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Original message:158 days 19 hours 9 minutes ago
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Below are a few phrases that for various reasons, grate on my last nerve...

Old school

Gettin' your ____ on (insert whatever inane activity you like, i.e. sip, drink, groove, etc.)

It's for the children.

It's for the enviroment.

It's for your own safety.

The list goes on.
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Reply:158 days 10 hours 53 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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The "Old School" term is one I really don't like. The American vernacular seems to change constantly, and very quickly I might add. The term "cool" somehow morphed into "sweet" in a short period of time, and god know what it was in between, gnarly, bodacious, rad, boss....
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Reply:158 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago
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haha I actually use "Old School" quite often. I kind of like the vernacular I guess. Then again, Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors, so go figure :-P

The ones that grind on me are when people randomly quote hip-hop lyrics walking down the street.
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Reply:158 days 10 hours 17 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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What are some of the more overused hippity-hop terms?
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Reply:158 days 7 hours 56 minutes ago
Member: shanejohnson2002
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Not so much that, as much as it is random snippets of songs without any actual music to put them to. It's like Tourette's, only people do it to be "cool" where I'm from.
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Reply:158 days 5 hours 50 minutes ago
Member: Trey
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Yeah Shane they do that here all the time it disgusts me in school it drives me crazy...
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Trey Long
Reply:157 days 14 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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This is a thread I can get jiggy with. oops, sorry.
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Reply:157 days 14 hours 2 minutes ago
Member: Hippieway
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I hate being called brother, I only have two of them and anybody else using that moniker probably misunderstands our relationship.
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Reply:156 days 20 hours 25 minutes ago
Member: Erk
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I agree bro'
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Reply:157 days 13 hours 27 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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Well, some of the ones I hear at work that send me up a wall are..

Your not a team player.
I have a bachelor's/master's/PhD, I can start at $60, 80, 100K anywhere, (in other words, I'm too good for this)
People no longer have problems, they have "issues."
I think "suck it up" is getting to be a bit overused.
"Corporate America"
Big Tobacco
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Reply:157 days 13 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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Fred, I think you should just take the bull by the horns and deal with all those outliers! If you just ping them and get them on the same page, it'll all be good.
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Reply:157 days 13 hours 12 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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dc,

Translate?
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Reply:157 days 13 hours 4 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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Sorry, I was speaking corporate-ese.

Take the bull by the horns = take the initiative in a bold and dramatic way
outliers = anyone or anything that does not fit the norm
to ping somebody = get in touch with them, usually electronically, phone, IM, email
getting people on the same page = come to an agreement

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Reply:157 days 12 hours 57 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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It was the "outliers" and "ping" that threw me. Oh well, it's off to work wher I can think outside the box about getting rid of my boss. She's on the same page with Satan. She just loves workshops on being better teamplayers.
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Reply:157 days 11 hours 50 minutes ago
Member: dcunning30
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LOL!!!!

About 2 years ago, my company hired a "how to properly behave at the workplace" consultant to conduct a mandatory workshop. Upon discussing with my co-workers, nobody thought the class was useful. Everyone were pretty much behaving properly, and if there was soneone who wasn't, the class didn't change anything.
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Reply:157 days 9 hours 55 minutes ago
Member: Fred Kraus
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I know, what is up with this mandatory workshop crap. Everybody hates it. We have to do a "Reflections" thing on the 19th, I'm sooo not looking forward to this. O