@gail- You’re going to have to get used to Lol, like it or not. This is an Internet thread, after all. But I do think it is way over used. I know of at least one time I’ve used it on Fluther.
Another one that makes me want to give myself many papercuts and then jump in salt water (am I over doing it?) is the saying, “You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk.”
AAAAAHHHH!!!
@AstroChuck; You asked what I was sick of; not what I am stuck with.
And I have to add; people who think they are making goods puns and then insert (no pun intended). I have always felt it is up to the listeners or readers to decide what is funny or clever or makes them laugh.
For example:
“Another one that makes me want to give myself many papercuts and then jump in salt water (am I overdoing it?)” made me laugh (out loud).
I have come to hate the word ‘virtually’, or at least the way it is currently being used in the media. Watch the news a couple of nights in a row and I guarantee you, some dumbass reporter will be standing outside some building or in front of some impoverished people saying ‘the situation here is virtually out of control!’ or something like that. The use of virtually in the above sentence is useless. It’s not that I have a problem with the word on it’s own, but hearing it all the time drives me mad.
Conversate: Why do so many people insist on adding a syllable to the word converse? This is probably a rare example of slang increasing the length of a word.
And, although it’s not a phase or buzzword, I really hate when literally is used when it should be figuratively instead. When I see this I get so mad I could literally explode!
Okay, probably not.
That X is “dated”.
Get/have/etc. “a life”.
Tragedy (overabused in news media for accidents).
“For kids’ sake.”
“in da house”
“a must”, “a must-see”, etc.
“everyone is talking about…”
someone “is raving about”
“back to school”
Any jargon trying to cutely assert the smartypants rightness of laws that should not be laws, e.g.: “click it or ticket”
I also loathe several that others already wrote about:
my bad
old school
get ‘er done
walking the walk
I know there are more that I’m thankfully not thinking of.
I hate when people say there going to get their “Hair did” and I hate when someone calls someone “Savage” or short for it- “Sav”. My sister constantly says “oh my god thats so Savage!!” and it really bothers me and makes my eye twitch. Also when someone says “like” to much.
I’ve been scolding my nephew recently for saying “my bad”. I told him what he really means to say is “I’m sorry”. It suddenly occurred to me that “my bad” was a way of owning a mistake without having to apologize for it.
Another thing that drives me nuts is when by 8 year old goes, “Oh, Snap!” I heard another kid says this the other day. This is something destined to send me up the wall.
Anything that starts with “dude” or includes words like “gnarly” certainly make my list. It is difficult to impart (to those who use these expressions) the inherent limits of “surf culture” in Ohio . . .