Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression

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What are people saying over and over again that is driving a craw up your ass?

― Calamari, Monday, 6 January 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry seems to be...

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

my favorite cliche/phrase/expression is "driving a craw up your ass."

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Describing some sort've artistic advancement as "taking things to a whole`nother level!" has *GOT* to fuckin' stop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

my favorite cliche/phrase/expression is "driving a craw up your ass."
Yeah, I'm adding that to my vocabulary, right next to "Grabasstic!"

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, you watch too much VH1's 100 Greatest ______ ....

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Describing some sort've artistic advancement as "taking things to a whole`nother level!" has *GOT* to fuckin' stop.
Emeril Legasse to thread...

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"And just like that ..."
It's used at least once in the narration for every frigging episode of "Sex In the City."

Not that I ever watch that show.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You're right, dave.

That, and their overuse of "diva," "booty" and "mojo." All three words need to be swiftly retired.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, there's lots...

"...go ahead and..." (as in "Can I just go ahead and clear these plates out of your way?")

"Enlighten me" (I posted this on another thread: "It sounds so passive-aggressive, as if they're saying 'I'm second-guessing that you think I'm really ignorant, and you're obviously much smarter than I am, oh ho ho, so please, oh wise one, share your bounty of knowledge.' Why does a request for information have to be so loaded with cynicism?")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

But how will they explain J.lo if they can't say that her mojo is in her diva booty?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Push the envelope" or "pushing the envelope." Not quite as au courant as "'nother level," but it makes me want to take that envelope (whatever that means)and push it up the speaker/writer's ass.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

in a work context: "how easy would it be to [insert time-consuming yet brainless task here]" - yes, mr mcgillicuddy, counting this tractor-trailer full of ball-bearings is a job any fool could do - it will be done by lunchtime!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The prefix uber- is quite irritating.

― jot eff pe, Monday, 6 January 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. Interesting point. On the other hand, I've never heard anyone ever use unter- in a review.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Richie Unterberger?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Avril is the current Queen Of Cliche it would seem, all that crap about 'i'm so lucky that i get to do what i do and show the world how i feel about stuff and touch the fans with my music' - shut the fuck up harpy!

also, award winners who thank God (how the fuck do you know he wanted you to win?!)

also, DJs who like to take people 'on a journey'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

also, award winners who thank God (how the fuck do you know he wanted you to win?!)
Yeah, you'd think somebody...anybody...would thank Satan for a change.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"the best band/DJ/album/MIDI/rapper/subwoofer/singing saw you've never heard"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a free country.
In my humble opinion.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the word 'abstract' to be especially annoying in music writing.

And 'cinematic' is a close second.

― Arjun Mendiratta (arjun), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"keepin' it real"
"Knowhum'sayin'?"
"I ain't feelin' ______ [insert object of derision here]"
"Holla!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"recent events" (i.e., Sept 11, 2001)

"you can't tell me not to [x]"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"A soundtrack for an imaginary movie" for every dowtempo crappy record..

― snowballing, Monday, 6 January 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't really a music-related cliche, but simillar to Amateurist's message, I'm really tired of people referring to September 11, 2001 as "Nine Eleven". I don't know why it bugs me. Why do we (or perhaps the media) feel the need to make a catchy soundbyte out of it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes there is something about "nine eleven" that seems to distance the event, make it this thing that happened and is over and done with, everyone knows why it happened and what we have to do about it.

I can't stand it when something is referred to as a "soundscape." (Reminds me of when people say a film is "like a painting.") Does this just mean, little melody evident? Many overdubs? What?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Horny middle-aged people talking about getting "a lil' sumpin' sumpin'". God, what a turnoff.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

incendiary, as when articles on newer acts start off by telling me that band x have "built their reputation on a series of incendiary live gigs." (and not to be a nitpicking weenie, but aren't gigs by definition live?)

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur, what if the object of their desire is a midget named Sumpin Sumpin? Hmm, that didn't help at all.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You could have a studio gig.

a midget named Sumpin Sumpin

Shit, where did you get David Lynch's new script?!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"if you don't like it, don't listen to it"

― Evan (Evan), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jesus Christ, you are hot. Can I sleep with you?"

Gets so old.

― Trip Fontaine, Monday, 6 January 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"your mileage may vary" was useful for a while but is now completely burnt out.

― Aaron A., Monday, 6 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

'Nuff said! AARRGH.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"The value of your ______ can go down as well as up"

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ladies leave yo man at home
The club is full of ballas and
They pockets full grown
And all you fellas leave yo girl
With her friends
Cause its 11:30 and
we're chasin' Sumpin Sumpin

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i've said these before but i can't stand the overuse of:

"basically"

and

"to be honest with you".

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"You know?" = AARRGGGGHHH!

― El Jefe (js williams), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember someone on one of the dance messageboards I read was moaning about DJs "taking the crowd on a journey" as opposed to "just lashing it out". I kinda think it's ok to use the phrase, the fact that dance is often so deintellectualised makes it an easier target. I do think the two things above are just different peoples ways of describing their fun, I've seen people describe a shit set by saying "oh he was into this taking the crowd on a journey" crap. The problem is there's so much pr fluff (maybe needs scare quotes, but it genuinely is PR FLUFF) in the magazines that all these phrases are joined together and so you get "clubbing experience of a lifetime as Sasha takes the crowd on a journey".

I do hate "clubbing experience", it's always used for those massive trance arena (barn) dances that are on in Dublin like Gods Kitchen 2003 or whatever.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God, where to begin? There are days when I want to flush the entire English language down the commode just so people will finally quit torturing it.

My most hated phrase: "Just wanted to touch base with you."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'If you don't like it you don't have to listen to it' and all its variants are the spawn of hell. If all the TV channels in the world changed their output to permanent 24 hour slow motion replays of the World Shitting Into A Cup Championships there'd still be some fucker saying 'well nobody's forcing you to watch!' Also I think I've mentioned 'A (positive premodifying adjective) (object of derision)? Snort. Surely that's an oxymoron.' as well. Gah.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Groundbreaking" when applied to anything besides shovels. "Positive" when applied to anything except sub-atomic particles (maybe "chaos" should go be in that category too). "Boring" when applied to anything besides huge fucking drills, when used by anyone who's dumber than me

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The way some people (not any of YOU guys of course...) abbreviate first names when casually referring to someone is starting to get on my nerves. I hate anything that looks like an in-joke but isn't really.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, just! did you leave the key under the mat? hurhur.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Prefixing the word "so" in front of some other stupid bit of nonsense:
I am "so" gonna kick your ass!
You are "so" not going to get any booty tonight!

Keep it real; keepin' it real

Peace out!

Cutting edge.... especially when something is "so" not cutting edge.

― Blackmarket Tarbaby, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(and not to be a nitpicking weenie, but aren't gigs by definition live?)
Welll, gigs by a band fronted by Jerry Garcia were called "Dead Gigs...."

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

If you watch a lot of TV or hang around in malls, you'll soon discover that a lot of overfed, middle-aged, suburban women say "Fabulous" a lot. I fuckin' hate that. It used to just be a gay thing - it was cute then.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

'Nuff said! AARRGH.
Yes. This only works if you end the review with the phrase "Exselsior! True Believers!"
My most hated phrase: "Just wanted to touch base with you."
Just wait until music reviewers start trying to "maximize their synergies and empower their client base."
Prefixing the word "so" in front of some other stupid bit of nonsense:
They are sooooooo much more irritating when they add extra o's to it.

Also, I'm amazed no-one has mentioned "n'est pas?" to this list. Ick.
I think they need to add "Grabastic" to their vocabulary. For a week. No more than a week. After that, I wouldn't be "cute" anymore.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"n'est pas?"

n'est-ce pas, even.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Argh.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"...and I was walking down the street/doing such & such as you do..." As you bloody do?! For some reason, it just sounds so smartarse.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"As it were."

Does that phrase add any meaning whatsoever to the end of a sentence?

"I rode my goldfish all the way to Hastings, as it were."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

..as you do

I love when people use this phrase when it's something that you don't do.. like:
"I pulled a lamb shank out from underneath my thumbnail - as you do."
-or-
I got pregnant and went to an Iggy Pop concert - as you do."

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"i'm for real" 'i'm still jenny from the block" DONT DO THIS! LIVE OUT MY POSHO DREAM!

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

eck that riding-a-goldfish thing is so DONE

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

..as it were ...

I asked a secretary (sorry, "Assistant") for their bosses fax number ..

And she said, "So you want her fax number, as it were?"

and I said, "No - I want it as it is."

(I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitresses.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...also, when people say it was yay big, in stead of this/that big etc. What about elitist twats who refer to The Guardian as The Grauniad?? I'll stop now as I'm only winding myself up...

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Since this thread is nitpicky in essence...
dave225 means of course "I asked a secretary for HER (or his) BOSS'S number".

― Paula G., Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It used to just be a gay thing - it was cute then.

Who do you think they stole it from??

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually hate when words like "cheesy," "boring," and "annoying" show up in music criticism. I don't mind colloquial language in formal writing, but that doesn't mean you have to present yourself like a 13-year-old.

I also hate "overrated" and "pretentious" -- for reasons we've discussed on these boards.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also starting to dislike when things are referred to derisively as "art school" -- as if that's somehow more worthy of contempt than "business school" or "law school."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear "business school" being used derisively far more than "art school." Maybe that says more about what circles we run in. Anyways, both usages are dud.

Speaking of "as it were," I heard a colleague utter this twice in a meeting just this morning.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"It's all about oil."

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"unlistenable and pretentious"

― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Describing Low as 'depressive' must end now. That and constant accusations of pretention levelled at anyone who experiments without having an experimental background, or experiments and gets popular at the same time.

― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil, do you mean both words in tandem? b/c "unlistenable" is a useful word, in the sense of "i find this unlistenable."

callum, we have several pretention threads.

new unfavorite expression: "oh, what i wouldn't give--." heard twice today. like everyone here is so poor they would go bankrupt if they bought a piece of cake.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Tandem, neither, both, either, don't matter to me. Two words that are kinda pointless. If something's "unlistenable" does that make it "inaudible?" Or do you just not like it?

Also forgot to mention "pretend to like/love" but I don't really wanna open that can o' worms again.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"You call that a vagina?"

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"they mean it, maaaaaan."

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Strange that Jody mentions "cheesey". I hate it too though I always use it, but what I hate about it is that in house music lots of stuff is "cheesey" but it seems a get out clause for someone who's afraid to say I LOVE THIS RECORD without condition and typical of dance criticisms lack of confidence. Next time I use the word cheesey someone fucking send me hate mail.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

whenever an annoying American artist takes the piss out of an English accent in a TV interview (has Avril done this yet? i bet she has...why, the little bitch - why i oughta!)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Though a "smoking hot" chick is a sight to behold, I don'tdig that particular phraseology to describe her.

MUST SEE TV

More of a trend that become pretty cliche: TRIBUTE ALBUMS. What did we do to deserve a tribute to a trifling band like ____________ (fill in your most irritating pet peve of a band here).

― Lord of Cheese, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Annoying phrase: "funky". Unless used to describe food: "Um, tastes... kinda funky."

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Describing Bjork, Tori Amos or any female musician who won't play the 'loaded' glamour game as 'weird'.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Or, Billy, "kooky".

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Substituting the word "way" for very as in: That band is "way" cool, man.

High speed low drag.

Suffixing "-ish" to a time: Let's meet at 5-ish because 4-ish is too earley and I'll be hypoglycemic by 6-ish.

Describing a band as a gene spliced concotion of two other bands:
If Band A had a head on collsion with Band B you'd get Band C... If Band D got fucked in the ass by Band E and some sperm accidently landed in the love canal and a love child was produced you'd get band F... blah blah blah

The general term: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC/ALTERNATIVE RADIO
In the same vein: COLLEGE RADIO

Boy Band Profiling: The guy with the goatee will always be the one to go to rehab

Hella: That band was "hella" rocking last night.

Genius: How is it that so people know so many geniuses (genii?)... you know I ain't that smart!

Stoked

Full-on: That guitar player was full-on raging, dude!

Describing anything over 5 years old as RETRO. Worse is describing at SO RETRO. The worst is describing it as SOOOOOOOOOOOOO RETRO! (Props to those who posted before me!)

Props: just don't like that word and the people who use it.

― Crackhead Willie, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still waiting for "Psuedoesque" to start popping up, but instead I keep seeing annoying cliché crap like bands referred to as "an eeeeevil version of...(insert name of another band)."

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone really ought to write something with ALL of these phrases in it. That person won't be me though.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord Custos Omega ,

If not the eeeevil twin, the "lite" version .... for instance, COLD PLAY is actually RADIOHEAD-lite.

― Okidata4, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. I forgot about "-lite".
I admit...That is even more hateful than "...evil version of..." (and that only hurts if they don't have three or more eeee's on the front.)

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ABSOLUTELY! Just say yes, you pretentios twats!

BUT OF COURSE! You must be French and a head chef in a restaurant that is not necessary French to get away with using this phrase. BTW, the only time that this phrase is used correctly is when you are drunk and abusing the staff.

― Verga, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'On acid' is not en vogue anymore, is it? (Neither is 'en vogue', I reckon.) Irritating nevertheless.

― jot eff pe, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

jot eff pe,

very very true... also "on crack" "on speed" and "high octane version of"

also

they are (insert band name here) without the (insert quality ie: wit, intelligence, class, etc...)

― WHISKEY KID, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

1.WHAT PART OF __________ DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

2. not a phrase, but a way of speaking these days: making statements that sound like questions because of intonation. This drives me crazy!

― Request Denied, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

2. not a phrase, but a way of speaking these days: making statements that sound like questions because of intonation. This drives me crazy!

Never come to Australia? Everything sounds like a question? Oddly, they never took to Therapy? though?

(you do get used to it after a while, thank god.)

and to answer the question: seconded, anything like "so-and-so ON DRUGS!!!" (oooh, I'm such a Hunter Thompson in the making with my reverences to Qaaludes...cnut)

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I just heard a potato chip reffered to as "effective." That's gotta stop.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR that is grebt! "This potato chip is one of the most effective chips I've had the pleasure of ingesting." Either a parody of upper-class britishisms or a ROBOT!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

new phrases that should never be used by record industry execs!! (after terrible day at the conference today)

-"a viable P2P filesharing product"
-"multiple revenue streams"
-"perhaps others will follow the robbie williams business model"
-"99 cents per mp3 is a fair price, we feel"
-"bundling our music product with video add-ons to add on perceived value for the CD-purchasing consumer"

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody's right about "overrated."

There's a recent trend in speaking where people say questions directed at themselves out loud and then answer them. "Did I expect Justin's solo record to suck? Basically. Did I love it anyway? Absolutely ."

It's not the most irritating verbal mannerism, but it is kind of annoying.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody's right about "overrated."

See, I don't think "overrated" has to be a criticism. I can acknowledge that the Strokes are overrated (they are -- I mean, they just are, and there's no way in hell they could have been as earthshatteringly good as the critics/publicists promised), while still admitting that I enjoy Is This It. "Overrated" isn't really about the quality of the music; it's about a lot of external factors that rightfully shouldn't get in the way of your relationship with a record.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate underrated much more than overrated. Underrated just sounds so clever-clever.

But my hatred of both is as naught (argh) compared with that of (argh) "deplaning" and my current bugbear "personal belongings".

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate "overrated" because who knows where this "rating" is coming from, someones friends? Their big brother? Their dad? It also implies there is some fixed rating of something out there somewhere and that's lame too. There is no way it can be used properly unless someone says "overrated by the NME/those fatcats on ILM/whatever"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR that is grebt! "This potato chip is one of the most effective chips I've had the pleasure of ingesting." Either a parody of upper-class britishisms or a ROBOT!
Yes: Chippy, the Pringlebot 3000 is working within established parameters.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree that "overrated" is a pretty lame criticism. In the first place, it's not your reaction to something at all, it's a reaction to other people's reactions to it. Which is fine, but come out and say so: don't take your resentment of, uh, Q magazine and their ten "The 100 Greatest Things EVER!!!" lists a year out on some poor album.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Two words: two words.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah it sucks if its not immediately followed by:
"...I think you hear Tom knockin, and I think he's comin in...OOOOKaY!"

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

_____ is the new ______.

_____ is back!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone gotten sick of "All Your Bass Are Belong to Us" yet?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

If they're gonna do a "Zero Wing" joke why not go "Release Album...for Great Justice!" while they're at it?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Who in this bitch likes the California Razizans?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"I was flipping through the channels when I came across (insert television show person is too embarassed to say he/she watches regularly.)"

― Mentiroso, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON.

Expressions like:
One beer short of a six-pack!
The light's on but no one's home.
He's not the sharpest knife in the kitchen.
He's not the brightest bulb in the house.

Using the word "gay" to mean uncool.

Using the word "fag" to describe a person as uncool.

Throwing your arms and/or legs out and/or making contortionist quality hand gestures every time your lips move ala RAP artists/hood rats, especially when the closest you've been to the hood is when you watch re-runs of YO! MTv RAPS.

Lame metal bands thinking acoustic sets of their horrible songs will make those songs somehow sound better.

― SWORDFISH, Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Throwing your arms and/or legs out and/or making contortionist quality hand gestures every time your lips move ala RAP artists/hood
rats, especially when the closest you've been to the hood is when you watch re-runs of YO! MTv RAPS."

Oh amen, amen, amen. SWORDFISH is so OTM, he's positively a PROPHET!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone gotten sick of "All Your Bass Are Belong to Us" yet?

No, that DJ Virus track is still in my playlist, why?

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Get my/your groove on."

"You just don't get it." I usually get it but either don't like it (if it is music, a movie, book or something else) or don't think it is funny (if someone is telling me a joke that I think is lame.)

― Illich, Thursday, 9 January 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"I read with interest ..... "

.. I think the "with interest" is implied if you spent the time to write a letter about it...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

and for that matter, "I read..." is a given if you're bothering to reply.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"You just don't get it."
To which I respond. No...I did "get it", I just didn't WANT it.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting back to the ever-tired "keepin' it real" shit, can we finally fuckin' officially retire it now that Coca-Cola is using it in their latest ad campaign (as sung by Mya & some gent with a floppy hat....Common maybe?)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I am all about [...]"

"I'm not really about [...]"

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Friday, 17 January 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Let's not reinvent the wheel" - when referring to something that is not a simple machine, but rather, a very complex abstraction.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 January 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

When people talk of "owning" emotions. Owning a thread's OK, though.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Also really sick of: "I'm really feeling this album" or "I'm not really feeling that..." etc.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Just out of curiousity, what exactly is a craw, and what would you need to drive it up there?

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with "It's all about...."

and

"Its all good"

― insectifly (insectifly), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

people on ILX say "clearly" way too much, i don't like it

― duane, Saturday, 18 January 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'm guilty of that. Sorry, Duane.

Words I use far too often on ILM: Irrefutably, Moot, Disquietingly, Worryingly, Rocktastic, Implausibly, Indefensible, Killing, Joke, Honor, The and Fire.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"moving forward"
"depth of flavor"

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 18 January 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

words alex in nyc doesn't use enough anymore: PABULUM!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I was about to say that mark!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Knew that was going to come up. What can I say...I think I exhausted it to the point where it lost its magic for me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Irrefutable pabulum.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Emperor's New Clothes

as in: I don't like [X] that everyone seems to be raving about - oh, it's just emperor's new clothes (ie: all the others are weak minded fools and only I can see the truth)(ie: I'm a pompous twit).

― DavidM (DavidM), Saturday, 18 January 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Irrefutably MOOT pabulum.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "to the next level" because a lot of bands have a leap in quality between albums and its a fun, silly way to express that. I'd never do that in print though. Except for humorous purposes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"X is OTM."

No he isn't on money, he is on crack!

― , Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

basically using any quotation from anyone ever (including the dictionary) to sum up the point you think you're making. a lot of people said a lot of things! some of them are even official, ooooh! so what?! they don't provide that last f'in nail in the coffin of your arg or whatever, like we're so dazzled with this AUTHORITATIVE coup de grace that we just sort of topple over sideways and whimper "you win, you win..." i love a good quote but ONLY if it's docu-historical or like, informational. or fictional.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

When people talk of "owning" emotions. Owning a thread's OK, though.
What if we 0wnz0red it?

Just out of curiousity, what exactly is a craw, and what would you need to drive it up there?
A craw is a weird vegetable that Victorians used to boil mercilessly. What was odd about this -- now extinct -- vegetable is that it was part of the life cycle of a form of crayfish. This is why a crayfish that has given 'birth' to a craw is called a Crawdad.
As for how something can get 'stuck in yer craw', this has something to do with a perverse party game practiced my members of the Naughty Hellfire Club back when there still were craws to use in this twisted game. Lets just say it involved sticking things into a craw...and leave it at that.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

To answer TMFTML seriously, craw = throat I think.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty unimpressed & bored with the whole "GREBT" thing too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Also, this is more sports related, and it may be a local phenomenon, but "Do it like you can." Here that a lot. Fills me with barely controlled rage.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

rawk

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.

Post of the day.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Post of the Month, I say. I practically spat coffee all over my keyboard in utter, unhomogenized mirth.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Naw, it still wouldn't be complete unless its a relentlessly white insurance salesman with thinning hair and owl-like spectacles saying it...and ending the statement with "Yo". As in...
[WHINY HONKEY]"Oh, he's in the house, yo."[/WHINY HONKEY]

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh NO....

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

nineteen years pass...

People who last week couldn't find x on a map are now all of a sudden an expert in y

― anvil, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:48 (three years ago)

bookmarkflaglink
...also, when people say it was yay big, in stead of this/that big etc. What about elitist twats who refer to The Guardian as The Grauniad?? I'll stop now as I'm only winding myself up...
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 3:46 PM

I suppose that nineteen years ago this person not understand that “yea” in this context does not mean “this/that” but approximate? Perhaps enlightenment has come and their irritation has subsided.

― Kim, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:40 (three years ago)

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