"Negatively surprised"

Andrew33

WTF?? I'm seeing this expression pop up more and more often. Is this an invented term for disappointed? If you're one of these people who uses this stupid stupid expression, please just....












STOP.....


NOW.....

Lady Chuckles

Never heard it.

Professey Chin

Could you use it in a sentence?

Captain Darling

I'm neutrally surprised by your thread.

Meh.

Napper Hawkins

Never heard of it but thanks all the same for making me aware of it and helping me to die inside just that little bit more.

Conall Cernach

Sounds like politician speak to me. In fact I can just imagine Brian Lenihan coming out with something like that. Is he the originator of the term?

John Doe1

How can one be negatively surprised, its a total non-sequitor

Orando Broom

I'm positively shocked by this development.

jester77

hmm, let's say it's your birthday and you are meant to meet your wife at your favourite restaurant after you finish work, the plan being that you rush home and get changed beforehand. But unknown to you, she arranges a surprise birthday party for you when you arrive home.

So you leave work 30 mins early, pick up your mistress and take her home thinking you have time for a quickie before heading to the restaurant. You are tearing off each others clothes and fall in the door as everyone shouts "surprise".

I would call that being "negatively surprised"

hullaballoo

jester77 wrote: »

hmm, let's say it's your birthday and you are meant to meet your wife at your favourite restaurant after you finish work, the plan being that you rush home and get changed beforehand. But unknown to you, she arranges a surprise birthday party for you when you arrive home.

So you leave work 30 mins early, pick up your mistress and take her home thinking you have time for a quickie before heading to the restaurant. You are tearing off each others clothes and fall in the door as everyone shouts "surprise".

I would call that being "negatively surprised"

It's hardly a surprise to get a negative reaction if you bring your mistress home to your wife.

Vanderbilt

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Could you use it in a sentence?

Miss Olenska

Well OP, I guess surprise isn't always positive, even if it's mostly used that way.

Like the way 'luck' can be good or bad and 'fortuitous' can also be negative as well as positive.

Andrew33

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Sounds like politician speak to me. In fact I can just imagine Brian Lenihan coming out with something like that. Is he the originator of the term?

Na, somebody over in motors used it to describe how they felt on seeing the interior of some car.
I've no idea where it came from but I suspect something like "America's got Talent" or America's next top model" or some such crap.

Andrew33

Miss Olenska wrote: »

Well OP, I guess surprise isn't always positive, even if it's mostly used that way.

Like the way 'luck' can be good or bad and 'fortuitous' can also be negative as well as positive.

I think we may have found a user!

CardBordWindow

My brain hurts!

phil1nj

I've seen the term used to describe stock market earnings for listed companies (negative surprise if they don't meet earnings estimates, positive surprise if they exceeded earnings estimates).

IMHO this kind of bull**** phrase is most definitely suited to an industry mostly made up of blood suckers and leeches who try to spin every bit of bad news in to something "good" or "less bad".

Going forward I'll try to use the phrase 'negatively surprised' in a more positive way.

hondasam

Never heard it but will use it, cheers op.

foxyboxer

Don't see the problem here, it's a perfectly cromulent expression.

saa

why would anyone add positive or negative in front of a word like that, the other person should be able to discern whether you mean it was good or bad, a bit of ambiguity wouldn't hurt. seriously who... who did this!?

mailforkev

Cool, a thread referring to a post I made a couple of weeks ago, this has embiggened my day no end.

Andrew33

^^^ are you a trainee politician? First rule of politics, never use just one word if you can use two (or even three) instead.