Phrases you hate...

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

'hand cut' means ime that the person 'designing' the menu is thick tbh

Wasn't it "American Psycho" ?

Going on holiday with friends, one of whom keeps saying things like '3 more sleeps'. It's going to be a long week.

I had a person I like say "all the feels" to me the other day. I've not felt like slapping someone so hard in over a decade.

Jesus

that's like.......over 3652 sleeps

just imagine if lemmy had called his record five sleeps 'til hammersmith

When you use as much speed as Lemmy I think five sleeps is like two months.

lemmyfortywinks

s'pose "house made" is an attempt to avoid "home-made" (since, as you say, it isn't a home) and a parallel with "house wine" but it does draw a little too much attention to itself

I appreciate replacing all that "rock star" "guru" "ninja" job/self-description bullshit with "diva" in that it has primadonnaish connotations which I find apposite. Just don't try to make it gendered, let alone print it on pink flowery paper to attract more girls (especially since it has those connotations, sheesh! I mean sure, my associations with "rock star" do include a touch of petulance, but not in the same ratio at all).

(obv Stevie wasn't going to do that but I read that article y/day and thought of it when I saw posts itt)

No Sleeps Til Brooklyn

xp as a gay homosexual I have overused the word "diva" to the point where I forget that it has any primadonnaish connotations! I just think it's a more willfully goofy thing and I think it's funny to contort the word into something that means "someone who is really good at something or likes it a lot"

like "ice cream diva supreme" or "regal garlic diva"

(nb I am both of those divas tbh)

My sister has always referred to herself as a diva (it fits), even with her email address which is something like divaplains✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

When she moved to Las Vegas, she cooed like her brother when offered to pick her own phone number and went with 322-DIVA.

Somewhere along the way, her phone got shut off or changed. I wasn't made aware of this, but was a little surprised the year I called her for her birthday and got a recording telling me that the hottest divas in Las Vegas were ready to get off and waiting for me to assist them.

First thoughts I had were (A.) How in the world did my sister not figure out how to sell that number in the first place and (B.) Wait, that wasn't her on the recording, was it?

(It wasn't.)

I WANT TO BE 322-DIVA!!!

There's a kind of shitty restaurant here that brags about their "house made simple syrup" on the cocktail menu. Exemplary job there at combining sugar and water in equal amounts.

This thread =

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A diva is a female version of a hustler.

surreal image there of how's life launching into a 'geoffrey the butler performs "no scrubs"' routine

ahaha

I just think it's a more willfully goofy thing and I think it's funny to contort the word into something that means "someone who is really good at something or likes it a lot"

My previous post sounds way more nitpicky than I intended - was really just going off at a tangent - so yeah, this sounds a pretty good use of the word btw!

"real true seltzer diva"

Best person wins the diva cup

"you know how they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?"

yes, but they are wrong and insane is what you are making me by saying this

it is also the definition of QA

"Did you find everything you were looking for?" (as asked by grocery store and other retail workers)

Last night at Trader Joe I did mention that they didn't have the type of coffee filters I needed. I don't doubt that if I had asked for something they did carry, the clerk would have directed me to the right part of the store. But the question feels more like the clerk is living in fear of mystery shoppers who will mark them down if they don't run through the complete script.

the real definition of insanity is listening to other people define insanity in the same words, over and over again.

first mentions.

Aimless The Unlogged wrote this on thread Should the USA invade Lebanon to take on Hezbollah? on board I Love Everything on Sep 7, 2004
The only viable solution requires negotiation.

...the idea that Hezbollah have any interest in negotiation seems a strange one.

The current core of Hezbollah may not want negotiations. Howver, to live, breath and survive, Hezbollah must swim in a sea of sympathizers. Any negotiated solution that redresses the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians and allows them the power to secure their own borders and own national future would dry up support for Hezbollah and create the conditions necessary to eradicate Hezbollah with the free, active and voluntary cooperation of Palestinians.

Further reprisals, invasions and occupations, further injusttices and humiliations forced upon non-combatants, and further extreme repression of Palestinian aspirations will not work. Coerced cooperation is a contradiction in terms.

No doubt you have heard the definition of insanity as repeating the same actions over and over and expecting different results than you've always had before. By this measure, both the Israelis and Palestinians are well-advanced into madness. However, only the Israelis have the effective power to change the nature of this war.