Post your addition to the "banished words or phrases" for the year.

[Liberal Veteran]

My number one right now is "lifestyle".

"Lifestyle" is a perfectly fine word until we start calling EVERYTHING a lifestyle. That hideous AAR commercial about the low-carb candy that talks about living the "low-carb lifestyle", just grates on my last nerve. It's a diet! Not a "lifestyle"!

:grr:

[geekgrrl]

1. i really hate it when people say "gay/lesbian lifestyle"

i am not living a "lifestyle"! i am living a life. that just happens to be where i have a partner who is a woman.


Others would be: "bring it on", "red/blue state", "flip-flop" and "operation iraqi freedom"

[mongo]

2. (fill in the blank) addiction

when the activity/substance is not narcotic in nature.

I.E, food addiction, sex addiction, porography addiction, shopping addiction, shoplifting addiction (that one really gets to me - saw a bit of Oprah at the Dr's office and she was treating the shoplifter as a "victim"), etc. ad nauseum.

[yardwork]

5. kleptomania can be a compulsion

My roommate was a klepto. She was extremely wealthy and her parents gave her anything (I mean, they'd show up for the weekend with a new car for her, things like that) but she could't walk through a supermarket without stealing.

She stole bizarre things she had no intention of using, like raw steaks that she would just throw away. It was a compulsion.

[yardwork]

3. While we're at it, I'd just as soon ban "low-carb"

[barb162]

8. oh you are right; I'm sick of that phrase

[phaseolus]

4. "Moral Values"

... when what's really meant is "moralistic values".

...and sentences starting with "It's all about".

[Lizzie Borden]

6. Basically.

Bascially people just say basically too much and basically it is annoying.

[LDS Jock]

7. "fitness celebrity John Basedow"

I want the commercials stopped. Please!

[barb162]

9. "Icon" and "hero" are both so overused n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. "Boots on the ground"

Not only do I hate the phrase; I hate the concept. Bring them home!!