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tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Topic Author's Original Post - May 7, 2008 - 09:04pm PT
extreme

diversity

synergy

pissed

Trad climber
Lake Placid NY
May 7, 2008 - 09:09pm PT
like you know I like really like hate the word like even when used in a metaphor because like it is really annoying because people just like use it to fill space because they aren't like comfortable to like have silence like
WBraun

climber
May 7, 2008 - 09:13pm PT
So you're back again on the trouble of diversity of observation and opinion.

This extreme synergy of taxing your brain will only give you a headache .....
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
May 7, 2008 - 09:15pm PT
Orientated. . . I always thunk it was oriented. . . .duh!
dirtbag

climber
May 7, 2008 - 09:21pm PT
Republican

Conservatism

Family values
Strider

Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples....
May 7, 2008 - 09:22pm PT
South Face of Half Dome
Rap Bolting

-n
Jingy

Social climber
Flatland, Ca
May 7, 2008 - 09:22pm PT
Even though I haven't heard it in a while (you can thank me later) but when the words "Know, What, I'm, Saying" are strung together as if its a name, example: Noam Sane? sounds like it....

Gnome Sain?
Know'm'Say'n?
No'm'sane?

Guess I haven't been in the company of gangsters, (wanna-be or otherwise), but then againevery once in a while I'd call'em on it ...

Gangsta Mo-Dee - Know'm'Sayin?

Jingy - Uhm... No! What are you sane? I think I misunderstood exactly what the message you were trying to convey!

That would trip them up and then they would realize that they were dealing with an English speaker instead of a "ganguage" talker.
divad

Trad climber
wmass
May 7, 2008 - 09:24pm PT
No!
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
May 7, 2008 - 09:25pm PT
Hillary
Obama
Primary
MSNBC

tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2008 - 09:29pm PT
sick

scend

spray

Gene

climber
May 7, 2008 - 09:34pm PT
Functionality.
Loomis

climber
Lat/Lon: 35.64 -117.66
May 7, 2008 - 09:37pm PT
I
Love
You
Mtnmun

Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
May 7, 2008 - 09:39pm PT
monthly payment

Loomis, what's the matter?
Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber
valley center, ca
May 7, 2008 - 09:40pm PT
Good Thread,

Whaz up?
Hilarious!
Yo Baby!
Life Sucks!
Warming Trend

Weschrist, I could have predicted that the God word would bug you. LRL

Gee Loomis, that sounds very sad. Do people say it and don't mean it?

I agree Blinny, closure is only for doors!
emac

climber
New Hampshire
May 7, 2008 - 09:43pm PT
splitter
Carolyn C

Trad climber
the long, long trailer
May 7, 2008 - 09:47pm PT
multi-tasking
synergy
redefine

and the use of repetitions of the same word to add emphasis, i.e.,
it was an awesome, awesome speech
he had a super, super meeting,
and so on, and so on.
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2008 - 10:02pm PT
I am the candidate for change

(not a bash on Obama, even though his politics are mostly 180 degrees from me, he's the only candidate I like)

We're doing it for the children

If it saves just one life

T Moses

Trad climber
Paso Robles
May 7, 2008 - 10:06pm PT
Politically correct.

Clinton.

Oh, while your at it could you....
Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber
valley center, ca
May 7, 2008 - 10:06pm PT
Tolman, good post!

I have a new plan
Healthcare for all
If you need it WE will supply it
Tax the rich, they have plenty
I have a NEW plan
LittlePinkTricam

Trad climber
Providence, RI
May 7, 2008 - 10:07pm PT
Incentivize
Ethics
TrundleBum

Trad climber
Las Vegas
May 7, 2008 - 10:15pm PT
I am with steveW on:
Orientatedededed, sounds like the person has a stutter.

In climbing:
"send" the term is new to me and I don't get it ?
The frigg'n thing was there for millennium and will be for that long after you go, so where the heck are you "sending" it too?
Remember what Warren said when he (finally) topped out on the Nose ?

In the computer/ Ecomm world:
"Leverage" and "robust" - gimme a break will yah already.

I am an ole fut I guess but I am still not ever "down" for most things,
but I am "up" for anything.

Of course all the great oxymorons:
"Military intelligence"
"Airline food" and
"Acoustic amplifier"
mojede

Trad climber
Butte, America
May 7, 2008 - 10:21pm PT
"actually"--this needs explaining?

"wonderful"--the ONLY thing that is this is the World of Disney.
happiegrrrl

Trad climber
New York, NY
May 7, 2008 - 10:22pm PT
- "not so much" in the style of Borat.

I don't mind it...much....when a person uses the phrase occasionally, but when you can practically lip sync on cue, knowing the person will use that phrase, I think "Not so bright..."

 oh snap! when said by a white, middle class person who would piss their pants and tuck their tail between their legs if the ever actually were the butt of a joke 'in the hood.'

 in the 'hood, and any other mimicking of gang slang by the same, but especially when accompanied by body english, facial expressions, hand gestures and fashions of the same.

Nefarius

Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
May 7, 2008 - 10:36pm PT
pwned

Most stupid f*#king word on the Inet!
Shack

Big Wall climber
Reno NV
May 7, 2008 - 10:41pm PT
like

hella

keeping it real


"I'm like sooo tired of like teenie boppers, like over using
the word "like"...It's hella ghey. Noam sane?...
Hey I'm just keepin' it real, homey.
salad

climber
Escondido
May 7, 2008 - 10:55pm PT
pow pow
the Fet

Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
May 7, 2008 - 11:00pm PT
proud
irregardless
literally (when they don't mean it)
Shack

Big Wall climber
Reno NV
May 7, 2008 - 11:03pm PT
carbon neutral



Hey Weschrist, how about...

You have the right to remain silent...
T Moses

Trad climber
Paso Robles
May 7, 2008 - 11:52pm PT
Yer like, keepin' it real Blinny. That's hella good stuff. I'm witcha on that one.

Pwned ya Nef.

Don't worry this message is carbon nuetral and produced by an almost middle age white guy.

;)
T Moses

Trad climber
Paso Robles
May 7, 2008 - 11:53pm PT
Why be politically correct when you can be right?
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
May 8, 2008 - 12:04am PT
buzzword bingo anyone?
valygrl

climber
Boulder, CO
May 8, 2008 - 12:20am PT
Ah, Ed, we called that "bullshit bingo" where I worked. I used to "literally" play it during meetings.

K-Man, JeannieD used to say "In terms of" and "Going Forward" so frequently that my boss and I would keep score. We were easily in the double-digits in a one-hour meeting. And one other dude said "Low Hanging Fruit" and looked at you.... with a between-the-knees dangling motion... oh geeze....



Michelle

Trad climber
Fort Sam
May 8, 2008 - 12:27am PT
Indeed, "orientate" is not a fu_cking word goddamnit and I usually flip on the retard that uses it.

Having said that, I now hate hearing, " Half-right face!" almost as much.


Fish Finder

Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
May 8, 2008 - 12:32am PT



At the end of the day.

spud

climber
May 8, 2008 - 12:48am PT
"SWEET"!

"OH, SWEEETTT"

"SWEET!

i'm ready to puke

sickly sweet
matisse

climber
May 8, 2008 - 12:55am PT
hella

and a lot of nouns that have been verbified.
e.g.
"we tradded last weekend"

and especially the bisniss verbified nounspeak like
" we tasked the deliverables and sourced them from China".

bleah.


nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
May 8, 2008 - 12:58am PT
Like Michelle says -> indeed
What ever.
Bitches.
Twenty four seven.
My Bad.



edit: Ditto on Batrock remark...".Anytime white climbers try and talk like they are from the ghetto"
Batrock

Trad climber
Burbank
May 8, 2008 - 12:59am PT
Proj-short for project

Posse-any other use than in a western novel is BS.

Anytime white climbers try and talk like they are from the ghetto.
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
May 8, 2008 - 01:09am PT
Buzzwords used to gag me but since my corporate job got downsized 11 years ago and the tv transmitter got whacked in a storm a few years later, I'm sufficiently isolated from the madness to say nothing reaches me often enough to get under my skin.

But those focus-group generated buzzwords like "change" come close

Peace

Karl
susan peplow

climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
May 8, 2008 - 01:16am PT
surreal

HELL no



sheepdog

Trad climber
just over the hill
May 8, 2008 - 01:40am PT
stone

as in, "we raged on the big stone!"

for that matter, add "raged".
Jay Wood

Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
May 8, 2008 - 02:12am PT
Very unique.
susan peplow

climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
May 8, 2008 - 02:12am PT
right on
Standing Strong

Trad climber
the secret life of T*R
May 8, 2008 - 02:45am PT
tard

gay (as in, "that's gay")
Standing Strong

Trad climber
the secret life of T*R
May 8, 2008 - 02:47am PT
cali

 only people who arn't from here call it that
TradIsGood

Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
May 8, 2008 - 07:59am PT
preventative - Just happy I never heard preventate.
a whole nother - I think this may be NY regional.

Organic Cotton
Organic food of any type.



Hillary had a funny one the other day. A female racer intended to do a practice lap with some HC ad on the car. It had to be taken off because it would have been an illegal campaign contribution. (Any paint or decal on race cars has to be paid for.)

Later Hillary said something like "there are two gears, D for going forward and R for going backward."

The racer quietly pointed out to her that Indy Cars do not have a reverse gear.

She did not point out that all the turns at Indy are to the left.
Or that if you keep going left you end up back where you started.
Tomcat

Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
May 8, 2008 - 08:02am PT
I'm with SteveW...orientated....thought it was just me.

In actuallity.....how about we just say actually.

Redpoint...how about I hung all over this until I had it totally wired.

Equipped.They spent a few days equipping the route.Heh,and a spade is a simple entrenching tool.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
May 8, 2008 - 08:16am PT
A couple of posters beat me to it but...

Obama

McCain

HC


solution

Dubya (Not sick of the word, just the person)
Jim E

climber
Mountain Road
May 8, 2008 - 08:21am PT
"model"
Every thing is "modeled" these days. "Business model", "weather model", "model the behavior of... ", "sales model", "the bla bla model", "model the bla bla".

This goes along with all the stupid MBA speak people use (many of the words and phrases have already been covered) to sound smart or hip (apparently hep).

"splitter" is very near the top of my list, too.
Richard

climber
Bend, OR.
May 8, 2008 - 08:54am PT
awesome

amazing

perfect



and a phrase:

" it would be nice if...."
emac

climber
New Hampshire
May 8, 2008 - 09:23am PT
hella

Jim E

climber
Mountain Road
May 8, 2008 - 09:51am PT
I had to look up 'hella' in the urban dictionary since I've never heard anyone use it. Looking at the meaning I'll agree with the folks that are sick of it. It's "lame".
Gary

climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 8, 2008 - 10:14am PT
eKat, you beat me to it: closure

WTF does that mean anyway?

And whatever happened to Peking?
martygarrison

Trad climber
Modesto
May 8, 2008 - 10:25am PT
"out of the box"
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
May 8, 2008 - 10:46am PT
Conversate.

Usage: Hip hop approximation of "converse". Ex- "Me n my bichez conversatin' on the phone."

Just skip the rappin' and tattoo "I'm a f*#kin' idiot on your forehead".
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
May 8, 2008 - 10:54am PT
safe

*point

dude

adventure climbing
Tomcat

Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
May 8, 2008 - 11:11am PT
Peking got "closure".
wort_speenie

Sport climber
The unraveling hem of society
May 8, 2008 - 11:16am PT
I'm gonna have to jump on the "like" bandwagon too. And add "you know" for good measure.

"And then, like, you know, we like went to the 7-11 for a big gulp. You know?"

I'm supposed no one has mentioned 'nucular'(new-kew-ler) for nuclear. I don't really know how to spell it as it's not a word and consequently doesn't have a spelling.

And the next time I heard the word "stonker" (or see it on or in a magazine) someone's going to be eating a tire-iron sandwich.

ER
Tahoe climber

Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
May 8, 2008 - 12:05pm PT
empower - or any derivative thereof
"it is what it is"
irregardless
could care less
hella
utilize - I'd guess less than 5% of english speakers use the word utilize correctly
for sure, for sure
definitely, definitely
bro

-TC
Tomcat

Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
May 8, 2008 - 12:11pm PT
Blinny....if you like "I could care less",as much as I,perhaps you will enjoy "For all intensive purposes".That one cracks me up!!
Tahoe climber

Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
May 8, 2008 - 12:13pm PT
post perusal edit

orientated drives me nuts too

wbw

climber
'cross the great divide
May 8, 2008 - 12:16pm PT
"The Candidate Is Going To Continue Working To Get Her Message Out".

If She has not gotten her message out by now, maybe She should concede.
Jim E

climber
Mountain Road
May 8, 2008 - 12:22pm PT
"Cautiously optimistic". What a total cop out. If the situation goes bad you were smart enough to be cautious. If the situation goes well you were smart enough to be optimistic.
L

climber
The salty ocean blue and deep
May 8, 2008 - 12:28pm PT
"This goes along with all the stupid MBA speak people use..."

They're going to "reach out to", as opposed to just "call" or "contact" someone.

(I guess it's the new kinder, gentler way to make shark-bait of a competitor.)

Tomcat

Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
May 8, 2008 - 12:30pm PT
Somewhat.....WTF does that mean ?
dirtbag

climber
May 8, 2008 - 12:31pm PT
Is it in yet?
nb3000

Social climber
Oakland, CA.
May 8, 2008 - 12:45pm PT
"past due"

"remit payment"

"final notice"

"cancellation of service"

"collections"

nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
May 8, 2008 - 12:45pm PT
Don't forget the lovely military:........ Sick!...

Collateral damages..
Friendly fire..

tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 12:50pm PT
virtual reality
nb3000

Social climber
Oakland, CA.
May 8, 2008 - 12:50pm PT
"crisis"
dirtbag

climber
May 8, 2008 - 12:54pm PT
bling-bling
Jim Wilcox

Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
May 8, 2008 - 01:03pm PT
"I have no time"

I really wouldn't care-but the people who say this usually want to steal my time to make up for their lack of organization
hobo_dan

Social climber
Minnesota
May 8, 2008 - 01:15pm PT
it is what it is
Porkchop_express

Trad climber
Gunks, NY
May 8, 2008 - 01:55pm PT
"rad" (or any manifestation of the word- soooooooo rad, totally rad, crazy rad etc)

"who is that you're text messaging?"

Anastasia

climber
Not here
May 8, 2008 - 02:16pm PT
How about a group of words...
"War on Terror..."
(It is vague and meaningless.)

"Fighting for Freedom"
What freedom? I can't live here for free. I can't change anything on "my" property without a permit... If I get naked in my backyard and someone sees me, I can get in trouble... So where is my freedom?

Plus, what is so free about forcing a people to have a government they don't want?

AF


maestro8

Trad climber
Sunnyvale, CA
May 8, 2008 - 03:50pm PT
Laddie

Trad climber
Reno, NV
May 8, 2008 - 03:53pm PT
Mine are phrases as opposed to words


_ is the new _ (30 is the new 20.....)


and

painfully ___ (nice, obvious, wrong...)

or fill in the blanks with whatever words you like
Nor Cal

Trad climber
San Mateo
May 8, 2008 - 03:56pm PT
"you climb too much"
tolman_paul

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2008 - 04:02pm PT
Phrases count too.

Anastasia, spot on about "freedom"

It's interesting meeting people from countries with "repressive" governments, as many times they enjoy alot of freedom in their lives, and have a much better better grasp of the concept.

While I can't even change the color of "my" house w/o getting it cleared by the homeowner's assn. (Last time I checked I was still in AK) I did manage to have a very freeing experience the other week when I free soloed a route and stripped naked at the top to soak up the rays.

Sorry for the thread drift, I hope I didn't scare anyone with TMI.
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
May 8, 2008 - 05:10pm PT
Rachet-up.

Folks, as in W calling we the people Folks.
Makes me cringe every time.
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
May 8, 2008 - 06:14pm PT
whatever
bling
hella
rockermike

Mountain climber
Berkeley
May 8, 2008 - 08:12pm PT
"work smarter, not harder" he actually said that. My boss that is, ten years my junior and twice my pay. I guess that's why, I work too hard. ha

oh yea, and Hillary's "we're going on".
nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
May 8, 2008 - 08:12pm PT
this is true ..

fly..
susan peplow

climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
May 9, 2008 - 12:44am PT
SushiFest
up2top

Big Wall climber
Phoenix, AZ
May 9, 2008 - 12:56am PT
Matt






Shack

Big Wall climber
Reno NV
May 9, 2008 - 02:21am PT
low-cal

carbs

calories

ED or Erectile Dysfunction

Natural Male Enhancement

Hilary

Obama
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
May 9, 2008 - 06:23am PT
phrases more than words that
make me sick.
"it's all good."
"no worries."
"right on."
in parts of coloRADo
and cali, one can carry a
conversation w/those 3
phrases. throw in the occasional
"sweet" and "classic" to spice
it up some.

dude: hey bro, it's all good.
bro: no worries dude.
dude: right on.
bro: yeah, that was classic.
dude: totally sweet.
bro: right on dude.
rockermike

Mountain climber
Berkeley
May 9, 2008 - 10:43am PT
Sounds EXACTLY like by buddy Hamid. ha

(sorry dude; just had to say that)

I'll admit though, at least with Hamid's training I could carry on a meaningful conversation with my daughter.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 9, 2008 - 11:20am PT
"My plate is full"
Bob Loblaw

Trad climber
NW NJ
May 9, 2008 - 11:23am PT
dude
Jim E

climber
Mountain Road
May 9, 2008 - 11:35am PT
"Bob Loblaw"
LOL. I loved that show.


"American Idol". Never seen it, never will but I'm sick of hearing about it.

"Reality TV". I don't have TV but this is another phrase that makes me ill.
w_mcfarland

Sport climber
Huntsville, AL
May 9, 2008 - 01:56pm PT
I haven't seen this one yet:

guesstimate

"do you see what I'm saying?" No, I don't. it's impossible to "see" what you are saying, I can hear you though, is that what you mean?

nukular instead of nuclear

people misspelling the word "definitely" I almost never see this spelled correctly in forums

heinous is dumb way to describe climbing.

sick

brah

proj

pumpy

dude

sweet, is ridiculously overused to describe sh#t these days

any other word other than money, dollar, or cash to describe currency, like lettuce, or greenback.

oh yeah, DEAL OR NO DEAL! what the f*#k are americans thinking watching this heinous show, it definetly sucks brah.
Jim E

climber
Mountain Road
May 9, 2008 - 02:09pm PT
I can't stand that 'nukular' either.

I found this though:
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/02/im-gonna-go-all-nucular-on-you/

But since W uses it I'm still not OK with it.
davidji

Social climber
CA
May 9, 2008 - 02:23pm PT
impacted. Unless you're talking about a frakking wisdom tooth.
FinnMaCoul

Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
May 9, 2008 - 04:31pm PT
There are so many that have already been listed that annoy me (the hella, brah, bling crap especially). But I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the fact that our whole language is degenerating into this incomprehensible "computer-speak" or "text-language".

Is anybody else driven mad by people that drag that crap into their speech? LOL and all of the other asinine abbreviations that infect the attention deficit texting generation along with the disregard for any kind of punctuation, grammar, appropriate / inappropriate capitilization drive me nuts.
samg

climber
SLC
May 9, 2008 - 04:51pm PT
"Onry" when they want to say "ornery."

A typical conversation with someone who says "onry" and I will go as follows:

Me: Sorry to say this, but you're mispronouncing that word. It's actually pronounced "ornery."

Redneck: "Really?"

Me: "That's right."

Redneck: "Ornery-- but that sounds stupid!"

Me: "Right- that word does sound stupid."

Redneck: (confused)
Wild Bill

climber
Ca
May 9, 2008 - 05:12pm PT
I'm laughing over here at this thread.

"Reference" as a verb is totally lame and improper. It's "refers to" or "makes reference to."

The phrase "it begs the question . . . " is an improper bastardization of a term of art from logic. I see it everywhere, from student papers to the NYT or other supposedly learned information outlets. Don't do it. "Makes you wonder" or "raises questions" or some such variation on the idea works fine without transression.

"Informs" used to describe inanimate / intangibles that are incapable of action. As in "Tarantino's films are informed by his years working in a video store." Or "the artist's current paintings are informed by the work of 20th Century painters like . . ." Wretched and ignorant filler for those incapable of hewing to real English.
Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber
valley center, ca
May 9, 2008 - 05:47pm PT
Speaking of language, it drives me crazy when I listen to radio and tv hosts using pronouns with the noun. My Dad, he .....My Mom, she and on and on and on. lrl
rockermike

Mountain climber
Berkeley
May 9, 2008 - 06:19pm PT
Reference is perfectly fine as a verb. If you don't believe me reference the dictionary.
couchmaster

climber
May 9, 2008 - 06:19pm PT
"Beer tax"
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 9, 2008 - 07:02pm PT
[I could catch hell for this...]


feminism



(I'n mot against equal right for women, not at all. Just the way this word gets misused.)
Lynne Leichtfuss

Social climber
valley center, ca
May 9, 2008 - 07:06pm PT
I know few feminine feminists.
davidji

Social climber
CA
May 9, 2008 - 07:39pm PT
" Reference is perfectly fine as a verb. If you don't believe me reference the dictionary."

You can verb any word you like in US English, but that doesn't mean it doesn't sound lame. "refer to the dictionary" sounds better than "reference the dictionary".
Russ Walling

Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
May 9, 2008 - 07:42pm PT
weschrist

hella

tradding

warriors way

emo

mahalo
Mtnmun

Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
May 9, 2008 - 08:50pm PT
I don't know why or who posted it this week, but

Brave Little Toaster

drove me nuts while I was climbing today.

I need another beer before the tax kicks in.
nutjob

Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
May 9, 2008 - 09:58pm PT
"Boy, you got a purdy mouth."

"Squeal like a pig."
divad

Trad climber
wmass
May 9, 2008 - 10:31pm PT
Shut the fuk up.
rmuir

Social climber
the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
May 9, 2008 - 10:52pm PT
Bush
Papillon Rendre

climber
Jan 24, 2011 - 12:30am PT
You know..You know..you know

Like.like.like (used every other word)

LEB (sorry, but couldn't resist)

-PR
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jan 24, 2011 - 12:46am PT
hey there say, all...

not that i am sick of the words, but i do REALIZE there is a problem here, when hearing these-such over-and-over from the grandkids, so i CALL them out, on it:


1--"huh?" (after i place a sentence out into their as-close-as-possible airwaves)... (after refusing to respond with a repeat, it turns out they HEARD me all along, as i full-well knew)...

2--"hold up" (when i need some "action" out of them, while they are on a handheld video game, letting the world revolved around them,uselessly) *that is why, here, we do NOT USE them, we do things together when they come over...

3--the ol'
"un-huh, unh-unh" battle between sisters...

4--"but i don't like it" (to any and all food that their mom sends over for them to eat for breakfast, lunch, or supper)...


:O
Allen Hill

Social climber
CO.
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:09am PT
"Send"
Daphne

Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:15am PT
utilize
Todd Eastman

climber
Bellingham, WA
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:18am PT
Rain...

Showers...
michaeld

Sport climber
Near Tahoe, CA
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:40am PT
Recession

Can't
GrahamJ

climber
In the rain
Jan 24, 2011 - 02:12am PT
Here in NZ, people say:
"Sweet As"
"Ta" - short for thank you
"avro" - meaning afternoon.

I also hate "Hella" and "wicked"
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Jan 24, 2011 - 02:37am PT
Cletus and Alice.


Thanks, Tami. That sort of thing bugs me increasingly.

John
nita

Social climber
chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
Jan 24, 2011 - 02:42am PT
Tami, I was going to put up Alice... If you are a fan of the Simpsons, Cletus is funny, over used here on the Taco .

When you use a woman's name to diss a guy.........>.that.. in my book is a Ass hole .
mmm, can you tell that has been bugging me for a long time..........^


GUD..


TYeary

Social climber
State of decay
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:18am PT
Dude, send and the word "like".
Like is used five or six sometimes all in the same sentence!
And I still don't know what they are trying to say.
I'm just so , like bummed out dude, like I just want to , like send the problem, but the back-country is really, like, sketch right now, dude, like, I just don't know.
I'm just say'in
TY
Papillon Rendre

climber
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:33am PT
^^^^^^Like, don't get me started. (Too many likes and my head LIKE starts to spin and spin)

Whatssup?

Gangsta...



ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
bouldering
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:52am PT
"Crosshairs" should never be spoken of again.
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:32am PT
Vitriol.
hooblie

climber
from where the anecdotes roam
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:44am PT
"ya think? ... ya-huh!"

... sure signs that you'll be bearing the heavy lifting in any ensuing dialog, could be one's derivative irritability
may be a function of some coefficient of crowd immersion. luckily, some of these dreaded utterances
take on a new shine after spending sufficient time in the lonely wilds.

that's a teensy consolation

The Mayor

Social climber
Billings, Montana USA
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:13am PT
Wish

Hate

Awesome

Extreme

Nice
SofCookay

climber
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:33am PT
Been there, done that

Can you hear me now?

Yo

So gay

That's awesome

Man up

I'm just sayin'

Hot mess
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:34am PT
Court Ordered
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
SoCal
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:42am PT
anal

retarded

basically
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:52am PT
"At the end of the day..."
Manimal

climber
SLT, Ca
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:07am PT
I'm sure this has been posted but:

LIBERAL

SOCIALIST

as if these are evil....
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:08am PT
I get really annoyed at the misuse of "there's", the contraction for "there is". So many people use it (even news anchors) when they are talking about a number of things (plural), when they should be using the plural "there are".

Example: "There's a lot of people going to the Sushifest"

Some people use the contraction "there're", but I don't think Webster recognizes that as a real word.
mooser

Trad climber
seattle
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:25am PT
I always wonder about that one, ydpl8s. While "a lot" is the same thing as saying "many," "a" is the single, indefinite article, and wouldn't that make it singular? If it's singular, shouldn't it be gramatically correct to say, "There's a lot.."? The corresponding plural would be, "There are lots..."

If you think of "lot" equalling something like "crap-ton," then the singular works. One wouldn't say, "There are a crap-ton of tic-marks on this boulder."
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:40am PT
I suppose "lot" is not the best example to use, I can see your point (oh boy, another one that bugs me, when people use "your" when they mean "you're"). A better example would be, "There's so many people here".
DanaB

climber
Philadelphia
Jan 24, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
Burly

The business

Hater

Gnarly
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:33pm PT
"not a problem"
billiegoat

Big Wall climber
East Bay, CA
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
reconcile

and

discourse
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:38pm PT
celibacy

head gasket

take

minus twenty
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 01:39pm PT
"It is what it is"
Lacey

Social climber
Burns,Oregon
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:42pm PT
JUST SAYIN, DUDE, COUGAR, TOUCH BASE..............................
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
No

Overqualified

Leash
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 24, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
bluebird
ghey
retarded
weak sauce
prolly
sumthin, sumthin
Seamstress

Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
Jan 24, 2011 - 04:01pm PT
pay to play - another word for regressive form of taxation or hidden tax

ride/riders - I don't ride my skis at the snowsport center. I ski.

diversity - how many times in one career can one attend diveristy training?

xx-hundred hours - Folks, you aren't in the military any more, tell time like a normal 7 year old, please.

oregonians - are you living in a separate country? do you not feel any affinity with other US citizens? weren't most of you born in another state?

vegan, gluten free - I'm an omnivore, and I am the most disgutingly healthy person you will ever meet. WHen I'm hungry, I don't care if I killed a vegtable or an animal. I will eat it. I will eat two helping if I like it.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 04:22pm PT
Going forward, I dislike misunderefudiate. (It doesn't exist, yet.)

Actually, I also dislike "going forward".
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Jan 24, 2011 - 04:50pm PT
fat
belly
overweight
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 24, 2011 - 04:53pm PT
Annoying.

It's the most annoying word of that I know.
tonym

climber
Oklahoma
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:01pm PT
Crush

"dude, I'm gonna crush that problem"..


edit.

it's right up there with send. "did you send"?
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:02pm PT
hypercratic...
Norton

Social climber
the Wastelands
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:07pm PT
I cringe when "young" people use the word "awesome".

Like if I buy a battery at Radio Shack, they might call my purchase awesome.


Once about a year ago, I told the awesome word user that awesome would be landing

on the moon, or finding a cure for cancer, but not that I ordered a hamburger.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:11pm PT
Modern life, and English - a swarm of superlative and unnecessary adjectives, chasing a noun, any noun, to give them meaning.

One way they used to teach writing was to get people to write about a subject they were familiar with. Then go over the piece, remove all adjectives and adverbs, and see how it read then.
Norton

Social climber
the Wastelands
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:16pm PT
How did you know, Dingus?

Yes, I also hate it when them youngsters piss on my flowers.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:21pm PT
Taint

Partisan

Graupel

Predict
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:22pm PT
What's wrong with graupel? It's a good, if somewhat specialized, noun. You wouldn't want to use it for ordinary hail.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
It's not much fun to ski on.

It is kind of neat, though.
nevahpopsoff

Boulder climber
the woods
Jan 24, 2011 - 05:36pm PT
"bandwidth", as in I don't have the.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:12pm PT
facebook

schralp

krummholtz

'shcrund
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:23pm PT
I am vowing to think inside the box as much as possible.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:26pm PT
Hey, it seems like we're all on the same page.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:33pm PT
Oh yeah, I don't know if "Bud" is on the list but it is not a favorite seems quite condascending. As in "Hey Bud I think you will need a few cams" Seems to be the new "dude" at times.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:36pm PT
brah that was some proud tradding.
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Jan 24, 2011 - 06:52pm PT
moose knuckle
hossjulia

Social climber
Eastside
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:09pm PT
inaccurately used ones
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:14pm PT
swamp donkey

gnar

plausible deniability
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:22pm PT
hopey changey
anythinggate
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:25pm PT
THOSE THAT ARE CAPITALIZED UNNECESSARILY!

Not to mention run-on posts. Hint: every few sentences, smack the "enter" key twice.
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Jan 24, 2011 - 07:27pm PT
Norton, you inadvertently generated some poetry. Check it out:

Once, about a year ago,
I told the awesome word user
that awesome would be landing on the moon,
or
finding a cure for cancer,
but,
not that i ordered a hamburger
almost e.e. cummings, but not quite
Norton

Social climber
the Wastelands
Jan 24, 2011 - 09:33pm PT
Damn!

Me? Poetry?

I probably flunked that course if I can ever remember taking it.
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 24, 2011 - 09:34pm PT
Misspelled words. Consistently. Over & over. What is up with that? There's a great dictionary available & spell-check!
How about USING all this technology you're so proud of?
nevahpopsoff

Boulder climber
the woods
Jan 24, 2011 - 09:57pm PT
"we're trying to get pregnant"
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 24, 2011 - 10:00pm PT
Hint: every few sentences, smack the "enter" key twice.

:-)
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:25pm PT
Foongeezy



'cetp differn't
valygrl

climber
Boulder, CO
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:34pm PT
"You're kidding me"
"I know right"
enjoimx

Trad climber
Kirkwood, CA
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:40pm PT
Organic

Hippy

Eco-
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:52pm PT
Naw, it's far more offensive on initial delivery.....;-)
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:57pm PT
across the aisle
partisan
base
constituent
recent polls
Lynne Leichtfuss

Trad climber
Will know soon
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:58pm PT
It's fun/weird to read ones posts from year (s) ago :D

Sic (hehehe)
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 24, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
Nice, Lynne. I can dig it.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:23am PT
sesh
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:24am PT
I forgot the worst one of all...






























OT
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:25am PT
I like sesh. Especially atop 5.2-5.12.
Anastasia

climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:28am PT
I am sick of all my cussing...





Daphne

Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:37am PT
I second whoever said "orientated"
Gal

Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
Jan 25, 2011 - 12:50am PT
jes sayin' (sorry, i know it's all the rage right now).
all the rage.
brah or bra-I wear a bra, it's odd when someone refers to someone else with "bra".
sawl. It's SAW-no L at the end!!!!
irregardless.
you rock.
no.

this is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ


k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:10am PT
You betcha.
Lacey

Social climber
Burns,Oregon
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:15am PT
rhetoric
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:18am PT
low hanging fruit

actually

like

irregardless (not a word)


Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:20am PT
Ok! I forced myself to read every post in this thread.

To my surprise: decimate is not denounced.

TV newscasters find it a wonderful word to describe disasters or mass-killings.

The dictionary definition of decimate used to be from Roman use of the word:

To select by lot and kill one in every ten of.

I find it interesting that the Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/decimate
gives this information about public acceptance of mis-use of decimate:

Usage Note: Decimate originally referred to the killing of every tenth person, a punishment used in the Roman army for mutinous legions. Today this meaning is commonly extended to include the killing of any large proportion of a group. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel accepts this extension in the sentence The Jewish population of Germany was decimated by the war, even though it is common knowledge that the number of Jews killed was much greater than a tenth of the original population. However, when the meaning is further extended to include large-scale destruction other than killing, as in The supply of fresh produce was decimated by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, only 26 percent of the Panel accepts the usage.

Papillon Rendre

climber
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:42am PT
What's for dinner?

Rudder

Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:43am PT
Did anyone mention "sort of" yet?
alejandro

Trad climber
b-town, wa
Jan 25, 2011 - 01:52am PT
psyched!

...or "get psyched!"

i sum up all my thoughts here:
http://treadwallproject.blogspot.com/2010/05/apologies.html
Iron Mtn.

Trad climber
Riverside, Ca.
Jan 25, 2011 - 03:07am PT
REALLY?
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
SoCal
Jan 25, 2011 - 10:31am PT
Fritz- I'm with you on decimate. Just because you get to write for/speak on TV doesn't mean you are literate.

Decimate was used by Gengis Khan to effectively control populations. You ride in. Line everyone up. Count them off 1-10. Draw a number out of a hat. Kill everyone with that number. Do that at 3 or 4 towns and the rest of the population magically cooperates.

Chinchen

climber
Way out there....
Jan 25, 2011 - 11:42am PT
Moist
venga!!!
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 25, 2011 - 11:54am PT
evil.
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Jan 25, 2011 - 02:12pm PT
Legit
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Jan 25, 2011 - 02:53pm PT
Word

Ken
Tfish

Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
Jan 25, 2011 - 02:57pm PT
Hella and Liability
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jan 25, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
splitter
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Jan 25, 2011 - 04:52pm PT
"Grape-smuggler"

"Convo", short for conversation: "I just had a convo with them recently!" I hate that shortening, it sounds SUTPID!

"Tribe" is over-used, as well
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 25, 2011 - 04:53pm PT
"Nation", as in "SuperTopo Nation" and so on. Another commercial promotion tool.
dogtown

Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
Jan 25, 2011 - 04:54pm PT
sweeeeeet dude!!!!!!!!
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Jan 25, 2011 - 05:04pm PT
decimate does not equal annihialate, purge, slaughter, genocide.

Yes, I've also heard it used incorrectly recently.
Applied to New Orleans for instance. About 1500 people died. For comparison NO had about 1500 police officers and about 100,000 stayed behind.
About 1/60 who stayed died.

OK, maybe that's modern decimation. Pretty shocking when you think about it.

From Wikipedia Gengis Khan: "Many of these invasions resulted in the large-scale slaughter of local populations, which have given Genghis Khan and his empire a fearsome reputation in local histories.[5] It has been estimated that his campaigns killed as many as 40 million people based on census data of the times."
The net effect may have been decimation (1 in 10) but locally it was more like extermination.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Jan 25, 2011 - 05:33pm PT
can't believe none of these has appeared in 257 posts:
War on Crime
War on Drugs
War on Terror

wars on crime and drugs make linquistic sense. They're against specific people and activities. Well defined by law. Whether the wars themselves make any practical sense is arguable.

War on Terror
Being pedantic: "terror" is an emotion, terrified is the state of being.
"terrorism" is a thing, sort of, loosely defined. But is terrorism an activity or a political ideal like communism or capitalism or libertarianism?
We might call it the "war on terrorism" if we really wanted to understand it, but then we'd have to explain what we're doing and why we're doing it.

Someone's terrorist is someone else's freedom fighter.
By Bush's definition, the Boston Tea Partiers might have been classified terrorists.
To the remains of a family half destroyed by a drone fired missile we are terrorists.

We are adrift when we can't articulate what we're fighting for, or who we're fighting against. The definition of asymmetrical warfare.

more pedantry:
don't get me started on "climate change" when you really mean "global warming". They are intimately related but in no way are they interchangeable. One is the cause, the other the effect.
There's da*% all we can do about climate change directly except build dikes and significantly change our way of life until the earth fries like Venus. There's a huge amount we can do about global warming.

Sometimes getting the language correct really does matter.
(off my soapbox)
((now I know why I didn't get into this thread before post 250))
drunkenmaster

Social climber
santa rosa
Jan 25, 2011 - 05:43pm PT
right?
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 25, 2011 - 06:15pm PT
And then there are the mis-spelt thread titles. Three currently on the first two pages, not counting deliberate malapropisms and abbreviations.

"Potests in Egypt": What could that be about?
"treawall / climbing blog": What's a 'treawall'?
"Guidebook beta request Tuscon Area": Must be one of those new sport climbing areas.
Clippy Thing

Trad climber
Texass
Jan 25, 2011 - 06:28pm PT
Supertaco

Got any change?
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Jan 25, 2011 - 06:31pm PT
prolly. It's f*#king probably...like its probably likely you don't know that "prolly" isn't a word. The phrase "you know?", a speech tic that many people seem to have, said perhaps a dozen times in a single sentence, prolly will get on my last nerve.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jan 25, 2011 - 06:34pm PT
nuanced

pedantic

college degree

palin
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Jan 25, 2011 - 09:15pm PT
"at the end of the day"
LuckyPink

climber
the last bivy
Jan 25, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
I am completely sick of hearing the admonition "take care of yourself." It has a certain "f**ck you, don't bother me" ring to it.

what can one possibly mean by that directive?
Tom Johnson

Trad climber
Guerneville, Cal
Jan 26, 2011 - 07:29pm PT

awesome

"Thank you." "No problem."

"Thank you." "No worries."

"Have a safe trip," (real meaning, "I hope your plane doesn't crash")
TKingsbury

Trad climber
MT
Jan 26, 2011 - 07:35pm PT
I get angry about arbitrary things...
Gal

Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
Jan 27, 2011 - 12:32pm PT
Alot.

Please refer to:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

philo

Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
Jan 27, 2011 - 12:39pm PT
It annoys me when people say axe when they mean ask. It also annoys me when people lazilly say prolly instead of probably.
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 27, 2011 - 12:44pm PT
Yeah, and exspecially for especially
philo

Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
Jan 27, 2011 - 12:45pm PT
Eggzacty
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 27, 2011 - 12:46pm PT
I prefer edzactly.
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Jan 27, 2011 - 01:05pm PT
Hamburger.... it should be Hand burger, you use your hands and there is no ham Handburger "toke, cough, burp"
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jan 27, 2011 - 01:14pm PT
^^^ ^^^

So then is it Dingus Milktoax? :-)
Papillon Rendre

climber
Jan 27, 2011 - 01:29pm PT
Fir instead of for or four.

Runnin, goin...

More and more people are dropping the "G".

Why do we pronounce been as ben instead of bean? The English pronounce been as bean but we Americans say ben.



Batrock

Trad climber
Burbank
Jan 27, 2011 - 01:38pm PT
"send" when talking about doing a route. Sent, sends or any form therof.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 31, 2011 - 06:23pm PT
up-or-down vote
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Jan 31, 2011 - 07:40pm PT
It's all good

Usually means things are really f*(&d up somewhere along the chain but we're not allowed to acknowledge it.
Can you imagine the rejoinder:
Like H#ll it is!

I can't remember the last time I said I can't


EDIT: Having said that...........
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Jan 31, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirent speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
the museum

Trad climber
Rapid City
Jan 31, 2011 - 08:31pm PT
Back-up for K-man:


the museum
Lacey

Social climber
Burns,Oregon
Jan 31, 2011 - 10:27pm PT
compartmentalize...................
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 31, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
Orientate. Would that mean to make more Eastern?
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Jan 31, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
Perhaps it has been stated already, but my personal word I hate is "irregardless."

edit: I see Tuolumne Tradster and I are on the same page. And like Gal stated I also can't friggin' stand the gangster talk such as 'jes saying' 'yo' etc. This pet peeve is so strong that I can't stand to speak with someone who talks like that.
tinker b

climber
the commonwealth
Jan 31, 2011 - 10:40pm PT
trad

my favorite was when i met some dude in indian creek on his last day there and he told me that it was really cool he now knew how to trad climb. i had a good laugh.

i don't know, but when anyone ever uses that word it makes me cringe. "Do you trad climb?"
it makes me want to say no and walk away as fast as i can.
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Jan 31, 2011 - 11:05pm PT
Ha. I bet "friggin'" annoys some. I wrote it and it sort of bugs me. :)
Captain...or Skully

climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
Jan 31, 2011 - 11:25pm PT
Now THAT was funny. Thanks, Crimps!
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Feb 1, 2011 - 12:47am PT
Netflix
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Feb 1, 2011 - 01:24am PT
That mythical word its', along with misuse of possessives generally.

John
Prezwoodz

climber
Anchorage
Feb 5, 2011 - 05:49pm PT
Any actor / actress name change to mix.
Any word Sarah Palin mixes such as "Lamestream"
Left / Right / Liberal / Republican / Democrat / Conservatives
Muggle
Birthers
Diss
Using some lame word for your name such as "The Situation" or "Snooki"

Oh this list could go on.
Melissa

Gym climber
berkeley, ca
Feb 5, 2011 - 06:26pm PT
Any insult followed by "just sayin'".

Yoga and vegan are working their way up my list. I've got nothing against either practice, just the way my FB friends sell them harder than church TV sells Jesus.

ma'am
Sioux Juan

Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
Feb 5, 2011 - 06:36pm PT
x-wife
nature

climber
Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!
Feb 5, 2011 - 06:40pm PT
The LEB
Lacey

Social climber
Burns,Oregon
Feb 5, 2011 - 06:52pm PT
bucket list, what is that????/!~ :0
dogtown

Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
Feb 5, 2011 - 09:11pm PT
Sweeeeeeet.
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Feb 6, 2011 - 06:19pm PT
Words you are sick of

When it comes down too it I'm no longer sick of much of anything, except maybe the trolls on this forum.

But one of the things I just read led me to question something that I have said many times in the past, no taken a little too far, but only in the interest of making fun of language.

Someone said "it's all about them when you are gone" in reference to money matters, the them in this instance being family. It's all about them when you are gone.

When I think about it, I find not much of anything is all about anything else. The world is all about more than just dirt. The oceans are all about more than just water. The mountains are all about more than just peaks. and all about more than just rocks, or trees.

People are all about more than just what they do. People are all about more than what they watch on TV, or how they pay their bills. They are all about more than if they can pay their bills at all.

So when I think about it, it's almost never all about a single thing. Ever.

Not even when you meet the love of your life is it all about any specific thing. As with most things on this planet, things are rather complex. So it would be more correct to say its all about everything. That's what it's all about!

Isn't it?
jackkelly

Trad climber
Milford, CT
Feb 6, 2011 - 11:36pm PT
epic
MisterE

Social climber
MEEP MEEP
Feb 6, 2011 - 11:39pm PT
the three words together:

"You need to..."
Captain...or Skully

climber
The Seas of Stone.
Feb 7, 2011 - 12:19am PT
OMG.
MisterE

Social climber
MEEP MEEP
Feb 7, 2011 - 12:21am PT
Dude! ^^ I totally know what you mean! Like I really catch your "vibe" on that, Homey!
kc

Trad climber
sj, ca
Feb 7, 2011 - 12:43am PT
'disrespected' ugh.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Feb 7, 2011 - 02:58pm PT
Necessary Evil

Popcorn

Plumbing
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
bouldering
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
on the ground
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:06pm PT
Let's do lunch.

edit: Just not in this lifetime.
MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:09pm PT
"My people"

Winning!!

Adonis DNA

Tiger Blood
this just in

climber
north fork
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:11pm PT
Not a word but words, "It is what it is."
No sh#t.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:11pm PT
Like
rectorsquid

climber
Lake Tahoe
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:17pm PT
"literally"

As in "I literally died when I saw what happened."

Dave
mooch

Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:23pm PT
minute - "I haven't done that climb in a minute!"
Hellah
grenade
chucky
juiceheads
smush

And all the rest of that garbage slang from that reality TV show 'Jersey Shore' spews. Thanks to my step-daughter logging in couch time and blaring that crap!!

HATE!!!
this just in

climber
north fork
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:24pm PT
Wow...really.
Pretty sick of these words.
perswig

climber
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:28pm PT
Restraining.
Order.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:29pm PT
We're number 1!

Bragging after your team wins some sort of championship.
Or often meaning: someone's better at this than "we" are but we're not going to admit it.

That being said.......
Nate D

climber
San Francisco
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:31pm PT
gag me!

:)
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:39pm PT
"gag me" is so last century
David Knopp

Trad climber
CA
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:49pm PT
incentivized

that's what i get for moving (albeit unwillingly) to DC.
nutjob

Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
Apr 7, 2011 - 03:58pm PT
10 feet left!
That's me!
Stop there for a minute...
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 7, 2011 - 04:02pm PT
incentivized
BINGO!

Incentivizing an activity must be good (incentives are always good aren't they? That's a tautology) therefore you can't be against it. Regardless of what it really means. Totally meaningless out of context.
In context it usually means some groups of people are going to get screwed.
this just in

climber
north fork
Apr 7, 2011 - 05:04pm PT
It is what it is.
MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Apr 7, 2011 - 05:13pm PT
Awesome!

Jib

Juke
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Apr 7, 2011 - 05:14pm PT
Critical path.
Milestones.
Environmental document.
suspense date.
Budget.
Review and comment.
MisterE

Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
Apr 16, 2011 - 09:04pm PT
bump!



































I hate it when people just say "bump" and don't post anything relevant. :P
DanaB

climber
Philadelphia
Apr 16, 2011 - 10:27pm PT
Juke

Check out Little Walter on YouTube, and you might change your mind.
Papillon Rendre

Social climber
Jul 27, 2014 - 02:53pm PT
Old Hag...
Gilroy

Social climber
Bolderado
Jul 27, 2014 - 03:08pm PT
meme

Just say what you meme.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jul 27, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
Dude....

It is a love/hate thing
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 27, 2014 - 03:20pm PT
hipster

core competency
suboptimal

bloc

edit:

I'll never get sick of those vvvvvvv , ever. It's actually passe to be sick of those!!!
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Jul 27, 2014 - 03:20pm PT
Psyched
Sick
Send
Stoked
Bro
Dude
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Jul 27, 2014 - 03:59pm PT
I know, right

Anything zombie

Sick

Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Jul 27, 2014 - 04:06pm PT
Customer Experience. (Translation: Kiss Ass)
Bonus Structure. (Translation: You're Not Getting One)
Empowerment (Translation: More Micro Management)
Metrics (Translation: We Hired a New MBA)

DanaB

climber
CT
Jul 27, 2014 - 05:05pm PT
A boss says: "We need to talk, to have a discussion."

You are going to sit there, shut up, and don't you dare disagree with anything I say.
DanaB

climber
CT
Jul 27, 2014 - 05:06pm PT
Haters.

Haters gonna hate.
protour

Trad climber
Concord, CA
Jul 27, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
yolo

The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 27, 2014 - 05:41pm PT
FOMO.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
Jul 27, 2014 - 06:10pm PT
como

¿Cómo te va?

¿Cómo te vas?
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Jul 27, 2014 - 06:42pm PT
mission statement
twitter
facebook
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jul 27, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
ADVENTURE


A once great word that is now so overused that it has lost all meaning.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jul 27, 2014 - 06:52pm PT
TBT
YOLO
viral
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Jul 27, 2014 - 07:44pm PT
It amuses me to see my previous responses. They omit so many words and phrases I hate. Mostly, I hate jargon used in place of ordinary English words, or word that sound impressive and mean nothing.

"Accountable" tops my current rogue's gallery. If my job makes me accountable, it means others can blame me. If, in contrast, my job makes me "responsible," it means I need to make it happen. I want someone "responsible," not "accountable," for actions.

John


DanaB

climber
CT
Jul 27, 2014 - 08:06pm PT
I

Me
MisterE

climber
Jul 27, 2014 - 08:20pm PT
I get kind of sick of "choad" hanging out with EE...
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Jul 27, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
Adventure is definitely overused.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.
~Yvon Chouinard

Shackleton had an adventure; I've had outings and trips, even if some of them involved some modicum of fear, pain, and suffering. I'm grateful they've all been short of real adventures.
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jul 28, 2014 - 05:50pm PT

Orientated. . .

I'm knot even sure it's a word. . .
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Jul 28, 2014 - 05:56pm PT
Mei you!

Really sick of that.

the tones prolly don't make it easier either. Dropping down to the "Have"

wanna get back at them? Gong with them in Gwangdungwah.
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 28, 2014 - 06:02pm PT
Methinks.
Alpineholydog

Trad climber
Spring Tx
Jul 28, 2014 - 07:36pm PT
Throwing someone under the bus
Polar vortex
gastropub
Majid_S

Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
Jul 28, 2014 - 09:39pm PT
peace
our freedom





















specially when war loving as#@&%es talk about it
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 28, 2014 - 10:17pm PT
"you people"
phylp

Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
Jul 28, 2014 - 10:39pm PT
I would proly really hate it when people use the word "Zen" or "Zen-like" to mean a style of decorating, or a person's demeanor or behavior...

but it's all good and I'm kinda too Zen to really hate anything. Nawha I mean? You dig?

Later, dudes...
BuddhaStalin

climber
Truckee, CA
Jul 29, 2014 - 01:58am PT
taco
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 29, 2014 - 03:41am PT
Chlamydia.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jul 29, 2014 - 05:28am PT
trending
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Jul 29, 2014 - 07:04am PT
viral

+1. I hate that word. Like most social media terminology, it has worn out it's welcome.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Jul 29, 2014 - 07:10am PT
Meh.

Wade Icey

Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
Jul 29, 2014 - 07:13am PT
climber's forum
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Jul 29, 2014 - 08:43am PT
peeps
"dude" and all its variations

Susan

edit: epic
"at the end of the day"

Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Jul 29, 2014 - 08:50am PT
Command decision
Brief the principals
Mission critical
Contracting office
Action items



pc

climber
Jul 29, 2014 - 09:18am PT
Crush
Send
Ship
Nail
Sick
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jul 29, 2014 - 09:52am PT
sustainable
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 29, 2014 - 10:01am PT
Cali

appreciation

MooseWhatever

ho man!

zing!

:)
WyoRockMan

climber
Flank of the Big Horns
Jul 29, 2014 - 03:11pm PT
While coming out of a corporate bankruptcy in 2008, our new court appointed overlords were just full of verbal diarrhea and buzzwords. I built a random word generator sheet to print off a new card for each conference call. "Bullshitte Bingo." Kept us laughing until we eventually got the chop.




Braunini

Big Wall climber
cupertino
Jul 29, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
campfire
rcguy

climber
Jul 29, 2014 - 03:39pm PT
"I mean"
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jul 29, 2014 - 03:50pm PT
totes
brah
Rollover

climber
Gross Vegas
Jul 29, 2014 - 06:39pm PT
Gluten-free
Selfie
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 29, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
reality tv
Stevee B

Trad climber
Oakland, CA
Jul 29, 2014 - 07:23pm PT
Stellar
Crush
Full value

And I'd love to offer these in their place:

empyrean
limn
panapoly

I also would love to see "rats", "drat", "curses" and "dastardly" re-enter the lexicon. Credit to Peanuts and Hanna Barbara of course.
Lacey

Social climber
Nevada
Jul 29, 2014 - 07:28pm PT
SELFIE............... Irritates the hell out of me...
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Jul 29, 2014 - 08:56pm PT
Rigor, common core

CA teachers in staff development days understand
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 29, 2014 - 11:01pm PT
Gluten-free
Selfie

My brother from another mother.

And I intend no disrespect for people with Celiac.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:02am PT
No you don't.

My brother from another mother.

Climate change.

Free market.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Jul 30, 2014 - 08:16am PT
'No Worries'
It was cool but now it isn't.
mrtropy

Trad climber
Nor Cal
Jul 30, 2014 - 11:05am PT
Rigor, common core

CA teachers in staff development days understand

have to agree with this
looks easy from here

climber
Ben Lomond, CA
Jul 30, 2014 - 01:50pm PT
Ha! Just a couple days ago two of my friends who are teachers were commiserating about the word "rigorous". I'll have to ask them about common core.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:06pm PT
Randisi, I was tempted to add "conflate" to "accountable." "Conflate" strikes me as a pretentious way of saying "combine."

WyoRockMan, I loved your bingo card. Our most common word was missing, however. one way those of us in the insolvency law game differentiate and identify ourselves is how we complete the phrase "in the best interest of the ." Most lawyers would answer "child." Insolvency counsel answers "creditors."

John
overwatch

climber
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:10pm PT
Been mentioned probably but sick, sweet and amazing make me cringe
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
Basically.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:31pm PT
"you know" sprinkled into every 3 rd or 4th phrase. No I "don't know" or I wouldn't have asked.

Susan
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:33pm PT
"Not a problem."
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 30, 2014 - 02:36pm PT
Basically, you know, it's not a problem.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 30, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
"at the end of the day"
selfie
send, crush, dirt me
"let's do lunch"
foodie
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jul 30, 2014 - 04:20pm PT
locavore
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 30, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
Amazeballs
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Jul 30, 2014 - 05:46pm PT
"work husband"

"it is what it is"

"I know! right?"

The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 30, 2014 - 05:48pm PT
Dirt me = lower me
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:23pm PT
Mouse, way upthread, wisely listed, "ho man". I couldn't agree more.

I cringe when I hear that moronic ejaculation. It was moreover one of the ten words most had in vocabulary back in the Seventies.
yanqui

climber
Balcarce, Argentina
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:34pm PT
Maybe this is not the time or place place to post this, but I´ve had a bit to drink and I want to make a defense of the word "send", at least in terms of what I understand the word to mean. I'm sorry to see so many having problems with this, but I think it is an extremely useful term for climbing. At least for those of us who work at climbing something that is hard at first, in order to succeed climbing it in a reasonable style after time. In Argentine climbing vernacular there is a word that works pretty well: "encadenar" but I can't think of anything in English (except "send") that works quite the same way. Maybe you could say something like: "climbed without falling or outside assistance after various tries" or even "free climbed the route in good style, given the context" but those are pretty damned awkward replacements for "send". In some cases, the phrase "free climbed" might work well, but it sounds stupid, for example, if you want to say that you succesfully climbed a boulder problem. Think how absurd it sounds to say: I "free climbed Midnight Lightning". I suppose you could just say "I climbed Midnight Lighting", but that might also mean you put a toprope on the boulder and managed to successfully toprope it after much hangdogging, which would be completely consistent with the phrase "I climbed it" but not with the phrase "I sent it".

Of course, you can also "send" a climb on toprope (you climb the problem on top rope without any assistance from the rope except for the sense of security it gives you in case you were to fall). I think we all know what that means. You can "send" a sport-climb: this could mean you "redpointed" it, putting draws in the bolts and climbing without assistance, or even "pinkpointed" it: clipping draws that were already in place. For sport climbing routes, this distinction always seemed a bit ridiculous to me, but if you "send" a sport climb it should mean one or the other (thus if you "send" a sport climb on top rope, it should include the phrase "on top rope" just to clarify the meaning).

You can even "send" trad climbs. In this case, if the climb involves gear placements then you should be placing them on lead. If the the route has long runouts, in order to get the send, you should be be doing these runouts clean, on lead. Of coure the word "sent" does not imply you did the problem "flash" or "onsight", only that you managed to climb the route, over time (perhaps after various attempts or with outside beta) in good style, given the context. The only time the phrase "send" becomes redundant and even absurd as a replacement for the word "climbed" is when you are free soloing. If you managed to climb something free solo then you obviously sent it, or you'd be dead.



ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
^^^^

get it off your chest, brah
yanqui

climber
Balcarce, Argentina
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
So how's the trad climbing in Minneapolis?
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:46pm PT
That's another one. "Trad"
Gilroy

Social climber
Bolderado
Jul 30, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
Even worse, the transitive perversion, "tradding."
WyoRockMan

climber
Flank of the Big Horns
Jul 30, 2014 - 07:56pm PT
Tradsters tradding up the gnar trad.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 30, 2014 - 08:01pm PT
t least for those of us who work at climbing something that is hard at first, in order to succeed climbing it in a reasonable style after time. In Argentine climbing vernacular there is a word that works pretty well: "encadenar" but I can't think of anything in English (except "send") that works quite the same way.

Where I come from, the English phrase that describes your success after working hard on a route is "I climbed it."

You can toprope it, yo-yo it, fall on it, one-hang it... but when you finally get from bottom to top in "reasonable style" you can say "I climbed it."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 30, 2014 - 08:09pm PT
adorbs
Karen

Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
Jul 30, 2014 - 08:15pm PT
"and everything like that"
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 30, 2014 - 09:06pm PT
Ha!

Not so much
And such

Traddie

Gnar

TFPU
yanqui

climber
Balcarce, Argentina
Jul 31, 2014 - 06:28am PT
Where I come from, the English phrase that describes your success after working hard on a route is "I climbed it."

You can toprope it, yo-yo it, fall on it, one-hang it... but when you finally get from bottom to top in "reasonable style" you can say "I climbed it."

OK, sure, but that leads to the strange state of affairs (which has happened to me so many times in my life) where I've gotten to the top of the route, without actually having climbed it! Well at least that gives me something to say to the tourists who ask how I got the rope up there. I can say "I sure as hell didn't climb up!"

I did Midnight Lightning.

Not me, not close, but I was only once in the area, 33 years ago (I'm sure now it was 1981 because it was shortly after Tobin Sorenson died and at one point I somehow got involved in some spontaneous party action in El Cap Meadows which also included Sorenson's brother). A little bit of history: while staying at Camp 4 the rumor started going around that Kauk was going to do ML. Next thing you know there was (what seemed to be) maybe a couple of hundred climbers crowding around Columbia Boulder and here comes Kauk who passes through the crowd and does (climbs, sends) the problem with ease. It kind of blows my mind to think that now-a-days these local, unknown, kids where I live are going out on the weekends and doing new problems on a regular basis, that are several grades harder. In Argentina, these boulders are "encadenados" when they are done.



Back to the topic at hand.
I have avoided writing TFPU on this site, like the plague, but I can´t say I'm sick of it. I suppose I am sick of people describing something that has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality as "gay".
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jul 31, 2014 - 06:31am PT
Guns

Politics

Religion
martygarrison

Trad climber
Washington DC
Jul 31, 2014 - 07:45am PT
Pivot
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Jul 31, 2014 - 08:19am PT
Basically, you know, it's not a problem.
Dude, come on, you know, its just gnarly to say that kinda sh#t. BITD I woulda whacked your badass.
Yer gonna die.
Susan
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 31, 2014 - 10:34am PT














































































...
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 31, 2014 - 11:45am PT
Everest
Limbaugh
MOU
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 31, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
press conference
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Jul 31, 2014 - 01:34pm PT
Thanks MGuzzy!

John
The Call Of K2 Lou

Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
Jul 31, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
Anglophone spotter says, "Allez," to Aglophone boulderer.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 31, 2014 - 03:21pm PT
McGuzzy: not here, but here:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=990119&msg=2450327#msg2450327

And Locker, you'll never ever eat it, bite the dust, buy the farm, go the way of all flesh, give up the ghost, add infinitum, etc., etc.

Expire, maybe. Check your expiration date.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Jul 31, 2014 - 03:24pm PT
Allez is annoying

The frenchies here call trad climbers "les tradeux" *cringe*
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 31, 2014 - 03:34pm PT
Bloc.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Jul 31, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
...

... ... ...

Susan
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 31, 2014 - 04:47pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 31, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
Hocking

Spew/spray

Butt hurt
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Jul 31, 2014 - 07:15pm PT
No comment
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 31, 2014 - 07:19pm PT

"braap, braaap, braaaaaaaaaaap"
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jul 31, 2014 - 07:30pm PT
The frenchies here call trad climbers "les tradeux" *cringe*

The Montreal frenchies I used to climb with on Baffin Island called me "lightweight." But that was because I didn't consume twelve million calories at every meal, not because I couldn't get up sh#t.

I got them back though, when I introduced them to Coast Range approaches. Lightweights, indeed.

"Lightweight" is one word I'm not going to get sick of.
this just in

climber
north fork
Aug 1, 2014 - 11:48am PT
Happy birthday Werner.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Aug 1, 2014 - 12:08pm PT
^^ Beat me to it!
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Aug 1, 2014 - 12:10pm PT
Ghost: who from Montreal climbed on Baffin Island?

Today's word: charcuterie, but in English. So pretentious.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Aug 1, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
Bieber
Kardashian --- (any of them)
JLo
JLaw
Beyonce
JayZ
MileyCyrus
Coulter --- (not the early California settler)
Hannity
TedCruz
Boehner
FoxNews
Koch --- (not the Tetons guide/skier, Everest summiter)
TeaParty --- (seems to be dying an unnatural death)
Palin -- (possible VP? give me a break!!)

folks --- (c'mon Mister President. Don't get all folksy on us. It's a bloody world out there)

selfie
seriously
spoiler

I'm glad you asked that question --- (are you sure?)
var: That's a very good question

(whatever happened to Yuppie?
Did they get too wealthy to make fun of?)
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Aug 1, 2014 - 05:40pm PT
trash bird
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:00pm PT
#1....."it's all good"

no...really...it isn't
Bushman

Social climber
Elk Grove, CA
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
hashtag
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:16pm PT
booty
ruppell

climber
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:37pm PT
Not words but symbols. Let me give you some examples.

#wth

@gfy

These things need to go. # & @ you all. lol
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Aug 1, 2014 - 08:45pm PT
^^^You spend a lot of time thinking about sh#t don't you?

:)
ruppell

climber
Aug 1, 2014 - 08:47pm PT
Thinking about empathy specifically. It's still sh#t tho.
Studly

Trad climber
WA
Aug 1, 2014 - 08:50pm PT
Its all good...
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 1, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
Tweet
ruppell

climber
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:00pm PT
Just kicked himself in the nuts?

I'm confused.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:31pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
ruppell

climber
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:31pm PT
A lot.


What's wrong with you?

VVVVVVVV

Ninjad. lol
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Aug 1, 2014 - 10:18pm PT
(OT) Since you mentioned Conan, I 'll tell you a quote that I'm not sick of.

"Conan, what is best in life?"
" To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Lamentations. Lame intentions.

Not OT: Manifest. New age beggars! Do or do not. Manifest! That should be the word for my Eastside parties.
ruppell

climber
Aug 1, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
Flip

Bring some of that East Side party. Truckee doesn't count in my minds eye. So bring it south. lol

EDIT:

Jim, where you ever any wheres hard man?
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 2, 2014 - 12:15am PT
filbert

expert

Schneedleflert
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Aug 3, 2014 - 07:28pm PT
Vote #3 for "It's all good"
Anyone vacuous enough to claim that hasn't lived life.

Almost any 3 letter internet created abbreviation.
Especially LOL

(Curmudgeon crawls back under his rock)
;-)
(I didn't say three characters)
ms55401

Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
Aug 15, 2014 - 09:28pm PT
No worries
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Aug 16, 2014 - 04:11am PT
(OT) Since you mentioned Conan, I 'll tell you a quote that I'm not sick of.

"Conan, what is best in life?"
" To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Really?
That's my all time favorite quote which appears on my bookface profile, for years now.
I think I'm in love.

/OT


Farm to table
Artisanal
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Aug 16, 2014 - 10:46am PT
having said that
Urizen

Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
Aug 5, 2016 - 11:53am PT
Reviving this as a repository for 2016 political reporting cliches one is sick of hearing, e.g.,

1) Lean in.
2) Double down.
3) Walk it back.
4) Support.
5) Endorse.
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Aug 5, 2016 - 12:15pm PT
I am sick of the word "so" being used as the first word of a statement or an answer to a question. As in:

"How did you like the movie?" "So, when you start a film with a scene like that..."

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
Aug 5, 2016 - 12:22pm PT
So sucks...I know this loud mouth that starts every sentence with SO at the decibel level of an air horn...annoying...
Fossil climber

Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
Aug 5, 2016 - 08:11pm PT
Anything said by the Donald.
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 5, 2016 - 08:25pm PT
Butthole surfer has outlived it's usefulness

Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Aug 6, 2016 - 05:16am PT
"Trump". "Believe me"
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 6, 2016 - 07:57am PT
Skeptimisticus aced me!

So, I made a HUGE adjustment.

"Long story short?" Indicates a HUGE lack of narrative ability.
Skeptimistic

Mountain climber
La Mancha
Aug 6, 2016 - 08:49am PT
^^^^
It was 420-speak before dropping the mic was the thing
Lurkingtard

climber
Aug 6, 2016 - 08:57am PT
No words bother me.

Lots of crotchety old men around here.

This is now a nation of young pussies and old dicks.



~~~

rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
Aug 6, 2016 - 10:06am PT
Any word ending in TARD...
Levy

Big Wall climber
So Cal
Aug 6, 2016 - 10:10am PT
RetroBolt


Tom Patterson

Trad climber
Seattle
Aug 6, 2016 - 10:42am PT
Anything with -gate at the end...
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
Aug 6, 2016 - 10:58am PT
Tardgate..
landcruiserbob

Trad climber
PUAKO, BIG ISLAND Kohala Coast
Aug 6, 2016 - 11:06am PT
Transparency

Mahalo


Be well

Rg
Eric Beck

Sport climber
Bishop, California
Aug 6, 2016 - 03:02pm PT
"at the end of the day"
Tom Patterson

Trad climber
Seattle
Aug 6, 2016 - 04:01pm PT
Tardgate-gate
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 6, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
"going forward"

Don't get "into the weeds" on this.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 7, 2016 - 07:16am PT
It's all good.

What the fruck does that mean? Did you take a fruckin' survey? Did "some little bird" tell you? What if you're wrong, bird-brain? Are you an habitual liar? At least tell a "big lie." And no, I don't have any spare change! No change is spare! Get a fruckin' job and get the fruck outta my FACE!

That's the "long rant short."

Jeez I'm so steamed I could shite!

Buncha crotchety old dicks around here...fruck!
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 7, 2016 - 07:18am PT
Politard
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