"i want to touch base with you"....

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I'm so fucking sick of hearing this phrase!! I've heard it like 50 times in the past 2 weeks!! I was checking my voicemail earlier and I had 2 messages that contained this phrase, one of which actually repeated it twice over!!

I've got something you can touch the base of, lady!! (I wanted to say that but I didn't)

Let's consult, parley, confer, interface, confabulate, ANYTHING besides 'touch base'!!

is it normal that I hate this phrase??

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    There's all kind of these phrases I have to put up with on a daily basis. "Managing expectations" is a ropey one. "Putting something on the back burner". "Cooking on gas". "Do you get me?"

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    So I want to touch base with you about this thread...

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago | pl

      Clever. Did you stay up all night thinking of this?

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    I don't think I've ever heard of this until now. It does sound rather annoying.

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  • lc1988
    11 years ago

    Ugh I cringed just reading your title. I feel ya dawg.

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    • FUCK_SCHOOL_x
      11 years ago

      You cringed?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      lol! I feel ya is pretty bad too! Did you do that on purpose? It's not as bad as 'nooome sayin', though!!

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    I never ever hear this phrase, but I can see how it could be annoying.

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  • NoraBaker
    11 years ago

    Holy shit! Yes, but so many other things that bother me were inexplicably said in the replies that I'm ashamed to comment. It's beyond me how the concentration of those expressions happened in this one post. I have to get out. Now. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago

    Better than the phrase "You follow me?" No sir, I do not. That you're aware of. Anywho, yeah it's silly.

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  • redoctober
    11 years ago

    So let me get this straight.. You hate that saying right? Ok I understand, now let me touch base with you on something...

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  • boston12
    11 years ago

    doesnt really bother me, its not a phrase i hear often.

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  • DavidS.
    11 years ago

    if they say that just say... "which base? but no home run without dinner and roses first"

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  • DADNSCAL
    11 years ago

    I feel the same way about "moving forward". If we're going to move at all, why would we want to move backward? Our politicians particularly love this phrase, because it makes us think they're doing something.

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  • robbieforgotpw
    11 years ago

    I dont want anybody else when I think about you I touch myself Not the base.

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  • NormalIsOverratedBeANinja
    11 years ago

    Yes!! I built up a hatred of it over a long childhood of my dad saying it CONSTANTLY. He was "touching base" with several clients every day, and I just learned to hate it!

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  • blue_burr
    11 years ago

    Lets get in touch.... Touch the base.

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  • blue_burr
    11 years ago

    Hey I just wanna touch base with you....

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  • blue_burr
    11 years ago

    I want to touch base with you

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  • Severus'sDaughter19
    11 years ago

    I never heard of this saying and I don't know what it means.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    What the fuck does it even mean??

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  • guacadoggie
    11 years ago

    Agreed. It is a lame saying.

    My most hated: "Just another day in paradise" when asked "How's it going?".

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  • Vanguard
    11 years ago

    I hate the phrase "touch base" too. Touch base with what? Fuck off, with your base touching.

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    • SEMG
      7 years ago

      Hah! I like your comment.
      Yes it sounds kind of rude.... like I don't want someone “touching MY base” It is the only phrase I really hate...no others bother me like this one.
      Even friends who suddenly start saying it shock me...argg! It is like a contageous disease also present in my workplace. Who ever invented it needs a good slap! Put it to death now! It sounds invasive and offensive and too many people are starting to say it!!
      It doesn't even make sense when used in some contexts

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    • Mando
      11 years ago

      Ha ha ha!!! The vulgar pricks.

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  • capitalist-piggy
    11 years ago

    Oh I hate touch base. We use it so much at my firm that we shorten it to "t.b.". Oh! ....the worst! I also hate when people want to look at things "globally" .... lets retire that one.

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    • Mando
      11 years ago

      Or ding them with an atlas!

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  • thanksforthefreecar
    11 years ago

    I've never had anyone say that to me except that b***h in elementary school

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  • NothingxCrazy
    11 years ago

    I've actually never had someone say this to me before. I think it takes a special person to say that. It seems like something a counselor or teacher would tell a student. I never really went one-on-one with those kinds of people.

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  • Mando
    11 years ago

    At least you are well connected. Part of that, however, is enduring horribly presumptuous cliches - as you said ... UGH!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      You wouldn't believe the cliches I endure! I'm ready to move to Siberia already and leave this rat race!

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      • Mando
        11 years ago

        Yep - "at the end of the day" "the bottom line is" "that the status quo is no longer an option!"

        Cliches - they say nothing - and nothing changes - ever!!!

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