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Top 10 Irritating Phrases - RF Cafe Forums
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Top 10 Irritating Phrases
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:06 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm Posts: 878
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Greetings: As shown in this week's Smorgasbord feature, Oxford University has
complied a new list of the top 10 most irritating phrases used in common conversation
and by the media. Here is their list. Please add your own annoying phrase to the list.
1 At the end of the day 2 Fairly unique 3 I personally 4 At this
moment in time 5 With all due respect 6 Absolutely 7 It's a nightmare
8 Shouldn't of 9 24/7 10 It's not rocket science
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Cube Slave
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:45 am
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Going forward (my most hated) Best practices The way I see it From the get
go Ramp up In my honest opinion
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FL Techie
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:57 pm
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Think outside the box
You need to internalize it
I could care
less. ---- Come to think of it I REALLY hate that one. If you could care less, then
that means you are caring more than not at all. Now if you COULDN'T care less (which
is the correct way to say it), it means you are already caring as little as possible
and you cannot care less. God I want to smack people when they say that.
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jjuniet
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:15 pm
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Location: Orlando, FL |
"It is what it is"
and i echo FL Techie's disdain for - "I could care less"
(those people need to be smacked)
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buck_amps
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 11:25 am
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1. why not?
2. how hard could it be?
3. it's not in the budget.
4. no, i'm not going on a food run.
5. that's offensive
Not
necessarily in that order...
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George
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:25 pm
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We need a paradigm shift......
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spreadspcowboy
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:48 pm
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"We're not out of the woods yet.." Especially when utilized by the weather channel
during hurricane season..
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kpainter
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:22 pm
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The worst one of all time:
"Speak truth to power".
That one makes me
want to puke.
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buck_amps
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:01 pm
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nubbage
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:33 am
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"But isn't it time we drew a line under this and moved on?" Aaaagggghhhh. And
why do journalist only ever say about a politian's most recent banality "xxx made it
clear"?? Is "made it clear" a euphemism for "telling a lie"? Whilst many biz-speak
buzzwords make me cringe, this one in a tender submission from a well-known SONET source,
made me hoot with laughter. They were clearly and grossly non-compliant with the
spec, but instead of saying so, they merely responded "we support an alternative solution".
Positive spin is wonderful.
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petercorner
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Post subject: annoying phrases
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:10 am
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in the news (again) "pregnant man" ... annoying and factually inaccurate, its a
bearded lady; if they have a womb, its not a guy..
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nubbage
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:43 am
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And furthermore, Lucy Kellaway posted her column inches yesterday in the Financial Times,
announcing that august newspaper's (or merely her own) awards for Business Twaddle of
2008. Amongst the many pearls of detritus spewed forth by (mostly) economists and Business
Management School types (who should really get a proper job instead) there were these
1) "In our base case simulation there is an upside case that, err, corresponds on
the flip-side of the down-side case in kind of an adverse direction". 2) The spin
expression for firing someone is now "offering you a career up-grade, as from your CV,
your carrer is clearly adversely limited by the horizons in your present employment,
so we are releasing you to enhance your talents and skills elsewhere." As she notes
(tongue in cheek) "the judging panel felt this represented a step change in the existing
strategy tree, and laddered the concept to a whole new level." Quite so.
_________________ At bottom, life is all about Sucking in and blowing out.
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skywave
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:20 am
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Although the Media just love their meaningless phrases, the one that always winds me
up is "We have been led to believe . . ."
This really p****s me off! They are
a Media / News Organisation*, for Christ's sake! If they've picked up a lead, make the
damn effort to verify the story for yourself! Don't just 'pass the buck' onto your 'source'
and thus remove yourself from any responsibility for reporting it to the World. Make
the effort & do your job properly!
* Readers of this will know who I have
in mind. For obvious reasons, I am not going to be specific.
_________________ Quantum Mechanics - the dreams that Stuff is made of.
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