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
"Did you find everything you were looking for?" (as asked by grocery store and other retail workers)
Last night at Trader Joe I did mention that they didn't have the type of coffee filters I needed. I don't doubt that if I had asked for something they did carry, the clerk would have directed me to the right part of the store. But the question feels more like the clerk is living in fear of mystery shoppers who will mark them down if they don't run through the complete script.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
the real definition of insanity is listening to other people define insanity in the same words, over and over again.
― frog latin (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
first mentions.
Aimless The Unlogged wrote this on thread Should the USA invade Lebanon to take on Hezbollah? on board I Love Everything on Sep 7, 2004The only viable solution requires negotiation....the idea that Hezbollah have any interest in negotiation seems a strange one.The current core of Hezbollah may not want negotiations. Howver, to live, breath and survive, Hezbollah must swim in a sea of sympathizers. Any negotiated solution that redresses the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians and allows them the power to secure their own borders and own national future would dry up support for Hezbollah and create the conditions necessary to eradicate Hezbollah with the free, active and voluntary cooperation of Palestinians.Further reprisals, invasions and occupations, further injusttices and humiliations forced upon non-combatants, and further extreme repression of Palestinian aspirations will not work. Coerced cooperation is a contradiction in terms.No doubt you have heard the definition of insanity as repeating the same actions over and over and expecting different results than you've always had before. By this measure, both the Israelis and Palestinians are well-advanced into madness. However, only the Israelis have the effective power to change the nature of this war.
...the idea that Hezbollah have any interest in negotiation seems a strange one.
The current core of Hezbollah may not want negotiations. Howver, to live, breath and survive, Hezbollah must swim in a sea of sympathizers. Any negotiated solution that redresses the legitimate grievances of the Palestinians and allows them the power to secure their own borders and own national future would dry up support for Hezbollah and create the conditions necessary to eradicate Hezbollah with the free, active and voluntary cooperation of Palestinians.
Further reprisals, invasions and occupations, further injusttices and humiliations forced upon non-combatants, and further extreme repression of Palestinian aspirations will not work. Coerced cooperation is a contradiction in terms.
No doubt you have heard the definition of insanity as repeating the same actions over and over and expecting different results than you've always had before. By this measure, both the Israelis and Palestinians are well-advanced into madness. However, only the Israelis have the effective power to change the nature of this war.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
^ boy, how I hate that phrase!
― frog latin (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
i get "house made" in the context of a restaurant. restaurants refer to "front of house" and "back of house" employees, and will sometimes give you your food "on the house." it's just bizspeak.
i came here to post "cheesy," which i wish would go away. "cheezy" with a z is even worse, somehow.
― Neil Patrick Haggerty (get bent), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I hate like hell the use of "drones" to mean basically "radio-controlled helicopters or airplanes" There are so many other, better uses for the word.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
xp house-made means that they made it there/themselves, home-made could be a thing from some other person/producer that they have on the menu, no?
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I get pissy when people say in meetings that they should "take this conversation offline".
― Darin, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
The Baltimore Sun13 hrs ·Four more sleeps until the Baltimore Running Festival! Whether you're participating or cheering, we have marathon tips for Saturday.[self] "Four more sleeps"?Like · Reply · 5 hrsThe Baltimore Sun Another way of saying four more nights. When people look forward to something, as runners tend to for the marathon, sometimes they count down this way.Like · Just now
Four more sleeps until the Baltimore Running Festival! Whether you're participating or cheering, we have marathon tips for Saturday.
[self] "Four more sleeps"?Like · Reply · 5 hrs
The Baltimore Sun Another way of saying four more nights. When people look forward to something, as runners tend to for the marathon, sometimes they count down this way.Like · Just now
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
sunsplaining
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
you don't really sleep a wink the night before a marathon anyway, '3 more decent sleeps and some restless tossing and turning' would be more accurate
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
"Four more sleeps" is exactly the kind of thing my annoying marathoner friends would say.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
I hear the sleeps things from all kinds of people. Can't stand it.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
barf
― marcos, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Four Sleeps Till Brooklyn
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Seems like part of a larger phenomenon of juvenilizing our speech (which in turn seems related to "baconing")
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
See also "adult" as a verb, as in
I forgot to eat all day and had a tub of frosting and some scotch for dinner. I need to learn to adult.
(I am not disparaging frosting and scotch for dinner, fyi)
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
WAIT WHAAAAT
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh, that's just horrible.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
See also "I can't adult" as here - http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/post/95816230431/i-cant-adult-i-have-accepted-my-fate
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
good luck millennials
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec3Iti9Ti3M/UYRHpC5eOlI/AAAAAAAAWvI/LPgYaWykL-Q/s640/adulting_book_cover1.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
how to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office?!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Adulting gives me bad feels in my tum-tum.
― A Hole In You The Size Of A Medium Grapefruit (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Look at that pizza box. What a child.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
I don't normally advocate burning books, but that book screams for it. J.J. Abrams be damned.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
I also didn't know there were people who forced themselves to listen to NPR like it was adult medicine.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
'patience is a virtue'. i mean.. fuck off.
― piscesx, Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
"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, 30 October 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
xp to Hurting, it seems to have come out of queer culture. Do you hate queer culture?
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
I always figured that came out of Lil Jon impressions.
― how's life, Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
― 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?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 30 October 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
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"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
well i mean ppl who say "basic" or talk abt twerking largely aren't woc or qpoc anymore either
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
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