Comments on: Wait For It... The Iconic (But Cringeworthy) Official Banished Words List http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205760 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:35:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205760 Good points! Good points!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205759 Kick Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:13:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205759 Elizabeth Miller 13 <i>I like that phrase - think I'll start using it! </i> It's my contribution to lefties everywhere, and would it be too much to ask Democrats to campaign in a fashion where they explain how the policies of MAGA Republicans will cost them personally and economically? If our wives, daughters, and granddaughters are going to be forced to give birth, that is definitely going to impact your families' lives and definitely impacts your economy. Additionally, if MAGA Republicans take away your health care for Trump's nonexistent plan, that too is a giant impact to your economy. You get the drill. Biden has so much more to campaign on than the economy; he really does, but it doesn't hurt to explain to people how so many of the other issues impact their economy. The "price of gas" will seem infinitely trivial when faced with the price of health care you've lost and/or the cost of American families being forced to pay monetarily out-of-pocket for the progeny of someone who raped their wives, daughters and granddaughters. Elizabeth Miller
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I like that phrase - think I'll start using it!

It's my contribution to lefties everywhere, and would it be too much to ask Democrats to campaign in a fashion where they explain how the policies of MAGA Republicans will cost them personally and economically? If our wives, daughters, and granddaughters are going to be forced to give birth, that is definitely going to impact your families' lives and definitely impacts your economy.

Additionally, if MAGA Republicans take away your health care for Trump's nonexistent plan, that too is a giant impact to your economy.

You get the drill. Biden has so much more to campaign on than the economy; he really does, but it doesn't hurt to explain to people how so many of the other issues impact their economy. The "price of gas" will seem infinitely trivial when faced with the price of health care you've lost and/or the cost of American families being forced to pay monetarily out-of-pocket for the progeny of someone who raped their wives, daughters and granddaughters.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205756 Kick Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:41:58 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205756 I know a rizz journalist hack who is obsessed with this iconic "List of Banished Words" that will slay readers and impact them to the point that at the end of the day it's become their annual cringeworthy side hustle to... wait for it... use them all in one sentence. One and done. :) I know a rizz journalist hack who is obsessed with this iconic "List of Banished Words" that will slay readers and impact them to the point that at the end of the day it's become their annual cringeworthy side hustle to... wait for it... use them all in one sentence.

One and done. :)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205754 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:19:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205754 Joshua[7], That's a brilliant ad! They don't make em' like that anymore. And, this one is still my favourite: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnUq_WJYNc" rel="nofollow">Tongue, Eyeball and Brain</a> Joshua[7],

That's a brilliant ad! They don't make em' like that anymore.

And, this one is still my favourite:

Tongue, Eyeball and Brain

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205753 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:13:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205753 "personal economy of Americans" I like that phrase - think I'll start using it! "personal economy of Americans"

I like that phrase - think I'll start using it!

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205749 Kick Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:37:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205749 CW <i>From the press release: "why use this word when we have a perfectly good word that makes more sense: 'affect'?" </i> Obviously because describing how the forced birth policy of MAGA Republicans will impact the personal economy of Americans has infinitely more... wait for it... impact. They don't call it "political rhetoric" for nothing. <i>We have to agree -- unless it's being used as a verb for an actual collision ("the NASA probe will impact the asteroid," for instance). </i> We have to agree!? No... no we don't. ;) CW

From the press release: "why use this word when we have a perfectly good word that makes more sense: 'affect'?"

Obviously because describing how the forced birth policy of MAGA Republicans will impact the personal economy of Americans has infinitely more... wait for it... impact. They don't call it "political rhetoric" for nothing.

We have to agree -- unless it's being used as a verb for an actual collision ("the NASA probe will impact the asteroid," for instance).

We have to agree!? No... no we don't. ;)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205748 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:37:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205748 Joshua, <i>impact's occasional overuse by some parties shouldn't preclude others from using it judiciously.</i> Yes, I agree! Joshua,

impact's occasional overuse by some parties shouldn't preclude others from using it judiciously.

Yes, I agree!

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205745 Chris Weigant Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:54:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205745 nypoet22 - Thanks for the link, I had forgotten that ad! Funny! -CW nypoet22 -

Thanks for the link, I had forgotten that ad! Funny!

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205744 Chris Weigant Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:52:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205744 nypoet22 - Yeah, I hadn't noticed it bugging me either. Maybe it's just one of those things where "verbizing" a word annoys the grammar police? Could be... -CW nypoet22 -

Yeah, I hadn't noticed it bugging me either. Maybe it's just one of those things where "verbizing" a word annoys the grammar police? Could be...

-CW

]]> By: Chris Weigant http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205743 Chris Weigant Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:51:11 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205743 LizM [5] - It happens plenty up in the columns, too! :-) -CW LizM [5] -

It happens plenty up in the columns, too!

:-)

-CW

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205739 nypoet22 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:10:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205739 i didn't notice it at first because it seemed so noncontroversial, but does "impact" really have to be banned? it's one of a number of perfectly acceptable synonyms for affect, so one's writing doesn't get stale by constantly using the same verb. impact's occasional overuse by some parties shouldn't preclude others from using it judiciously. i didn't notice it at first because it seemed so noncontroversial, but does "impact" really have to be banned? it's one of a number of perfectly acceptable synonyms for affect, so one's writing doesn't get stale by constantly using the same verb. impact's occasional overuse by some parties shouldn't preclude others from using it judiciously.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205735 nypoet22 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:41:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205735 https://youtu.be/2ID-1mzRAew?si=PhHQ5b9mfVjL9d9j https://youtu.be/2ID-1mzRAew?si=PhHQ5b9mfVjL9d9j

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205733 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:12:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205733 <i>"At the end of the day" is just verbal laziness, "often employed as a rhetorical device that attempts to encapsulate the complexities of a situation summarily, lacking nuance and depth," as the mavens point out.</i> That sort of thing happens a lot around here ... I mean <i>here</i>, in the peanut gallery. Not in so many words but, you know what I mean. Ahem. :-) "At the end of the day" is just verbal laziness, "often employed as a rhetorical device that attempts to encapsulate the complexities of a situation summarily, lacking nuance and depth," as the mavens point out.

That sort of thing happens a lot around here ... I mean here, in the peanut gallery. Not in so many words but, you know what I mean. Ahem. :-)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205732 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:10:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205732 [2], got a link? [2],

got a link?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205731 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:09:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205731 Whenever in doubt "... if you can't say something nice, then say something clever but devastating." Whenever in doubt "... if you can't say something nice, then say something clever but devastating."

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205730 nypoet22 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:07:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205730 I like that commercial where actual rock stars object to the appropriation of their genre in other fields I like that commercial where actual rock stars object to the appropriation of their genre in other fields

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/01/02/wait-for-it-the-iconic-but-cringeworthy-official-banished-words-list/#comment-205729 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:05:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24502#comment-205729 I promise to never use <i>wait for it</i> again. Heh. I promise to never use wait for it again. Heh.

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