Phrases/sayings you hate

[Elfmama]

Using "migraine" and "headache" interchangeably. I get migranes. I get headaches. There is a difference. Do not act like you're more of a team player because you worked through that time when your "sinuses were clogged" and gave you "a migraine" and I took off work because I had loss of vision before my migraine.

I'll go along with this one, a headache is just one symptom of a migraine, and while its a horrible one I'd rather do without the loss of sensation down one side of my body and the crazy visual disturbances!

I do think some people who've never had a migraine just completely misunderstand what they are and think they're just a really bad headache.  I'm jealous of them really, when I had my first aged 11 I actually thought I was going to die 

I hate that, too. I get really bad headaches all the time. But I don't get the extreme nausea, funky vision, and not wanting to be near any sort of light or sound with them.

I had a migraine once for 4 days. I had to go to urgent care and get shots. Which didn't help all that much, but they...broke the migraine's hold on me, I think.

Oy, yes!  People who say "Well, when *I* have a headache I just take a couple of aspirin and go on about my day.  Why do you have to go lie down in a dark quiet room?"  Stated or not, their interesting assumption is that you're being a Special Snowflake because you won't/can't "just take a couple of aspirin".

Oh, no reason, really, except that when you pass out from the pain, it's good to be already lying down....  And I hear you, Larrabee, about the shots. A migraine feels like there is someone in your skull trying to beat his way out with a sledgehammer.  The sumatriptan shots replaces him with a guy running a belt sander.  At least that's what they do for me.  I'd a lot rather have a shot of Demerol, but then you get looked at as if you're a junkie looking for a hit, instead of someone in extreme pain.

[Larrabee]

That is annoying, especially for people who suffer through migraines.

I may not have been Ehell approved today, but I called out my friend on the whole "I have no money" thing today. She said she had to go to the bank to get $700 for tuition for a class she's taking and I said she was lucky she had that money for a class. I myself don't and she said that it was her mortgage money for July and that none of the money is hers, it was loaned to her by an ex boyfriend, so she has "no money" :face palm:

To be fair, if she has to borrow money to pay her mortgage, it does sound as though she's broke to me!

[McCutieBelle]

True, but she isn't using the borrowed money to pay the mortgage, she is using it to take classes, go out and buy clothes... but that is judgey, and now she will have to borrow more money from her friend for her mortgage in July.... I have no room to talk since my brother has helped me a great deal this past year. However having "no" money to me is a balance of 0 dollars. She told me she has $3,000 in the bank.... that is not "no" money.

This is why one doesn't talk about finances....

[bansidhe]

I hate swearing for no reason. Gratuitous swearing. It drives me mad. It shows that people have no grasp on vocabulary and are either too stupid or lazy to think or another adjective in its place.

I secretly love it!


(Antidisestablishmentarianism  )

I not-so-secretly and often audibly love it. Sometimes it's annoying, but sometimes it's just plain funny.

[bansidhe]

Oh, and euphemisms for overweight such as fluffy, bigger, or worst, BBW annoy me, too. I understand that no one wants to call themselves fat, and most cultural implications of English phrases go right over my head, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, I think.

I can handle bigger and BBW, though I'm not a fan of fluffy as it's just too cutesy. The ones that really bug me are curvy and healthy when used to describe women who are most definitely overweight. Thirty pounds overweight is not healthy and there is a big difference between curvaceous and fat.

A lot of euphemisms bug me, though. There is just something about most of them that strikes me as dishonest, I guess.

[Ms_Cellany]

I call myself fat.

The Sweetie recently recalled a time when we were dating, when my dog and I were following her up the earthen slope of a dam. Apparently I said, "Slow down! She's old, and I'm fat!"

She liked that.

[exitzero]

Oh, and euphemisms for overweight such as fluffy, bigger, or worst, BBW annoy me, too. I understand that no one wants to call themselves fat, and most cultural implications of English phrases go right over my head, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, I think.

I can handle bigger and BBW, though I'm not a fan of fluffy as it's just too cutesy. The ones that really bug me are curvy and healthy when used to describe women who are most definitely overweight. Thirty pounds overweight is not healthy and there is a big difference between curvaceous and fat.

A lot of euphemisms bug me, though. There is just something about most of them that strikes me as dishonest, I guess.

When people say they "lost" someone when that person died. It's all I can do to not say, "Well, you just need to be more careful where you put things, don't you?"  And that wouldn't be nice.

[Paper Roses]

Re the "migraine" vs. "headache" thing:  I completely agree, and also hate it whenever anyone uses a medical term to overdramatize.  A headache is not a migraine, and mood swings do not equal manic depression or bipolar disorder.  And "natural childbirth" does not automatically apply to anyone who has given birth without requiring a C-section. 

[Lynn2000]

Oh, and euphemisms for overweight such as fluffy, bigger, or worst, BBW annoy me, too. I understand that no one wants to call themselves fat, and most cultural implications of English phrases go right over my head, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, I think.

I can handle bigger and BBW, though I'm not a fan of fluffy as it's just too cutesy. The ones that really bug me are curvy and healthy when used to describe women who are most definitely overweight. Thirty pounds overweight is not healthy and there is a big difference between curvaceous and fat.

A lot of euphemisms bug me, though. There is just something about most of them that strikes me as dishonest, I guess.

I dislike fluffy as it doesn't make sense to me. Long-haired cats and dogs can be fluffy, and so can sweaters and pillows, but people? If someone told me they were "fluffy" I would think, "Do you have big, poofy hair like Snooki?"

Bigger I don't mind because, to me, it seems accurate, if vague. If someone told me they were "a bigger gal" I would take that to mean, "bigger than average" or "bigger than is healthy" or something along those lines.

[cabbagegirl28]

Re the "migraine" vs. "headache" thing:  I completely agree, and also hate it whenever anyone uses a medical term to overdramatize.  A headache is not a migraine, and mood swings do not equal manic depression or bipolar disorder.  And "natural childbirth" does not automatically apply to anyone who has given birth without requiring a C-section. 

Seriously. Someone I know insisted a mutual friend had bipolar disorder because his mood changed dramatically within five minutes. No. Just no. The person then tried to say he was right because he had relations in the medical profession. I gave up.

[jmarvellous]

I don't like when people use the expression "gay lifestyle" (or really, any super-broad term followed by "lifestyle" -- see "American lifestyle"). It's a term meant to describe a specific, niche way of conducting one's life, and there's just too much diversity among people to make it make sense.

I don't live a "straight lifestyle" (or if I do typify it, my fellow straights 'round the world ought to start living very differently).

[McCutieBelle]

My roommate has started calling anyone who has more then one drink in a night an alcoholic, trust me it is nothing to take lightly... one shouldn't be calling someone an alcoholic.

Just like my grandmother used to say she was diabetic because the doctors suggested she watch her sugar intake, my father and grandfather would always tell her she was NOT diabetic because she wasn't.

[MrsJWine]

"[Demographic] just can't win."  It's such a polarizing phrase.  Even when I agree, in that particular instance, it still irritates me because it's a signal for the debate to spiral into a pit of snark and hyperbole, from which there is (usually) no returning.  I'm not saying that phrase is snarky or hyperbolic--at least not all of the time.  But it seems to trigger a defense mechanism in both sides, where members of each party just become more and more entrenched in their own opinions.

[Brentwood]

"[Demographic] just can't win."  It's such a polarizing phrase.  Even when I agree, in that particular instance, it still irritates me because it's a signal for the debate to spiral into a pit of snark and hyperbole, from which there is (usually) no returning.  I'm not saying that phrase is snarky or hyperbolic--at least not all of the time.  But it seems to trigger a defense mechanism in both sides, where members of each party just become more and more entrenched in their own opinions.

I will now endeavor to use the phrase "spiral into a pit of snark and hyperbole" at my earliest opportunity.

[Hazmat]

USian.

I am many things: a Hoosier, a Disabled Combat Veteran, an American.  But my license plates don't read "Disabled USian Veteran", they read "Disabled American Veteran".  As an American and a Veteran, I find this insulting.  I'm not saying it's meant to be insulting, far from it.  I think most (if not all) of the posters who use the term (The Transatlantic Knowledge Thread is one example) are using it respectfully.  Other Americans, other Veterans, might not mind it at all.  I do.  I get defensive, and unfortunately (and unfairly) affects my view of what the poster has to say.