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      04-11-2020, 01:33 PM   #67
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For whatever reason I'm sensitive to everyone describing powerful vehicles as a "beast." There are other adjectives people!
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For whatever reason I'm sensitive to everyone describing powerful vehicles as a "beast." There are other adjectives people!
Meh, my other screenname is Beast
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No, it's not.

I didn’t listen to the Carlin video, but expect most people would rather keep their benefits, collect unemployment and have a chance at going back to work (furlough) than being let go with unemployment but benefits cut off (Lay-off).
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      04-11-2020, 06:46 PM   #71
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I didn’t listen to the Carlin video, but expect most people would rather keep their benefits, collect unemployment and have a chance at going back to work (furlough) than being let go with unemployment but benefits cut off (Lay-off).
You should watch it.
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You should watch it.
They aren’t synonymous.
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They aren’t synonymous.
It's a leave of absence. Furlough sounds almost fun...
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      04-11-2020, 07:21 PM   #74
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Vocal pauses like this are incredibly annoying, although not as annoying (to me) as vocal fry...



Also, my skin does crawl just a wee bit when people use the word "utilize" when they just mean "use." ("you'll get better mileage if you utilize 0W-20")
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Irregardless. It's not a freaking word. The prefix, "ir" and the suffix, "less" cancel each other out.

Any use is too much!!
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"literally" is literally the most overused word.
Not only is it overused, it's misused.

I don't mind people using that word, but for f*ck's sake, use it correctly!
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Irregardless. It's not a freaking word. The prefix, "ir" and the suffix, "less" cancel each other out.

Any use is too much!!
Well too bad.....irregardless of the fact that it cancels out...people will still use it 🙂
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Well too bad.....irregardless of the fact that it cancels out...people will still use it 🙂
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It's a leave of absence. Furlough sounds almost fun...
To me, a leave of absence is something people usually choose to take and, as far as I know, you can’t collect unemployment during a leave of absence. Maybe I’m wrong about that. I also know companies may have programs that pay people for leaves of absences.

A furlough, as is being used these days and when the government shuts down, is forced on people who want to work. I suppose some employers may refer to unpaid leaves, whether voluntary or not, as furloughs. But there is a big difference between voluntary / requested vs. mandatory / forced.
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Furlough allows employee to collect unemployment and the employer can bring them back.
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Furlough allows employee to collect unemployment and the employer can bring them back.
So does firing, so I guess that's the real difference between a LOA and a furlough.
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Don't tell the girlfriend (she'll find out once she reads this ) but her "anyways" rather than anyway is going to create a conversation between us. She knows me well enough to know that when something annoys me, I'll tell the other person. I've been extra patient with her.

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"literally" is literally the most overused word.
Beat me to it.

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My stepdaughter used this so much that we had to try and break her from it. Once I had enough, anytime that she said it I will follow with, "Is it really LIKE that or is it in fact the very thing?" She got so tired of hearing me say that in response, she stopped saying it.

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Supposobly.
Hate this one! Also hate irregardless.

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"KnowwhatI'msayin'. No, it is not a single word, but often used as one word repeatedly in a short conversation.

A former boss of mine and best friend since we were 12, used to say this so much that when I called him out on it; he acknowledged that he uses it too much. He asked me to help him stop saying it. I asked if he was sure he wanted my help, he confirmed. As we continued to travel down I-40 to our job site, the next time he spoke he said it....I immediately bitch slapped the shit out of him....HARD. He was mad as hell for a split second, then thanked me. Every single time he went to say it after that, he caught himself followed by a "Please don't slap me Jody!" .....and he never said it again.

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Um
Guilty of this one. Expecially () if someone catches me off-guard and asks a question in a group of people. I have to work on this.

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I feel like....
Actually.....
I have nightmares about "actually." My office....co-habitant uses it so much you can hear other people sigh from other offices every time she speaks. She seriously starts every single sentence with it.

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Getting sick of this one too. It's in almost every email that I get from our vendors and from our corporate office.
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"new normal"

What is old normal? Who decided then what was normal? Stupid phrase...
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I say this because nearly each time someone says they are “speechless” it is followed by a lot of words to then describe what couldn’t possibly just seconds prior. An overused stall word like “awesome?”
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''OMG'' most annoying.
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"I Believe"

This gets me:

Politicians who say, "I believe..." when they should say, "I think...", probably because they don't think.

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