Remove one phrase from English language?

[Insider]

if you could, what would it be?

for me it is "gay marriage". why isn't marriage just marriage no matter who's doing it? frustrating, and it keeps showing up more and more. haven't pulled any hair out. i'll get over it.

(edit for typo)

[GOPisEvil]

1. "My bad"

The phrase you are looking for is, "My fault. I'm sorry."

[No Mandate Here.]

2. Re-(s)Elect * (Shrub) <nt>

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Tolerance (in the manner it is used)

IT's pretty arrogant to suggest one actually "TOLERATES" another's existance.

[Tina H]

16. Not sure if you are mad at the word or the underlying feeling . . .

There are not-nice people out there in the world. This leads to two types of toleration consequences:

1. Not-nice people who, due to their not-niceness, arrogantly "tolerate" others, instead of fondly embracing them. The arrogance here is regrettable, but it is better than intolerance (which is realistically the alternative, so long as not-nice people stay not-nice).

2. Not-nice people who, due to their not-niceness, cause other, regular, nice people to merely tolerate them, instead of fondly embracing the not-nice people. This type of tolerance sounds like a reasonable and humane reaction to a bad situation (ie, dealing with not-nice people).

Maybe these two types of tolerance consequences are regrettable. Maybe this is as good as it gets outside of Utopia. But I really question whether removing the word "tolerance" would change the underlying feelings. It seems like removing this word, or demonizing it, will just make it more difficult for people to honestly talk about their feelings.

[Misunderestimator]

21. Same could be said for any of the words or phrases we'd like to remove...

The vacuum of their absence would create new words and phrases to express the same thing.

So, yeah, tolerance would be replaced with something just as bad.

But... I think you missed another group of people who "tolerate" others... The nice people (like many on here) who aren't aware (or don't seem to care) that saying that they tolerate other groups of people is an insult to those groups.

[LWolf]

22. Yep.

How about if we replace "tolerate" with "appreciate" or "celebrate."

Tolerance is backhanded bigotry, imo.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Accept would be the more appropriate term

[LWolf]

30. Accept is better.

If you can't appreciate, acceptance at least indicates a lack of passive resistance.

[lovedems]

4. "They hate us for our freedoms"

That is bullshit. It dumbs down the American people and assumes there isn't a solution to fighting the terrorists.

Aside from the lies that led us to war, this is another big lie courtesy of GWB.

[LDS Jock]

40. Gawd I hate that one

Randi Rhodes does too. She's always mentioning it.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Either "My bad" or "Champing at the bit."

"Champing at the bit" is the CORRECT use of this phrase, not "ChOmping." But neither makes any fucking sense and both sound stupid, so I'd just get rid of 'em entirely.

And "My bad" is the most intensely stupid-sounding slang phrase ever invented. I feel like going on an open-handed slapping spree whenever I hear
some baggy-panted, sideways baseball-capped loser use this phrase like it actually means something. "Bad" is an adjective, you dolt!

[sus]

6. "Low-Carb diet"

CHENEY YOU!!

[southpaw]

7. "I want the letter 'M' striken from the English language..."

-Steve Martin

[King Of Paperboys]

8. "Can we still be friends?"

No, you whore, you're sucking some other guy's dick. Besides, I already have enough friends.

[Lavender Brown]

9. The expression "pick {someone's} brain"

It really freaks me out for some reason.

[Kahuna]

20. I hate that one too. Or, 'get into your head..'..

Nobody picks my brain or gets into MY head. :puke:

[MissMillie]

10. "Whatever!"

I hate it when people say that.

[Misunderestimator]

11. I'll see your "Gay Marriage" and raise you a "Husband and Wife"

:)

[Insider]

12. how about "man & wife"

;-)

[Misunderestimator]

13. Yeah, That too...

:)

[cardlaw]

14. how about..

"at the end of the day"

[asthmaticeog]

15. I can't pick just one!

"Touch base"

"On the same page"

"A Propos"

"Too much information"

"Don't go there"

"Extreme"

[pagerbear]

17. "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"

Silly me--I thought God created all of us!

[LDS Jock]

41. Hey, you took mine

I clicked this thread so I could enter that one. I've heard it a zillion times, and each time the person thinks they are so clever and its the first time its ever been said.

[Kahuna]

18. "Good on you."

:puke:

[Tina H]

19. pre-emptive war

It is a euphemism that history will sorrowfully chuckle at.

[The empressof all]

23. Using the word

Theater to describe a war zone

[goju]

24. Keep in real and all forms of that

I hate that expression. I dont even know what it means. Is it possible to keep it unreal?

[Commendatori]

25. "The bomb"

"That movie (book, whatever) is the bomb!" = "I'm an inbred buttfuck who shouldn't be allowed to vote or drive!"

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. the word "carb"

just sets me on edge

whatever --- a friend and I were discussing that "word / phrase earlier (WHATEVER not carb)

[chiburb]

28. "At the end of the day..." n/t

.

[Red State Rebel]

29. Politically Correct

It's usually a way for people to find a nice way of saying something not so nice....

[WillParkinson]

31. Bling-Bling...

I had to yell at Paul yesterday for using it.

[pagerbear]

32. Any use of King James-style English

...when the user doesn't understand the grammar! It's not that hard! Geez!

[LeftishBrit]

33. mine are:

"Quality" used as an adjective.

"We must make tough decisions" (used by ruthless managers)

[midnight armadillo]

34. Rightsizing.

What a stupid frickin' euphemism for "You're fired, get yer shit and get out!"

[samwisefoxburr]

35. "Make No Mistake"

Too late...

[dolo amber]

36. "Let me be clear"

From anyone, but especially as used by the Bush administration...:mad:

"Oh, you mean you have the ability to not double-speak and generally sound like a troglodyte, but are just now choosing to exercise that option...? Don't fucking waste my time...:eyes:"

[LiberalVoice]

37. "Power of Pride"

And everyother one of those stupid ass fuckin american flag bumper stickers that people stamp all over there car in an effort to make it look like they support our country without actually having to do anything...

[geniph]

38. "The shit" used to mean "excellent"

"That CD is the shit!" What a truly horrid expression.

[No2W2004]

39. George Carlin:

Let's replace the word "Kill" with the word "Fuck"

So old westerns would now sound like this:

"OK sherriff, we're gonna fuck ya now....and we're gonna fuck ya slow!"

[LDS Jock]

42. "I could care less"

instead of "I couldn't care less"

[iverglas]

43. y'know what?

Yeah, that's it. "Y'know what?"

I was never interested enough in NYPD Blue to watch it in first run, but I sometimes have so little to entertain me at midnight these days that I do. And sometimes I swear that if that curly-headed limp-voiced white woman says "y'know what? let's go sit down" or "y'know what? let's not go there" or "y'know what? get in the car", or whatever the hell she's y'knowwhatting thirty-five times about tonight, one more time, I'm going to punch her video teeth out.

Who started this??? Who imagined that "y'know what?" is an appropriate preface for, say, an instruction to do something? It's a rhetorical question, properly followed by a statement of something the listener didn't know: "Y'know what? I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday and it was excellent." And used sparingly at that, because really, it's just noise.

And for pity's sake, speaking of NYPD Blue, who decreed that the second "d" in "didn't" (or "wouldn't") should suddenly be pronounced "h"? "I di'h-n't say that." "I wou'h-n't eat that." Indeed, we have long moved that "d" a little back in the throat, but to take your tongue completely off your palate and start hiccuping it aloud, what's the damn point?

Give me "gay marriage" any day. It at least means something, and will for as long as anybody thinks that the word "marriage" contains the implied term "straight". If yer lucky, that won't be very long. ;)


oops, there I've gone again ... searching for something else, coming up with a thread in the lounge that caught my fancy, thinking that today was still the 7th so it wasn't long dead, dragging it up to bore everybody else with ... so I'll just use what was a hackneyed phrase itself many years ago: never mind. ;)

[CO Liberal]

44. "Compassionate Conservatism"

:puke:

[slutticus]

45. "Fair and Balanced"

And......how about "Jump the Shark"

[Hoping4Change]

46. "Get a life."

[achtung_circus]

47. At this point in time

What is our "ask"??
Ask is a verb you twit, not a noun.

[Deja Q]

48. "God bless our country"

I wish God would bless the world. Why would God take sides?

[doc03]

49. Using the phrase "With all due respect" to a Repug asshole that

deserves no respect! Have to add "We report, you decide"

[LSdemocrat]

50. The word "Dude"

[AlFrankenFan]

51. "President George W. Bush"

and while we're at it we might as well remove him from the White House :D

[Iris]

52. Skillsets

What the hell is the difference between skills and skillsets?

I hate corporate speak.

I also hate the misuse of "myself" which seems to have been born from corporate speak.

[Hoping4Change]

53. Yuck thanx for reminding me about corporate speak, i hate

what they have done to the idea of teams. Everybody being part of a team is bullturd. The real meaning of anything associated with the word is 'shut up, do your job and don't ask questions.'

[SPQR]

54. Republican party

.

[hrhdeb]

55. "nucular"

I cringe every time I hear dubya say it. It's n-u-c-l-e-a-r!

deb

http://www.votewhileyoustillcan.com

[SonofMass]

56. But it should be a 'happy occasion'!

[mongo]

57. <blank> addiction

When used with anything that is not a drug which creates a chemical dependency.

Porn addiction
Shopping addiction
sex addiction
marijuanna addiction

[JackDragna]

58. "Closure."

Psychologists have demonstrated that individual events don't help people get over traumatic happenings in their lives. People may get temporary mental relief from events they see as "closing," but there's no real long-term benefit. I consider the concept to be a production of people becoming addled by television and movies, thinking their own emotional states have these nice, tidy beginnings and endings. It's also part of society's continued attempt to make useless psychobabble meaningful to itself, as if everyone wants to be their own quack self-help author. There is no closure, folks.