Annoying Words & Phrases

Kryptonite said:
Because it makes sense you're "on" something and not part of it, aka "in" it...
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It's like when they tell people to "form a line". You're not getting into something that exists, you're ascribing to the shape of a line.

When you call for customer service, and you're listening to piano music, you're "on-hold". When you take a seat on a plane, you're "on-board". The next batter-up is "on-deck".

But there are many New-Jersey-isms. For example, when you plan to drive to the coast, you tell people you're going "down the shore". When you get there, and someone calls and asks where you are, you say "I'm down the shore".

A whole pizza is a pie. "Who wants a pie? You want a pie? We'll have one pie with pepperoni and one pie with sausage."

When they check your ID to get into a bar or a club, you're getting "proofed".

You refer to highways as just numbers. "You take 80 East to 46, then go around the jug-handle". Jug-handles are for crossing over major roads.

And no one pumps their own gas.
 
This is from a story in today's U.S. edition of The Mirror: "The Chicago Fire is set to become the 23rd Major League Soccer team to move into a soccer-specific stadium, after announcing plans to build a new home on Tuesday."

They can build a stadium in a single day? Wow!
 
Channel98 said:
This is from a story in today's U.S. edition of The Mirror: "The Chicago Fire is set to become the 23rd Major League Soccer team to move into a soccer-specific stadium, after announcing plans to build a new home on Tuesday."

They can build a stadium in a single day? Wow!
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If you can end a war in a day, you might be able to build a stadium in the same time.
 
As mentioned in another thread, "How is everything tasting?" is the disturbingly common question now asked by servers, after you've (hopefully) started eating your meal. I've talked about how this appears to be just an American thing, as I never heard it in Europe. I'd be interested to know if they ask this in Canada.

I always remember being asked "How is everything?", or "How are you enjoying your meal?". It seems as if the servers have a knack for asking this right after you've taken a big mouthful of food, often with bits of it still hanging out of your mouth. So the only way you can respond is by nodding, while also trying to make a sound that no one can hear. Or, they ask before you've tried anything, whereupon I usually lie and say it's good.

But somewhere along the line, they changed the phrase, to add the specific word "tasting". Why? Are they trying to weed out the responses that are biased because of the poor service, or the loud people at the next table over, or the not-so-good value proposition? Whatever the reason, I don't like the server saying the word "tasting". It's a creepy word, like "moist". I would feel more comfortable if they just stopped by, and asked how everything was.
 
The point of them coming back is in case they have missed something. A fork or drink or something required to eat your meal. But yes they do seem to time it.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
The point of them coming back is in case they have missed something. A fork or drink or something required to eat your meal. But yes they do seem to time it.
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I guess when they bring your food, and ask if you need anything else, and you say "no", there's an off chance you might decide you want another drink or something after all. So I'm not totally opposed. I just prefer the old "how is everything" to "how is everything tasting". And I also note that in Europe, they've deemed this unnecessary.
 
This is a little political but not really. Also not a phrase but a show I find so annoying and it gets into my YouTube shorts feed too often cause YouTube can't differentiate between right leaning content and right wacko trash.

I hate the @whatever podcast so much. It's more or less a dude who brings a bunch of leftist girls on to make them looks stupid. Just like the man on the street thing Leno did. If you cherry pick the people you can get any group to look dumb.

So this skinny white guy who got famous for being fired for questioning and pushing back against his student's thoughts as a professor was the male guest. (also check this out.....it's bonkers he got fired for this and his superiors knew he was going to post it and the student also gave permission.)



He is right leaning. And he's smart and a great debater. For some reason the @whatever guy thought it was a good idea to bring him on.....probably to make the girls look even dumber.

But he turned the tables. The host is not smart. He's a repackaged Andrew Tate. So when he has a guy even somewhat intelligent question him his whole house of cards falls and he gets exposed for what we all know he is but never really get to see so openly. He is way too pussy to chop this up into Youtube shorts. I guarantee that.

Dudes like this host delegitimize actual smart, right leaning entertainers like David Rubin.

Warren Smith calmly put this asshole in his place and he had no idea how to react and it was great.

 
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And why do people say "To make a long story short..." after they've spent several minutes telling the "long story"? They could've told the short version to start with!
 
One of the "seven dirty words" banned by the FCC is "tits." The second definition of "tit" in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is "any of various small plump often long-tailed oscine birds (family Paridae) of Eurasia and Africa that are related to the chickadees and titmice." Would the FCC attempt to fine a television reporter for talking about the birds? I wonder.

George Carlin was arrested in 1972 for "disturbing the peace" at the Summerfest music festival in Milwaukee. His crime was delivering a monologue about those seven dirty words. And now, heeeeeere's George, discussing the incident with Johnny Carson.

 
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