Rant Words/Phrases that are pretty much meaningless

And the tsunami footage from the last two biggies

Awesome in the correct sense.

 

It's a shame all the new openings tend to be on the 14th floor.

 

+1

Yea I've fallen into this habit and it annoys me. I blame everyone else for using it too much and it has warped my fragile little mind.

Also, Technically speaking.

 

I love you has lost its meaning in the modern world.

 

Designer

Hate this phrase, everything that is manufactured is designed ergo designer is meaningless

 

Yes what on earth is designer anyway. The last time I went for glasses I was directed towards the 'designer' frames, is is just me as I could not see any difference with the 'non designer fames',except the stupid price.

 

You lot have got most of the one's I hate. But my most hated is..... Lets touch base... Arghhh!! that one makes me want to kill people.

The Ops manager at work loves all these sayings.
One of his others... Lets put some meat on the bone.. WTF !!

Some times he will rattle off 3 or 4 in a sentence.. Does my head in.

This one is self explanatory Shut up before I stick my foot in your gob your **** I wonder if he'll understand that one.

 

At the end of the day

makes me vomit

 

maybe it's meant more as an invitation?

people who add "just kidding" after every stupid joke or statement. i see it as a sign of insecurity, in fact most of the phrases mentioned in this thread are just fillers to deroute attention from the actual content.

i can't see nothing... well, neither can i, buddy

 

Or just in yours?

 

Ouch.

 

Mi-ow.

 

Law beat me to it. When I say it there's plenty of meaning, as I hope there is when it's said to me.

 

Much as I hate to admit it I've used that one myself - stuck in a meeting with admin types who just want to go over the same topic again and again because they aren't getting the answer they want. It's MUCH more polite than the alternative.

If you're talking to an engineer then it isn't meaningless, it means that they've run an approximation of the numbers in their head so it's a rough figure that needs confirmation but should be in the general region.

From a marketing bod it's as meaningless and offensive as "ballpark figure" and is short for "Crap I just made up to sound good and throw some random numbers in"

I'm more annoyed by terms which are meaningful being appropriated by those who render them meaningless, for example proactive and reactive are appropriate terms when used in context (IT support) but not when used out of contact (marketing/sales).

 

I've got to agree that Just be yourself is pointless. Is it not philosophically self-evident that whatever I am doing I can only ever be myself?

I don't think it's stupid. People who say it might be stating the bleeding obvious, but it does have meaning. It's a reference to causal determinism.

And what's wrong with proactive/reactive? Reactive = respond to something that's happened because of the events positive/negative consequences; proactive = make/stop the consequence before a potential event happens.

Go f*** yourself - err, if I could do you think I'd be here talking to you now?

 

Ow


Well, what I meant is, it's become so commonplace, it's lost its original meaning.

 

Agree to disagree


Arghh! Another saying that gets on my nerves.

 

Decimate...

It means reduce by a factor of ten.. i.e. reduce to 90%... not reduce to almost zero. Jeeze.

Deconstruct..

Take apart, destroy, dismantle.. There is no such word as deconstruct in the engineering industry (or so I am reliably told)

 

Defo, my head is always saying "Oh no we won't, cos you are ****ing wrong!"

 

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'You know' overdose starting at 1:42 .