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"That's X hours of my life I'll never get back."

I can't tell whether this annoys me more because it's become a stupid cliche, or because I dislike thinking of aesthetic experiences (it's usually used in reference to movies) as wastes of time. The notion that a piece of art owes you something is particularly noxious to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

OTM. I hear this at least once a day and it makes me homicidal.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

"alot," unless you intended to say "allot" and you just misspelled it.

also, "so, therefore"

I know a guy who vehemently hates "kudos."

― emilys. (emilys.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

it's not suggesting it owes you something, is it? it's being pissed off that you made a stupid decision to go and watch some piece of shit film and you could've been doing something good.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe no-one's mentioned the abuse of "in terms of" yet. It's become a plague; a catch-all solution for when people are too inarticulate to put two parts of a sentence together.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Give me an example of what you're talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

fauxhemian OTM with "whatnot". I wince when I hear someone say it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I briefly dated a girl who, instead of "whatnot," said "whatsuch." I think I thought it was cute at the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

My guess is that it would've gotten old if you'd kept dating. We have a couple of "value-added" guys in this office. They're lucky I don't carry a weapon.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

K THANX BYE

if its been mentioned upthread, it deserves mentioning again

― daavis sztaayenszz, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

The inexcusable "copacetic" is still the stoner guy big vocab word.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Completely! My old perma-baked landlord would end off every conversation we had with it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

INEXCUSABLE! THERE IS NO EXCUSE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

"out and about" - I can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

" can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

oooh cutting

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. I just don't really understand why some people can't use CTRL + F. It takes about as long to use as it does to type out the phrase "I can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

profiles of actresses that begin by saying "[X] is funny, smart..."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

A girl I had a huge crush on used to say "Cool beans!" I momentarily fell out of love with her each time.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I describe things as being "rubbish" far too often.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

'asshat' is just stupid. like a beacon for nerds to attract other nerds.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm amused by "asshat," though I am not an "asshat" user.
Here's what pissed me off today. It seems subtle—maybe I was just in a bad mood. A slightly shrill woman in the car parked next to me kept saying, in response to something her softer-voiced companion had said, "Not a problem!" She said it three times, and all I could think was, what she is really saying is YES IT IS A PROBLEM!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

"Nosh" - such an unappetizing word.

― Markovitz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I used to think I got annoyed about stupid things

I will probably think I get annoyed about stupid things, again, at some point

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

radicalized.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

drinkin' from a bag

― Drinkin' From A Bag, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I tell my mother that pizza is oily, she describes the cheese as "weeping." All I can think of when she says this is weeping sores. I find both usages gross and irritating.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Weeping is a technical cooking term!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

People using fake webadresses in the conversation: "He complained about my music, and I was like: www.getafuckinglife.com" RAAAAHHHH!!!

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

People really say that? It seems like it would be so unwieldy to say. Unless there's some abbreviated way of saying "doubleyoodoubleyoodoubleyoodot" that all the kids are into nowadays.

― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

"Incent" is awful awful marketing speak, a neologism used simply to avoid the connotations associated with the correct term, "incite."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm not really sure if I hate the word preggers.

One I really loathe: OTM.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Thisd may be a local thing, but it bugs the shit outta me because I wasn't raised here. "Oh, you're fine." Like, when you're in the aisle of a store and you do that little dance when someone else is in the aisle and you're not sure who is going to go which way - and you say "excuse me.." and the proper response are:
"excuse me" or just a friendly smile or a laugh, standing to the side to yield, some stupid comment about dancing, etc....

The response "Oh, you're fine" pisses me off. Goddamned right I'm fine.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

We're all ready to blow, here. And rightfully so. If just a few of these annoying buzzword-spouters got smacked around for their laziness...
Well, what then?
The SALVATION OF POLITE SOCIETY WOULD IN IN THE BAG.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

everyone here has been radicalized.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I hate "moreish" and "to die for". Although I like things that are described as such. Who wouldn't?

― bg (creamolafoam), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

"you're fine" brings back fond memories.

my friend proposed saying "world wide web" instead of "doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou" for www, since it's more accurate and a third the syllables. hasn't caught on, though.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

wuhwuhwuh

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Here they tried to make "apestaartje" popular, as a replacement for at (as in stevienixed at gmail.com). Apestaartje=monkeytail.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

my friend proposed saying "world wide web" instead of "doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou" for www

I know someone who says "wih-wih-wih".

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

xpost :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Cola de Mono (monkey tail), the delicious Chilean holiday drink. Like a White Russian, with pisco instead of vodka.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

"On a mission" as applied by my university hallmates to just about bloody everything - going to a 'Megadog', shopping, cleaning the house, replacing bog roll and so on. It's been 10 years since I last saw them and I should be over it, but still - Nnnnng!!!!

― thr (thr), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Weeping is a technical cooking term!
-- Casuistry (chri...) (webmail), Yesterday 11:48 PM. (Chris Piuma)

I'm not saying that it's somehow illegitimate. I'm saying that it annoys the shit out of me (see thread title).

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

"I was curious whether..."

"I was curious if..."

"I'm curious whether..."

"I'm curious if..."

Just ask the fucking question, curious george!

― Scrupulous, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"unpack" and its variations w/r/t to rewriting music reviews.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of a couple of Blairisms I'd happily never hear again -

"I say to you that..."

"I put it to you that..."

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who says "wih-wih-wih".

I've said dub-dub-dub before. I feel a little silly, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Sc0ut association info at dub dub dub dot dib dib dib dot com

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

"unpack" and its variations w/r/t to rewriting music reviews.

On a similar note, the entire fucking liner notes to the Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation" CD.

Curious

Just overheard: "I'm curious if I can ask you some questions. On your website I see [A] and I was curious to know if [B]."

If I was the person on the other end, I would've said, "You're curiosity will never be satisfied if you don't learn to start asking questions!" and hung up.

― Haha, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

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