There is a fine line between chic corporate speak and not cool corporate neologisms.

Then there are these gems from the client:
- major blocker: "showstopper"
- the situation is becoming high pressure: "things are getting hot and heavy"

I hear "blocker" and "showstopper" all the time, but I've never heard anyone say, "things are getting hot and heavy" 😂

Dunno. Showstopper did not ever tick as something weird.

You wouldn’t use a phrase like “showstopper centerpiece”?

Those are all well known American idioms

That’s not corporate speak

Corporate speak involved euphemisms most of the time meant to reduce human logic to a blunt unused tool gathering dust in the shed

And the occasional amusing bit of action speak

Like the over use of the words rectify and expedite

@AvatarOfKaine do you know what “hot and heavy” means or are you a virgin?

@phoooooebe it can have multiple meanings but yes it means things are getting steamy brings to mind pictures of intense necking and it’s also a really hokey phrase I never use for sex

However sometimes it’s used to mean serious and involved but yes it plays off the original phrase

American English is very very ambiguous and since the newest retard generation took over it’s become more like some form of regarded eggshell tip toe newspeak imho

@phoooooebe saucy bitch lol

@phoooooebe a dick? A thick hairy shlong?

@iiii not the first time someone broke into talking about penis or sodomy but where did that come from

Meanwhile would phoebe like some of what he said ? Lol again ?

@iiii https://youtu.be/87GsHvjes6E

@AvatarOfKaine hot and heavy... Like a thick throbbing sausage. No?

I actually never had heard that phrase so it's just my guess

@iiii no no hot and heavy described people engage in intense pre coital necking and petting

@iiii and touching of the clitoris and TITS BY STRAIGHT MALES WHOSE HORMONES WORK AS THEY SHOULD

@AvatarOfKaine ooooh,never heard that word before

@AvatarOfKaine eh? What'd wrong?

@iiii what clitoris or coitus ?

@iiii pretty sure you saw this reply before lol

@iiii hehe
This Jira is pretty thick and hairy. The situation is getting hot and heavy.
—what I’m not telling my PM

@AvatarOfKaine necking

Nah, I haven't. Why does that tick you so hard? There's nothing scary

@iiii necking
You know where you’re all over the other person and kissing of the neck etc is involved
It’s a pre women’s rights term from the golden pre Obama America involving usually describing the males activities to please a woman involving his lips

You know
Before most of the women started stealing babies and worshipping some feminine clone of hitler
Or working on street corners

It’s a more intense description of making out
Like petting indicates hand and finger favors

@AvatarOfKaine yeah, I can use urban dictionary. Already got an idea of what that means.