The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

LizzieMaine · Sep 18, 2019

I get the sense that "with all due respect" is an old piece of military jargon, such as when a grizzled old sergeant tells a fresh young second-lieutenant that his fly is open.

tonyb · Sep 18, 2019

GHT said:
How often have you come across: "With all due respect?" What this really means is: "I think you're a moron for whom I have no respect, but I don't want to look bad by saying it." Whenever I hear this, I sense an expression of personal superiority.

Another favourite in a similar vein: "To be honest." What it really means is: "You and I both know we lie a lot, so here I am trying to get you to pay attention to something that I want you to believe is true"............ And very likely, it isn't.

Then you get the simpleton, as in: "Simply put." For that, read: "I'm smarter than you. I've tried to express myself in an intelligent way. But I think you're stupid, so I use this phrase to alert you that the stupid-person's version is coming right up."

There was an expression that I used on a thread a year or so back, that I qualified, and the resulting comments did make me smile.
So it's worth a second outing: "Money can't buy you happiness..................But it can buy you an MGB V8."

Yup. That’s how those trite phrases are typically received, so that’s why I avoid them, and the company of those who habitually utter them. “With all due respect” is almost always followed immediately by a disrespectful statement.

Hat and Rehat · Sep 18, 2019

tonyb said:
Yup. That’s how those trite phrases are typically received, so that’s why I avoid them, and the company of those who habitually utter them. “With all due respect” is almost always followed immediately by a disrespectful statement.

It all hinges on the word "due".

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Zombie_61 · Sep 18, 2019

LizzieMaine said:
If you're on line while you're in line, are you out of line?

Only if someone believes you've crossed a line.

Lean'n'mean · Sep 18, 2019

GHT said:
How often have you come across: "With all due respect?" What this really means is: "I think you're a moron for whom I have no respect, but I don't want to look bad by saying it." Whenever I hear this, I sense an expression of personal superiority.

Another favourite in a similar vein: "To be honest." What it really means is: "You and I both know we lie a lot, so here I am trying to get you to pay attention to something that I want you to believe is true"............ And very likely, it isn't.

Then you get the simpleton, as in: "Simply put." For that, read: "I'm smarter than you. I've tried to express myself in an intelligent way. But I think you're stupid, so I use this phrase to alert you that the stupid-person's version is coming right up."

There was an expression that I used on a thread a year or so back, that I qualified, and the resulting comments did make me smile.
So it's worth a second outing: "Money can't buy you happiness..................But it can buy you an MGB V8."

" I couldn't have put it better myself" well I could have but.........

Lean'n'mean · Sep 18, 2019

Don't take this the wrong way but either you're all suffering from senility & don't remember we've been through all this not long ago or I'm getting deja-vu.

GHT · Sep 18, 2019

Lean'n'mean said:
Don't take this the wrong way but either you're all suffering from senility & don't remember we've been through all this not long ago or I'm getting deja-vu.

Senility, ah yes, there's three serious detriments to getting old. The first is amnesia, the second and third are, are, damned if I can remember.

KILO NOVEMBER · Sep 19, 2019

EngProf said:
The "Atlantic Monthly" people must have interviewed some Yankees who were in town to see the Grand Ole Opry when they decided that Nashville needed a red dot for use of "on line" instead of "in line" for describing people standing in a line.
I have lived here almost all my life and have never heard anyone say "on line" when they meant "in line".
A case just today:
Amazon is opening their Eastern Service Hub here and had a job fair for people to sign up. It's news (5000 new jobs), so the news people were there in force. The words "in line" were used three times to describe the people who were standing in line.
At the end of the news segment the TV guy said that you could also sign up for jobs "on line" (using your computer).

Wait! Nashville? Isn't that where they "walk the line"?

Hat and Rehat · Sep 19, 2019

You're out of line when you do a line.

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AbbaDatDeHat · Sep 19, 2019

LizzieMaine said:
If you're on line while you're in line, are you out of line?

Good one!!!

KILO NOVEMBER · Sep 21, 2019

From the New England Patriots regarding the firing of Antonio Brown, a star player who has been with three NFL teams in the past six months. "... we feel that it is best to move forward in a different direction at this time."
If this were baseball, I would call this a triple play:

move forward
in a different direction
at this time

Three annoying phrases in a row amounting to, well, nothing.

AbbaDatDeHat · Sep 21, 2019

Perhaps the two most annoying phrases ever Imho.

1. License and registration please.
2. Do you know why i stopped you?

Annoying response:
(Anything you say), there is no correct answer.

B

AbbaDatDeHat · Sep 21, 2019

While i’m at it, this one always chaffs my a** and insults my intelligence!
When someone is talking s**t with you and usually about you then says “I’m just kidding”.
BS...they are serious but don’t have the intelligence for constructive conversation or the B**ls to say it to your face!!
It’s usually a “friend”.
B

tonyb · Sep 21, 2019

KILO NOVEMBER said:
From the New England Patriots regarding the firing of Antonio Brown, a star player who has been with three NFL teams in the past six months. "... we feel that it is best to move forward in a different direction at this time."
If this were baseball, I would call this a triple play:

move forward

in a different direction

at this time

Three annoying phrases in a row amounting to, well, nothing.

It apparently didn’t occur to whoever come up with that gem is that if the team is now moving in a different direction the direction they had been moving couldn’t have been forward.

LizzieMaine · Sep 21, 2019

Another phrase rampant in that particular situation is "cut ties," an obnoxious euphemism for "don't let the door hit ya."

LizzieMaine · Sep 21, 2019

AbbaDatDeHat said:
Perhaps the two most annoying phrases ever Imho.

1. License and registration please.
2. Do you know why i stopped you?

Annoying response:
(Anything you say), there is no correct answer.

B

In regard to question two, resist every impulse in your mind that is screaming at you to say "To meet a quota?"

GHT · Sep 21, 2019

AbbaDatDeHat said:
Perhaps the two most annoying phrases ever Imho.

1. License and registration please.
2. Do you know why i stopped you?

Annoying response:
(Anything you say), there is no correct answer.

My English accent would probably allow me to say: "Police officer you are. Clairvoyant I'm not."

Lean'n'mean · Sep 21, 2019

AbbaDatDeHat said:
2. Do you know why i stopped you?

I would reply "Why, don't you ?

3fingers · Sep 21, 2019

AbbaDatDeHat said:
When someone is talking s**t with you and usually about you then says “I’m just kidding”.

There are a couple of people in my life that I have the type of friendship with that would allow for flinging of barbs, but we rarely do it beyond a single smart alec response to a comment.
The thing is the people who actually do this aren't anywhere on that short list of friends.

LizzieMaine · Sep 21, 2019

My favorite cop encounter was a few years back, coming home from a disappointing Red Sox game late at night. I was turning into my town, about 130am and dog tired, and I got pulled over right at the intersection. I'm sitting there wearing a Red Sox hat and jersey, with a wrinkled game program next to me on the seat, and he shines his light in my eyes and asks me "What have you been doing?" I resisted the impulse to say "losing."

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