If I hear one more person say any one of these things, I may scream! The really awful part is that I am SURE I will, and I may have an uncrollable need to strangle him / her. Even if someone is on TV, I will try! Here goes with the first batch:
Whatever the town is people say "Well, they say f you don't like the weather, wait an hour" (EVERYONE says this about their town)
" Our dog / cat / bird (or any other animal) thinks it is human"
"How can you eat THAT?"
" How can you NOT like that?" Pick any food, book, movie, TV show, location, singer, artist etc. etc etc. you can think of. Is the intent to make you feel stupid? Then they will try and trick you into eating it, disquised in some way and san "See, I KNEW you would like it if you tried it!"
Then there is my (ongoing) list of phrases that newscasters just LOVE to say:
- pandemic
- lockdown
- faith-based I actually heard a church referred to with this adjective once! Is there another kind of church?
- "Alex. I have always wanted to say this; let's make this a true Daily Double!" (The best one I ever heard, however, was just a few weeks ago when a contestant said "Alex, I always wanted to say this; I want tp buy a vowel!" My hero!
- religious right
- liberal left
- "broken borders"
- "person of interest" ( in any kind of crime)
- One more time a person uses "myself" instead of "me" in the proper context, I may have to kill them. Folks just want to overcorrect in their need to be erudiet. Instead, they end up getting it wrong. Sad news is that it is heard EVERWHERE is that those of us who know how to use it correctly sound dumb!
- Prioritze is not a real word
- Good and well------this was ALWAYS misued, but then @ 20 years the jocks introduced this jock term for a good thing - "you did good" and the rest is history!
Others to follow in future posts.......as I hear them
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