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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
"disruptive" whatever.
― cheese is never wrong (doo dah), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 13:34 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
I don't like that either.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, fuck that.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
Been mentioned on every other thread iirc
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
"pork-barrel spending"
― clouds, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
'data scientist'
your punk ass never met an actual scientist did it
― j., Friday, 4 July 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Ugh @ x more sleeps until y
― cardamon, Friday, 4 July 2014 17:18 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
^^ accurate actually
― j., Tuesday, 8 July 2014 03:26 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
but it's more of a house than a home
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:12 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
house = a place of business.
― sleepingsignal, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
not denying yr right to be wound up by language, obv
but "house" is used in contexts like "house style" or "on the house" so i figure this comes from a place of existing usage
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
hand cut for sandwiches
congrats on cutting that sandwich by hand, hope u die
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:47 (nine years ago) link
what's the book where the main character gets 'hand cut' chips in a pub and next time asks them to cut them a little thinnerand the pub is like 'we don't actually cut them by hand, hand cut just means 'thick' 'I have felt that rage
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:49 (nine years ago) link
'hand cut' means ime that the person 'designing' the menu is thick tbh
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:50 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't it "American Psycho" ?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 07:52 (nine years ago) link
Going on holiday with friends, one of whom keeps saying things like '3 more sleeps'. It's going to be a long week.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
I had a person I like say "all the feels" to me the other day. I've not felt like slapping someone so hard in over a decade.
― the asterisk is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:21 (nine years ago) link
Jesus
that's like.......over 3652 sleeps
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 08:35 (nine years ago) link
just imagine if lemmy had called his record five sleeps 'til hammersmith
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:03 (nine years ago) link
When you use as much speed as Lemmy I think five sleeps is like two months.
― the asterisk is the most sensitive part of the d*ck (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
lemmyfortywinks
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
s'pose "house made" is an attempt to avoid "home-made" (since, as you say, it isn't a home) and a parallel with "house wine" but it does draw a little too much attention to itself
I appreciate replacing all that "rock star" "guru" "ninja" job/self-description bullshit with "diva" in that it has primadonnaish connotations which I find apposite. Just don't try to make it gendered, let alone print it on pink flowery paper to attract more girls (especially since it has those connotations, sheesh! I mean sure, my associations with "rock star" do include a touch of petulance, but not in the same ratio at all).
(obv Stevie wasn't going to do that but I read that article y/day and thought of it when I saw posts itt)
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
No Sleeps Til Brooklyn
― 3kDk (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
xp as a gay homosexual I have overused the word "diva" to the point where I forget that it has any primadonnaish connotations! 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"
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
like "ice cream diva supreme" or "regal garlic diva"
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
(nb I am both of those divas tbh)
My sister has always referred to herself as a diva (it fits), even with her email address which is something like divaplains✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧.
When she moved to Las Vegas, she cooed like her brother when offered to pick her own phone number and went with 322-DIVA.
Somewhere along the way, her phone got shut off or changed. I wasn't made aware of this, but was a little surprised the year I called her for her birthday and got a recording telling me that the hottest divas in Las Vegas were ready to get off and waiting for me to assist them.
First thoughts I had were (A.) How in the world did my sister not figure out how to sell that number in the first place and (B.) Wait, that wasn't her on the recording, was it?
(It wasn't.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I WANT TO BE 322-DIVA!!!
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
This thread =
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/66/66cc86c8bcaecb90038f06b18aa065423649d7ddf3eb81272f04af7f308d3351.jpg
― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
A diva is a female version of a hustler.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
surreal image there of how's life launching into a 'geoffrey the butler performs "no scrubs"' routine
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
ahaha
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
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!
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
"real true seltzer diva"
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Best person wins the diva cup
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
"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
― your best m7 (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
it is also the definition of QA
― niamh 1073 (electricsound), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link