What word or phrase drives you crazy?

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How about:

You go, girl!

HUH?

Or how about when you thank your waiter/waitress for bringing your food and they say, "No problem."

Kudos something about that word just sets my cringe-o-metre running.

-- Christine (chris@gta.igs.net), January 20, 2000

Answers

Think about it:

If anyone reading this uses this phrase, please stop. It is fucking insulting. I say this as someone who thinks like Rainman on fucking crack. Whatever it is, I've thought about it upside down and five different ways by dogsled. You have a take on it I may need to hear? Well, I most probably do. Just don't fucking tell me to think about it.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 20, 2000.


My boss when she says [to me or anyone else], "...for your edification,...". It makes me want to do violent things and oddly enough my "knee-jerk" reaction has become walking away pretending not to have heard her.

-- Krystyna (insidevelvett@usa.net), January 20, 2000.

Okay, it's kind of an obvious one but, "Is it cold enough for ya?"

Why do people say that? Is there just nothing else floating around in their brains?

-- Christine (chris@mail.gta.igs.net), January 20, 2000.


The simple phrase....."morning", said with the sincerity of a door knob usuallly erks me.

-- erica (ericam@erksnerks.com), January 21, 2000.

Anyone who uses the phrase 'by dogsled' to substantiate, metaphorically or not, the process of mere thought should be served up as lunch to my ten Alaskan huskies whose attitude and work ethic have nothing to do with how anybody thinks except me. Unless you have thought by dogsled, don't say that you have.

-- Michael (meaford@hotmail.com), January 21, 2000.


When someone says "Okay, whatever you say" without a glance. That fucking want to beat someone in the head and kick them in the fucking ass.

-- Venus (minnie0215@yahoo.com), January 22, 2000.

When someone says "Okay, whatever you say" without a glance. That fucking want to beat someone in the head and kick them in the fucking ass. Do I sound passionately angry about this? Yes, I am.

-- Venus (minnie0215@yahoo.com), January 22, 2000.

Anyone who uses the phrase 'by dogsled' to substantiate, metaphorically or not, the process of mere thought should be served up as lunch to my ten Alaskan huskies whose attitude and work ethic have nothing to do with how anybody thinks except me.

Yeah, and if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their asses when they took a hop.

Unless you have thought by dogsled, don't say that you have.

Ah, you must be my encounter with the man who never has to speak by analogy or metaphore! You say the word "water" and cease to be thirsty. You point at the moon, and it suddenly delivers itself to your hand. Or do you turn into the moon itself? I can only imagine. What is missing from one so great as you, that you condescend to contradict one who is so contemptible as to use an analogy?

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 22, 2000.


To Mr. Leung,

Thank you for your reply. It was a little more enlightening than your first entry, and certainly better in its composition. However, I believe there is no 'e' at the end of metaphor...

To clarify my intent, as a dog owner, which you may or may not be, and as someone who is interested in the power of the written word, with which I expect you concur, I found (Look! A metaphor! They're everywhere!) your first posting to be poorly written and in bad taste. Alluding to dogsledding only made it worse in my mind. I was sure you could do much better than that, and you have done it.

I apologise for firing off (Another one, dear me...) a hasty response to your attack on the poor people who ask you to think about things, but after reading what you obviously wanted us to read, I would have been first in line to defend the oppressed, and direct those very words to you.

-- Michael (meaford@hotmail.com), January 25, 2000.


I apologise for firing off ... a hasty response to your attack on the poor people who ask you to think about things,

I don't know whose post you are refering to, but you certainly aren't refering to any of mine. No request can be inferred from the words: think about it. I have attacked no one who has asked anything of me.

but after reading what you obviously wanted us to read, I would have been first in line to defend the oppressed, and direct those very words to you.

Nice try. I believe my reply above applies to this also.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 25, 2000.



Sir, you have the choice of persisting to ascribe to me that which has angered you, or you can seek to determine the deficiency in your life that angers you to behave in such an unfair fashion toward me. Media and advertising paint pictures of masculinity, femininity, patriotism, etc., that we may choose to live by, most of the time by giving up aspects of ourselves that make us individuals.

If that is what is indeed happening, you can continue this aberration against me (as far as I can tell, I can hold my own for a while), or you can accept that the life of a whole human being means accepting needs in ourselves we fear others may be repulsed by, and address those needs instead. If that isn't what is going on in your head, hey... it's just an idea.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 25, 2000.


And, if you need to hear it, I have no idea what you mean when you refer to yourself as someone who is interested in the power of the written word.

Also, you say my first post was poorly written and in bad taste, but you give no explanation that pertains to anything in said post to substantiate this.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 25, 2000.


And, if you really really need to hear this, no, there is no e in metaphor. Your tightness must come in real handy when you want to open a bottle of Pepsi with your ass.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 25, 2000.

Ok, I'm still pissed off, so breaking down what's going on in my head:
  1. To the What word or phrase drives you crazy? forum, I contribute the phrase Think about it, and, in demonstrating how insulting the phrase is, come up with an elaborate dogsled analogy. Michael takes exception to my dogsled analogy. As strong as my objection to the phrase think about it, it doesn't compare to the devaluing he gives me by saying that I should be executed.
  2. I make a sarcastic reply, implying that all language is based on analogy and metaphor. 3 days later, Michael makes a half-assed apology, implying it was my fault for stirring his ire, and then he misquotes me in his attempt to prove this. (No request can be inferred from the words: think about it.) Considering the nitpicking he gave me for misspelling metaphor, I can only interpret his misquoting as an act of willfull stupidity in an attempt to make me look bad for replying to your death-threat.
  3. I lose my cool at Michael's willfull stupidity, and post more than necessary.
For my part, I am sorry that I lost my cool. It was undignified. As for whatever arrangements for your soul you need to attend to for threatening my life and bearing false witness against me, I leave that up to you.

-- Mike (mleung@mikeleung.com), January 26, 2000.

"Going forward" --it makes my skin crawl

"Think outside the box" --everyone who says this is so far inside the box they can't think of any other way to say 'let's get creative.'

-- Jane Wimple (junk@discursion.com), June 12, 2001.



Mike and Michael:

Damn dudes you two need to get LAID more often!!!

-- Ginger Bread Man (notenoughevidence@yahoo.com), December 03, 2002.


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