Mar 04
There are some phrases that get to you. Normally it is business speak and sports analogies and terms like 24/7/365, 110% etc.
My painful phrase of the week was a techie using the term ‘double-click’ NOT meaning it literally, but rather meaning: to go deeper into a topic, to get more information, or to pause on a topic to discuss more.
E.g.
You mentioned one of the new features was Foo. Can we double click on Foo and go into detail?
I wanted to right-click and delete the guy every time he used this phrase :/
March 4th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Just reply “I’m afraid I’m going to have to pipe that one to /dev/null”, and walk off before you’re asked to explain.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Hehehee..
“I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man”
It would be made less worse if they had at least stopped at simply saying “click” , but the double click analogy is just doubly worse. What apps make you double click on stuff anyways? Apparently whatever apps the “d.b.” in question is using… ;)
March 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
It’s the ones who title their blogs after method calls that annoy me!
March 4th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Ricky,
Touche. It was a 90’s thing… kinda like bad hair cuts.
Dion
March 10th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
lol that IS cheesy :)
i think you can get a legal warrant to kick that guy’s ‘buttons’
July 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
that’s worse than communicating entirely by emoticon http://www.seenontvnow.com
May 19th, 2008 at 12:28 am
dropby this
June 25th, 2008 at 12:25 am
really??