Phrases / words / buzzwords you hate

[stray]

Whatshisnuts -- I don't really care to identify guys by their testicles

Meatspace -- Just off yourself already, Johnny Mnemonic

Sellout -- especially when it comes to people who lash out against bands they used to like, and want them to keep making the same albums over and over again. Fucking nazi's.

...

I'm the only person I know who still calls certain people "Squares".

[Ironwood]

Startled to see it on the Buzzword Bingo Pic, but my personal hate at the moment is 'Quick Win'.

Fuck Right Off.

This one is usually said by people who simply refuse to comprehend how much work is involved in something that they can't understand and therefore think is 'easy'.

Pricks.

[stray]

I hate "resume speak". You know, shit like "self starter", "has an eye for detail", "extremely adept".... What a waste of time. I just want to list my experience, and say "Look motherfuckers! Do not hire Bob's buddy from Wisconsin. He doesn't know shit. I do. And I buy everyone candy."

[voodoolily]

24/7

[Venkman]

Self-appraisal (I know what I think. What do YOU think)
Yes, and (no, it's yes but because the idea was that bad)
Brainstorm (they never are, right next to "open and honest" and "frank")
Take this offline (no, make the effing decision now you avoider)
Avoider (is that even a real word?)
Dodged a bullet (only because nobody does proper post-mortems)
Impossible (go get an easy job you wank)
Challenging (what the hell do you think they pay us for, wank)
Easy (because you don't know shit... wank)

And anyone who tries to do everything themselves because they think that's the only way to get ahead. Just gotta recognize when that's the case versus when someone truly does need to do everything themself.

[voodoolily]

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"

Fuck a Reason for the Season. WE'RE NOT ALL CHRISTIANS, AND CHRIST WASN'T EVEN BORN IN DECEMBER.

[rk47]

Anything related with God affecting or influencing my life kinda makes me annoyed.

[Trippy]

Blog (and all associated forms)

Synergy

That's one of the ones I hate though fortunately it seems to be going out of style (more a 20th century thing).

[voodoolily]

Anything related with God affecting or influencing my life kinda makes me annoyed.

I got a frown on me at work for alerting HR in our corporate office that some people in our branch were soliciting us to make donations to the Salvation Army. I'm a little more bitter this year than usual (but there will be no more "adopt a family" bullshit, so I win).

[Signe]

Ooo... that's avatar material.  We should have a picture thread where we can express our true feelings about the festive holiday season!  Someone (NOT ME!) do that, pretty please. 

PS  paradigm shift

[rk47]

Anything related with God affecting or influencing my life kinda makes me annoyed.

I got a frown on me at work for alerting HR in our corporate office that some people in our branch were soliciting us to make donations to the Salvation Army. I'm a little more bitter this year than usual (but there will be no more "adopt a family" bullshit, so I win).

Well I have no beef with charity drives, but shoving beliefs in 'Superman' in a literal sense that he possess the power of universe creation and purging of sins while remaining completely invisible down into my throat is a bit too much to take.

[Samwise]

Please to be saving holiday bellyaching for the Festivus thread.

[Teleku]

We thankfully purged god out of Christmas a long time ago.  Christmas in America is a totally secular fun holiday with its own traditions and beliefs that have nothing to do with the Bible, for the majority of Americans.  So I have no problem with it, or see why others get bent out of shape over it. 

"If done properly, it can work" (no shit, thanks for that Captain Obvious)

I think this is a valid saying.  Its the middle ground between "Thats an excellent plan, do it." and "Theres no fucking way that will ever work even if excuted to perfection."  It might work, but its going to be tricky and take more effort.

[Tairnyn]

Some recurring themes from the world of software research proposals:

World-class
State-of-the-art
Innovative
Bleeding edge
Intelligent Agents
Situation awareness
10,000 foot view
Low hanging fruit
User-centric

And for anyone wondering what Web 4.0 is so they can be on the cutting edge...

[Fabricated]

All console war phrases.
Lulz
  Way to ruin a great smiley everyone.
FTW
QFT
TL;DR
Web 2.0
Blogosphere (this word has been kinda going away thank god)

[stray]

I thought that smiley was supposed to be impervious to overuse or something. 

[Teleku]

Certainly hasn't gotten old for me.


Fabricated must be a Communist!

[SnakeCharmer]

I don't even know what TL;DR means.

[stray]

I don't even know what TL;DR means.

Too long;didn't read.


I want to believe "Web 2.0" signifies something. So far, it hasn't.

[naum]

Synergy

O, I loathe that word, and it has come up twice recently with family / friends work campaign title… …so it's not been buried yet…

Some more:

Facebook - WTF all the attention

Not a phrase, but that Gates-awful annoying cell phone commercial with the rap kid blasting his phone in my TV screen…

[Ironwood]

My Head Hurts.

[stray]

Hate to derail but...

IM'ing, RSS, Conferencing, Community Portals, and Email? That doesn't really sound like "Web 2.0" to me. That shit is ghetto. I thought Web 2.0 had to do with more accessibility for users to create and customize content. Socializing is the reason the net exists in the first place. And RSS is just another extension of information gathering/research -- "Web 1.0".

Wiki's are Web 2.0 however -- and it's not really all that exciting. Not enough to create a buzzword for at least.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[ahoythematey]

Godwin's Law

Paradigm

Hardcore/Core Gamer

describing anything other than a virgin orifice as "tight"

calling somebody "dawg"

"mature gameplay"

[schild]

IM'ing, RSS, Conferencing, Community Portals, and Email? That doesn't really sound like "Web 2.0" to me. That shit is ghetto. I thought Web 2.0 had to do with more accessibility for users to create and customize content. Socializing is the reason the net exists in the first place. And RSS is just another extension of information gathering/research -- "Web 1.0".

Yea, that matrix is shitty.

Wiki's are Web 2.0 however -- and it's not really all that exciting. Not enough to create a buzzword for at least.

The world's largest encyclopedia and it's added to enough each day that nothing will ever catch up? I'd say it's enough for Wikipedia to be a buzzword, and by proxy, wiki.

describing anything other than a virgin orifice as "tight"

I think I'm allowed to describe gaming controls as tight or loose. It's a better descriptor than 90% of the other words people use.

OH, YOU MEAN, SUP DAWG DATZ TIGHT.

[ahoythematey]

Yeah, that second part.

[Sky]

Added to the dictionary because of widespread erroneous use. I have lost the battle. Older dictionaries will not have it.

Welcome to the English language. It's the borg of languages.

The people dissing Web 2.0....you are lucky. I put "2.0" for a reason. I have to put up with shit like Library 2.0. Thus my fuzzword is ShutTheFuckUp 1.9. I just made up fuzzword, it's an anti-buzzword.

Blog (and all associated forms)

Hey, that's part of Library 2.0!  Library myspace pages! 

Did I just see the word blogjects? I might have to use that in a meeting just to see how many people think it's a great idea and start using it in plans. YOUR HONOR...I BLOGJECT!

Extending my list:

podcast
webinar

[murdoc]

Any combination of the words 'Wii' 'Schild' 'Over-priced' 'PS3'.

WE GET IT ALFUCKINGREADY.

[schild]

Any combination of the words 'Wii' 'Schild' 'Over-priced' 'PS3'.

WE GET IT ALFUCKINGREADY.

Obviously you don't.

[Sky]

Weaksauce
For the troops
For the children
9/11
Terrorists
Spreading democracy

[Yegolev]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

You are right.  Any chart that puts email into Web 2.0, or even Web 1.0 for that matter, was made by a moron.  If something existed before The Web, which isn't even a real thing, then it does not belong on that chart.

A previous post reminded me that I hate the word "buff".

YOUR HONOR...I BLOGJECT!

I laughed such that it hurt me.

The rest of Tairnyn's list was also good.  I think those words just pass through me like farts through silk these days.

I always thought synergy was ridiculous because it was the name of the master computer in that cartoon about the rock star girl who fought crime back in the eighties.  I cannot, thankfully, remember the name of the show.

[stray]

Gem

[Yegolev]

Fucker.

[Raging Turtle]

When someone starts a post 'I stopped reading when the OP said X' I want to hit them in the face.

Pretty much all the headlines on Reddit or Digg that start Most Amazing THING EVAR OMGLOL. 

Otherwise, as an ESL teacher I've become fairly numb to people butchering the language. 

[NowhereMan]

The phrase, "I could care less" in any situation other than one in which you in fact care about said issue but could imagine yourself possessing a lower level of caring. In other words when you don't mean, "I couldn't care less."

Nuanced.
Neo- anyone's name as an adjective (I've been reading too many crappy journal articles that overuse this. Mostly social scientists.)
pointlessly shortened words e.g. fac instead of faculty. You just saved yourself two syllables there and butchered a perfectly good word in the process.

[Velorath]

I hate when people say something is "pure love" or "it's sex" to say something is good.
Consolization
Running up the score