Annoying Words & Phrases

scotchandcigar

All I wanted was some steak
Feb 13, 2009
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FAMBUSHING

This is utterly stupid on a number of levels. The name is dumb (and very off-putting). If you wanted to name this concept (more on that later), why wouldn't you make it a variant of "stalking" or "snooping"? There's no ambushing involved in texting someone.

But really, my reaction to the whole concept is "What?". Now, parents track their kids' whereabouts, which is something one could have a legitimate discussion about. Right? But I've never heard of anyone being stalked by their kids, except perhaps Speaker Mike Johnson. If anything, the kids are monitoring their parents' whereabouts, so they can avoid them; not bug them.

What kid cares that their parent is at a Mexican restaurant? And they see their mom is at a store, and ask her to pickup something. So what? My wife and I do that all the time. I call bullshit on this so-called trend.
 

scotchandcigar

All I wanted was some steak
Feb 13, 2009
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There are 2 things in this world that I can't believe they just let people do:
- Drive a car in public;
- Name your kid.

A friend of mine just announced that his new grandson is named Rome. And this comes on the heels of another friend's grandson being named Bentley, and another one we know named Winston. WTF is going on?