Phrases/Cliches that annoy you.

[GAVol]

How about “the new normal”?

That and “social distancing”.

 

[RavinDave]

That and “social distancing”

Yeah. That one’s kind of an oxymoron too.

 

[Go aeiou]

I love it.

 

[GAVol]

Yeah. That one’s kind of an oxymoron too.

I don’t know what to replace it with, but surely we can do better than that.

 

[RavinDave]

I don’t know what to replace it with, but surely we can do better than that.

“Safe spacing” would be better IMO

 

[GordonC]

My List
easy-paste labels: "liberal" or "lib" or even "progressive" (Progressive "reform" in the South was Jim Crow)
LOL
utilize for use
rubric
"pump sunshine" and "sunshine pumper"
NegaVol
any variation of drinking Kool-Aid

And yeah, like Dave said the whole "safe space" thing in general

 

[RavinDave]

“Reaching out” is another modern euphemism I find quite annoying.

 

[oz615]

That & every t.v. commercial that begins, "During these challenging times..."

And last but not least "Stay Home" and "Alone Together"

 

[GordonC]

"Turn Around. Don't Drown" during flooding.
I'm waiting for someone to mess with a billboard and change it to "Don't Turn Around. Just Drown" if it hasn't already happened.

 

[oz615]

Sorry about that there. Double post.

 

[csmize]

Prolly

 

[BenGrimm]

“Reaching out” is another modern euphemism I find quite annoying.

How about “touching base”?

 

[BenGrimm]

I don’t know what to replace it with, but surely we can do better than that.

My mom keeps calling it Physical Distancing.

 

[GordonC]

How about “touching base”?

and "not out of the woods yet"

 

[GAVol]

My mom keeps calling it Physical Distancing.

...Which actually makes sense.

 

[GAVol]

“Reaching out” is another modern euphemism I find quite annoying.

Yes... It’s just a weird way of expressing “Well, that email came out of nowhere. Didn’t expect to hear from YOU about THAT”

 

[GAVol]

"Turn Around. Don't Drown" during flooding.
I'm waiting for someone to mess with a billboard and change it to "Don't Turn Around. Just Drown" if it hasn't already happened.

Buddy of mine is Chief meteorologist here on the local Fox affiliate. He will literally say that on the air and pause ever so slightly in the middle of it because he knows how goofy I and several other friends have told him it is.

 

[RavinDave]

"Turn Around. Don't Drown" during flooding.
I'm waiting for someone to mess with a billboard and change it to "Don't Turn Around. Just Drown" if it hasn't already happened.

But I am Okay with "Don't Mess with Texas".

 

[GordonC]

Buddy of mine is Chief meteorologist here on the local Fox affiliate. He will literally say that on the air and pause ever so slightly in the middle of it because he knows how goofy I and several other friends have told him it is.

That's great.

 

[oz615]

Another one that is starting to sound hollow right now, "we're in this together"

 

[GordonC]

"Put your best foot forward" because I have two feet.
"One of the better *players* in the *league* when there are more than two players in the league.
Substitute between the asterisks with whatever when there are more than two.

 

[VolFaninFla]

“just sayin’”
“asking for a friend”
“In before...”. What does that even mean?
“In this day and age”

 

[oz615]

"Take this seriously"

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

The Weather Channel naming winter storms.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

And last but not least "Stay Home" and "Alone Together"

The Alone Together commercial music has become so annoying to my wife that she has me hit mute whenever it comes on.