[bruinbirdman]

"That's so gay."

[camle]

“pandemic”

[GOP_Raider]

Phrases that like really bug us all, basically

"We're a nation of immigrants."

[gridlock]

I hate it when some PC thug is said to “Speak truth to power...”

[gitmo]

Using “less” when one means “fewer”.

“There were less people at the party then we expected.”

“Less” is a description for volume, nor a description for discrete units.

[Silly]

When I say, “Thank you, and told, “That’s okay.” That is a pet peeve.

“That’s okay” is never an appropriate or correct response to “Thank you.” The correct response is, “You’re welcome.” Or, “You’re very welcome,” or “quite welcome,” or, “It’s my pleasure.”

But not, “That’s okay.” Unless you want to sound like a 15-year-old.

[Daffynition]

“Look Outside Of The Box”

[gitmo]

Using the pronoun “I” where “me” is appropriate.

“He sent an email to Joe and I”. It should read “... to Joe and me.”

[Iowamerican]

“Something bigger than yourself”

[TADSLOS]

“You know” inserted liberally in conversation (It’s a disease).

[Fresh Wind]

There is a very annoying trend among the young whereby the speaker almost spits out the last letter of any word ending in “t”.

“What” has become “wha-tihhhh”

You hear this constantly on any youth-targeted TV show.

[USMCWife6869]

Irregardless. It drives me nuts.

[kitkat]

“He was one of the only who...”

That phrase makes no sense whatsoever. Does it mean “one of only two,” or “twenty” or “one thousand”, or how many?

[apocalypto]

"Life is too short." (I heard it several times this weekend.)
"Bottom line"
"A nation of immigrants"
"Undocumented workers"
"On the same page"
"the N-word"
"the transsexual [or some other statistical category] community" when referring to simply transsexuals

[MaryFromMichigan]

“Bush’s fault.”

(Can I get an Amen?)

[Malsua]

Oooh, I like this topic.

“challenge the bubble” WTF does that mean. If you’ve got trouble popping a bubble, you’ve got some real issues. Why are you challenging it anyway, just leave it alone, it’ll pop in a sec.

Also “More “insert here” than you can possibly imagine”

Hmm, ok there. Lessee.

Money: I can imagine every inch of the Earth, stacked 100,000 feet high with 100 dollar bills, more than that then?

Power: I can imagine having the power on a single thought to be able to contract the universe to a singular point infinitesimally small, then reverse it in a quadrillionth of a second. More power than that?

You get the point. Now, can you imagine being able to imagine more than I can possibly imagine?

[gitmo]

I logged back on to throw in one example I thought was hilarious.

I recently had to change the password on my work computer. I keyed in "Sum(n)=n/2(A1+An)".

The system gave me a message that my proposed new password "is not unique enough."

Unique is a binary choice. Something is either unique or it's not. And what was the problem with my prospective new password? I tried several other entries, with the same response.

So I called our help desk. The helpful help desk guy explained that I needed to make my password uniquer.

[Tolsti]

I’m chill..

[sauropod]

“breaking the paradigm”

[John D]

How about Conservative Democrat, or Liberal Republican.

If a person is a democrat he is not conservative, and if he is liberal he is not a Republican.

[7thson]

Phrases I hate -

"Blood for oil."

"Bush is Hitler."