I'm totally guilty of the 'honey, sweetie' thing.

I hate when people say 'Kapeesh?'

I hate when people say 'a rough guestimate'

I hate when people say 'whatever'. You might as well say' okay you win, I'm just giving up,' instrad of trying to make it sound like some fierce comeback with 'WHATEVER'

Shanti0608 said:

nursev said:

I hate it when people I don't even know call me "Honey" like sales people and cashiers-pisses me off

As a male, I actually cringe when other men call women they don't know honey, baby, sweety, and ESPECIALLY girl. "Thanks girl" WTF?

bboy87 said:

GetAwayFromMe said:

Yup!

I remember first moving to the Bay Area and thinking "What in the hell is that?"

now 10 years later, I've used it quite a lot

Me too, and I'm probably too old to be doing so. I've got a teenage neice and nephew, too, so occasionally I'll hear a new one. Then I'll notice a couple weeks later that I've said it without even thinking about it.

johnart said:

I don't need counseling. I'd like a show where I can counsel others.

EDIT:

Well, I do need counseling, but I'd still like that show.

Dude! I need one of those, too! And I would do specials where I "counseled" hoarders.

bboy87 said:

Harlepolis said:

"Haters gonna hate".

The most anti-debate skills phrase in the English language,,,,,,and nothing tickles the hell outta me than hearing grown ass people use it.

I've said it before

Unless you're a 15 year old girl on Facebook, you shouldn't be talking about haters

Totally disagree, especially regarding sports, because... well... ya know... haters gonna hate!

Cursing depends on the who, what, when and where. If I'm with certain people in certain places we ALL curse enough to make sailors blush. But when I'm out and about I generally keep the swearing to an absolute minimum because I can respect the fact that many people are offended by it. I have a large enough vocabulary to use some different words in those situations.

However! The one that I can't seem to get across to some of my friends is the constant use of the n word no matter where we go or who we're around. I've explained to them on several occasions that I'm against the use of the word at all times, but in their own homes it's none of my damn business what they say. However, if you see me, a big ass white guy, buying a book at the Barnes & Noble it's really NOT OK to come walking across the store all hella loud with a "Cerebus! What up n?" Dude. Really? That bugs the shit outta me.

I'll call you back

johnart said:

johnart said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

Tankies

Almost makes me want to come to UT.

...I said almost...Hon.

it's actually really nice thurr...

didn't you have a trip in the works?

Cerebus said:

Shanti0608 said:

As a male, I actually cringe when other men call women they don't know honey, baby, sweety, and ESPECIALLY girl. "Thanks girl" WTF?

Oh quit being all evolved and shit.

I will continue to call women I click with (not sure if the gay thing changes anything ) "Hon". If they think I'm coming at them in any sort of disrespectful way then...

people constantly calling and texting you and when you respond, they simply say "I was just seeing what you were doing...."

Saying "Me, myself personally"

RenHoek said:

johnart said:

Almost makes me want to come to UT.

...I said almost...Hon.

it's actually really nice thurr...

didn't you have a trip in the works?

I've been there. My bad ass cousin was in a group home for bad ass gurrrls there and I flew out for her "graduation". All I wanted was a drank and that was no easy task.

One upcoming trip...Tampa

The other...so far either New Orleans or Montreal.

johnart said:

Cerebus said:

As a male, I actually cringe when other men call women they don't know honey, baby, sweety, and ESPECIALLY girl. "Thanks girl" WTF?

Oh quit being all evolved and shit.

I will continue to call women I click with (not sure if the gay thing changes anything ) "Hon". If they think I'm coming at them in any sort of disrespectful way then...

I'm pretty sure you saying "thanks hon" and the guys I'm referring to saying "honey" are coming from two completely different places (and it's not a gay/straight thing at all). It's hard to explain it without getting all longwinded and boring, so I won't even try. But there's definitely a difference.

Cerebus said:

johnart said:

Oh quit being all evolved and shit.

I will continue to call women I click with (not sure if the gay thing changes anything ) "Hon". If they think I'm coming at them in any sort of disrespectful way then...

I'm pretty sure you saying "thanks hon" and the guys I'm referring to saying "honey" are coming from two completely different places (and it's not a gay/straight thing at all). It's hard to explain it without getting all longwinded and boring, so I won't even try. But there's definitely a difference.

I think it's in the matter of timing, and/or if you do click. Therefore, I see where both of you are coming from.

Harlepolis said:

"Haters gonna hate".

The most anti-debate skills phrase in the English language,,,,,,and nothing tickles the hell outta me than hearing grown ass people use it.

I hate when I'm trying to make a point to someone while they keep interrupting me with "in yoooooour opinion". it gets a bit hard not to fist them in the face I must admit.

Rayan said:

Harlepolis said:

"Haters gonna hate".

The most anti-debate skills phrase in the English language,,,,,,and nothing tickles the hell outta me than hearing grown ass people use it.

I hate when I'm trying to make a point to someone while they keep interrupting me with "in yoooooour opinion". it gets a bit hard not to fist them in the face I must admit.

Oh god,,,,it happens here.

If I didn't type "IMO" some folks give me the screw face like I've stated a false fact,,,,,and when I tell them later that it was an opinion, they came back with the "well, you should've said that it was your opinion".

Genius.

Harlepolis said:

If I didn't type "IMO" some folks give me the screw face like I've stated a false fact,,,,,and when I tell them later that it was an opinion, they came back with the "well, you should've said that it was your opinion".

Genius.

coz how dare we speak on someone's behalf while they're gone?

Another thing that irritates me that some people say: When they say, "Anyhoo", instead of, "Anyhow". I guess some people think it sounds cute and/or funny, but it's not. It's just annoying.

would of

jone70 said:

johnart said:

Not a phrase or word, but when someone tells a story about something that happened to them and they feel they need to specify someone's race in the story, but there's no reason to. Like: "...then the nurse, this really nice black/hispanic/asian lady took my blood"

I guess a lot of people do it out of habit or may not mean anything by it but I always put the person on the spot and ask what that part had to do with anything.

[Edited 11/5/10 10:32am]

I find this weird, too. It makes me suspicious; why do they consider that tidbit relevant to their story?

Same here. I alluded to that in another thread and I think I got an indirect reply about being too PC or something.

Like I said there, I have friends that will do this all the time with minority races, usually blacks, and usually in a negative context, as if the person not being their race makes the offense even greater.

It usually sounds something like "This big black chick cut me off on 295". Because being cut-off by a non-black person is more acceptable?

I just find it weird that I cannot think of a single similar story where they specified the person is white.

Something my late grandmother would say that would not irritate me, but would tickle me: She could never pronounce the word "battery" correctly. It always came out being pronounced as "bat-tree". If my brothers and I were smart alecky kids, we would say, "Really, grandma, bats live in trees? I always thought they lived in caves!" But because we respected our grandmother, we never said that to her. Even my late grandfather (her husband) started pronouncing the word "batteries" this way after awhile. We still laugh about it to this day.

psychodelicide said:

If my brothers and I were smart alecky kids, we would say, "Really, grandma, bats live in trees? I always thought they lived in caves!"

Only Bruce Wayne does... lol.

Caves are harder to find than trees. So a lot of bats do live in trees and do that dracula cape wrap to keep the sun out.

DrRockdapuss said:

psychodelicide said:

If my brothers and I were smart alecky kids, we would say, "Really, grandma, bats live in trees? I always thought they lived in caves!"

Only Bruce Wayne does... lol.

Caves are harder to find than trees. So a lot of bats do live in trees and do that dracula cape wrap to keep the sun out.

Thanks for the lesson; I did not know that.

psychodelicide said:

DrRockdapuss said:

Only Bruce Wayne does... lol.

Caves are harder to find than trees. So a lot of bats do live in trees and do that dracula cape wrap to keep the sun out.

Thanks for the lesson; I did not know that.

I learned that by experience. I went to college in the boonies. You could walk under the wrong tree and think it was a Cujo remake. lol

DrRockdapuss said:

psychodelicide said:

Thanks for the lesson; I did not know that.

I learned that by experience. I went to college in the boonies. You could walk under the wrong tree and think it was a Cujo remake. lol

I don't like it when people refer to women and girls as "females."

It's not "wrong," but besides the fact the words "male" and "female" have etymological roots more along the lines of adjectives than nouns, it just sounds awfully National Geographic to me.

Come to think of it, I'm not a huge fan of adjectival descriptions standing in as nouns in reference to persons in a LOT of cases. When we refer to, say, Black folk as "Blacks," brunette women as "brunettes," or -- and here my point might be more apparent -- fat people as "fatties," it might be convenient, but it takes away their humanity, reducing them to a single trait AND creating some made-up point of community to which they may not ascribe.

[Edited 11/8/10 6:54am]

"Really"

kpowers said:

"Really"

and what about "Holy"

?

JoeTyler said:

kpowers said:

"Really"

and what about "Holy"

?

yeah Robin over did that

Number23 said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

THANK YOU!!!

Just showed this response to one of my co-worker...I've been sent to the corner.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

Well they support comedians and puppet shows in the Europe. I had no idea they did headline shows themselves in America. I guess Steve Martin did stadiums over there too. So they really mean those chrushingly deriative lyrics, cheeseball chord changes, bubblegum retard strained voice faux empthatic working class struggle multi millionnaire feathered hair perfect toothed subsubsub Springstein hilarity? Man. This really does change everything. Has no-one told them? Haven't they seen the people laughing?