"Good Times" Usage: Either as an ironic gripe while one is complaining ("I had a root canal today. Good times!") or as a sometimes-serious, sometimes-ironic reply after someone describes what they're doing. ("I'm going to the beach this weekend." "Good Times.")Why It's Lame: Saying this is the equivalent of showing up to work in a denim shirt, dockers, diagonally striped tie, and a woven belt with a cell phone attached to it. If you use it in the first instance, then you are trying way too hard. You're the kind of person who wants to be thought of as funny even though you have the sense of humor of someone who TiVos Two and a Half Men. If you use it in the second instance, you aren't even listening and you're feigning interest. Badly.
"Cool Beans" Usage: Usually via email, text, or IM, this expression means "great," "cool," or "all right" to punctuate a conversation. It's not so good that it's "excellent" but better than bad.Why It's Lame: Because there are plenty of suitable and equally terse terms that won't make you look like an idiot who has a smile painted on your face and naked pictures of yourself on Adult Friend Finder. And if something is just "all right" don't try to dress it up with "cool beans." Just maintain your adequate level of underwhelmed enthusiasm. That is all the situation calls for.
"Fail" or "Epic Fail" Usage: Taken from Failblog and used as a noun, it describes something that is, well, a failure. Usually it is an unlikely juxtaposition of two things that are operating at cross purposes.Why It's Lame: Too many people are using it in too many ways that "Fail" is losing its original brilliance and usefulness. It's like the Alanis Morissette definition of "ironic" where things aren't ironic at all, they're just kind of crazy and annoying. As such, people are starting to just plaster the singular word "fail" on things that aren't a real "fail" at all or when when another word or—God forbid, a whole phrase or sentence—would more adequately describe the situation.
"Like" Usage: Like, can we please stop using the work "like" as like a conversational spacer? It's like, only useful as an I.Q. indicator to warn potential listeners to, like, take the first opportunity to bail on like, what will inevitably be a long-winded, vacuous, self-absorbed, over-caffeinated rambling...sort of like, the same way a rattlesnake's rattle is useful to a hiker who'd like to avoid envenomation. Either event can, like, ruin your whole day.
"We Hooked Up": I mean, I’m glad that you are getting it on with somebody. Really. I’m happy for you. But the problem here is that I don’t know how much or how little you’re getting it on with somebody. Because ‘hooking up’ means anything from kissing a bit in your car to doing the dirty on a futon in the basement. And while we’ve all happily accepted this vague definition, if somebody tells me ‘they hooked up’ it means that I am going to have to follow that with “so what’d you guys do?!” and you will have to now clarify the sexual acts you have experienced. Which means that the first declaration of “we hooked up” is extraneous and unnecessary. And less is more. Just tell me what you did. Got it? Good.
"Deets" Usage: Let's just be honest — abbreviating words are fun, but sometimes, the abbreviation just doesn't work. I was okay with this abbreviated version of the word 'details' early on, but for some reason saying 'deets' just never felt right and it failed to catch on (except on Perezhilton.com where it is used at least twice a sentence). It seemed like a good idea at the time, but for whatever reason — it just wasn't meant to be.
"Winning" Usage: Unless you're Charlie Sheen......enough said!
"Super" Usage: There are other words in Webster's Dictionary that describe how "cool", "happy", "fun", "hot", "easy" and "yummy" something is without making us sound like Valley Girls/Guys.
And While I'm at it:
"Yummy" Usage: It's "Good", "tasty" or "delicious".....never yummy!!!!
Okay.....Im off my soapbox now.....Those are just some things that I hear adults say that make me want to poke my eyeballs out....or their eyeballs. Im sure everyone has their pet peeve phrases!!! I just wanted to get mine off my chest.
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