"Most annoying current catchphrase " Topic

I hate the smugness of "I see what you did there."
It implies that the user is in on something that everybody else is too stupid to notice.

Some may be annoyed by "He threw his coach under the bus", but I think it's very expressive. I like it, even though I am nominating it for "most annoying".

For the benefit of the TMPedants, and you know who you are, it means whatever you want it to mean. This is a TMP poll. We are not choosing who has the keys to the nuclear arsenal.
Consider it a rant and a poll simultaneously.
Proceed. No rules. If a phrase annoys you, then it annoys you.

"Goodbye Felicia."

Who in the <bleep> is Felicia and where is she going?

'I'm just saying….' rankles me the most. It nearly always marks the end of a poorly thought out diatribe that is long on emotion and short on logic and reasoning.

-Will

wminsing, Like this poll?

Okay, in the spirit intended, "Geospatial-Intelligence," (as in National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,) what the hell is a geospatial and why are you subtracting intelligence from it?

"I see what you did there" to me implies the same thing as Grue's catch phrase, "Light Bulb!"

"I'm not racist, but…." beat that one.

"Whatever" ends the conversation for me.

hodor – which I've read is now short for "Hold the Door".

OMG – OMG I hate OMG!

My kids are teenagers, can I list everything they say (well, not without getting bleeped or dawghawsed I cant)

It's not a catch phrase but, "like" and "ya know" several times in one verbal sentence really bothers me.

"Amicalement Armand"

only joking I have a lot of respect for the guy but he does post a lot so its like a catchphrase

Don't have my lexicon with me,but I thought "Hodor" was Greek for "the way".
I thought GRRM was giving us a clue about the character's future function,but then I only read the first two books.

Or maybe I'm just over-thinking things again…

In Australia lots of younger people say "It's all good" for "OK". Can get a bit annoying.

JohnG

Ok so very popular in current news reports are the following phrases which wind me up no end:

"Whitehall Mandarins" No! No! No!
"Boots on the ground" Yawn!
"The Westminster village" What?
"Mission creep" Just shut up!
"Need to get round the table" No we don't! What table?

And I fully agree with how annoying "Just saying" and "I'm not a racist but……" are. In fact "Just saying" probably tops all of mine.

Also when news stories report on "OUTRAGE at this" "FURY at that" " So and so STUNNED by whatever" and don't get me started on ….."LEFT REELING" All usually in reference to something very trivial like: " Game of Thrones fans OUTRAGED as TV series deviates from books!!!!!" etc etc.

Hahaha, yes the 'People OUTRAGED!!!!!' articles always turn out to be 'by people we actually mean this one guy, on Reddit. But he's REALLY angry!'

-Will

Nome Sayin?
Saul Good, Man
It is what it is.

'Talk to'. is wrong with 'talking about' something.

"Drink the Kool-Aid" always bothers me. Do people not realize that the Jonestown massacre was an enormous tragedy, and that drinking the Kool-Aid was an undeniably *bad* thing?

Yes – no.

Tony

Put me down for "boots on the ground". It's an easy way for people to avoid that they're putting soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in harm's way. They're human beings, NOT boots.

I also go along with "Bye Felicia", I have no idea where it came from or what it means.

I also hate it when every announcer on ESPN (this is a US one) shouts out "Winner winner chicken dinner!" Give it a rest, I think that every ESPN "personality" is required to use it.

Another is "I don't mean to sound (blank) BUT…" You can fill in the blank but if you don't mean to sound that way then don't say it.

Another for me is "politically correct". I don't say racist or sexist or profane or the like words because my parents raised me to be polite and respectful, and because I don't believe those things. Then I'm alleged to simply be "politically correct" which is an attempt to say that I'm really racist or sexist or profane, I just won't admit it. Wrong and way over used.

I thought the point of "drink the Kool-Aid" was that the proposed drinker was joining a lot of people who were doing something really bad to themselves.

"Hive mind" creeps me out. Er, it bugs me. Uh, makes my skin crawl.

I tire of "At the end of the day …" because of its ubiquity.

And an old peeve: "I was struck by …" If only.

Nuff said

Mic drop

An anonymous source revealed….

Excellence

My 10yo daughter uses the phrase "Don't judge me!" whenever I am critical about a decision she makes… :)

Damon.

Over-use of "literally".

It's only needed when a statement has a possible metaphoric interpretation, as in "Joe was literally hit by a ton of bricks today" to convey Joe was hurt versus Joe underwent a life-changing realization.

Lately though "literally" is also used to convey immediacy (instead of "just now" or "presently"), precision (instead of "exactly" or "precisely"), and solemnity (instead of "actually" or "really" or "truly" or "I'm not joking").

I've seen the phrase "pardon my political incorrectness," or variants thereof, used when a bigoted comment is pointed out to be a bigoted comment. A sort of retroactive "I don't mean to be a <type of bigot>, but…"

"So I was like…" you mean, "I said"

"He's so money" dreamt up by marketing people, no doubt.

"adulting" ADULT IS NOT A VERB!

…and in gaming circles…

"wall to wall tanks". You mean you can see more than 2 on a table.

"codex" It's only a codex if it's for 40K or Warhammer.

"fast play, easy to learn". They'll be neither.

"I'm done with complicated rules". You mean you like easy wins.

FLGS. Acronyms are only cool at NASA or the Pentagon.

"A set of rules for the conduct of gentlemanly games played with miniature armies"…oh just get on with it!

Teen-speak:
'Sweet'
'Oh-Em-Gee' when spoken, or 'OMG' when written.

As for 'Codex' it just means book, yeah they could just say that. Also hate those who try to copyright the English language (looking at you GW & McDonalds).

Mute, having worked at NGA I can answer your query – there is no intelligence at NGA!

"This is a TMP Poll."

"Drink the Kool-Aid" always bothers me. Do people not realize that the Jonestown massacre was an enormous tragedy, and that drinking the Kool-Aid was an undeniably *bad* thing?

It bothers me because it's factually incorrect. It was "Flavor-Aid".

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Just watch a couple episodes of Cops or Jail and you'll pretty much hear them all. Here's some: "…that my babymomma" (or "babydaddy"), "Honestly, officer, I wouldn't lie to you" and "I only drank two beers." The one that really gets me though is, "Wuch you talkin' 'bout, Willis?" 😁

I especially hate when those on TV news say a political candidate is "doubling down" on something. It's used a LOT and it's always about something moronic that should be refuted but isn't.

Going forward

At this time

Game changer

Kimono moment

Oh and "It happened on their watch." When they blame a public official for something. That really irritates me.

Sports analogies, generally.

Not a phrase, but two words used by political reporters:

1. Resonating, or any version of that word.
2. Presumptive

Regards
Russ Dunaway

And what about the idiot use of the word "Slam" (usually in headlines) used to mean anything from minor disagreement to an outraged response to a false or insulting statement by anyone else?

TVAG

I'm pretty tired of the use of "Bespoke" in any but tailoring contexts.

I'm still secretly amused by "Can't even" though.

How about the current annoying catchphrase… "broke the rules." Instead of "broke the law."

Mine is, "We are not choosing who has the keys to the nuclear arsenal."

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FLGS. Acronyms are only cool at NASA or the Pentagon.

You have obviously not worked elsewhere in the government or scientific community.

I thought the point of "drink the Kool-Aid" was that the proposed drinker was joining a lot of people who were doing something really bad to themselves.

Agree. I've always seen it also carry an undertone of the futility of doing anything else, a kind of powerless acceptance that you're doing pretty much because it is the thing to do, regardless of the future catastrophe.

"Will you borrow me a…"

"That said, I …."

"It is what it is…"

"Let´s do this" I absolutely hate, and then there are things on the internet "going viral". The latter I especially hate when I see it being used by a so-called news source.

I kind of miss "where´s the beef?" though.

"-age".

As in; "signage". They're…. they're signs. They're just signs. Not need more word!

"Seatage". Example: "If you use 'age' as a contrived and unnecessary suffix one more time I will break some seatage across your head."

Also: "in harm's way".

It's BATTLE. If you're sending them into BATTLE, bloody well say so.
It's not like you're sending them off swimming on a beach with a tricky undertow.

Fredrick! Another survivor! Or were you a logic using rebel too?

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Back in the day
Long story short

I'm a curmudgeon, so saying "no problem" instead of "thank you."

"No problem!" as a response to "Thank you." I can stomach it, but my sister-in-law is sick of that phrase.

"Like buttuh."

"It's all good."

And yes, "AWESOME!" is still in use.

In response to Norman D Landings, my wife once laughingly used the word pettage instead of petting: "Wispy the cat is ready for some serious pettage!" But she didn't like reading that if young cats were provoked, they would "agress."

Extrabio, we posted at the same time!

Jeff

Don't you miss Radical, or Gnarly!? Bodacious, tubular, all out of favor now.

But yes, let's smother in the crib "mansplaining". Safe spaces, trigger warning have already taken hold but should go.