Is America "across the pond" in Britain? (real question)
Yes! Quite commonly used over here. Sorry about that.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's one of those The Britishisms that are taking over America
― how's life, Saturday, 28 June 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
The only people who ever say that money doesn't buy happiness are people who have plenty of money to buy things that make them happy.
― carl agatha, Friday, June 27, 2014 4:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. I remember when I was 24 and couldn't even afford to eat lunch that didn't come out of a vending machine as I basically made enough to pay my bills to the dollar and not much more. I remember feeling constricted and raging a lot then.
By the time I was 31 I had a comfortable well-paying job and those days were behind me but there was a period of two months where I was moving and had to float my two new roommates' portion of the rent to secure the deal prior to them reimbursing me on move in date. It was only about a month, but I was short on cash and having to do things like payday advances and it brought back those familiar pangs of income-fueled rage.
fuck it - having money takes away sooooooo much anxiety.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 28 June 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
I hate the term "massaging" when used to mean 'it is being worked through', ie, "our client is still massaging the details". just say they're still working on it, jeezus
otm, hate that
― marcos, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
"kiddie porn"
trivializes the utter fucked-upness of child pornography into something mildly embarrassing
― marcos, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
money can't buy happiness itself, but it can clear away many potent sources of unhappiness, leaving a clearer field for happiness to take root and grow in. or weeds.
― Aimless, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
isn't "massaging the details" supposed to mean that they're lying? xp
― clouds, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
anything porn is terrible -- it reduces the meaning of the word pornography and also attributes characteristics to the thing being described that are not just inaccurate but grossfoodtravelbasically any noun
but agree about kiddie
― La Lechera, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
I agree completely.
Especially since there probably really is something else called food porn that isn't pictures of new appetizers from Chef Gellato's.
― pplains, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
totally agree
also "____ porn" e.g. "food porn", "ruin porn"
― marcos, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:28 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
I tried searching for food-related pornography on tumvlr recently and got real bummed out when it returned a bunch of tastefully - composed shots of people's dinner.
― how's life, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
― marcos, Monday, June 30, 2014 12:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah it's very trashy and gossipy sounding in the worst way, and definitely trivializing, like "Oooh, I heard ___ is into kiddie porn."
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 June 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
I didn't initially mind other kinds of ___ porn, because it seemed to have a useful critical meaning -- "porn" implies that something has no purpose but sheer sensation and gawkery.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 June 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
But that's not exclusively pornography!
― pplains, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
I mean, a big ol' book full of art isn't art_porn, right? But yet, that's pretty much the modern cutsey definition of anything _porn.
― pplains, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
think h2 is thinking of "torture porn" and the like?
― fraudulent octuplets of the moment, yon californian-ass mother (wins), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Right, or like the idea of "ruin porn" is -- "You have the pretense of making some kind of artistic statement but you're actually just gaping at a city falling apart." That's kind of a problematic distinction tbf, but I at least see where it's coming from.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
I know this isn't what you mean, but it sounds like you're saying bdsm is on the same level as pictures of Detroit?
― pplains, Monday, 30 June 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
I miss porn porn, culture ruins everything
― do u like green ez & jam (darraghmac), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1118679017/Jump-Suits-For-Women-Cheerleader-Pom-Poms-Cosplay-Costumes-Sexy-Purple-Corset-Adult-Halloween-Carnival-Party.jpg_350x350.jpg
― fraudulent octuplets of the moment, yon californian-ass mother (wins), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
otrn
― do u like green ez & jam (darraghmac), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
― pplains, Monday, June 30, 2014 3:06 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it is if you're a building! hubba hubba
― mattresslessness, Monday, 30 June 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
by the way, people in America totally say 'across the pond' to refer to going to Britain. pretty much exclusively.
― Dreamland, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
I tell folks I live "on the good side of the ditch" here in my metropolitan statistical area divided by a major North American river. Folks on the other side say the same thing.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/29/326690947/should-saying-someone-is-off-the-reservation-be-off-limits
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
Kinda thought that would be a no-brainer.
"Going off the reservation" is one of those phrases like "let's be white men about this" in which the speaker absolutely HAS to know he's using a racist expression.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
That's mighty white of you to stop saying "off the reservation."
It seems like a no-brainer, but so does not saying the n-word and people sure do get jammed up about that.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've ever actually heard someone use that in conversation and I've never been sure what it meant.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
Hey, let me use a football guy for an example, as timely as today's headlines.
But it's like when Bill Parcells said something akin to "Don't mean to offend the Orientals, but that was a jap play." That man would've never stood before an open mic and said the n-word, but for some weird reason known only perhaps to white men born before 1950, he thought it was a good idea and let that one fly.
In other words, he knew it was racist, he just didn't think it would be that offensive. Doesn't make a lick of sense, I know.
― pplains, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
"disruptive" whatever.
― cheese is never wrong (doo dah), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
There is a section of Gawker called "Disputations" and every time I land there, I think it's "Disruptions"
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
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."
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
I don't like that either.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, fuck that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Been mentioned on every other thread iirc
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
"pork-barrel spending"
― clouds, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
'data scientist'
your punk ass never met an actual scientist did it
― j., Friday, 4 July 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
Ugh @ x more sleeps until y
― cardamon, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― cardamon, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Friday, 4 July 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
'rock star' in an employment setting
just makes me want to spit on whoever says it
which would make them darby crash i guess
― j., Friday, 4 July 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
otmfm, see also "guru". I've replaced them both with "diva" at work.
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 5 July 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
money being "pumped" into the economy
makes me think of a bigass undulating slug being fattened by money fed through a pump
― wenus villiams (qiqing), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
^^ accurate actually
― j., Tuesday, 8 July 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
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".
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
but it's more of a house than a home
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
house = a place of business.
― sleepingsignal, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:20 (ten years ago) link