"Neither here nor there."

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

milieu

110%

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

My most hated words are:

"Absolutely" - a far, far, FAR over used word of emphasis. I hear business people say it to one another in agreement all day long.

"Whatever" - highly dismissive and rude.

"To each his own" - another way to dismiss someone else's feelings/tastes.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Mixing up affect (verb) and effect (noun).

Sixto
87 300D

I'm only 20 and have become quite the misanthrope myself... Does it get ripened with age?


I hate when people say "literally". Yes, I recognize it actually happened. I didn't need to be informed that your phone didn't just 'figuratively' shut down.

Also misuse of "ironic/irony". I'm basically a grammar Nazi.

And when women say "okay" when everything isn't okay, or "nothing is wrong" when EVERYTHING is wrong. subtlety isn't their Modus Operandi

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1987 560SEL (210,000 miles)

anomaly.

"dialoguing" ? does that mean talking? conversing? when did it become a verb?

"preplanning"? isn't a plan, by its very nature, something done before taking action?

"disrespecting" ? enough already, with your delicate ego and narcissism!

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anyone using the words "...and all that..." when speaking. About as intelligent as "...ah, ah..." every flippin' breath/sentence.

I glaze over and pretend that I've got a phone call coming in that requires me to leave.

Then I escape.

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Football / sports broadcasters that refer to ANY PLAYER being "blue collar"
- any professional athlete is so outrageously compensated that the comparison irks me . They have personal trainers for diet , exercise, etc . Health care , retirement beyond the norm . It just irks me .

Come to think of it most sports broadcaster in general - constant babble and esoteric rhetoric as they try to proclaim themselves as the GOD of football.
ONE TIME , just One time I'd like to hear a guy say " WOW , did you see that play ?!! That guy is a football player !" instead we get -" Did you see that , when the left guard flicks his wrist to the side , the linebacker knows an x cross is coming , the the safety goes over the top , the weakside linebacker covers the edge , the strong safety reverses his responsibilities , the quarterback reads the wind pattern etc etc .....


oh and I cant help but be suspicious when during conversation the person your speaking with decides to say " let me be honest with you "

(really ! well ok then I'll be honest too , maybe .....let me think about it , what did i say ....last time )


and any kid ( adult as well ) that sums up their frustration with "That Sucks "

I hate "Democrat", "Republican", "Conservative" and "Liberal". The terms have been thrown around by commentators and media figures for so long that they now have meaning.

Please CNN/FOX/MSNBC - Could you please removed the -D or -R from someones name and let my judge them by the stupidity of their own actions ?

-John

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2009 Kia Sedona
2009 Honda Odyssey EX-L
12006 Jetta Pumpe Duse
(insert Mercedes here)

Husband, Father, sometimes friend =)

I hate to hear someone, it's usually a reporter, say "across the world." I thought Columbus settled that one over 500 years ago. Until recently it has always been "around the world."

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2001 SLK 320 six speed manual
2014 Porsche Cayenne six speed manual

Annoy a Liberal, Read the Constitution

Using web and email abbreviations in conversation.

This makes me cringe in a meeting when someone starts their sentence saying " I think". Also bad Signage - NOW OPEN, NOW HIRING

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
(o\|/o)

I dislkike words which marketing people use in which they try to co-opt me:

" Today on YOUR Channel 9 news..." If it's mine can I have some of the revenue?

" We want to increase your movie-going experience" This doesn't even make sense. The SyFY channel now no longer broadcasts programs, or movies or episodes-- it broadcasts "experiences."

I dislike this phony "trend speak" which these people inflcit on us.

My other favorite is from the NPR interviewers, which have a very arrogant commanding style in their interviews. They don't ask questions, instead, they give orders:

" Paint us a picture of what's going on." Ok, be back in 3 days.

" Help us understand why X is true." Why? Are you incapable of thinking?

" Remind us why this is important" Isn't that your job as a journalist?

This way of using words to control the conversation when you really don't know anything is not engagement in a dialogue, it's ego-feeding stylistic formulation which masks how little the journalists really know.

Like managers who think you don't have to know anything about the product you make, as long as you know the process.
Hah!
Try that with surgery.

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Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6