
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
satch
Footballguy
I'd be interested to see an example where "price point" is necessary because "price" is not sufficient. I'd love to not hate the term price point, but I need to know it's a necessary term and not just douchery.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
"Scrub" when referring to looking something over and/or fixing it... let me "scrub" this quote/proposal/application/list and Ill send it right over. Dumb buzzword people use to sound important.
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
"Man up" is the worst. Reminds me of middle school when people used to say, "don't be gay".
JohnnyU
Footballguy
Recently I was in a .NET class where the instructor, who is from California, must have said "groovy" 100 times during a virtual class. I thought that went out in the 60s? This guy was 30 something. Are you telling me people from that state are still stuck in the 60s?
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squistion
Footballguy
No we aren't and I don't know where he is coming from. I have lived in LA all my life and I can't remember the last time I have heard anyone use that word (it was considered archaic 30 years ago).
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
This one bugs me, too. I just don't do it. How can there be a rational discussion of something we can't even say?
Riversco
Footballguy
I try to say it only once per conversation rather than 100 times, but I like 'groovy' a lot.
