Terms you never want to hear again after January

[Sydnie]

I was listening to the news this morning and heard them refer to "food insecure" to mean that people are hungry and unable to feed their families enough nutrition to remain healthy.

Let's call an arm and arm, shall we?

They were referring to HUNGRY PEOPLE! Mothers, Fathers, and children who are HUNGRY or at the very least eating way too much cheap processed food to actually be meeting the nutritional requirements for their age groups.


After January, I want real words used again for things like this. I don't want to hear that people are food insecure. I want to hear about people that are hungry and what we as a country plan to do about it. Food insecure sounds like they have a phobia about their food (as in "I'm insecure about where this fruit was grown and how it was handled once it was picked"), not someone that is HUNGRY!

What terms do you want to see 86'd for more honest and too the point discussions after January?

[leftchick]

1. Homeland Security

what a blatant fascist term that needs to be wiped off every government website,

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. This gets my vote!

[derby378]

9. Boom, baby!

The entire department can go drown itself in the Mississippi River, once FEMA is separated from it.

[Sydnie]

10. I can get behind that one as well

That term is repugnant to me as well.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. It's offensive!

x(

[Lost4words]

18. It is a blatant fascist term.

to keep it would be a mistake!

[babylonsister]

2. 'Overperforming'. WTH does that mean anyway?

This term was used during the GE and drove me nuts.

[Sydnie]

16. I know

They made it sound like it was a bad thing not a remarkable thing.

We are so used to underperforming (know as misunderestimate for the last 8 years) that they don't know how to react when something is actually good anymore.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Perhaps we could change it to "eating challenged."

:think:

[Chorophyll]

5. "Bailout."

Unless the people being bailed out are the hungry people in the OP.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. "No Child Left Behind"

[leftchick]

11. that is a great one to nix!

along with the 'clear skies initiative'. I mean wtf? They really believe we are stupid.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Amen!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[gratuitous]

7. "I unnderstan'" or "The American people unnerstan'"

Especially when used as a substitute for "I don't wanna talk about that issue or make any substantive comments that would betray my breath-taking lack of comprehension where that issue is concerned, so I'll just mouth this meaningless phrase, secure in the knowledge that none of you sheep will dare to ask just what it is that I understand."

[Odin2005]

8. "we're spreading Freedom in Iraq"...

[ixion]

12. "the War on {FILL IN THE BLANK}"

this is a phrase meme that would be best purged from the collective dialog.

[Lost4words]

14. anything HOMELAND!

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. Nukular.

[unpossibles]

25. I was thinking the same thing. nt

[ginnyinWI]

17. Every Bushism he ever uttered.

I want no trace left over from the worst president in U.S. history to survive him. I do NOT think any of them are cute.

[Sydnie]

20. Plus, he has ruined terms of endearment for ever for everyone

No more nicknames, ever! Turd blossom, Stretch, Brownie ... no more.

[Lost4words]

19. Bush & In Good Health

8643

[ginnyinWI]

24. which was actually a subtler way to be a bully.

He couldn't just beat them up on the playground so he had to call names.

[Greyhound]

21. The whole litany of doublespeak that has been so prevalent.

Deleted list, it's just too depressing.

Can we just get a do-over for the last 30 years?

[Mari333]

22. 'misunderestimated' 'cautiously optimistic' n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

23. Are you sure the two are synonyms?

I suspect that "food insecure" actually covers not just people who are going hungry, but people who are not currently going hungry but are at risk of doing so in the future.

Usually, what sounds like meaningless technical jargon to the layman actually has a specific meaning behind it.

[Sydnie]

28. Yes, it means HUNGRY

The newscaster felt the term was ambiguous enough to define it each time he read the report. Even he knew the term was used to sugar coat the actual meaning.

The term was used by this administration in substitute for poverty and hunger studies done in the last few years. As with most things with this administration, they couldn't just say "hunger", they had to hide it behind some created title so that it could be made more palatable by the masses.

It's not a new term from this administration just not an honest term for any administration to use.

[JitterbugPerfume]

26. mom,,I just got laid off

I am sick to death of hearng that one.

[Historic NY]

27. President Bush.

former President Bush.

[Sydnie]

29. Let's see what the evening crew thinks should be cast to the "things that shouldn't be spoken"

dungeon too, shall we?

shameless kick because I'm still ticked off at this term!

[WildEyedLiberal]

31. Team of Rivals

God, I'm sorry, I am already sick of this meme, especially since it's code for "Obama should/will listen to all the rightwingers."

[kiva]

33. You beat me! God, please let this die.

[name not needed]

32. "Family Values"

aka, fuck everyone that isn't white, straight, and protestant.

[sarcasmo]

34. The company is to big to fail.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. I vote for IED...

call it what it is, a roadside bomb. That and "insurgent".

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. Makin' good progress!

Yurghhhh

[upi402]

37. Yeah,I'm done with the PC crap where you fix problems with words

That's such BS. You fix problems with laws and money. The food insecure are collateral damage from Republican Newkyewlerrr economic policies.