I don't like 'Synergy'. It really, really bothers me. Google says it's a real word, but I've only ever seen it in marketing hype and it just rubs me the wrong way every time I see it.

Anyone else?

"Bomb-proof", the day I see a board placed on top of a bomb and survive the detonation, I'll accept that it is possible for a board to be bomb-proof, until then, it's just "tough".

organic

100% rain forest alliance certified

ergonomic, whataloadawank

Pandemic

We invented a word "innovacity" which is your capacity to innovate and put it out in a video we were working on. we also dropped it during a few meetings and interviews.
Sure enough, it recently appeared in a General Manager's monthly presentation!

I agree with 'organic' and 'chemical free' geez they sh!t me. All vegies are organic.... all cows are organic etc etc.
Water is a chemical

What really irks me, and in the shower too.... which is not good, is the bvllsh!tfarken ingredients on the ladies' shampoo and similar products. Aloe and peach kernel extract. Moon flower extract. Milk of all things!
Read the ingredients and they are all the same .... I guess half an avocado seed in 10,000 lites of shampoo makes a difference to the manageability of my 'fly away hair'
Women will fall for anything.
And you can't buy anything else now, it seems. I just want shampoo that cleans my hair with no ****y smell or "essence of jojoba bean and cinnamon leaf".

oh yeah and one that is extra slippery for those times i'm not angry in the shower

I think you should "take it onboard",.. "in the spirit of congeniality" , "put it all behind you" and "move forward on this".
Not that I would ever revert to cliches.

"we've got all the right ingredients...now we just need to work on the recipe!" A cliche I know, but still hear it often!

harvey norman
why so loud?

"For a limited time only at....." An ancient but still working marketing tool based on the principle that "The fear of loss is greater than the will to gain."

One of the worst has to be that ad for the psychic expo where the silly bitch says "Fantabulous, see you at the expo!!" To make it worse she has got her daughter saying it and apparently her grand daughter too. WGAS?? (who gives a s**t.)

cisco said...

"For a limited time only at....." An ancient but still working marketing tool based on the principle that "The fear of loss is greater than the will to gain."

One of the worst has to be that ad for the psychic expo where the silly bitch says "Fantabulous, see you at the expo!!" To make it worse she has got her daughter saying it and apparently her grand daughter too. WGAS?? (who gives a s**t.)

They have to advertise a psychic expo? I wouldn't go just on principle!

Anytime I hear 'stake holders' mentioned I know there is a stinking pile of management double-speak about to follow - that the numbnuts doin the talking barely pretends to understand as we all know he/she is plain full of BS!

Hard to get that stuff offya shoes.


'Totally new recipe'

What - there isn't a single common ingredient to the previous incarnation??
No doubt it is now made in an even dodgier Cantonese factory where 'standards' is the rule stating how long the employees have to stand by the 1950s machinery they are operating and ignoring the odd human digit/faeces goin past.

"Segway" The Segway people mover by dean Kamen Fine.!!!

and others for the "new and improved" version.


But not the use in the English language

on the morning show advertorials they do a sound effect of chimes when they mention the price or the huge savings.....

Trade connect BEEP BEEP trade connect BEEP BEEP
Bloody text thing worked on me