oh, shut up- Page 24

[Weez]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:54am

Verbal placeholders in general. How hard is it to open up your mouth and say what it is you have to say? Why do you need to preface it with "so", "um", "uh", or any other meaningless moronic noise?

Srsly, my boss can drag out a simple sentence to five times its rightful length by starting off with "Oh... uh... welll... um..." and sticking in "sortofummm..." at LEAST three times. I haven't had this job for the longest time, but I desperately want to smack him round the head every time he talks. ;_;

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:02am

And then there's "srsly" instead of "seriously".

Seriously, buy a vowel.

[shameless]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:15am

So, ok, now my feelings are hurt. :-P

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 1:04pm

I know I've said it before on this thread but it bears repeating: For the umpteenth time, Celtic Women shut up already! PBS stop airing this stupid and cheesey presentation.

[Weez]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 2:03pm

At least when my obnoxious, hard-to-shake habit of saying "srsly" happens in real life, it doesn't add thirty seconds onto something that should only take five to say.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:02pm

I know I've said it before on this thread but it bears repeating: For the umpteenth time, Celtic Women shut up already! PBS stop airing this stupid and cheesey presentation.

Amen, Dottie!

[shameless]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:14pm

Please, Weez, my "ohs", "sos" and "yeahs" only add two to three seconds, if that.

Your "srsly" is just plain ugly! And looks like Sr.Sly.

[Weez]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:18pm

My boss's "sortofuhhh..."s and "welllll"s add at *least* thirty seconds. Chalk it up as a case of "one person ruining it for everyone"; due to his ditheriness, I now become irrationally enraged by *all* verbal placeholders. XD

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 9:52am

I had a teacher in high school who would often take pauses between sentences. (An example would be when a group of us were going to New York and there was a meeting in his room. He came over the intercom and said, "Would everyone ..... who's going on the Broadway ... in ... ah ... um ... New York! trip please come to B201...")

To whoever started using 'totes'! And to those who manage to work it into conversation EVERY OTHER FREAKIN WORD!!

SHUT

THE

F*CK

UP!

I heard 'totes' so many times over the past summer that I even started to say it. I've grown out of it since, thank goodness.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 9:54am

To the new Comcast "game day" commercial with the obnoxious couch potato. SHUT UP!! The commercial isn't funny and is extremely annoying as they play it every 5 minutes!

LOL, Schmerg.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 10:39am

Weez just reminded me of one that bothers me-when someone is leaving a phone message and they don't make it short and sweet. My dear mother, for instance will stretch it out with "hmmm, let's see,,,what else is new....". That kind of stuff!

I'm also guilty of starting a post with "so" or another similar sound on occasion.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 1:05pm

Whenever someone types the word "totes", I immediately think of umbrellas. Luckily, I don't know anyone who uses it in conversation or I would lose it.

On the elevator a few days ago, one of the headlines on the Captivate TV thingy was Hasselbeck's pregnancy. There is no possible scenario in which her third pregnancy could ever be a headline unless the entire planet were simply bored with centuries of world peace and prosperity.

[Q]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 1:25pm

I had to google Captivate TV - and it makes me shudder. I've been recoiling anyway over being faced with blaring tv screens at grocery checkout counters and gas pumps - but this makes me actually think I could develop claustrophobia.

SO, even though it means nothing, I'm going to shout a big SHUT THE F*CK UP to all the corporate entities that are determined to find every way possible to burrow themselves into our brains.
Captivate TV link.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 1:31pm

The one decent thing about Captivate is that there is no sound. Just images. It's something to look at during elevator rides. I usually like the weather info.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 1:34pm

Whenever someone says "totes" I think of tote bags. Just take the extra millisecond to type the whole word please!

[Q]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 1:34pm

Mister M - well, that is something - although, I still find it unnerving. It reminds me of conditioning captive animals.

Oh, wait . . .

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 2:43pm

I actually had to think about the word 'Totes' when I started reading it in this thread. Seriously, I got confused because I was thinking of the bag too. LOL!

People who are supposed friends, but only talk to me every few months to butt into my business can shut up. How about "Hey, how are you? What are you up to?" Instead they contact me about things from my Facebook page, and that's it. Last night was the
last draw. The girl who does this to me, stopped talking to me after she wanted to know about my employment status. Talk about rude. Like I said, it would be one thing if it was a fine 2 way conversation, but it never is.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/3/09 at 2:47pm

Marianne2 - That reminds me. SHUT UP with those stupid Facebook applications!!! I must get 50 invitations a week for all that crap.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 10:59am

I ignore any application I get on Facebook.

Unless it's an invite to a friend's event.

While we're on the subject, I have a friend who will not shut up about Facebook if you should bring it up in a conversation. He gets offended when people don't friend him back, and all that sort of thing. I mean, he's a nice guy, but come on ... there's more to life than wondering why someone didn't accept your friend request on an internet social network!

[EVIE]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:27am

The AT&T phone tree....why do I have to get transferred to 4 different people to ask a question about my cell phone battery?!?!

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:44am

ugh. Baby Talk.

 

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[Jane2]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:23pm

Every once in a while I feel the need to throw in my favorite shut up-"SHUT UP BARBARA WALTERS"

ah, that feels better!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:33pm

EVIE, at least you got a person. I was on the phone with AT&T for 20 minutes yesterday and never got to speak with a person. Their menu is absolutely ridiculous. I got frustrated and hung up.

Jane2, that should be done more often!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:54pm

SCHMERG'S VAST, IDIOTIC RANT:

There's a guy who rides my bus who always seems really aloof and remote, and I always felt like he didn't like me at all. Then, we did Alice in Wonderland, and I was the Mad Hatter and he was the March Hare, and we got along very well instantly. We talked and goofed off all the time, and it turned out that he's actually very warm and personable once you get to know him. He was also very complimentary to me, always saying lovely things about my acting, writing, and whatever else.

After Alice In Wonderland was over, he never said 'hi' to me on the bus or in the hallways and actually avoided me when he saw me coming-- like, he'd turn down a different hall or walk in the opposite direction. I never tried to talk to him or wave because I didn't want to be the annoying clingy acquaintance, but I started getting kind of confused and discouraged because he was actively avoiding me.

Then, we were cast in another play together, called "Employees Must Wash Hands Before Murder." I was sitting in the auditorium the day of the first rehearsal, and he walked through the door and walked straight up to me and started talking to me as though no time at all had passed. He even organized a get-together when he found out I'd never seen some of his favourite movies, and he paid for my dinner and drove me home. I apologized for being a little bit silly and over-the-top that day, and he told me that I wasn't annoying and not to worry. He's always saying, "Oh, we'll have to do that sometime," "Oh, I'll take you to this place sometime."

However, he still never acknowledges me in the hall, on the bus/at the bus stop, or whenever else I run into him, whether he's alone or with other friends. One time, I asked him in the lobby if there was rehearsal, and he kind of squinted at me, said, '...no...' coolly and sauntered away. I don't know what he thinks of me, or what to think of him. I think he's a genuinely funny and interesting dude, and he always seems to be genuinely engaged in our conversations. I'm normally really good at knowing how someone feels about me-- I never bother people who I feel don't like me, and I always instinctively know who I can depend upon.

This guy is the one and only exception. The other thing is, he's really, really physical and flirty with like every single girl he knows, and he's chatty and friendly with every single guy he knows. He doesn't treat me the way he treats anyone else, and I am SO confused. Just to clear things up, I don't like this dude in a romantic sense (he's the one with the hairy earlobes that I mentioned on the Girl thread!), but I do hate to lose his friendship for no apparent reason. I'd never go chasing after someone demanding their attention, but what makes it weird is that I have no idea where HE stands.

Updated On: 2/4/09 at 02:54 PM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/4/09 at 3:39pm

That is confusing, Schmerg. I don't know what to say or make of what that guy is doing.

Yeah, I like Facebook, maybe not as much as I used to, but the whole friendship networking thing is ridiculous. I only have about 100 or so people on my list. I know people who have over 500 or 600. I mean, do these people honestly know each other that well? Sometimes I get surprised when people friend me because they hardly talked to me when we were in the same place on a daily basis. I swear, some people are like "Oh, we had a 5 minute conversation once, lets be friends."