I am opposed to ragingly disliking people for trivial reasons,

[LaraMN]

but there is a girl in one of my classes this semester who inserts the phrase "per se" into every other effing thing she says.
"If I wanted to, per se, go to the store..." "Are there going to be a lot of questions, per se, on the quizzes?" "There aren't very many people who, per se, know about the environment and stuff..."

AUGHHH!

Every time she says it, I want to jump over my desk and smack her with my textbook. Binder-side.

I don't why it bothers me so much- maybe it's also because she's extremely dumb and equally loud.

Twelve more weeks... Twelve more weeks...
per se...


:P

[Kutjara]

1. That would drive me nuts.

She obviously heard the term and thought it sounded "smart," so she's just using it wherever she thinks "smart" needs to go. I admire your restrain in merely wanting to brain her with a book.

[LaraMN]

3. It's just one of those phrases you only throw in occasionally.

She uses it like it's "the".

I made the tragic mistake of sitting next to her the first day of class. We had to interview each other and introduce one another to the class. After our ten-minute interview time, we had to speak and she couldn't tell the class anything about me except my first name and my major, because she had talked about herself the ENTIRE time.

[Kutjara]

16. I feel sorry for the self obsessed.

It must be awful to live in a world where reality keeps trying to intrude on one's own sense of awesomeness. I mean, how can they concentrate on what truly matters (themselves) when other people simply refuse to stick to the script and insist on behaving as if they have identities of their own?

[PeaceNikki]

2. I have a co-worker who does that with "utilize"

He uses utilize every time he should use "use" and I want to cockpunch him EVERY time. x(

[Zavulon]

4. Don't ever ride the DC Metro, Nikki.

Announced at every stop by every train operator: "Please utilize all doors."

Leaving aside how stupid that sounds and how often we riders hear it, how the fuck am I supposed to use more than one at a time? :)

[PeaceNikki]

6. I just queried a database in which he tracks issues

SELECT *
from CallTracking
WHERE USR_ID = 'moron'
AND (Problem like '%utilize%' or Solution like '%utilize%')


TWO-HUNDRED and THIRTY-SEVEN results this year. x(

I HATE him!

[madinmaryland]

12. On the green line they say, "Please use all doors" and "move to the center

of the train".

Hmm. I'll have to check that when I go into dc next tuesday.

You're from Laurel?? I'm in Columbia!

:hi:

[Zavulon]

20. Hi, neighbor!

Laurel's where my apartment is and my address for tax purposes, but I spend most of my time at my girlfriend's place in Crystal City (actually, Pentagon City is the closest stop). It cuts my commute by two thirds, lets me spend more time with her, and her place is nicer than mine anyway.

My Laurel apartment is very close to the corner of 198 and Route 1.

I hear the "utilize" on the Red, Yellow and Blue lines (sometimes Orange as well, when it runs along with Blue and I need one of those stops). I haven't taken the Green line in ages.

[Kutjara]

18. "Utilize" is on my list, right next to "situation."

Some folks seem to think that adding "situation" to the end of a phrase makes it seem more urgent and important. For them, a mere emergency isn't urgent enough. It's got to be an "emergency situation."

[mainegreen]

21. Please utilize the ax in event of an alarming emergency situation event.

[Zavulon]

5. You know who I ragingly dislike?

That singing dickhead in the freecreditreport.com commercials. Never met him, and don't care - he's an asshole.

[PeaceNikki]

7. At least you can mute him.

[Crazy Dave]

8. His dream girl gotta nice butt though

And she works hard doing laundry while he and his buddies sit on their asses playing music

[insanity]

11. He lipsyncs

and I hate those commercials.

As far as annoying classmates I think I might have had the worst:

In my European politics class last term there was this 62 year old man who never stopped talking (and being wrong). He would raise his hand furiously until my prof had no choice to call on him then he would start every sentence with, "You see." Usually he would trail on and on about how all the problems in Europe related to the reformation. When he was done talking the prof looked at him and said, "No, I don't think that's right." One time he brought the whole class a hand-out.

My favorite moment was when he called Obama, "That black fellow"

[madinmaryland]

14. Any moran that inserts "like" and "you know" in a sentence.

"Like, you know..."

NO I DON'T KNOW, YOU MORAN!! STFU!!1!! Moran!!!!

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Sounds like she's using it in place of "like" to sound like less of a moron.

Fail.

[Crazy Dave]

10. The "neither here nor there" phrase...

...said in every sentence by one dipshit I know makes me want to borrow your textbook.

Is it really thick, hardcover?

[Redstone]

13. Go ahead and hit her. It's a perfectly appropriate response.

Redstone

[VenusRising]

15. I'd end up being a smart ass about it.

"That word. You keep using it. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[hippywife]

22. My reaction exactly!

She's using it totally inappropriately. Sort of like the woman I used to work with who used to use wrong words while mixing her metaphors. Instead of "having to much on her plate" or "tons of work running the gamut from A to B" she used to tell our customers, on a regular basis, that she had too much on her gambit. :rofl:

But then this is the same lady who thought she had a virus in her mouse because she'd get the hourglass for a very long time when she clicked on something.

How's the weather in Klumbus? :hi:

[VenusRising]

23. It's been absolutey lovely here.

Now that we've had power back for 5 days, we're very happy. :bounce:


And....Too much on her gambit? :wtf: is that?

:rofl:

:hi::hug:

[ZombieNixon]

17. "If I wanted to, by itself, go to the store..."

"Are there going to be a lot of questions, by themselves, on the quizzes?"

I use per se occasionally, but I know what it means, unlike your classmate, apparently. :eyes:

[Iggo]

19. Roll up a single piece of paper...

...and beat her repeatedly with it as hard as you can.

It doesn't hurt her, and you'll feel a lot better.

[Jamastiene]

24. Usually when someone OVERuses words or phrases like that,

it means that's about all they know. They are usually vacuous dipshits. Best stay as far away from them as possible...

or do like I do and watch them closely for the moment they trip or do something really stupid, then laugh as loud as you possibly can and really carry on about it...assuming they didn't break anything or really get hurt. That backfired on me one time. I was still laughing then saw the stretcher. Oops! I was an ass in high school. By college, I was all grown up, but still had my private jokes. People STILL think I'm crazy for laughing at the damnedest times. I should carry a copy of Catcher in the Rye around with me. :evilgrin:

[Fleshdancer]

25. I hate her already

That would drive me up the wall!

[billyoc]

26. That's the craziest thing I ever heard!

Everyone knows the corners of the book on the non-binder side are sharper, dummy.

:rofl:

[flvegan]

27. What, per se, upsets you about this phrase?

:shrug:

[lizerdbits]

28. I had a coworker right out of college

who always used the phrase 'in the same token' when it was not appropriate. Maybe people think they sound smart when they use certain phrases even though they sound like idiots since they are used incorrectly. :shrug:

[RubyDuby in GA]

29. Is she from South Carolina?

Didn't miss teen SC use that in her answer that makes her look like a genius compared to Sarah Palin?