I get tired of hearing "issue" & "opportunity", translated means FUBAR & you're about to get hosed.....
"Please S T O P saying this" thread.
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I can sometimes say "ya know". now, if ya did know, I would not have to have the friggin conversation to educate your stupid a** in the first place?! YA know!?..................... HA
cudak888
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Can't disagree with that. Then again, one shouldn't have to justify an opinion as an opinion unless they fear the other person's reaction somehow.
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I see your point.
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Too bad the all the idiots out there don't get it when we have to say it - heh!
Then again, John McClaine has lot of comebacks for people like that. And not a single one of them should be on a "stop saying this" thread
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Welcome to the party, PAL !
1969CoronetR/T
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I called a customer about paying an old invoice (30 days past due) and he asked 'do you have a phone so I can can get back to you?' I thought it was a weird question since we are talking on a phone, but I answered politely and gave him my phone number. A few months later I called different customer about an invoice and he asked me the same question. This has happened three times in the last few years and all three times it was an older man or women. I assume it is an old expression and they mean 'Can I get your phone number?' instead of 'Do you have a phone so I can get back to you?' Maybe they are unedumacated in the 'Merican grammar.
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fwi
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When did "no problem" replace "you're welcome"?
Why are older people using the word "cool", which used to be owned by the under 25 crowd?
When did the word "issue" replace the much more descriptive "problem"?
Finally, when will people of all ages stop "high fiving" each other?
Why are older people using the word "cool", which used to be owned by the under 25 crowd?
When did the word "issue" replace the much more descriptive "problem"?
Finally, when will people of all ages stop "high fiving" each other?
mmissile
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The phrase that drives me absolutely nuts is..."my bad". People use it for every excuse to be a douche-bag, imaginable. I've never witnessed a time when it wasn't for someone's laziness or stupidity. It also validates their not being sorry for their action.
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Finally, when will people of all ages stop "high fiving" each other?
Finally, when will people of all ages stop "high fiving" each other?
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Yeah... The replacement of " You're welcome" with no worries, no problem, its all good, fo sho, ain't no thang.....It makes me want to kick a midget. No worries??? What the hell is this? Some bullshit hippie colony????
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Have we covered: TRANSPARENCY or TRANSPARENT?
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I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, useing "motor" for "engine".
Motors run by electricity
Engines run by combustion
I'm finished for now.
Motors run by electricity
Engines run by combustion
I'm finished for now.
idrivemopar
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Imbibe, partake, indulge, come on, just ask if you do this or that and quit trying to sound all smart! LOL Along with that goes, "our employees/company have/has *** combined years of experience!" Sorry, but that doesn't add up, your employees are only as strong/good as the one with the most experience and as weak as the one with the least experience. Sorry, but 120 years combined experience making widgets that have only been around for 30 years and you got one guy that's been doing it that long and the rest only 10 years or less, you have only 30 years experience.
1969CoronetR/T
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Motorcycle?
It's been 35 years since I was first "corrected" for using motor and engine improperly. Funny that it has never come up with me again since that time.
It seemed like it was a distinction without a important difference to me.
Of course with the internet it becomes an easy research to get to the technical aspects of it.
But the best way I know of to make the distiction that a motor uses an external power source and is "driven" by that external power.
But an engine uses a fuel to perform work.
That being said I think the distinction becomes silly in common use as has been illustrated by the previous examples.
I've always looked at "motor" as a universal term.
One might use motor to mean either.
While engine is more restrictive.
It seemed like it was a distinction without a important difference to me.
Of course with the internet it becomes an easy research to get to the technical aspects of it.
But the best way I know of to make the distiction that a motor uses an external power source and is "driven" by that external power.
But an engine uses a fuel to perform work.
That being said I think the distinction becomes silly in common use as has been illustrated by the previous examples.
I've always looked at "motor" as a universal term.
One might use motor to mean either.
While engine is more restrictive.
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