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

Both the sandwich infantilism and the resonating are usages I have come to accept but I still don’t like and never say … and have to consciously avoid having a negative facial expression in response

I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it

https://y.yarn.co/8278afd4-3549-4980-8d55-4f30bd4b82db_text.gif

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