Rant Words/Phrases that are pretty much meaningless

I believe myself to be reasonably well-spoken. Some of those before mentioned phrases make me feel that they've made me ill. Kind of how when some people say Gay; everything is gay to them. They can't say bad or terrible or horrible; it has to be gay.

 

Have you considered just burning the building down and moving to Hawaii?

 

People who say "literally" when they're not being literal.

 

Surely that's the manager's job, to make time? What are they doing if they're not managing employee work loads?

Acronyms are so annoying. What is the point? You're replacing such a small number of words that everyone will understand with a few letters that at some stage everyone will have to ask about/find out. How hard is it to type "no later than"?

It might have a purpose when it comes to confidentiality/security, if each business has their own set of stupid acronyms then hackers will have more trouble understanding the emails.

 

That is literally terrible.

 

We had a thread about that once. It literally killed me.

edit - I regret rediscovering that thread, it's getting my blood pressure up just reading through it again.

 

Lame (i.e. gay).

Language evolves bud, get with it. No-one owns it. One of the reasons the pejorative use of the word has become so prevalent is because of the sort of reaction it gets from you (and teachers, politicians, authority figures generally), it's counter-cultural. Your distaste for the use of the word pejoratively is feeding it's growth. I don't mean this disrespectfully, just discursively, but to take offence at the use of a single word is kinda narrow-minded.

 

Even Hawaii can't offer an escape. It just brings the unique horrors of JBPHH, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Home of the USAF (United States Air Force) 15th Wing, part of PACAF (Pacific Air Forces), NCTAMS PAC (Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, Pacific), and various ships such as DDG-60, FFG-57, and attack submarines such as SSN-777.

And to maintain the installation and it's facilities the agency I work for, NAVFACENGCOM (Naval Facilities Engineering Command) have a nice little office ready and waiting to provide all sorts of additional madness beyond what I've just copied and pasted from Wikipedia.

But at least it's not as bad as Guam! There it's only one island, and a smaller one at that. Truly no escape.

 

I have a new one that really gets up my nose because it has no meaning and is absolutely pointless.

I heard it twice this morning on a news item about rationing of sorts of powdered baby milk. Two young mothers told the reporter that they had been pre-warned about the possible shortage of baby milk.

What did they mean, they had a warning about a warning? Some times my brain hurts just trying to work out what people mean when they speak this gibberish.

 

Likewise, a few months ago one of colleagues said ...

"Look, we're shooting ahead of the gun on this one, it's going to be difficult to manage the message"

He seriously wondered why I was laughing.

 

lol, that's like one of the lads that works with me.


In the youth of today, everything is gay.

 

It's all about KPIs.

edit...

<- Two more posts to cheesecake nirvana.

 

"We're going to have to massage the figures"

 

Rep.

 

BLUE SKY THINKING?!

 

Management get upset when the coloured pencil office admit "The data doesn't say what we need it to so we're going to have to lie" so they came up with that one? It's certainly the only context I've ever heard it used in.

 

People who say "this is true" when what they actually mean is "that is true"

 

I do that about five times a day, to tell the truth. I just can't help it.

Since this thread is apparently alive again: "basically", "really", "actually", "to be honest", "like", "I mean". Remove them from conversation and the conversation would take half as long. And yet I can't help peppering my speech with them

 

They're like an intricate version of um and ah. But I use them too.

 

I try my best not to, it normally works because I don't like long conversations.