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"I'm gonna go ahead and..."

Please... I beg of you... if you give talks or do video recordings demoing programmer stuff, stop saying, "I'm gonna go ahead and..."

I don't know how it happened, but you may recall that it's a joke from the movie Office Space. For several years though, code monkeys at all levels have been saying it and using it as a vocal crutch in their presentations. It's horribly distracting. All I can think of is Bill Lumburgh.

Please, stop the madness!

 

Posted: Jun 29 2010, 10:26 AM by Jeff | with 6 comment(s)
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alexdresko said:

Brilliant! Next, see what you can do about how they start every OTHER sentence with "So...".

I swear, every geek talk begins with "So..."

# June 29, 2010 7:04 PM

Jeff said:

Agreed. That's another one that's extraordinarily annoying.

# June 29, 2010 7:08 PM

Shawson said:

Man! I'm glad it's not just me! I've actually turned off web casts mid way because of over use of that-- it really grates me!

# June 29, 2010 7:29 PM

Ian said:

I'm gonna go ahead and agree with you.

# October 11, 2010 11:10 PM

Johnny said:

Next time, count the "go aheads" in the video.  Then edit out everything but the "go aheads" and send it to them.

# May 19, 2011 11:13 AM

Joe said:

This happens a lot on tutorial videos on YouTube. I try to remain calm and try to extract the information, but some are so bad, they use it as a preface to every action they take, and I have to leave a nasty comment.

It is so distracting and annoying it really has become a big peeve of mine.

# November 12, 2012 3:57 PM
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