What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

Symantecly null statements. When in conversation the other person is organizing their rebuttal and their mouth is in neutral while the cerebral gears are still grinding.

Tapatalk Via Kyocera

 

Looks like I picked the wrong day to leave my dictionary in my other tuxedo.

 

What does a virus scanner have to do with any of this?

 

I've been accused of using those big old $2.00 words. While not being college educated I am well read. Sometime others suffer from my
Polysyllabic Pseudo-philosophical Agnosticism.
That's a Haiku that means

Using BIG words to
discuss ideas you don't really
understand/believe.

 

you were a Best Man twice?

 

Artisan, used when referring to someone who makes soap in their kitchen.

 

I can relate, brother!

 

By definition, it still applies. Skill is required and location doesn't change the meaning.
ar·ti·san noun

1. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
   • (of food or drink) made in a traditional or non-mechanized way using high-quality ingredients.

 

Oh well.
Man that gets my blood going.

 

Probably the one that gets me the most is: All natural or 100% natural. I'd like to hear of something tangible that isn't made up of all natural.

 

Or "Organic food". All food is carbon based.

 

I have the same reaction for that misuse of the word "organic". It does mean carbon-based and does not HAVE to mean "natural." Plastics are both organic and synthetic.

 

hey, here's a proposal for a replacement of "Six of one, half a dozen of the other": "20 of one, fourscore of the other".

 

Or a couple three.

 

Or: Couple two tree. (yes, no "h")

Was big out in the Scranton, PA area when I was in school.

 

yes....just anything to make the "fancy" folks THINK a bit.

 

at least the "fourscore" option puts our 16th POTUS into the equation.

 

Fourscore? I thought the game was tied.

 

let me say THIS about THAT: "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk".

 

When I join the Army and had my first duty station in the South (no slight intended) two terms always got to me. The use of "ink pen" - that's redundant - just say "pen". The second was using the singular "cent" when it should be "cents" plural. Someone would say "your change is "fourteen cent" - no it's "cents"!