Annoying terms that are not empathetic but try to convey Solidarity
The word "strong"after every disaster, eg. Louisiana Strong. The word nation following a Sports team. Raider nation. George Carlin would have a great day with these words. Reach out was bad enough.
October 22, 2021, 02:05 PM
ArtieS
Play games with it. Use a riff on "reach out". For example, the next time you are tasked to convince someone of something, just say, "I'll reach around him and see if we can find a mutually satisfying way to come to a solution."
Let me know how that goes.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
October 22, 2021, 03:17 PM
Flash-LB
Empowering...
God I hate that word.
October 22, 2021, 03:55 PM
Pyker
'Build back better' and worse, 'Better together'
What utter dross. Words that mean absolutely nothing. Complete, 100%, 18 carat, ocean-going pablum for the unwashed and clueless.
October 22, 2021, 04:39 PM
Plugugly
I found "alone together" too be particularly annoying.
October 22, 2021, 05:24 PM
kidcop
“Onboarding.” I thought I was going on a cruise instead of getting hired.
October 22, 2021, 06:28 PM
ZSMICHAEL
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Deplaning. Uggh
October 22, 2021, 07:52 PM
apprentice
Disrupt. All versions have become annoying to me.
As far as I'm concerned disrupters are what bad guys carried on their hips in Star Trek...not what we used to call yuppies or whatever.
October 22, 2021, 08:03 PM
mcrimm
Low hanging fruit.
I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham
October 23, 2021, 12:37 AM
Ripley
Disinformation Debunk
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
October 23, 2021, 06:39 AM
triggertreat
Synergy.
I'm alright it's the rest of the world that's all screwed up!
October 23, 2021, 07:39 AM
.38supersig
inclusion
October 23, 2021, 09:59 AM
Skins2881
Diversity is our strength:
BS, having different skin colors or other characteristics does not improve output, quality, or effectiveness.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
October 23, 2021, 10:06 AM
MMSIG229
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.....Toxic Masculinity, Woman's Empowerment, Girlpower, Science is Real........ Or any other bumper sticker nonsense....
October 23, 2021, 10:45 AM
PHPaul
Yeah "blahblah STRONG" aggravates the hell out of me, and it's everywhere!
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
October 23, 2021, 11:28 AM
smschulz
No doubt "diversity" comes to mind.
When you want to show love for one group at the expense of another that does not seem productive to me.
October 23, 2021, 07:59 PM
egregore
quote:
Originally posted by Plugugly: I found "alone together" too be particularly annoying.
No, motherfuckers, I'm not going to shut myself up in my house out of fear of Commie Cooties.
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October 24, 2021, 09:04 AM
Batty67
"overabundance of confidence"
used with a condescending, faux-empathetic: "we know more than you, yet don't know enough about a situation to bother to get knowledgeable, so we're going to opt-out of something, or take draconian measure, which later turne out to be drastically overdone, because we acted out of an overabundance of caution."
Nothing in life has no risk, and copping this BS "route/tone" really means, to me, that they cannot be bothered, or are incapable of, assessing the risks and proceeding accordingly = let's PUNT!
October 24, 2021, 09:19 AM
selogic
Anyone that has worked for a Fortune 500 company has been inundated with those and many other annoying buzz words and phrases . Every meeting of any type was always an excrutiating experience .
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