This is a weird quasi-New Year's resolution kind of list but I had to get these things down before I forgot them. My consciousness streams all over the place during the early morning breakfast hours. Today it landed on the things I am done with.
ON STEROIDS
This term is now overused to the point of irrelevance. I know I am tired of everything being like something else "on steroids". At work, on TV, in general conversation. Somehow society has made the use of a harmful substance common vernacular for describing something good or better. Are we weird or what.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
I mentioned this saying several posts ago but it bears repeating...hearing this from anybody makes me instantly want to punch them in the face. It seldom is what it is in this day and age of transformers, hidden agendas and "me first" mentality. Has there ever been a time where you could say a man's word was his bond any less than in today's society? I think not. Most of us are very skeptical at hearing anything even slightly too good...to be true. In business speak it is a conversation filler and means almost nothing. The time will come where I instinctively DO punch someone in the face as a knee-jerk reaction to hearing this blather. Just stop it.
OUTSIDE THE BOX
Get in the box, seal it and shut the hell up.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
All the fun went out of many things in life because of these two words. Seriously, is everybody so damned sensitive and uptight (throw back to the 60's) that they can no longer take a joke or even laugh at themselves?? I ask you. It is almost to the point you cannot talk to people anymore without thinking out the whole conversation well in advance so as to make sure it is "polictically correct". I thought this meant it applied to politicians and not two people on the street talking. Saying polictically incorrect things at work can get you fired! I'm not talking about racist remarks or clearly offensive things...come on people!
WHATEVER
I dare you to say that to me...I will instantly and without thinking tell you to fuck off. I hate this condesending one-word blow-off more than any other word. Beside the fact (again) it means almost nothing and generally hides someone's ignorance of the subject at hand, it is almost an implied curse AT you without being a four-letter word. Be warned.
I am sure there will be more on this subject in the future but for now...the New Year has begun!
What are YOU done with??
11 comments:
Agree with the politically correct. Life is not fair. Get over it folks.
All those who abuse these terms should have to stare for days at the last graph in your last post. (I really like it. Some people just don't get it and never will.)
Happy New Year!
xoRobyn
Alex: Ya know how some things just grate on you after a while? Them's it.
Robyn: I have wondered out loud how some people have made to adult. In the animal kingdom they would have been killed off early on. Only in the human species do the stupid get to survive.
"It is what it is" -- oh, I HATE that one. HATE IT! Deep breath...
I'm with you! Especially the whatever one. I hate it! I REALLY hated it when one of our daughters would say "whatever." Steam would come out of my ears...
This is interesting because I have a blog post ready that has work terms that I hate in it.
Milo: Glad you are on board...it is sort of a litmus test as to whether or not I will even talk to a person.
Pat: I could see how having your kids say that would be like a slap in the face. My dad would have wore my ass out before I finished saying the word...whether THAT would have been politically correct or not!
Yep, me too! If I said that to my mom I would have been spitting out teeth...
Wow! I'd hate to see how you reacted during the valley girl years.
Copyboy: At least the movie Valley Girl is one of my favorites. Cage was great in that one! yeah...whatever!
I agree on all of these! They have been overdone (and some should have never been done in the first place). How about a last hurrah? Being politically correct is like being polite and paranoid...on steroids. Of course, it is what it is, so you'll just have to take it at face value. If you'd think outside the box you'd understand why it was all so popular. Don't like it? Whatever.
While I think my kids may be young enough to miss the "whatever" craze, I'm sure they'll figure out an equally obnoxious way to irk me. Kids are good at that.
Shannon: My...my, you ARE a gifted writer. Well done.
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