Phrases you hate...

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.

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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.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

^ boy, how I hate that phrase!

i get "house made" in the context of a restaurant. restaurants refer to "front of house" and "back of house" employees, and will sometimes give you your food "on the house." it's just bizspeak.

i came here to post "cheesy," which i wish would go away. "cheezy" with a z is even worse, somehow.

I hate like hell the use of "drones" to mean basically "radio-controlled helicopters or airplanes" There are so many other, better uses for the word.

xp house-made means that they made it there/themselves, home-made could be a thing from some other person/producer that they have on the menu, no?

I get pissy when people say in meetings that they should "take this conversation offline".

The Baltimore Sun
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Four more sleeps until the Baltimore Running Festival! Whether you're participating or cheering, we have marathon tips for Saturday.

[self] "Four more sleeps"?
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The Baltimore Sun Another way of saying four more nights. When people look forward to something, as runners tend to for the marathon, sometimes they count down this way.
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sunsplaining

you don't really sleep a wink the night before a marathon anyway, '3 more decent sleeps and some restless tossing and turning' would be more accurate

"Four more sleeps" is exactly the kind of thing my annoying marathoner friends would say.

I hear the sleeps things from all kinds of people. Can't stand it.

barf

Four Sleeps Till Brooklyn

Seems like part of a larger phenomenon of juvenilizing our speech (which in turn seems related to "baconing")

See also "adult" as a verb, as in

I forgot to eat all day and had a tub of frosting and some scotch for dinner. I need to learn to adult.

(I am not disparaging frosting and scotch for dinner, fyi)

WAIT WHAAAAT

Oh, that's just horrible.

See also "I can't adult" as here - http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/post/95816230431/i-cant-adult-i-have-accepted-my-fate

good luck millennials

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec3Iti9Ti3M/UYRHpC5eOlI/AAAAAAAAWvI/LPgYaWykL-Q/s640/adulting_book_cover1.jpg

how to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office?!

Adulting gives me bad feels in my tum-tum.

Look at that pizza box. What a child.

I don't normally advocate burning books, but that book screams for it. J.J. Abrams be damned.

I also didn't know there were people who forced themselves to listen to NPR like it was adult medicine.

Ok not a phrase, but what is this thing now where people write YASS or YASSSSSSSSSS or even YAYYYYSSSSS for an enthusiastic yes. Fucking hateful is what it is.

'patience is a virtue'. i mean.. fuck off.

"more unique"
"most unique"

something unique can't be compared to other things because it is IN ITS OWN CATEGORY, UNLIKE ANYTHING. IS THAT SO HARD?

xp to Hurting, it seems to have come out of queer culture. Do you hate queer culture?

I always figured that came out of Lil Jon impressions.

"more unique"
"most unique"

something unique can't be compared to other things because it is IN ITS OWN CATEGORY, UNLIKE ANYTHING. IS THAT SO HARD?

― davey, Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:15 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THANK YOU. Other things that are ultimate all by themselves: pregnancy, death. YOU CAN'T BE A LITTLE BIT DEAD, OKAY?

The people I have seen using it are not queer afaik. It did vaguely sound like it was appropriated from somewhere so that makes sense. Also the use I'm talking about is like posting an article on facebook with "YAAAAYYYYSSS" in lieu of "^this"

well i mean ppl who say "basic" or talk abt twerking largely aren't woc or qpoc anymore either

ime "YAAAAASSSS!!" is something that came out of drag (and possibly ballroom) culture and was elevated to pop-culture status via RuPaul's Drag Race

actually it's kind of amazing when you think abt it how this show with relatively low ratings on a niche cable network has managed to inform quite a bit of things slang-wise that have trickled down into #shitwhitegirlssay-level detritus

Yeah IDK, I don't have an opinion on "basic" but YAYYYYYSSS just hurts me to look at when it accompanies some slate article posted by a white nerd from u. chicago.

Oh shit, I had totally been hearing it like this

http://youtu.be/PoWEESRrNK8?t=28s

Huh I didn't know it came from drag but sure! I've seen a lot of people write it, like on fb, but the only people I've heard say it convincingly are Black women? I think I assumed it was a church lady thing like snapping your fingers to agree w something, or waving your fan.