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Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

A book I was checking earlier today made me realize how angry the phrase "mere friendship" makes me.

As someone who has been friendless due to frequent moving and a broken home for a period of several years when I was a teenager, and as someone who has also had the experience of later making amazing friends who changed my entire perception of human relationships: there is NOTHING "mere" about friendship.

How about you guys? Do you have any phrases that you really hate, whether for good reasons or just irrationally?

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"First world problems", because to me there's unfortunate implications that people in poor countries don't also have fights with their in-laws and stub their toes and so on.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

I think the point of "first world problems" is that those trivial things are as "bad" as things get for those privileged people. Not that those thing don't also happen to people in the developing world; but that they have serious socioeconomic problems in their lives to deal with in addition to average human problems.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't call those "first world problems". You know what I call first world problems? When I don't know what to buy my daughter for Christmas because she, at 11 years old, already has a tablet, a phone, a DSI and a television in her room with premium cable hook up.

And then I pause and throw up a 'thank you' to the Universe because I'm well aware that even in the "first world", there are those who are not lucky enough to have this kind of dilemma. But even that doesn't change the fact that there are those in the second or third world who have to worry about things like going to the bathroom in an outhouse without being sexually assaulted and murdered.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't think what you've said is "first world problems" - as I always understood it, it's a joke that's basically bragging about wealth. Something that's not -really- a problem. For example:

I just put a pizza in the oven, and then my friend brought over a pizza, now there's too much pizza.

or

I got the new iPhone, now I don't know what to do with my old one.

or

I hate how big my house is, it's so much work to go from my room to the kitchen to get a beer.

and so on.

That kind of thing. It's not a real problem except in the most shallowest of ways. Maybe there are people who use it like "I stubbed my toe, wah, first world problems" but I think they're using it wrong.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like other people are saying, I think it's more about "problems" that people in poor countries don't have.

A couple weeks ago I was putting groceries away and got a little annoyed that I had trouble fitting stuff in the refrigerator because there was already so much food in it, realized that was basically the definition of a first world problem, and felt like a total asshole.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"Millenial."

First, I'm sometimes lumped into that category, even though I'm almost thirty and often I can't tell if they mean twenty year olds or people who were twenty ten years ago. Secondly, it's usually followed with everything that's wrong with us. While I do think my generation has problems, I think every generation has problems. I also think every generation is different than the last, and the older generations don't quite understand them. Also, twenty-somethings can be assholes, and it's always been like that.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, yes.

I also think - if they're going to complain about our generation having problems, then they need to have a good, long think about WHY that is.

Kids don't just learn behaviour patterns out of nowhere.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

I hate "nuff said" it is just such a pile of arrogant dismissal of anyone else's feelings on any subje3ct. I guess it is just easier to type than "I'm an arrogant barstard".

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

UHG, YES. Whenever someone says it I can almost feel the steam coming out of my ears, lol.

As well as "just sayin'" after they post their completely subjective opinion like they are telling complete fact.

Re: Phrases you hate

[dethtoll]

Or like, "just telling it like it is."

It's a really diagnostic phrase, right up there with "I'm not racist, but" and "you don't have kids, do you?"

Re: Phrases you hate

[chardmonster]

"Throughout history"

"Founding Fathers"

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

MRA, mostly because it's hardly ever used to refer an actual MRA and use it to discredit their argument instead.

Re: Phrases you hate

[dreemyweird]

As an aromantic with quite a few frankly amazing friends, +1000.

Re: Phrases you hate

[dethtoll]

I think I'm allergic to a lot of conservative buzzwords like "mainstream media," "left coast," and "homosexual" (I know the latter is a scientific term but I've spent my entire life listening to people use that word as a dehumanizing tactic.)

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"Potty". Even when I was a kid I refused to say it.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"Food for thought" - because it's implying that I haven't thought about whatever it is before, that the person using that phrase is giving me some new idea to toy with that I never would have thought of by myself before. Which is patronizing and rarely the case.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"paired with".

It used to mean what wine with your meal, now it's everywhere. For everything.

See also, "hand crafted."

They need to be buried and never used again.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

When someone says a book they hated "read like a fanfiction"

Now first let me explain, I don't mind when someone says it was "like bad fanfiction" -key word being 'bad'. But saying something badly written reads like fanfiction, it's like uh do you realize there is some very good fanfiction as well as very bad fanfiction? It's like saying a book "read like a story" or "read like a novel".

Maybe I think to much, but that just bothers me because of the huge generalization.

Also seeing "calling out" /"you got called out on X" everywhere is starting to. Mostly because how some people I've seen are self important and will be an asshole to someone, make assumptions and literally dig for an offensive angle to what was said. (I've known people like this). Yes, I am aware that some people are legit and fairly doing it to people who are bigoted. And that's good. But I have had so much experience with people who will bully and claim its "calling out".

Re: Phrases you hate

[ariakas]

"Hardwired" with respect to anything chemical/biological/physiological/genetic.

You might as well enter the conversation but saying "well, I don't know anything about this subject, or science at all most likely, but I have a worldview I'd like to appropriate science's authority to rationalize and push on others".

It's clunkier, but it gets right to the heart of being a mouthbreathing jackass.

Re: Phrases you hate

[lunabee34]

All lovely introductory paragraph cliches from undergrad essays:

In today's fast paced society . . .

Love is defined as . . . (insert anything else you feel like your teacher doesn't already know the meaning of)

Throughout time . . .

People everywhere . . .

Everybody [verbs].

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

"Real women have curves."

Actually, real women come in all shapes and sizes. You can't be body-positive if you go around policing other women's bodies. Women just come off as insecure when they say this.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who uses the word "ratchet" if they're not referring to the mechanical device. It has extremely misogynistic and racist connotations attached to it, so people who use it for anything demeaning give off an icky vibe.

Also the word "basic bitch". Mainly because the only people I know of who use it come off as bratty manchildren/womenchildren.

Re: Phrases you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Not every sentence in a book has to be taken personally. This