Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
If it was wheat, rye, or barley he may have been referencing someone's gluten intolerance.
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Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (3 Viewers)
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SacramentoBob
Footballguy
I'm going to start using "postwarned".
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
No - its consultant-speak. Almost everything in here I first heard come out of the mouths of consulting company people. When you hear the first few times, it sometimes ( ...sometimes) doesn't sound too bad, creative even. When you hear it repeated months and years later from vapid, empty-headed posers that love to rattle off meaningless "business-speak" to sound professional ...it makes you want to pull their tongue out.B Maverick said:
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
krista4
Footballguy
Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
I'd say maybe it's a Midwest thing, but Christo... I've heard this a billion times.ETA: This is not a judgment that it's not annoying or shouldn't be stopped.
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roadkill1292
Footballguy
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
It means "I don't remember".What does it mean?Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
Usually said by someone when confronted with a question about something that happened or was discussed weeks or months ago.
arrow1
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
That's horrubleIt means "I don't remember".What does it mean?Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
Usually said by someone when confronted with a question about something that happened or was discussed weeks or months ago.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I'm not defending it, just educating the masses here.That's horrubleIt means "I don't remember".What does it mean?Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
Usually said by someone when confronted with a question about something that happened or was discussed weeks or months ago.
I forgot to add it's usually said in a subtle smart-### tone. It's really just a passive-aggressive way to say "you really expect me to remember that? Give me a break".
Yes, I do. Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought it up, smart ###.I'm not defending it, just educating the masses here.That's horrubleIt means "I don't remember".What does it mean?Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
Usually said by someone when confronted with a question about something that happened or was discussed weeks or months ago.
I forgot to add it's usually said in a subtle smart-### tone. It's really just a passive-aggressive way to say "you really expect me to remember that? Give me a break".
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
Interesting, because I would have interpreted it as "I've slept on that" meaning I forgot it or haven't been paying attention to it.
To me it would make more sense if it meant "I've had some time to consider it."
belljr
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
"I've slept since then" sounds like something you would say when someone has a problem and you don't give a rat's ###. Or what the people who have actually heard it have said about its meaning.
Either way, that's pretty rude.
Either way, that's pretty rude.
roadkill1292
Footballguy
A simple request to "Refresh my memory about that" is much more friendly. Isn't there enough #######ry in the world without getting a snarky answer to every routine question?
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Right; that would actually make sense. But it's always used obnoxiously to imply that the questioner is pursuing something of scant importance. It's sort of the same as D_Head's response in this hopefully helpful hypothetical, below:
FFA MEMBER: Hey, do you have Important Document X?
D_HEAD: I have a life.
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
roadkill1292
Footballguy
Apparently we are the only two people here that have heard it. A lot in my case.What's good about it?
McGarnicle
Footballguy
"Let's flog this dolphin 'till she squeaks" drives me nuts.
Joe T
Footballguy
Keerock
Footballguy
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
Keerock
Footballguy
That's really stupid because there's an important connection between sleep and memory. You'd be a lot more likely to forget something if you hadn't slept since then.It means "I don't remember".What does it mean?Interesting. I hear it quite a bit.
Usually said by someone when confronted with a question about something that happened or was discussed weeks or months ago.
To sleep on something ("Let me sleep on it and I'll get back to you") means to consider it attentively. The phrase that would better fit your interpretation is "I haven't sleep on that."
ETA: As I typed that, I realized that there's another sense of sleeping on something that means the opposite: "Don't sleep on Sammy Watkins." This just proves that the people who invented the English language were, by and large, morons.
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
this is what I thought. "let me sleep on it"... "ok... I've slept since then, and now here's what I think..."
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
Yeah, I meant it in the latter sense. But I only came to that interpretation based on context clues.
El Floppo
Footballguy
this phrase is making me angry.
you've slept since then? really? I've ####ed your mother since then- how about them apples.
eta: could be because I haven't gotten enough sleep.
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Keerock
Footballguy
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
I generally don't like to nitpick (especially people much smarter than I), but I think instead of invent, you mean "continue to use and alter" instead. For example, the evolution and new definition of "literally."
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
Literally doesn't have a "new definition". It means what it means. There are a bunch of cretins that use it improperly, but, so far, their stupidity hasn't been formally accepted. Hopefully it never will be.
From the Oxford Dictionary:
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roadkill1292
Footballguy
This whole debate is putting me to sleep. If you need me, I'll be over there making fun of Ben Carson and the Alabama Supreme Court.
Zow
Footballguy
I also have never heard "I've slept since then". However, I recently was present for a telephonic conference my college roommate, who is now in upper management, had to attend remotely. The amount of buzzwords and charged phrases he used 1) sounded like a foreign language to me, and 2) was absolutely sickening.
Give me latin phrases any day over "boots on the ground" or whatever the current team-speak management professionals are currently using.
Also, I'm going to toss out: "at the end of the day". Hearing that a ton lately in many spheres of life. I get it. You're concerned with the final result.
Give me latin phrases any day over "boots on the ground" or whatever the current team-speak management professionals are currently using.
Also, I'm going to toss out: "at the end of the day". Hearing that a ton lately in many spheres of life. I get it. You're concerned with the final result.
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
I think I've slept since then means "kick me in the liver". 99% sure.
El Floppo
Footballguy
so true. the romance languages are pretty much hard-set with rules about phonetics and spelling. English?
while my son was learning to read, I showed him the word "ghoti" and told him everything would be alright... eventually.
