Phrases that annoy you

You got this!

Isn't "burn in hell" an alternative?

Back in the day

Still early days

Later days

I love the opening of Six Feet Under....I'm more into the song rather than the saying (but I wouldn't say it annoys me.

But for me, We will get through this - bitch, you know it is not we, it is only me!

"You got this!"

Totally agree with that one. As my cousin was dying from the cancer that riddled his body, people kept posting on Facebook "You got this!" No, he didn't. It got him.

^ I'm careful now about what I say in those situations. I repeatedly told a friend that his husband would be okay (suffering from COVID in the hospital). Unfortunately, he died.

I want to be able to give hope but not false hope (even though I thought he would be fine....).

R6, I'm fine with the saying if you actually mean it. But in my cousin's case, it was clear he was headed toward death within days or weeks. It just rang so hollow for people to say "you got this!"

[quote]There's an alternative?

You'll find out, cunt.

He's Satan's poke toy now.

Let's do this.

Hear me out.

Pick your brain.

Let’s roll.

Living my best life.

R7, at that point, it's cruel...

R8, what does that even mean?

R14 has made the mistake of attempting to read DL without an eldergay dictionary.

My folks taught me to bang on the radiator with my spoon.

I *hate* "you do you". It's condescending and what fuck else am I gonna do?? Certainly not YOU!

R17 you do you.

"Work smarter not harder" - this can mean a few things, all annoying. It could be someone calling you a dumbass. If you deserve that, fine. But most don't.

What is also usually means is, "I don't have time to problem solve this situation for you and/or no ideas, so good luck and G*d bless. You're fucked. Thoughts and prayers!"

"Speaks to" as in "this speaks to..." It sounds awkward and inelegant.

"You do you"

"Not that deep"

"Rest in power"

"Opportunity to shine"

"Stretch goal"

"All hands on deck"

"Divide and conquer"

The last four primarily as work manager-speak.

[quote]R17 you do you

Thanks!! You do hari kari! 🤗

"Keep them in your Thoughts and Prayers"

"No Problem"

Lester Holt --> "... (reporter) has late details."

Late details?!

She found agency to fight back

R23 Or variations of "sending good thoughts/prayers" to people in financial need. Send them a little money or STFU, geez.

I automatically deduct 40 IQ points from anyone who says any form of “love on.”

"My preferred pronouns are..."

[quote]"Not that deep"

Why I never heard this in all my life.

R17, you’re cute as hell.

You really are!

Easiest decision in the history of decisions.

"Ooey gooey" and "Crispy crunchy"

R17, condescending is kind of the point of it.

Dear.

R34 "You do you" always sounded like childish masturbatory narcissism to me.

"Have a blessed day."

"President Donald Trump"

Keep being you

That means keep being a whore and take our medicine

Rest in Piece

Let's unpack this

It is what it is

I'd like to speak to the manager

"That's not okay." Used in a sentence, "I could tell he was undressing me with his eyes and that's not okay!" It sounds childish and hysterical. Also, "the N-word." I don't want people to say the actual word, but how about racial slur? Everyone would understand what was said. It's how adults speak to little kids who say a swear word or something. "Now, Johnny (who just said ass), we don't use the A-word; we say behind." It's especially ridiculous when you read it in a news article, or an anchor says it.

"I am reclaiming my ... " whatever that is.

"I said all of that to say _____."

Should have just been concise from the start!

I'm a little glad when I hear someone use those bs phrases like "you got this" and "agency". I immediately know that I don't like that person, can't hang out with them and will do everything I can to avoid them in the future. It helps weed out the assholes in this world. I don't give second chances.

Whenever I hear "thoughts and prayers" I think of the datalounger whose comment revealed the real truth underlying the platitude. (The first line was the thread title):

Terrified Utah hiker films cougar stalking him

If he's hot then someone save him! If he's ugly then thoughts and prayers.

R47 If he's ugly, who cares?

Read for filth.

Wtf??

Although I have used this phrase as well, one that I find particularly irksome and pointless is, "It is what it is."

She's the cuntiest cunt who ever cunted.

He’s resting comfortably

You need to get out of your

Comfort Zone

Hot 🥵 under the collar

Macaroni and Cheese 🧀- notice I say it properly

is a COMFORT FOOD

Yas Kween!

Circle back to

Reach out and circle back

Teamwork makes the dream work.

I imagine a group of co-workers killing the person who says it so the phrase becomes true.

2 in the ass is better than 2 in the bush…. Oh wait. I like that phrase.

Oh, dear as in the DL meme.

How lovely for you, you get to leisurely sit on your wide ass, lazily rolling your pencil in your hand, while perusing DL with your head tilted to the side. Some of us are posting while busy living our lives and do not have time to make sure spelling and grammar are correct before hitting "post". Also, some of us often fall victim to dreaded autocorrect and do not realize the mistake- which is quite out of our control- until one of you self-important cunts type "Oh, dear!". Even I am not that picky!

You take it way too seriously, r61.

Remember, this site is based and founded on pointless bitchery. You have to read it as a schoolmarm off in the corner with her shawl and glasses with the chain, tsk tsk-ing. I find it hilarious.

I also look at it as an opportunity to learn as I’ve been taught many things by getting an “oh, dear!”

[quote]some of us often fall victim to dreaded autocorrect and do not realize the mistake- which is quite out of our control

Autocorrect isn't out of your control at all. Just turn it off.

“I appreciate you” instead of just “thank you.”

Honestly, I kind of like that. It’s relatively new.

"Shut the fuck up!" I heard it all through my childhood, schooling and now at work.

I can speak "to" that topic.

There there

"Pussy Cow!"

Color me (fill in the blank)

There’s no there there

[quote]There's an alternative?

I'll see to it you learn the answer to that question, OP.

Soon.

I was today years old when I found out -fill in the blank.

Oooh that one annoys me too, R73. It was amusing the first or second time. But now make it stop.

"Thoughts & Prayers™".

Ludacris. Especially from the braindead christians.

They might as well just say - "we don't give a fuck so just go and fuck yourself".

At least be honest.

Bone broth. Those two words together make me gag. When did people stop saying soup?

“Your pussy stinks!”

Never once in my lifetime have I heard anyone say "bone broth" R76.

Be Best

I haven’t either, r78.

“Bone broth”

Bone broth is a specific thing, though, not just soup or even just broth.

My contribution was sparked by the Lester Holt one above. It's started to get on my nerves that news writers always say, "[So and so] did not immediately respond to a request for comment." It sounds imperious, and what purpose does "immediate" serve, anyway? It's fine without it. It should be understood that they mean "before we printed this story. "

Bone broth is what the "mouthfeel" people say instead of chicken broth or chicken stock etc. What they mean is stock.

That said

This may be of interest.

"Having said that..." No one seems to truly use it properly.

"As a _____," I've also ___

Example: As a doctor, I've also noticed that some cars are unsafe.

As someone who has traveled, I can assure I know more than you about airports.

"It's Britney, bitch"

Sorry for your loss

[quote] Ludacris. Especially from the braindead christians.

Oh dear

I thought "bone broth" was a nice way to say sucking cock.

With all due respect.....

It's a nice way of saying "I can't cook".

My heart ❤️ goes out to you.

Be that as it may

My truth.

"Love yourself." It's stupid and egomaniacal. I don't "love myself", but I take care of and respect myself.

"My guy"

"Husbear"

"My man"

My #1 is "have a blessed day" especially when uttered by retail workers. BITCH, YOU DON'T GIVE A FAT RAT'S ASS IF I HAVE A BLESSED DAY".

"If you will..."

If you will da** what?

Thank you Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel for helping to propagate that nonentity of a phrase into the general lexicon about 15 years ago. He is the foremost example that comes to mind from the era of when that worthless bit of nothingness was pushed into more widespread use.

Dat’s da suck job!

'You need to...¨

This always reads as a scold to me. Unless it's properly a warning or command, it'ß almost always the wrong way to say something:

WRONG: 'You need to wait to put your things on the check out counter until I finish with this lady." (Here PLEASE is the correct substitute for YOU NEED TO.)

CORRECT: 'You need to step back. Stick your finger in my face one more time and I will lay you down like a sack of dirt.' (Well, okay then.)

My uppity former Chief Management Analyst would make me cringe with all her clichéd phrases:

"Please be mindful of..."

"It would behoove you to..."

"Let's take this offline."

"Let's circle back on that."

"Let's table this for the next meeting."

Just be yourself. Terrible advice. What if yourself sucks?

“Sorry for your loss.” It’s so cold and impersonal.

Sorry your fat n ugly wife died

Hee hee

Ass eaters anonymous

Ugh. Can you imagine listening to r107's fifth step?

Sexual “preference.”

It’s not a preference, it’s an orientation. How many times do we have to tell you people?

Christ.

Be that as it may

At the end of the day...

Good god some people use it in every sentence.

"It's difficult but at the end of day it has to get done. I'm trying but at the end of the day it's whether it works or not. But what matters at the end of the day.....

At the end of the day, R111 thought he needed to explain "at the end of the day."

‘Change the narrative’ has gotten so overused in the past couple of years I can’t stand it anymore.

"Would you like fries with that?"

Bitch, look at me. I haven't seen or felt my toes in years. YES, obviously YES!

Decolonize [insert subject area].

No worries 😉

Thoughts and prayers.

“Begs the question”, because it’s so often incorrectly used to mean “raises the question” that the incorrect usage is now being accepted as a correct usage.

Dumb people are dumb because they’re dumb.

If what you did, r118, was "beg the question," I can see how the alternate usage took over.

Just the other day in a NY Times headline I saw “begs the question” being used to mean “raises the question.” WTF is wrong with people??

Please do not hesitate as in please do not hesitate to contact us. Now, should I or should I not contact them? I'm hesitating. Please.

[quote] “Begs the question”, because it’s so often incorrectly used to mean “raises the question” that the incorrect usage is now being accepted as a correct usage.

This begs the question: what DOES it mean then?

R121 is far reaching

I hate when people say “I cannot with you” or ‘I can’t even”.

Maybe ask R119, R122. They don’t seem to like my example, so they likely have a better one.

I think the point is folks shouldn’t use this phrase because 1) they think it means something else and 2) they likely don’t often encounter, or can’t identify, the logical fallacy it’s meant to describe.

The phrase, and some words, develop “new” definitions due to chronic misuse, a little sad. But maybe that’s the way of the word.

[quote]I think the point is folks shouldn’t use this phrase because 1) they think it means something else and 2) they likely don’t often encounter, or can’t identify, the logical fallacy it’s meant to describe.

I'll take option 2. I don't think I have ever heard "begs the question" used in any other way than the one against which you rail, except when it pops up like this in a Datalounge thread. And the examples given tend to be meaningless to me, because when would I ever say, or even think, something like "dumb people are dumb because they’re dumb," let alone analyze it in terms of question begging?

I guess I'm just another dumb person.

I don’t disagree R126.

I gave a simplistic example of the logical fallacy (which folks can’t usually identify by name, but know one when they see one), but if you can replace “begs the question” in a sentence with the phrase “raises the question” and not change the meaning of the sentence, you can be pretty sure it’s being used in the way not originally intended.

Oh wait R126, I wasn’t agreeing you were another dumb person, but with the part about examples and analyzing and whatnot.

Oh, thank you, r128. I figured you were talking about the examples and what not.

Starting a response with ‘I mean…’

For example, you’re asked your favorite color and you reply, “I mean, it’s blue.”

Drop the I mean. It’s pointless.

"You know what I'm saying?" after every other sentence.

"No worries"

[quote] [So and so] did not immediately respond to a request for comment." It sounds imperious, and what purpose does "immediate" serve, anyway?

IMO, it means that the reporter emailed or left a voice mail for someone, but didn’t give them much time to respond before the reporter published his/her story.

The opposite would be: “X did not respond to repeated requests for comment over the last 30 days.”

Going forward

“It’s been a minute” for “It’s been awhile.”

"Having said that..." is also often misused.

[quote] “Sorry for your loss.” It’s so cold and impersonal.

Yes, r105, and it’s also lazy repetition of sub-par tv series speech. Nobody offers condolences any more, they’re just sorry for someone’s loss.

^ Isn't that what the police and the military say? Or is it just in movies.

^ It’s movies and lazy TV-speak, and it’s now completely replaced “My condolences”.

[quote]“It’s been a minute” for “It’s been awhile.”

Saying awhile when someone means a while.

I will normally say "may his/her soul rest in peace".

Seems a little more heartfelt.

May your legs grow old and withered like an olive branch.

"To be honest..."

I hate it when people start every sentence with “yeah.” Especially the sentence “yeah, no.”

Agree r144. I hate that.

Anyway

Not a phrase, but I don’t like when adults say “icky” or “tummy” unless they’re talking to a kid.

To be fair…

Adulting . For example, adulting is hard.

Or ‘I can’t adult today’

So stupid

To answer OP's question, yes, the phrase (a phrase I'm not defending) implies reference to this vale of tears and the person's freedom from earthly troubles, especially if they had a hard life. Thus, may their weary soul now rest in peace rather than wandering the earth seeking justice. Or reliving past traumas or whatever. Y'know, as they do.

performative

“Toxic” this and that.

"Telling stories" with data, presentations, etc in the workplace. PLEASE stop saying that shit