"The economy".
I had thought of "business school" or "MBA", but hey, they might be interesting, I'm only judging them based on the people I know who have gone or have one. "Interactive Game" is right up there too, like if your not interacting with it, is it a game in the first place?
But the winner is "Blog." It used to be said that if you had a million monkeys typing one of them would recreate Shakespeare, perhaps that's true, but for the most part what we have found out is that the other 999,999 of them would write about how much their life sucks.
Honorable mention to "Twitter." Really, did I need or want to know any of that stuff? No.
"Going forward ..."
Have a good day.
Janet
Quote from: Janet Lynn on April 13, 2009, 11:33:08 AM
Have a good day.
Janet
I hear that!
How are you? You are now in a queue, your call is important to usIf its that important you would, hire more people to answer the calls!! GRRR!!
Jay
"Bastion of morality." Or maybe "Great Expectations"; that was a really boring book, and I'm rarely bored by books.
Repeat...
Ok I just did it and you want me to do it again?
Myles
Ok I just did it and you want me to do it again?
Yeah, until you get it right.
Unless your in the military then you get to repeat it even if you had it right.
Goes with the saying
"hurry up and wait" another great one
Myles
Normal.
Regular.
Everyday.
Conformity.
'war on terror'...ugh.
also, 'homeland security'.
As soon as I hear those words, I tune out.
Okay, there are political phrases that are irritating, but I don't think that qualifies as "most boring." To really get top dishonors, a phrase has to be simultaneously cliched, awkward, and either easily replaceable or devoid of meaning entirely. Nichole's is one that I hear a lot lately and gets on my nerves. I hope that going forward we can avoid that awful phrase. :P
Here are some more I hate:
Give 110% ... you'd better not unless you have overdraft protection.
At the end of the day ... it gets dark. We call that "night."
Happens to be ... as in, "She happens to be Korean (but I'm such an open-minded liberal that I hardly even noticed)."
"In this paper, I will argue..."
Made up science in adverts...
"Biffidus Digestivus"
"Collegen Bio-spheres"
"100% shinyer"
"Essential oils"
How stupid are people?
Wait: I don't want to know... :P
In god we trust. What the heck does that mean ?
Quote from: tekla on April 13, 2009, 10:53:42 AM
I had thought of "business school" or "MBA", but hey, they might be interesting, I'm only judging them based on the people I know who have gone or have one. "Interactive Game" is right up there too, like if your not interacting with it, is it a game in the first place?
But the winner is "Blog." It used to be said that if you had a million monkeys typing one of them would recreate Shakespeare, perhaps that's true, but for the most part what we have found out is that the other 999,999 of them would write about how much their life sucks.
Honorable mention to "Twitter." Really, did I need or want to know any of that stuff? No.
A million wins.
Write a book.
Quote from: Alyssa M. on April 14, 2009, 12:39:02 AM
Okay, there are political phrases that are irritating, but I don't think that qualifies as "most boring."
No, no. Those two phrases really put me to sleep. I find them truly boring. I feel like they are supposed to be exciting and scary...so it's a little ironic.
Also, "____ was an interesting book." Someone in a third year collegiate writing class actually started a paper with that sentence. *snooze*
Quote from: Mr. Fox on April 13, 2009, 12:50:39 PM
Or maybe "Great Expectations"; that was a really boring book, and I'm rarely bored by books.
Amen to that. I literally fell asleep reading that book.
Quote from: Randy on April 14, 2009, 09:40:58 PM
Amen to that. I literally fell asleep reading that book.
I'm one of those people who likes books, even when they're boring, or when they suck. But when both are combined in extreme degree, I can't take it anymore. Even Charles Dickens fans don't like Great Expectations. I will say that Miss Havisham was a very interesting character. But that doesn't justify the writing of a crappy book.
The only time Great Expectations isn't boring is in Charades...I'm proud to day that my group got it. I rule at Charades!
i vote for:
smelt
I don't know about boring but these are the most annoying and ignorant phrases that I know of.
"In God we Trust."
"God bless America."
"...smoke a fatty.." As in, I'm gonna go home and "smoke a fatty". Ugh..
I've actually been known to overuse the most boring and trite words in existence. So, rather than beating myself up, I'm going to go along with the annoying=boring theme:
- Let me be honest with you...
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no I will not allow that, please continue to lie to me(let me just say something completely offensive)-
If you're really sorry, there is no "but." (let me just say something which shows how little I respect you)-
Oh it is, is it?
The "so help me God" part at the end of "I swear to tell the truth...".
QuoteLet me be honest with you
That when it's used by politicians and other people who tell you that they're about to tell you something. "Well, you see, it's like this...". Argh! I have nothing against polies (or what I do have against them is the same as most people, no offence :P), but a lot of the phrases that I find boring-as are political/financial/business-related. Budget, shares, sharemarkets, down-sizing, outsourcing... Mmmm, I think all these words that are meant to scare us (or at least have an impact on how we act and think about money and business) are touted slightly too often... :icon_blah:
At the end of the day...
Quote from: William on April 15, 2009, 01:55:17 AM
The "so help me God" part at the end of "I swear to tell the truth...".
I think that it's really bizarre that Christian America is so into that phrase give what Jesus said about oaths:
Quote from: JesusAgain, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.' But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. -- Matthew 5:33-37 NIV
I really want someone to take a stand on that point. Bailiff says: "So help you God?" Witness says: "Get behind me, Satan! I will let my 'Yes' be 'Yes' and my 'No,' 'No.'"
"we can still be friends..."
"Smear campaign", and the implication that it is somehow not interchangeable with the word "politics".