I know it’s only been about two weeks since my first list, but just after publishing those 44 items, I realized that I’d inadvertently neglected to include several key offenders. So here I offer a continuation of that list, again in no particular order, of words and phrases that, if you want to alienate me, you will use in my presence:
- Thingy
- [Number] years young
- 110%
- Twenty-four seven
- Going postal
- Nipple
- Badda boom badda bing
- Yadda yadda
- Network (as a verb)
- Power lunch
- Ball-breaker
- Busting [one’s] balls
- Horny
- Horndog
- Lucky (as in “Did you get ~”)
- Laid (as in “I’m gonna get ~”)
- Cum (and I don’t mean as in summa cum laude) (besides, it’s spelled “come” — please consult the dictionary, not Hole magazine)
- Party animal
- Big guy
- 411 (when used to mean “information”)
- Fuck buddy
- Kleenex (used when the tissues aren’t that brand)
- Brother (when used by white guys, especially when they say it to non-white guys)
- Cool beans
- Shore house
- Skeeve
- Emotional rollercoaster
- Vulva
- Clitoris
- Mental health day
- Spitting image (it’s “spit and image”)
- Process (when used to mean that someone is “taking something in” and trying to make sense of it)
- Steely Dan
- Same shit, different day
- Same ol’ same ol’
- Going ballistic
- Alls
- Craft (when used by actors)
- Posse
- Jello shot
- Old fart (“Fart” by itself is cringe-worthy too)
- Make love
- Boob tube
- Oy (but only when used by goy) (also, all other Yiddishisms if the speaker isn’t Jewish or married to a Jew)