Phrases you hate...

I hate the term "massaging" when used to mean 'it is being worked through', ie, "our client is still massaging the details". just say they're still working on it, jeezus

otm, hate that

"kiddie porn"

trivializes the utter fucked-upness of child pornography into something mildly embarrassing

money can't buy happiness itself, but it can clear away many potent sources of unhappiness, leaving a clearer field for happiness to take root and grow in. or weeds.

isn't "massaging the details" supposed to mean that they're lying? xp

anything porn is terrible -- it reduces the meaning of the word pornography and also attributes characteristics to the thing being described that are not just inaccurate but gross
food
travel
basically any noun

but agree about kiddie

I agree completely.

Especially since there probably really is something else called food porn that isn't pictures of new appetizers from Chef Gellato's.

totally agree

also "____ porn" e.g. "food porn", "ruin porn"

― marcos, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:28 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I tried searching for food-related pornography on tumvlr recently and got real bummed out when it returned a bunch of tastefully - composed shots of people's dinner.

"kiddie porn"

trivializes the utter fucked-upness of child pornography into something mildly embarrassing

― marcos, Monday, June 30, 2014 12:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah it's very trashy and gossipy sounding in the worst way, and definitely trivializing, like "Oooh, I heard ___ is into kiddie porn."

I didn't initially mind other kinds of ___ porn, because it seemed to have a useful critical meaning -- "porn" implies that something has no purpose but sheer sensation and gawkery.

But that's not exclusively pornography!

I mean, a big ol' book full of art isn't art_porn, right? But yet, that's pretty much the modern cutsey definition of anything _porn.

think h2 is thinking of "torture porn" and the like?

Right, or like the idea of "ruin porn" is -- "You have the pretense of making some kind of artistic statement but you're actually just gaping at a city falling apart." That's kind of a problematic distinction tbf, but I at least see where it's coming from.

I know this isn't what you mean, but it sounds like you're saying bdsm is on the same level as pictures of Detroit?

I miss porn porn, culture ruins everything

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1118679017/Jump-Suits-For-Women-Cheerleader-Pom-Poms-Cosplay-Costumes-Sexy-Purple-Corset-Adult-Halloween-Carnival-Party.jpg_350x350.jpg

otrn

I know this isn't what you mean, but it sounds like you're saying bdsm is on the same level as pictures of Detroit?

― pplains, Monday, June 30, 2014 3:06 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is if you're a building! hubba hubba

by the way, people in America totally say 'across the pond' to refer to going to Britain. pretty much exclusively.

I tell folks I live "on the good side of the ditch" here in my metropolitan statistical area divided by a major North American river. Folks on the other side say the same thing.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/29/326690947/should-saying-someone-is-off-the-reservation-be-off-limits

Kinda thought that would be a no-brainer.

"Going off the reservation" is one of those phrases like "let's be white men about this" in which the speaker absolutely HAS to know he's using a racist expression.

That's mighty white of you to stop saying "off the reservation."

It seems like a no-brainer, but so does not saying the n-word and people sure do get jammed up about that.

I don't think I've ever actually heard someone use that in conversation and I've never been sure what it meant.

Hey, let me use a football guy for an example, as timely as today's headlines.

But it's like when Bill Parcells said something akin to "Don't mean to offend the Orientals, but that was a jap play." That man would've never stood before an open mic and said the n-word, but for some weird reason known only perhaps to white men born before 1950, he thought it was a good idea and let that one fly.

In other words, he knew it was racist, he just didn't think it would be that offensive. Doesn't make a lick of sense, I know.

"disruptive" whatever.

There is a section of Gawker called "Disputations" and every time I land there, I think it's "Disruptions"

xp I think it's sort of like "I know rationally this is racist, but I grew up using it without thinking much of it, so I can't really get my mind around there being anything wrong with saying it."

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned on here, or maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I fucking HATE

"One more sleep until _______!!!"

Often seen paired with a holiday, e.g. "Just nine more sleeps 'til Xmas!"

Really sends a wasp up my chimney

I don't like that either.

Yeah, fuck that.

Been mentioned on every other thread iirc

"pork-barrel spending"

'data scientist'

your punk ass never met an actual scientist did it

Ugh @ x more sleeps until y

I think it's so horrible because when you were a kid you might count down the days until christmas or birthday, but now people use it to count down the days until they go to this neat restaurant with work that apparently does amazing pulled pork, or until a day of pure chilling with netflix, etc

I just don't think of sleep as a countable thing, it's a state that I go into and come out of. I would never say "I had some good sleeps this week" (naps otoh)

'rock star' in an employment setting

just makes me want to spit on whoever says it

which would make them darby crash i guess

otmfm, see also "guru". I've replaced them both with "diva" at work.

money being "pumped" into the economy

makes me think of a bigass undulating slug being fattened by money fed through a pump

^^ accurate actually

Fucking "house made ____" in the context of restaurants/cafes. Fuck you. You made it on the premises, its not a fucking house. And the phrase is "home made".

but it's more of a house than a home

Cant they say "made on site" or "hand made"? I dont know why it grates but it does. Food writing in general makes me murderous. Fuck yer jumbles of this and foams of that.

house = a place of business.

not denying yr right to be wound up by language, obv

but "house" is used in contexts like "house style" or "on the house" so i figure this comes from a place of existing usage

hand cut for sandwiches

congrats on cutting that sandwich by hand, hope u die

what's the book where the main character gets 'hand cut' chips in a pub and next time asks them to cut them a little thinner
and the pub is like 'we don't actually cut them by hand, hand cut just means 'thick' '
I have felt that rage