Crap 'Buzzwords'

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  • 'Rant'. Applies to infuriating tales of woe, celebrations of joy and anything between. Defunct.

  • I said this yesterday as a piss-take but nobody even flinched "Can I stir-fry an idea in your think wok?" I know what I am, thank you.

  • ^ brilliant

  • ^^
    Spunk this idea up his mind pipes.

  • Maintain a central schedule of central-to-regional regular meetings for each function, and report on the frequency of meetings (‘pitchers’ and ‘catchers’).

  • Apparently senior managers where I work have recently been attending a course where they are encouraged to:

    • Arouse in the other person an eager want
    • Begin in a friendly way
    • Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately
    • Rest before they get tired
  • ^Literal commodity fetishism

  • Going forward

  • Going forward

    My sales agent uses this all the time, but pronounces it as "foad". I shudder each time I hear it.

  • I went to a 'solutioneering' session last week. I died a little.

  • I went to a 'solutioneering' session last week. I died a little.

    That is particularly bad.

  • I got told by an estate agent that he'd "ping me the details". A little part of me felt so let down.

  • He's going to include it in ICMP packets?

    That's what I would have asked him, anyway.

    #itjoke

  • 'pinged' has also become an irritating staple of the sportsmanship vernacular, I.e. we didn't feel we were infringing at the ruck but we kept getting pinged for it.

  • 'pinged' has also become an irritating staple of the sportsmanship vernacular, I.e. we didn't feel we were infringing at the ruck but we kept getting pinged for it.

    comes from Penalised, so makes sense as a shortened version of the word

  • noun
    a short high-pitched resonant sound, as of a bullet striking metal or a sonar echo.

    It is used in this context to refer to the referees whistle I believe. Still irritating.

  • Jel or jelly, meaning jealous. Even more irritating when most of the time they actually mean envious. Or env.

  • When people say "hawt" when they like something.

    A mate of mine started saying "hawter, hawter, hawter", to convey his enthusiasm.

    I hate him now.

  • When people say "harder" when they like something.

    A mate of mine started saying "harder, harder, harder", to convey his enthusiasm.

    I hate him now.

    This is how I read it.

  • When people say "hawt" when they like something.

    A mate of mine started saying "hawter, hawter, hawter", to convey his enthusiasm.

    I hawt him now.

    Fixed.

  • re-gifting

  • Not really buzz words, but words in general that people use that fuck me off:

    Boss
    Epic
    Cheeky (as in, I'm off for a cheeky pint)

  • the word 'Detox'.

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