What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 3

Coming from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1014263/#top

We're continuing with words and phrases we find annoying, silly or ridiculous.

On my trip to Mammoth Cave, I heard another - 'Water seeks its own level'. Duh.

unless it has ropes for climbing.

It's not my fault . That one drove me crazy when it was the excuse for everything . Long story . You can still tell I'm affected . digger

Yeah, reminds me of " That person has issues". I disdain that phrase. It always makes me think the person has sprung a leak.

Yes - issues is the pc word for problems now.

Another - 'Let me be clear...'

Yea. That one always precedes something you don't want to hear.

Can I ask you a question?

Just one?

"Do you have a minute/second?"

What am I ? A clock?

To be perfectly honest....

What? All before you were just lying?

"I got good news and I got some bad news...which one you want to hear first?" and the good news never outweighs the bad.

Oh, David, that Tom Mabe thing was SO funny!!! I showed DH and then he had me send it to his DS. Worth waiting for. Thanks!

I wore amateur Keds, I guess, they did have a rubber thing across the toes. I think the tennis shoes vs. sneakers thing was a little class-related, because they wore sneakers at public school and tennis shoes at private school (and looked at my sneakers funny).

I went to private (Catholic) school and no one called them tennis shoes. Could be a a city vs. suburb thing. Anyone who wore tennis shoes deserved to be beaten. ^_^

At least I'm safe.

HI DonM47!!!

Sneakers here too.

Speaking of.... I hate the word "imported" when trying to find sneakers.

Cons were the last sneaker to be made in the usa, we ran around buying all the different colors low and high tops for hubby in his size before being made elsewhere. On sale bought them for $16.99, now the cheapest ones are $29.99

One of the advise my children Doctor said to me, do not have them wear sneakers, they are bad for their feet, my oldest child is 61 years old and they did not till they became teens.

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Prepschools vs public re tennis shoes. Catholic schools were blue collar, ethnic. Big difference between St. Vincent's and Hopkins & Choate. We had sneakers & St Christopher medallions. They had tennis shoes & intentional patches on their jacket elbows

Ithink that these days they are about the best for your feet. There really is a lot more to them these days (especially the price!)

I agree. Running shoes are the best, though I do wish there were more made in the US. I love New Balance.

I think you're right. I have orthopedic shoes. with removable innersoles and all kinds of 'stabilization', that cost a fortune. I call them "sneakers" because they're designed to look "athletic" but nobody would be caught dead actually running or playing in them. But when my teenage fashionable DDs take off their plastic high heels and try on MY shoes they say "oooooh, these are SO comfortable!!!!" They still won't wear them.

Sneakers are made a lot better today, they are more like a very good shoe. I am certain Doctors do not object wearing them as they did many years ago.

I know most of you are youngster, just thought I tell you how it was when I was a very young mother.

When storms blow trees and limbs down, and I have to clean it up - I hate to hear someone say, "It's just God pruning the trees."

Or how about, 'Now it's in God's hands.'

Tennis shoes were probably the original use. Then came sneakers for gym class. Then came the flood of everything else.

Maria, No youngster here! I remember sneakers being bad for your feet.
I always get New Balance too. I can't find the canvas ones anymore

Dave, thank you. I truly appreciate the fact that you read what I posted.

Wow - at the Catholic school I attended, nobody wore them to school because that's what you played in. We wore black & white saddle shoes or some other funky oxfords, a.k.a. "sensible" shoes, according to my mom. Except for Little Miss Ringlets: she wore black patent leather Mary Janes. Oh my! the envy of the entire class of 1st grade girls!

Oh we were not allowed to wear them, except at gym. Leather shoes were the requirement.

Yes, wore saddle shoes & penny loafers to school---wore what we called Keds to play in---growing up in the Naugatuck Valley, you always knew someone who worked at US Rubber in Naugatuck, & they made Keds---you could go to the factory & buy seconds, which is what our parents would do.

How about 'pre-owned' instead of used?!

Black Bostonian shoes, gray flannel pants, whiteshirt,blue blazer ,gold clip-on tie. Every day for 3 years,

Shoes for school, sneakers for play, at least until we were teens.

By high school (back in public) times had changed and it was jeans, jeans, jeans. Or, as we called them at the time, dungarees.

ah! now there's a term I haven't heard in ages...

That's what I called them as a kid.

A few more. Now people don't get lawyers, they 'lawyer up.' I guess we should doctor up when we get sick?

In law - in the past few years, they seem to have fallen in love with the phrase, 'person of interest.' No one is a suspect until they are in cuffs now. And they seem to think that people have not caught on. If you are named as a person of interest, you better lawyer up.

Finally - in these days of heightened security, we are told to be 'vigilant'. What on earth does that mean?! Do I put on my NYC scowl? Do I call the cops if I see an unattended box of Dunkin Donuts? Chances are it belongs to law enforcement. As if I would just walk on by if I saw some guys hurling powder into a building ventilation system without the vigilant urging! If I am vigilanr, does that make me a vigilante??

I swear that there is one guy making up all this crap and laughing his butt off.

Ha ha ha now THAT'S a funny image, the one guy laughing his butt off. And when one laughs one's butt off, where does it go? You think you would see comedy movies being shown at fitness clubs instead of CNN!

Good one, Carrie.
In the same genre, I also like "he was lying his head off"!

I see nobody uses the term tennis shoes. based on what I'm reading here, if you do a chronology on the term, that would make me, hmmmmm, 100 years old? lol

hubby watches the financial shows and the term that drives me nuts is contango. what in the hexx? lol Another one nat gas. Have they gotten so lazy they can't add a couple more syllables and say NATURAL GAS?

Dave47, dungarees is ancient. you must be 100 too, lol.

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I'm 46 and I said dungarees!