Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

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imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?

Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.

xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.

Sarnies are ok in the bacon usage. Doesn’t work with cheese, peanut butter or other fillings, but bacon sarnies are ok.

Where I come from, they call big sandwiches "grinders", so it can always be worse.

Grinders are fine …

Grinders
Hungry for meat

I guess if we really want to be technical, they're "grindahs"

What's up with the "fish" in "tuna fish sandwich"?

possibly related: beef brain instead of cow brain

xposts - when I was in HS I worked at a clothing shop with an older girl who liked to tell me about her hookups. She was from somewhere in New England where subs are called grinders but I had never heard that before so was v v confused when she described someone as having a d like a grindah. Only figured it out years later when I moved to Boston.

Lol when Grinder the app came out, my first thought was grindah size d

Ahhh please drown me right this minute

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'creators' is bad enough, but 'non-creators'?? KILL ME PLEASE

The GOAT

So sick of this one

baahhh

one of my writer friends lamented that he had to add an explainer to a sports-theme comic she had written because nobody remembered the original meaning of "goat" in sports, meaning the person who fucked up and is ostracized for their mistake, so people who read it kept asking why Garo Yepremian was the greatest of all time for throwing an interception that lead to another team's touchdown.

Garo kind of exemplifies both meanings of goat. One kind when he “threw” (being generous) that interception but on the positive side he was a crucial piece of a GOAT team, and markedly ahead of his time as an early soccer-style kicker.

Having said that, I don’t like the new meaning of GOAT either, it’s just obnoxious. I think Muhammad Ali popularized the phrase in the ‘70s but it was more humorous the way he utilized it.

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It sucks because it’s often used by people with pretty basic taste about obvious middlebrow exemplars.

goat talk is the worst

meh

The GOATSE

(Greatest Of All Time Says Everyone)

the worst though is calling someone "a" goat; similar to how the word unique can't be modified, you can only be "the" goat in a particular field, by definition. but does that stop these basic motherfuckers no

Words, usages, and phrases that really get your goat

it's baaaaa-ad

I'm glad this was brought up since I too remember "goat" being a bad thing in sports, or at least seeing something where it was used that way

No point bleating about it though.

Reminder of the level of competition for GOAT:

Goat on roof 'only respects one man'

So, "goat" means he's "bad"..

the other thing is that sports GOAT arguments are really boring especially since you're often comparing guys who played in totally different eras since a totally different set of players. you can just say whatever you want.

yeah during football season FB kept suggesting these groups where people were basically taking two players, posting their stat sheet from this stat app that allows side by side comparisons, and writing SEE, XXX IS BETTER...

and one guy would be a QB from the 80s and the other would be like, Josh Allen.

I really don’t like seeing the word “re-sent” when the dash is left out, it causes undue alarm initially

“no problem, I just resent it”

Maybe I've lowkey had it with lowkey now

Why does it lowkey feel like nobody has a Dalmatian anymore

— pris (@pwiscila) May 26, 2024

For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.

citation needed

x-post - She is right though. I literally said this to someone within the last week. I feel like I've seen 2 Dalmatians in my whole life.

The problem with Dalmatians is that many are born deaf or blind or both because the gene pool is kind of shallow.

Makes that 101 all the more miraculous.

xpost - Ah, ok. Didn't know that.

they are also notoriously difficult to train

Before I moved to my new flat in my old neighbourhood I'd see a couple of Dalmatian/Great Dane cross-breeds out on their walk. Nice change from all the Cockapoos and Dachshunds (all v good boys and girls tho they be).

dalmatians are lowkey goated when spots are the vibe

The puppies are just so cute.

FPed you for that jaymc