Expressions or words that you find annoying

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Anonymous wrote:All stop.
It is what it is.

I've hear full stop and I like 'it is what it is' because some things you can't change

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't quite the same, but it's one of my major pet peeves: when a parent insists on calling their child by both first and middle names in public. It's so obvious they just want everyone to hear the kid's name and think how wonderful it is.

"Mackenna Brianne! Come back right now!"
"Tanner Ewan! Please put that back."

That might be their name. Lots of people don't consider it middle...

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Aaaaaaand scene

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

Those words are for your AP
Do not give your kids Oedipal complexes.

These words are infantilizing, so they are fine for kids but not okay for adults. If I heard someone referring to their spouse or GF/BF (or AP, lol) as sweetie or darlin', unless they were Southern with a heavy accent, I'd be weirded out.

"Babe" is okay.

Babe is awful. So basic sounding

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Boy mom, girl dad.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s take a beat. ESPECIALLY used in a corporate world complex.

Everyone I work with now insists they say it as corporate speak, but no. You heard it on HBO’s Succession as corporate speak. It was not actually corporate speak prior to Succession and I’m convinced it was some sort of mistake like when occasionally you’ll hear a legal Latin expression mispronounced in a lawyer/legal show because the writers obviously aren’t lawyers

People used that phrase in corporate settings prior to Succession. It's not an uncommon phrase. I noticed a lot of kind of therapy-minded phrases started sneaking into corporate jargon 10-15 years ago, and this is one of them. I also don't mind it because it's almost never a bad idea.

Corporate phrases I hate: out of pocket, circle back, deliverable, and random insults about power and hierarchy that reference totally different settings like "oh he's all hat and no cattle" to refer to someone with a big title and but little staff. "Take a beat" doesn't really register.

Pp - ok I stand corrected, but really? I never heard it before succession and work with corporate and M&A consultant types who love those cheesy sayings (boil the ocean, run it up the flagpole, etc and before the world became PC, shanghai’ed, open the kimono).

But I could be wrong! Anyway, I hate how suddenly everyone started using it.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't quite the same, but it's one of my major pet peeves: when a parent insists on calling their child by both first and middle names in public. It's so obvious they just want everyone to hear the kid's name and think how wonderful it is.

"Mackenna Brianne! Come back right now!"
"Tanner Ewan! Please put that back."

That might be their name. Lots of people don't consider it middle...

That's possibly even worse. How is a child supposed to fit "Mackenna Brianne" on all her forms for the rest of her life? Is everyone honestly supposed to say this 5 syllable monstrosity every time they refer to her? She's gonna be called Mac right quick.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

That’s what’s weird…that PP will only call her kids by a term of endearment if they’re injured or sick. So rigid and bizarre.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. I have noticed that I am way more likely to call my kid "sweetie" if something is wrong (they are sick or come home upset from school, etc.) because it's a way of conveying that I'm concerned about them. I think this is really common for parents.

Correct. If my kid comes home from school moping I'm going to say "What's the matter hon?" But if he's in a good mood I'm only using his name.
I loathe "Babe" for one's SO.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the whole thread.

Calling kids Bud (sometimes Bug for a girl) - you named the kid. Thought about the name.me a lot while pregnant. Use it!

Align.

Do you only refer to your kid by their first name?

Yes, generally. Or if it’s just me and kid and I say something while looking at her, she understands I am talking to her. I cringe so much at the hey bud over and over (while the kid ignores the parent most times). When my kid gets hurt or sick I may also say honey or sweetie.

That’s…interesting.

NP. What’s the problem here? I call my kids honey, sweetie, darlin’, etc. all the time.

That’s what’s weird…that PP will only call her kids by a term of endearment if they’re injured or sick. So rigid and bizarre.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. I have noticed that I am way more likely to call my kid "sweetie" if something is wrong (they are sick or come home upset from school, etc.) because it's a way of conveying that I'm concerned about them. I think this is really common for parents.

Correct. If my kid comes home from school moping I'm going to say "What's the matter hon?" But if he's in a good mood I'm only using his name.
I loathe "Babe" for one's SO.

Babe should only refer to the pig from the movie. Or to the baseball player

As a term for a SO, it is awful and is used by the cheesiest people I know

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"off of"

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“Ginormous”—giant + enormous.

I classify it as slang. Huge is a better and more proper word to use.

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"Are you done working on that?" - many waiters
"Mommy" - MIL calling me this.
"My daddy" - my 70 year old mother referring to her 93 year old dad
"Don't get your panties in a wad" - DH
"Does it feel spicy?" - gym class instructor

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Blessed

"I am so blessed" ok so god likes you more than other.. got it.

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Circle back

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Anonymous wrote:Circle back

And
Reaching out

Leveling up

And all of those stupid corporate expressions