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

"put on your big boy pants" told to an adult to say they are acting immaturely

"___________________on steroids" . It's a lazy way of one thing is worse or greater than another.

I’ve got tons of friends

We watched tons of movies

Showrunner

"Breaks his/her silence" is stupid. It gives oversized importance to everything.

Let's stick a pin in that.

For a while there epic was gaining on awesome, though I think use of both words lately has abated.

[quote]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".

A likely story, R61. If your life were all that consuming you would not be enough of a DL regular to be annoyed by "oh dear".

R62 is right that "Oh dear" is meant to be amusingly schoolmarmish, but there's a serious side to it as well. "I do not have time to make sure my communications with you are correct" is a loud way of saying "You are far less important than everything else in my life and should be grateful I am sparing precious seconds to be in yours at all." Be assured that your loved ones read it that way when you do it to them. Everyone understands there's the occasional time you get caught out, but to make a habit of not proofreading your messages is rude, especially if you are on a machine that you know autocorrects.

There are also a lot of posters on the DL who genuinely do not know the correct grammar and spelling of some of the more recondite or often confused expressions, and the corrections are there so that those with ears to hear can learn something. We do understand that most young people are too busy networking or photographing their dinner to learn, but we like to serve the outliers.

[quote] 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".

You are so incredibly insanely busy, and yet somehow you have the time to post on Datalounge?

Oh, [italic]Mary.[/italic]

At R153, thumbnail of YouTube video, top right corner says: “Data Lounge.”

I see what you did there.

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

I imagine you hear that an awful lot.

“Just to piggyback off of what so-and-so said…”

R165 I do. At my job there’s some kids I manage who are about18-23 and they say it quite a bit.

Another one is “I’m weak.” You say something funny and they reply, “I’m weak”. That one doesn’t bother me so much, but it is something I hear about once a day.

How revolting.

R167 - Why are putting up with condescending shit from 18-23 year old co-workers?

It’s all good.

If everything is good then nothing is bad, and if nothing is bad then nothing is good.

R105, I agree. It's better to say "Please accept my sympathy."

All the variations of "it's just my opinion", imo, imho! I fucking hate these phrases. Sounds very frauish. Like some poor girl desperate for everyone to like her. There is never any acceptable time to say in my opinion unless you are GOD. It is a given that everything we all say or claim is "just my opinion".

"If you will."

If you will what, dammit?!

R7 You got this should be applied to a job interview or golf match. Not fighting cancer.

Meghan Markle claims...

"tragic death" -- overused to the point of being, well, pointless. You even hear it for an 87 year-old lifetime smoker.

No one over 80 should be labeled a tragic death, unless they were raped and killed by a serial killer. In the words of V-- they lived, they saw, they took up space. Rest in power.

if I hear 'may his memory be a blessing' one more time

also, 'agency' anytime it's not used as 'talent agency'

everything happens for a reason (yeah, a BAD shitty reason)

It's meant to be

It is what it is (no shit and it isn't what it isn't)

R178, "may his memory be [for] a blessing" is mostly just used by Jews as it's a translation of the Hebrew zichrono livracha. Other Hebrew versions exist depending on the sex and number of the deceased.

R179, do you know why zichrono livracha is abbreviated with a double quote: z”l?

R180, when you form acronyms in Hebrew, you usually just write the first letter of each word, no dots, but with " between the last two letters. The phrase LGBT is להט"ב, for example. Anyway, some people bring that habit into English too, so that ז"ל becomes Z"L. I hope that makes sense!

It does. Thank you, mazel tov.

The term "sex positive", just admit that you're a rancid slut and don't try to get fancy.

Lol I love your direct style r183!

All hail r179

that's nice to know about the origins of 'may his memory be for a blessing' but it still drives me nuts.

I don't want to live with my late friend's memory blessing or not; I want him here; he's not. Never will be. There's just one scenario that reunites us; IF you even believe in an afterlife.

I've spent most of my life alone and my one great pal is gone. So, yeah, that phrase annoys me.

As someone who wholly rejects the absurd notion of an afterlife, it pisses me off when people die and say they are back with their family or loved ones. Nope. They are dead and gone. They are not partying up in the sky. Although I would love to see fat Elvis welcoming his newly skinny drugged up daughter. He'd be fat and on the toilet welcoming his baby girl.

Anyone who calls a song a "bop" deserves to have drumsticks run through both ears.

R183 Exactly yo. Just own your sins.

R187 You must be a blast at parties. There is an afterlife you bleak dolt.

R188 or who says slaps. As in ‘this bop slaps’

Or when something ‘hits different’. I’m tired of that expression.

R190 Nope. Never has and never will.

“Understood the assignment”

It was cute the first time I heard it, but when everyone starts saying it, it gets old quickly.

[quote]"If you will..."

[quote]If you will da** what?

[quote]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.

No, R100. It was Monday Night Football. Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford. Cosell said it often, but it was "Faultless Frank" (as Cosell derisively called him) who ran that shit into the ground. Every week for 3+ hours, with an audience of many MILLIONS. For almost two decades.

Prior to that you'd only hear college professors and field news reporters and analysts who regularly said it.

Frank Gifford, always insecure about his intellect relative to Cosell, thought it made him sound erudite.

It didn't.

Rest in Power

Lost the plot

can't get my head around

“Mind blowing” especially when an exploding hand gesture is used in conjunction with said phrase.

‘Said’ like r197 used it. That annoys me.

Using “like” instead of “as” as r198 has just done.

My poor grammar aside (I forgot to add ‘how’), the sentiment is the same. I don’t like when people use said as r197 has done. Don’t take it personally, r197, I’m sure you’re cool!

R193 agree with you 1000%. It's soon overused now. It's actually makes me want to violent when I hear, that's how annoying. My boyfriend used it last night during the superbowl.

"Shelter in place" and "secure in place" and the rest of the nuclear bomb drill phrases for stay the fuck where you are.

"Active shooter." A shooter is by definition active. "Emergency officials have responded to reports of a man shooting..." doesn't somehow needs this annoying shorthand dispatcher term.

Wait for it.

R203 especially when I’m waiting on him to cum

"do the lez-lez"

"Oh, dear!"

(Take a hint and get a life, Queenola!)

[quote]"If you will."

[quote]If you will what, dammit?!

If you will (pardon or accept) my turn of phrase; or permit me some latitude in my example.

If you please, mi’lady.

We are Siamese if you please

The problem with the "If you will." thingy is that most people do not use it in the way that was suggested a few moments ago.

But rather, it's usually just a garbage phrase dropped in and provided without any connecting context.