Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

"this is really something that will need support from both sides of the aisle"

fuck off, you trite-ass pundit

all of you

I have mixed feelings about that thing people do on the internet where they make a statement about personal preference but deliberately omit the personal pronoun (which gives their opinions an air of irony/detachment even when they're being sincere). did this begin with Hipster Runoff? that's where I first noticed it, but ilx-type people (including me, probably) seem to do it a lot.

dyl wrote this on thread Charli XCX on board I Love Music on Aug 26, 2014

not really feeling "break the rules" at all. i'm excited she's getting her chance at a legit mainstream breakthrough tho. "boom clap" is closing in on #1 on top 40 radio.

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Jimmywine Dyspeptic wrote this on thread Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014) on board I Love Music on Jul 29, 2014

Really liking this on first listen; really good on headphones. Not sure how it rates in the larger discography yet, of course, but so far, diggin' it. One of the last indieTM bands whose new releases I actually look forward to.

have mixed feelings about that thing people do on the internet where they make a statement about personal preference but deliberately omit the personal pronoun (which gives their opinions an air of irony/detachment even when they're being sincere). did this begin with Hipster Runoff? that's where I first noticed it, but ilx-type people (including me, probably) seem to do it a lot.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/psbKsJ7Kg48/hqdefault.jpg

"We moved to west Texas 40 years ago. The war was over, and we wanted to get out and make it on our own. Those were exciting days. Lived in a little shotgun house, one room for the three of us. Worked in the oil business, started my own.

In time we had six children. Moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house. Lived the dream - high school football on Friday night, Little League, neighborhood barbecue."

I feel like that's a different phenomenon. Bush = imitating front-porch working-class speech <-> Carles = imitating hipsters airing their 'deep thoughts' on aim/twitter. Bush = affecting plainspoken rural simplicity <-> Carles = affecting plainspoken urban cool. they have more in common then they think, but I don't think they come from the same lineage.

(and yeah, I know it's slightly ridiculous to cite Hipster Runoff as a trendsetter in 2015)

not seeing it

True that

I can't tell you how strange it was to hear Bush slicing off those pronouns in '88. Using "I" meant he wasn't being sufficiently humble, according to Peggy Noonan.

not getting over "speak to" sthing

Starting to get annoyed at 'hot mess'

starting

not getting over "speak to" sthing

― local eire man (darraghmac),

speak to
in terms of
with respect to

I'm getting used to "hot mess", but for a long time it had strong connotations of "diarrhea" for me.

"...because of the way it's culturally encoded."

and anally encoded

with respect to

'in respect of' I associate with lawyerly Blairite politician stroke wankers

... even worse I've noticeD Ian Wright now can't get through a sentence without using it

Hot Mess could have been a swarthy 1978 EuroDisco outfit.

"FTW." "Aaaaaaannnnnd..." I'll take "impact" as a verb over any and all internet shorthand. I'm not even sure what "Aaaaaaannnnnd..." is supposed to communicate.

have i mentioned how much i hate, hate, hate people who say they love, love, love things

ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off

i really hate "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over"

Have we mentioned "disrupt" yet? Because tech-hype speak is a subsection of corporate/PR jargon that really makes me wanna slit throats. The desperate employing of stupid catchphrases and insider terms to grant oneself an air of importance and connectedness is like that thing dumbass entertainment reporters do when they employ cutesy nicknames for celebrities as if they were close personal friends.

Only I travel a lot, so I have to encounter shit like "disrupt" on huge banner adverts in airports all over this dumbass continent featuring smug-ass Bay Area-types who usually turn out to be Part of the Problem.

definition of insanity includes repeating that phrase over and over

Disruption is very popular these days. Doesn't bother me though, appropriate in some business contexts.

Disrupt will soon go the way of synergy and satisficing all the ones I have blissfully forgotten.

that sentence came out funny

"Definitely" as a meaningless intensifier of assurance. "I'll definitely get right on that for you."

^ often used every other sentence

So true, I have to be careful to remove excess "definitely" and "very" usage, and I still don't get to all the ones that ought to go. Verbally, with no hope of editing, I add these stupid "definitely"s to the point where I sound like some sleazy car salesman closing a deal.

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Here's one closer to grammar pedant stuff, an association I don't want because I don't have any sympathy for 99% of the usage that bothers them, but anyway. Where I live absolutely everybody says and writes "based off" rather than "based on". Like, nothing is based ON anything, it's always based off of something. "This movie was based off of a true story." "We decided not to do it based off of our financial figures."

Why does this usage in particular irritate me, when I couldn't care less about "could care less" or "irregardless"? I can't explain. Even the illogicality of it doesn't explain it.

it's become an area of general prepositional confusion-- you never know whether you'll get an "on", an "off", or an "off of"... at this rate, it won't be long before "based of" enters the lingo. (I'd like to give a shout-out to the perennially underused "based in", before it goes the way of the neanderthal)

social experiment: next time someone drops "based off" in a conversation or a meeting, look puzzled and ask them to repeat what they just said

**on 2nd thought "based in" strongly suggests location, which limits its general usefulness

Googling the phrase led me to this site. Parody or real?

http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/5514/Dr-House-is-based-off-of-Sherlock-Holmes

clickbait. not sure if that's a category of its own these days.

I'm getting used to "hot mess", but for a long time it had strong connotations of "diarrhea" for me.

i think it's supposed to? it's a euphemism for looking like shit, or something not entirely unshitlike.

relly dislike "creativity" or "creative" to describe a supposedly positive value in art, usually identifying a vague and purposeless unpredictability. It just seems to have so little to do with what actually makes art good.

"man _____" e.g. "man clothes" "man purse" "man bag" "man cave" "man boobs" "the man show"

^^^

Any variation of "Can I just ask a quick question?"

lol did not mean that as a dig against your poster name xp, i don't have a problem with it since it is its own expression

while we're on the subject, "creatives" to describe designers and the like >:[

have so had it with "the problem with"
1) kindly stop telling me what the problem is
2) the problem with the problem with the problem is the problem

spent time at a meeting trying to explain that what some people thought was "the problem" was merely a symptom of the actual issue we were discussing and it was very very very tiresome

Courtesy of dean burnett 2015:

No, no, no.

No. Na. Nein. Non. Nyet. Mhai. Illai. Não. Nee. Ne. Nope. Negatory. Nada. No way, Jose. Nil. Nu. Nie. Bu Dui. Iie. Nem. Nullus. Nej. Neen. And, in case any Klingons are reading this, Ghobe!

^this trope is for cunts

When I visited my folks, we took my daughter to a puppet show in suburban maryland and the woman who was kind of herding everyone into the theater (where most of the seating was on the floor) kept saying "Our style of seating is criss-cross applesauce, please move forward and we are sitting criss-cross applesauce." It made me never want to leave New York again.

wtf does that mean?

It means cross your legs. Also unfortunately referred to, in my childhood, as "indian style."

Which, it actually never occurred to me until now, was probably a reference to a caricatured yoga pose rather than Native Americans.