Phrases you hate...

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.

When people write it as "YAAAAASSSSS" I hear it in a nasally long island accent

"YAAAAASSSSSS" and 'YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS" are not the same thing. Is "YAYYYYYS" even a thing? I've never heard that before.

actually laurel you are right, it could very well have come from from not-necessarily-queer black women! Slang seems to move v fluidly btwn the two (p sure "basic" came from black women, "shade" and "reading" came from ballroom qpoc, etc) but idk it seems like RPDR was the (admittedly appropriateive) catalyst that actually launched them

but I could be v wrong, I really don't know

Stevie I need you to break this down for me

but I just did :(

I mean what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

"transitioning" as a verb in anything except sex reassignment contexts.

what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

One would be pronounced either as /jɑːs/ or /jæs/ (with requisite extension of the 's' sound) and the other would be pronounced as /jeɪs/ or /jeɪz/. I can't comment on the sociolinguistics at play here but they're clearly different words.

do they have different usages?

in case you needed a (actually pretty good) thinkpiece about "basic":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/basic-class-anxiety

xp

YAYYSSS is prob lil jon

YAAASSS is like this (this is my fav example of "yass")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbV4tl9n20

omgomgomg

this is also prime "YAAASSSSS", like this is *exactly* the intonation, context, everything you could possibly want from a "what is yaaassss" video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgrnm37MwE

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Ok upon viewing these videos I am ok with YAAAASSSSS, but remain anti-YAAAASSSSS-appropriation

Just to be clear, it's supposed to be obvious that someone else is voicing the cat right?

I'm watching a YAAAASSS GAGA compilation now. I feel like I am now re-thinking my whole entire understanding of the meaning of Gaga as a vessel for YAAASSSS, it's blowing my mind.

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Yeah, Scottish people have been saying YASSS for a long time.

I love when ILX gets all YAAASSSS'd out.

I kind of want to post this subthread with everything but "YAAAASSSSS"es blacked out

Did we talk about the odious phrase "open the kimono" here or in another thread? I can't remember, but here's an article that attempts to trace its origins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744/why-corporate-executives-talk-about-opening-their-kimonos

yeah that phrase basically makes me think about old man bodies

Anyone come across 'pooing in the pool', meaning 'to kill somebody else's idea during brainstorming sessions' - e.g. 'I don't want to poo in your pool here, but I don't think this new logo plan is going to fly'.

"You already pooed in my pool just by using that phrase"

What's wrong with good old poo-free "rain on your parade"?

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Man I hate business, and meetings, and work, and capitalism, and productivity, and white boards, and jargon.

Plus isn't the whole point of brainstorming to not rain on anyone's parade or poo in anyone's pool so as not to staunch the free flow of ideas?

Yeah, that's why the phrase got termed allegedly - you're not supposed to poo in other people's pools during brainstorms, although I will make an exception for the person who thought the term up in the first place.

Babytalk in general in the workplace.

http://compforce.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451df4569e2017ee838e3ba970d-pi

i do not like it when 'murcans say "preggers"

i have a hard time not saying anything when my friends call me "mama"

wow i totally blurted that out of nowhere after literally years of not saying anything but there it is

We say "pragnant" a a lot