What is the most annoying catch phrase?

[Gringo]

I have an extreme dislike for catch phrases, especially those popular among white yuppies/middle management types.

Feel free to add your own.

[Sting]

1. I hate movie catch phrases...

such as these damn cliches:

"Hasta la vista, baby."

"I'll be back."

etc, etc, etc....

[A-Schwarzenegger]

19. Lighten up.

[tjdee]

2. "camp" and Hoo-ah....

I have a personal tick with "Dean's camp" or "the people in Kerry's camp"....LOL, maybe it's because I used to work at a camp, I don't know.

But, and this has been going away for many years, that Al Pacino/Scent of a Woman "HOO-AH" thing...sounds like clearing throats, and overall obnoxious (in my very personal opinion).

But eh, mostly I'm cool with people saying whatever they like.

[Wickerman]

3. At the end of the day - bleeeech!

[Lady Freedom]

4. If I hear "WAZZUP?!?!?!" one more time...

Heads will roll!

[mac56]

5. "Moving forward" makes me retch.

:puke:

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. sooner rather than later

fingernails on a blackboard is more pleasant !!!

[TacticalPeek]

14. AKA "soon"

Wazzup widat?

:silly:

[msanger]

6. annoying catch phrase

is right up there on top.

[xray s]

7. Corporate meeting bingo

I read about a game you can play at corporate meetings. You pass out bingo type cards with the following words/phrases placed in a grid;

synergy
strategic fit
core competencies
best practice
cascade
bottom line
revisit
expeditious
24/7
out of the loop
benchmark
bucket
value-added
proactive
win-win
think outside the box
fast track
result-driven
empower (or empowerment)
knowledge base
at the end of the day
touch base
mindset
client focus(ed)
paradigm
game plan
leverage

As you hear a word or phrase, you mark the box with that item. When you get a row or column filled in, you yell out 'bingo'.

[fortyfeetunder]

8. yeah, I have bingo in my PDA

when the going gets boring, I open up the spreadsheet....

[Ellen Forradalom]

32. My mother's priest gave her the ecclesiastical version

of this Bullshit Bingo: "priesthood of the believer", etc.

[DS1]

46. such and such will end "as we know it"

well of course, even the slightest change will move something away from 'how you know it', dumbass.

[Don_G]

10. Get Over It

:grr:

[Wcross]

11. Uh, thinking outside the box

It used to be called plain old thinking back in the day.

[hippiechick]

12. "Make No Mistake About It"

"Let's Roll !!"
GRRRRRRRR ....


:hippie:

[Melsky]

13. Talk to the hand

what does that mean anyway, it sounds like they are going to punch you in the mouth.

[camero]

15. more like a word really

whatnot. It really took alot of brainpower to think this one up.
And the ones who use it do in a snobbish way, too.

When I hear this one I just say, "Just say whatever, you dolt."

[frylock]

16. moving forward/going forward

[Capn Sunshine]

17. Ducks in Line

Oldie but annoying goodie.

So cliche one of my corporate shells is called Duxenline

[burr]

18. "get over it"...

if another person I work with says that to me, I'll hit them across the face with a 2 by 4!! :spank:

[Jim Sagle]

20. "That;'s just the way of the world."

Always in a patronizing tone.

[burr]

21. God I hate that one!!!

that's just the way of my asshole..

[camero]

53. The people who say that

most of the time want the world to be that way. Like when they say, "It's a dog-eat-dog world." I hate that.

[Furity]

22. They hate us for our freedom

Does that one count?

~Furity

[vetwife]

23. Compassionate conservative and evildoers

I hate those words....Well evildoers isn't even a word..just something a dry drunk spoke and started wwIII
We are compassionate conservative
We have to defeat the evildoers
Yep Hate those phrases...we hear them like a broken record (CD) for you younger folks

[newyawker99]

39. Hi vetwife!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BringEmOn]

33. Along with "cold-blooded killers"

weapons of mass destruction
hunt 'em down
smoke 'em out
bring 'em to justice
and, of course, bring 'em on.

[Snow]

24. Nobody's mentione "key players"

and the "key players" have to be either "around" or "at" "the table".

[lpbk2713]

25. He's got "issues".........

Are we talking about Reader's Digest here or what?

[HamstersFromHell]

31. "issues"

I have no idea why, but everytime I hear that (and I have a friend who says that at least 10 times daily) I think to myself: "Penicillin might help."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

26. Who do you think I'm looking at?

Am I looking at you?

[Terwilliger]

27. Can you hear me now?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good!

[Paul Hood]

28. I voted

"get over it", because every time I hear that, in any context, it reminds me of a stolen election.

[HamstersFromHell]

29. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

30. "Liberals are on the wrong side of history"

As quoted by those whose only "history" book was apparently Mein Kampf. :grr:

[onebigbadwulf]

34. List

know what im saying?

is that your final answer?

you had me at hello

show me the money

christianity isn't a religion, it's a way of life

we're here we're queer




ah i cant think of anymore

[baldguy]

35. "We should be pro-active . . ."

". . .rather than reactive."

The opposite of "reactive" is simply "active". It's a perfectly understandable and usable word. "Pro-active" would be an antonym of "con-active", which is meaningless.

Another one was "interface" being used to mean "meet". An interface is a conection between pieces of hardware. People don't interface with each other.

At least, not at work.

At least, they're not supposed to.

[Bunny]

36. You do the math.

n/t

[onebigbadwulf]

37. one thing lead to another...

~

[Zomby Woof]

38. ask me anything!

Overplayed in the Lounge to the EXTREME.

[newyawker99]

40. Pushing the envelope,

Get over it

That's the nature of the beast


:puke:

[RedEarth]

50. Agree....I can't stand that phrase..........nt

[KeepItReal]

41. "At the end of the day..."

You don't know what's gonna happen at the end of the day, 'cuz it is in the future!!!

That one drives me crazy!

:mad:

[Coventina]

42. "Wake-up call"

:puke:

[johnnie]

43. Do lunch....

For some reason that sounds so perverse.......

[ldf]

44. "the fact of the matter is"

huh? do you mean you are about to say something that is truthful, versus the crap you normally dish out?

:silly:

[HuckleB]

45. They're all incredibly annoying and meaningless...

I don't know why so many of us get caught up with meaningless business phrases and hollow-hip diets and exercise mantras. Is it the human search for the easy solution and answer? I don't know. But I sure wish there were more voices in popular culture that spoke about the hollowness of such phrases and practices.

Yeah, I'm humorless today.

[SiobhanClancy]

47. "At this point in time"......eom

[Tracer]

48. "Move on with one's life", "Get Closure".

Usually spoken in a sanctimonious tone.

[PurityOfEssence]

49. "let's not go there", "not", "artsy-fartsy", "fruity-nutty"

Oh, there are SO many, but "let's not go there" just makes my teeth go on edge. It's just so forcedly casual-hip, and it's idiotic.

[FloridaJudy]

51. "Mission Statement"

We're the Public Health Department, not NASA!

Our mission is to keep people from dying of preventable causes. It doesn't need a committee to figure this out.

Sheesh. When did medical care get high-jacked by Dogbert?

[Shakespeare]

52. The EXTREME overuse of "(pause) wait for it . . . "

It might have been marginally entertaining the very first (and ONLY the first) time somebody used that. Now it's just incredibly annoying, and causes me to want to choke the life out of everyone who inserts the phrase into their conversation.

[Faygo Kid]

54. "IT'S ALL GOOD;" "YOU DA MAN"

"It's all good, that's right, it's all good." Fingernails on a chalkboard. Jerry Springer literacy. "You da man." Normally uttered by drunken golf fans who should be deported to Antarctica.

[L.A.dweller]

55. "That is very chic"

instead of fashionable or styelish.

[L.A.dweller]

56. "That's Hella Good"

[MercutioATC]

57. "meme" and "strawman" are my two least favorites here at DU

I'm sick to death of them.

[grannylib]

58. I voted for 'wazzup' but I really do hate 'going forward...' or any other

phrase that could be said in plain English without having to sound "insider" or jargon-ish...
How about 'next time' or 'in the future?'instead of 'going forward?'
Same with 'downsizing' (putting a whole bunch of people out of work)
'collateral damage' (killing a whole bunch of innocent bystanders)
'friendly fire' (killing our own by mistake/stupidity/poor planning)
etc etc etc...

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

59. "get over it"

I really do loathe all the ones mentioned in the poll. Corporate catchprases really do annoy me.
But the use of "get over it" as a response to any intelligent discourse regarding the stolen 2000 election just chaps my ass.

It galls me to think that many people would prefer we "get over" the theft of democracy.