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Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:21 pm
by magma
The below have either been criminally played out or were never cool in the first place - humanity, it is incumbent upon you to stop embarrassing yourself with their use:

"MIND.... BLOWN"
"Get involved"
"Epic"
"It is what it is"
Pretty much all words for cocaine that aren't coke or cocaine.

Add on.... get involved. :|

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:22 pm
by scspkr99
leverage (in the majority of cases)
I could care less

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:23 pm
by noam
magma wrote:The below have either been criminally played out or were never cool in the first place - humanity, it is incumbent upon you to stop embarrassing yourself with their use:

"MIND.... BLOWN"
"Get involved"
"Epic"
"It is what it is"
Pretty much all words for cocaine that aren't coke or cocaine.

Add on.... get involved. :|
chizzle?????? :| :|

:corncry:

THE CHIZ WILL NEVER DIE

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Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:25 pm
by mIrReN
BOSS MAN

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:26 pm
by Mr Hyde
'random' annoys me

and when i'm talking to someone and they say 'listen', as in 'listen, im just going to......' - im already fucking listening, don't tell me to listen!

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:28 pm
by clifford_-
when people say "can i get a...." instead of "can i have a...."


EG "Can i get a pint of stella please?" WRONG

"Can I have a pint of stella please?" CORRECT

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:30 pm
by noam
when the asian kids from my old school say 'basically right...' at the beginning of every sentence

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:39 pm
by frizzwah
Mr Hyde wrote:'random' annoys me
:z:
'legend'
'good times lol'
:u:

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:42 pm
by magma
frizzwah wrote:'good times lol'
This one. This fucking one. I even find it accidentally coming out of my own mouth occasionally because my ex used to say it far too much. Horrible.

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:43 pm
by clifford_-
i third that motion /\

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:44 pm
by noam
should we basically list every colloquialism, idiom and slang word that isn't entirely local to each of our specific friend groups??

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:49 pm
by magma
noam wrote:should we basically list every colloquialism, idiom and slang word that isn't entirely local to each of our specific friend groups??
No, just the horribly overused ones. Slang's brilliant... linguistic repetition is fucking BORING.

Using a phrase like "Epic Fail" or "Get Involved!" essentially conveys "I want to be down, but have a tiny vocabularly... pity me."

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:51 pm
by clifford_-
on it like sonic

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:55 pm
by particle-jim
clifford_- wrote:on it like sonic
urgh... even just reading that phrase made me shudder

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:55 pm
by ascent
hate "epic" and "fail" the words make me cringe every time i hear / read them

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:56 pm
by clifford_-
particle-jim wrote:
clifford_- wrote:on it like sonic
urgh... even just reading that phrase made me shudder
:lol:

its on like donkey kong is another particularly grating one...

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:07 pm
by finji
literally

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:10 pm
by DRTY
I call cocaine Darnell, cozza the guy from Big Brother that was really white.

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:12 pm
by noam
magma wrote:
noam wrote:should we basically list every colloquialism, idiom and slang word that isn't entirely local to each of our specific friend groups??
No, just the horribly overused ones. Slang's brilliant... linguistic repetition is fucking BORING.

Using a phrase like "Epic Fail" or "Get Involved!" essentially conveys "I want to be down, but have a tiny vocabularly... pity me."
yeah but i find overly verbose people irritating too

like Dawson's Creek style conversations

EURGH

im no way near as articulate in real life as i am in writing, i mostly grunt and point to convey the many shades of anger i use to express myself in

Re: Get Involved! (Phrases that need to die)

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:15 pm
by magma
noam wrote:im no way near as articulate in real life as i am in writing, i mostly grunt and point to convey the many shades of anger i use to express myself in
Well as long as you don't take the latest hipster phrase and then use it in every sentence for the next 10 years whilst anyone with half a brain stops finding them amusing after 6 months, you're probably alright.

I don't think anyone's as flowery in real life as they are in text... if only speech had an edit feature.