Among the ones I've never heard: "open the kimono". And I am *so* glad about that, because I would not know where to look or who to glare at first.
That one was creepy. And I'm glad I've never heard it.
And then I became bored, because none of those terms are as annoying as a business stretching out an article in order to fit in more advertising. I'm going to call it "pageview whoring" and they're free to object to it as they see fit.
So much this. Especially when it's sized so that in my [totally standard] browser configuration you have to scroll down to see the caption because they've got so much loaded into the page headers.
Some of those are annoying but I'm equally irritated that these types of articles rarely acknowledge that it's actually useful to have a common shorthand for things.
Yeah, a lot of jargon is super useful! Although some of it is just ridiculous. My favorite from a friend (and I didn't click through, so don't know if it's in that article) is the "high hard ones." I guess just headlines? I don't know, because I laugh so hard just thinking about the phrase that it doesn't matter.
ita !, "scalable" was the one that stuck out for me as a "Huh? What's wrong with that?" thing, too. I'd never heard the word before, but as soon as they defined it I recognized what they were describing immediately. It seemed like a perfectly cromulent word to me -- short and sweet and conveys a manufacturing and distribution concept that would otherwise take an entire paragraph to explain. If anything, it seemed like the kind of tidy, compact jargon that all jargon should hope to be when it grows up.
"Get your ducks in a row" also got a "Bzuh?" from me. Mildly annoying phrase, and I'm sure some people overuse it until everyone around them wants to smash something, but business jargon?
UK PM Cameron and his wife - left their daughter at a restaurant.
Didn't realize it until they got home. (They were traveling in separate vehicles.)
My parents did something similar with my youngest brother after a long trip: he was asleep in the backseat and each thought that other had brought him in and then they realized.
Yesterday was a good Leif day. He found out he doesn't need eye surgery (not at this time anyhow), he made the soccer team he tried out for, and he got to stay up late so he could play Dominion with me (I said I would but I didn't have any free time until after 10:00pm).
He'll be playing at the highest level they have in our local soccer league. Not the highest in the area, but still enough that he should learn a lot. He's very excited about it, he and a teammate from this year both made it (out of 3 openings) and his teammate called him right afterwards, it was so cute.
Especially when it's sized so that in my [totally standard] browser configuration you have to scroll down to see the caption because they've got so much loaded into the page headers.
Yup--I was looking at the rest of my screen, and no--my browser should be large enough--their ads should be less obtrusively placed. I might have seen all of them if I didn't have to scroll up and down on every page.
Wow! Excellent news for Leif.
My parents did something similar with my youngest brother after a long trip: he was asleep in the backseat and each thought that other had brought him in and then they realized.
My parents were so upset about leaving their family when they moved to NS, they drove away from my aunt and uncle's place with me still in my aunt's arms (I was 4 months old). They were about 15 minutes away when they realized that "they forgot the baby."
Abandonment issues, anyone?
Yeah, my parents left me in a gas station restroom when I was a kid. None of my siblings said anything despite noticing my absence. A ways down the road my mom did her automatic count of little heads in the back seat and instead of 4 there were 3. I was just standing in the parking lot when they got back.
