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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
 Posted - 12/04/2004 : 19:01:43
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Originally posted by Tre
My father calls everyone chief,
Frank Black ate my hamster
I used to sleep with this hunky, huge hockey player that everyone called "chief" and it bugged me so much. It was weird to have sex with him after spending an evening where his team mates called him that and slapped him on the back in that way jocks have. It struck me as vaguely homoerotic and I'm not a homophobe, but it really soured me on sex with him, which was actually damned good but for all the "chief this" and "chief that" running through my head.
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Posted - 12/05/2004 : 08:54:45
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are you calling my dad a gay?
Frank Black ate my hamster |
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cvanepps
= Cult of Ray =
USA
442 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 09:05:05
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I hate it when people touch base.
Them: "Just calling to touch base and see how you're coming!"
Me: "Well, if the base is sticky when you touch it, then you'll know I came just fine."
Of course, I can't say that at work, but I'd really like to!
-= It's not easy to kidnap a fat man =-
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TameReg
- FB Fan -
USA
110 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 10:25:53
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 10:45:59
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i usually request to be called "chief" during intimate moments.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 13:41:15
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Originally posted by TameReg
I hate when people say I "could" care less. Instead of I "couldn't" care less. "Could" doesn't really make sense.
Yes!! You are so right.
 "4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
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paintmeister
= Cult of Ray =
USA
347 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2004 : 18:25:29
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"Just to make sure we're on the same page". I hate this one.
Great comeback: "I'm not so sure we're even reading the same book."
"Partner together" I haven't heard this one much lately but I really got sick of it.
Some things people say in passing at work, "Having fun yet?" I usually come up with some smart-ass comment.
"Is it beer 30 yet?" New one to me but I got tired of it the first time I heard it. "No, I do my drinking at the top of the hour."
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Posted - 12/05/2004 : 18:39:58
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aah, I used to get at work a lot "Smile, it might never happen" to which I'll reply "I'll smile when you pay me to smile" sometimes with "motherfucker" added to the end of that if I really disliked them and knew I could get away with it
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
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Posted - 12/06/2004 : 02:51:01
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ohh, i hate that one too. MAkes my skin crawl
Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth. Someone might get hurt but it won't be me. I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free and a little bit empty. No it isn't so hard to get close to me. There will be no arguments. We will always agree. And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave. We will both take it easy. But if you stay too long inside my memory, I will trap you in a song tied to a melody and I will keep you there so you can't bother me. |
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Hatchetman
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
234 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 04:43:28
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When someone says 'it works on so many levels'.
Internet speak - prolly instead of probably.
The over use of the word 'like' at the beginning of sentences by Americans and the end of sentences by Brits.
When someone (usually black) says aks instead of ask, is this supposed to be 'cool' or something? To intentionally make themselves sound like a fucking retard. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ade
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edwina
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United Kingdom
179 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 04:54:06
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"At the end of the day".
"We'll take it from there".
"Think outside the box". |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 04:55:27
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Thats a Jamaican accent thing to some extent.
Action, as a verb.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
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Hatchetman
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United Kingdom
234 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 05:08:39
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Thats a Jamaican accent thing to some extent.
Action, as a verb.
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?"
Ok. I see your point. I wouldn't think twice if I heard a Japanese person say 'rock' instead of 'lock'. If it's a speech problem due to the fact that English is not their native language etc, you can expect mistakes, but I saw Whitney Houston say 'ax' once. She's not Jamaican.
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Posted - 12/06/2004 : 05:43:54
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My dad pointed that one out to me, the aks ask thing, it's really common
Frank Black ate my hamster |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
947 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 06:55:15
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Originally posted by edwina
"At the end of the day".
"We'll take it from there".
"Think outside the box".
LOL, For me any of the management-speak buzzwords are guaranteed to irritate the fuck out of me.
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"What's your medicine today...what's your poison anyway?"
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edwina
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
179 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 07:47:57
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 09:23:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Scarla O
quote:
Originally posted by edwina
"At the end of the day".
"We'll take it from there".
"Think outside the box".
LOL, For me any of the management-speak buzzwords are guaranteed to irritate the fuck out of me.
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"What's your medicine today...what's your poison anyway?"
I think you need to be more of a team player. 
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 11:29:07
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Noooooooooooooooooo!
I knew when I started this thread that I was risking being exposed to toxic management-speak. Too many obnoxious memories from the corporate world!
Here's what else bugs me to no end: the expression "to share". Can we please not share? Unless you are actually going to share your popcorn with me or unless floop will give me half of his enchilada (I want a whole one!), can we please not fucking share?
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
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BrendanT
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
907 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 11:40:32
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree!
At the point in which this phrase is used the last thing that I want to do with the person in question is to give them the satisfaction of agreeing to anything!
Strummer-man
I had me a vision!
It's step, hip, step, pivot! Are you trying to piss-off the volcano?! |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2004 : 12:05:49
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I agree! ;-)
I also despise it when when people I don't know or don't like try to rechristen me. I have a real issue with (I had to sneak that one it!) people being overly familiar and I can't stand it when someone I just met starts calling me "Kath" or "Kate" or something I would never respond to and have never been called.
That is totally different from when someone you know and like gives you a nickname. For example, KOK has more than once referred to be as "Kay" and that's cool.
Greeeeeeeeeeeat, I'm gonna go blush now.
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
947 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2004 : 01:20:48
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
I think you need to be more of a team player.
Hey! You're moving the goal posts whilst my action plan is out of the loop...and pushing the envelope into a win win win situation when i'm not investing in my own goal-orientated vision? Well that just sucks!
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"What's your medicine today...what's your poison anyway?"
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Posted - 12/07/2004 : 05:30:37
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I had to fill in a personal assesment for the agency I used to work for and all the questions were in buzz-speak, I had a fun half an hour writing even weirder babble than the babble the assesment threw at me.
What is a paradigm? this one still confuses me, I threw it in at random points and wasn't picked up on it so I guess the agency didn't know either
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2004 : 11:10:04
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I worked with someone who always always always threw into every conversation the schmaltzy "Love ya! Mean it!" Was that only a 90s LA thing or did others have to put up with it?
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 12/07/2004 : 11:36:07
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Originally posted by Scarla O
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
I think you need to be more of a team player.
Hey! You're moving the goal posts whilst my action plan is out of the loop...and pushing the envelope into a win win win situation when i'm not investing in my own goal-orientated vision? Well that just sucks!
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"What's your medicine today...what's your poison anyway?"
Heh, its funny because I actually took business in uni and sometimes we'd write such bullshit kind of like that for essays or whatnot and get them back with terrific marks when all it was was a load of hogwash in the first place. Then we'd all sit around reading eachother's, laughing our asses off, not believing that they actually bought it.
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
1972 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2004 : 17:15:11
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synergies
knowledge transfer
timelines
move forward
interim review
career planning
development opportunities
annualized voluntary turnover
define and implement the process
leverage employees
utilize contract labor
resource brokering
strategic re-alignment
identify potential
re-tooling
strategy initiative
vision statement
strategic architecture
milestones and objectives
facilitate and lead
focus on the initiative
product, customer segment, and functional mapping
current state architecture
cost effective
off target
expense overruns
pain points
manager committees
drill down into lower levels
understanding ramifications
high-level approach
roadmap
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Posted - 12/07/2004 : 17:22:36
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Man, you guys hate a lot of expressions.
The stage divides us/He is on one side of it/I am far away - Frank haiku |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2004 : 17:27:18
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I will inflict bodily harm upon the next moron who tells me, "I feel you, dawg."
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 12/07/2004 : 18:09:52
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"Sucks to be you." I absolutely hate that!!!
"Right on." Hippies say this all the time. In their little natural world, it's universally accepted as a response to nearly anything. "Right on, man."
As far as "A'ight" goes, it's a'ight just as long as people pronounce it "Ah-iggit" like that vampire on Greg the Bunny did.
Let 'em riot. We're Sonic-fuckin'-Death Monkey. |
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whoreatthedoor
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
2873 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2004 : 11:41:05
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Caminar sobre las hojas del otońo es romántico y resbaladizo |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2004 : 11:46:37
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As in UR El Stupido!
Ahahahaha!
"4000 posts I reach/And still not look as good as Dean, hmm?" |
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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
2025 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2004 : 11:55:42
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Yo, dude... that's bogus.
Kittens give Morbo gas |
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 12:14:55
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it's all good
*shudder*
Frank Black ate my hamster |
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whoreatthedoor
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
2873 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2004 : 12:23:18
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I follow the word of Kathryn.
Come on! Join the Cult!
Caminar sobre las hojas del otońo es romántico y resbaladizo |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2004 : 12:24:25
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White people in professional settings saying "You da man!"
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 21:51:37
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i hate it when people say:
"well, it may or may not happen" - no shit, sherlock! saying "may" by definition also means it may not, fuckerheads!
"don't be a statistic" - fuck you, I am a statistic! I'm just on the "didn't get killed by a drunk driver" side of the comparison.
p.s. hi everybody, long time, no talk. I want a computer for Christmas. ;)
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What expressions do you hate? Vent!
