Annoying (to me) Phrases

[KipNoxzema]

When talking about anything that is/was "good":

Insane!
Brilliant!
Amazing!

And the one that really gets me going:

Sick!

That cheeseburger was so good it was "insane"? Really?

No, that new song from (insert band here) is not brilliant, amazing, or sick. Brilliant goes to the guy who figured out we are on a planet orbiting the Sun. Amazing goes to Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong. And if you're sick, I advise you to take two aspirin and lay down.

[OldSaw]

When talking about anything that is/was "good":

Insane!
Brilliant!
Amazing!

And the one that really gets me going:

Sick!

That cheeseburger was so good it was "insane"? Really?

No, that new song from (insert band here) is not brilliant, amazing, or sick. Brilliant goes to the guy who figured out we are on a planet orbiting the Sun. Amazing goes to Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong. And if you're sick, I advise you to take two aspirin and lay down.

Sick is definitely getting pretty sick.

[Wcoppage]

"All you have to do"
"All I'm saying"

[Saturn]

"Per se" and "begs the question" annoy me because they're almost always used incorrectly. And even when they're used correctly, they rarely add anything to the sentence.

Also "if you will" and "quote unquote".

[Argonaut]

When at a hardware store or a supply house and ask for a specific tool or part, and the counter person asks "what are you trying to do?". It insinuates that I have no idea of what I'm doing and he better check to make sure.

[dreaded_rust]

When at a hardware store or a supply house and ask for a specific tool or part, and the counter person asks "what are you trying to do?". It insinuates that I have no idea of what I'm doing and he better check to make sure.

+1

[RaiserLiebe]

Stupid expressions at work...play Bull-Puckey Bingo at meetings!

http://www.udmercy.edu/crna/agm/bpbingo.htm
Cheers!

[DamnFineBob]

I can't stand when people end every single sentence with "You know?"

Why, yes, I DO know because you just told me! You know?

[oakeshott]

The phrase that drives me crazy, and no one else as far as I can tell, is "behind my back". As in "Why did you buy that 200 dollar shaving brush 'behind my back?'"

How do you do anything behind a back? It only has one side and that's the front. The saying just makes no sense. It would actually make sense to say "When did you sneak the 7 jars of Martin de Candre soaps into the house 'in front of my back?'"

And, wit' all doo respekt, no one on this board is taking the F word away from me. Over used? yes. Inappropriately used? Absolutely. Vulgar as well as imprecise? Just as you say. It is also indispensable with the exact right amount of mouth feel required for an expletive. If what we think of as dirty words were classified the way french wines are classified, then F*k would be a first growth. (I'm thinking Latour.) There is little else in the English language so expressive and irreplaceable as this word used properly.

Important caveat: I have never used it in front of my mother who can still generate enough leverage up from her calfs, through her replacement hip and out a distinguished right cross to send me down for the count of ten. Not a word she would ever countenance.

just sayin'.

[welshfellow]

When I pick up my order at the Mcdonolds drive though
they always say "have a good one" Dam that really Bleep bleep bleeps me
Smithy