Phrases you hate...

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.

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?

I get pissy when people say in meetings that they should "take this conversation offline".

The Baltimore Sun
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Four more sleeps until the Baltimore Running Festival! Whether you're participating or cheering, we have marathon tips for Saturday.

[self] "Four more sleeps"?
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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.
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sunsplaining

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

"Four more sleeps" is exactly the kind of thing my annoying marathoner friends would say.

I hear the sleeps things from all kinds of people. Can't stand it.

barf

Four Sleeps Till Brooklyn

Seems like part of a larger phenomenon of juvenilizing our speech (which in turn seems related to "baconing")

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)

WAIT WHAAAAT

Oh, that's just horrible.

See also "I can't adult" as here - http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/post/95816230431/i-cant-adult-i-have-accepted-my-fate

good luck millennials

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec3Iti9Ti3M/UYRHpC5eOlI/AAAAAAAAWvI/LPgYaWykL-Q/s640/adulting_book_cover1.jpg

how to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office?!

Adulting gives me bad feels in my tum-tum.

Look at that pizza box. What a child.

I don't normally advocate burning books, but that book screams for it. J.J. Abrams be damned.

I also didn't know there were people who forced themselves to listen to NPR like it was adult medicine.

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.

'patience is a virtue'. i mean.. fuck off.

"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?

xp to Hurting, it seems to have come out of queer culture. Do you hate queer culture?

I always figured that came out of Lil Jon impressions.

"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, 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?

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"

well i mean ppl who say "basic" or talk abt twerking largely aren't woc or qpoc anymore either

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

actually it's kind of amazing when you think abt it how this show with relatively low ratings on a niche cable network has managed to inform quite a bit of things slang-wise that have trickled down into #shitwhitegirlssay-level detritus

Yeah IDK, I don't have an opinion on "basic" but YAYYYYYSSS just hurts me to look at when it accompanies some slate article posted by a white nerd from u. chicago.

Oh shit, I had totally been hearing it like this

http://youtu.be/PoWEESRrNK8?t=28s

Huh I didn't know it came from drag but sure! I've seen a lot of people write it, like on fb, but the only people I've heard say it convincingly are Black women? I think I assumed it was a church lady thing like snapping your fingers to agree w something, or waving your fan.

When people write it as "YAAAAASSSSS" I hear it in a nasally long island accent

"YAAAAASSSSSS" and 'YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS" are not the same thing. Is "YAYYYYYS" even a thing? I've never heard that before.

actually laurel you are right, it could very well have come from from not-necessarily-queer black women! Slang seems to move v fluidly btwn the two (p sure "basic" came from black women, "shade" and "reading" came from ballroom qpoc, etc) but idk it seems like RPDR was the (admittedly appropriateive) catalyst that actually launched them

but I could be v wrong, I really don't know

Stevie I need you to break this down for me

but I just did :(

I mean what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

"transitioning" as a verb in anything except sex reassignment contexts.

what is the difference between "YAAAAASSSSSS" and "YAYYYYYYYYSSSSS"

One would be pronounced either as /jɑːs/ or /jæs/ (with requisite extension of the 's' sound) and the other would be pronounced as /jeɪs/ or /jeɪz/. I can't comment on the sociolinguistics at play here but they're clearly different words.

do they have different usages?

in case you needed a (actually pretty good) thinkpiece about "basic":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/basic-class-anxiety

xp

YAYYSSS is prob lil jon

YAAASSS is like this (this is my fav example of "yass")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbV4tl9n20

omgomgomg

this is also prime "YAAASSSSS", like this is *exactly* the intonation, context, everything you could possibly want from a "what is yaaassss" video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgrnm37MwE

I thought YASSS was a Scottish thing.

Ok upon viewing these videos I am ok with YAAAASSSSS, but remain anti-YAAAASSSSS-appropriation