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Everybody should stop saying these things:


"I could care less"
"It's besides the point"
"Nucular"

Any others?


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Opens up. As in, celebrity 'A' opens up about breakup with B. 🙄

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Ugh. True.

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"suck face"

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24/ 7 I think that might have been fresh in 1990

and worse:

24/ 7/ 365 which was always wrong and should have been 24/7/52 because there are 52 weeks in a year which is ALSO wrong because there are MORE than 52 weeks in a year!

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"...there are MORE than 52 weeks in a year!"

Maybe that's why they don't use it. 24/7/52 plus a day (or plus two days in leap years) is awkward. And today if a word contains more than two syllables it takes too much effort for some to pronounce it.

"365" would mean every day of the year.

For the record, I don't agree with the "24/7" model of operation. There needs to be a rhythm to life. Unless it is an essential service such as a hospital or the fire department, this isn't necessary. Do we really need 24-hour Walmarts?

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The other day I heard someone say, "you're stealing my thunder", in a video that was dated 1965. I never realized that expression went back that far.

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Thunder has been around a long time, as has stealing. :/

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Fap. Who came up with this ridiculous word? There are some stupid terms for masturbation but fap is just idiotic. How anyone can say it and not feel like a moron is beyond me.

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Sometimes in Australia it's called "having (havin') a bat". Make sense or not, it's funny in the Aussie accent.

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Also "Flogging the dolphin." We really need to un-desensitize ourselves vis-a-vis animal cruelty, even though the expression is funny AF.

Ditto for "Choking the Chicken."

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“Phee-nom,” exclusively used by moronic sports commentators (please pardon the redundancy) and their even-dumber fans. Really? Is “phenomenon” a word that’s just too big for you to remember?

Sheesh. Trailer park.

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Any word with more than two syllables is too difficult for some to pronounce. Too much effort involved.

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As I said, “trailer park.”

No wonder that you dislike smart phones.”

Don’t reply. Your response is obvious.

Oh no! THREE syllables. You do realize that the word “syllable” contains 3 of them, right? Yet you had no compunction about using the word in you feckless post.

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"Meh"
"You do you"
"That's offensive"
"You're a racist/nazi/white supremacist/etc.etc.etc."
"That's racist"
"That's misogynist"
"That's transphobic"
"That's islamaphobic"

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Thank you, Sandy.

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"none of your bees wax"

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Actually, I think beeswax is 1 word.

It’s like cocksucker, dickhead and asshole.

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Actually, I think beeswax is 1 word.

It’s like cocksucker, dickhead and asshole.

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