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

Number of homeowners dropped by four percent. E.g., say there are 100 million people in a country, and half of them are homeowners. You have 50 million homeowners, and a 50% homeownership rate. If the homeownership rate falls by 10 percentage points, you now have a 40% homeownership rate, and 40 million homeowners. If homeownership falls by 10 percent, you now have 45 million homeowners.

because the "price point" of homes is too high prob

on the spectrum

would kill to never have to read or hear "meh" again

"______ gets it", in reference to people/things that are obviously not capable of "getting it". this baby gets it, this dog gets it, this penguin knows wassup, this bee colony really has life figured out. please just stop.

^^^gets it

^^ first to jump into pool yelling "CANNONBALL!"

would kill to never have to read or hear "meh" again

― qualx, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 11:43 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I ilx-mailed you the dossier

^^^gets it

well shit

"crossfit box" obv

"business angel"

getting so sick of "hack"

like "hack and slash" or "that guy is such a hack"

or like hacking computers?

like in the sense of "lifehacks", e.g. "cut your travel time in half with this commuting hack"

"24 fitness hacks that will make exercising easier" (real buzzfeed article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hacking

I cannot wait for "disrupt" to pass out of the tech lexicon

i cannot wait for the entire tech lexicon to be thrown in a garbage bucket

"life hack" is discussed at length upthread

"business angel"

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 4:25 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this similar to "angel investor"? Cuz I hate that one.

xp yes! i knew it was talked about on some thread but i didn't search this one

ironically, most of the people who use "hack" are hacks

"This is how we do"

e.g. "Another snowstorm in Boston? No biggie. This is how we do"

I cannot wait for "disrupt" to pass out of the tech lexicon

― DJP, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 7:27 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as long as it also stays out of the educational sphere i'm ok with that

lol, too late...

gaydar

Use of "tech" to describe 'anything we don't understand' and applied to everything from a Leatherman to a webpage has REALLY started to grip my shit over he past couple of weeks.

τέχνη basically covers any manual skill or craft. technology in its broad sense can refer to cans and can openers just as much as to iPhones and routers. we used to call out specifically "high tech" to make this distinction.

"He is a good man"

"Good person" is fine by me, but "good man" has this vague air of gravity or officialness or I don't know what that's just irritating.

"I could tell you what that stores' name was, but I've slept since then."

Hoo boy yeah, misplaced apostrophes, don't get me started

Soon as I posted that, I thought, "Oh, great. A typo on the pedantic thread."

not sure pedantic is the right word

B-|

There's a sentence fragment up there too.

I've slept since then.

I don't know what this means.

^ I've never even heard that!

"you're better than that"

http://i.imgur.com/K3XHPKK.png

"Elite" as applied to sports. (Just read John Dewan, whom I generally like, refer to Jonathan LuCroy's "elite framing.") Isn't "excellent" good enough?

Still no blaze of comprehension--not even a spark. Is this a regionalism? Or...a quote from something?

This is maybe where I should say that it took me several years to understand the thread title "Don't go back on your raisin" because I couldn't figure out what raisins had to do with anything.

I don't get it either!

Or the raisin thing, but I'm not really trying there.

I thought it was a Southern thing, but it might be just an Old Man thing.

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/04/solution-phrase-slept/

Ha. came across this one and I think I went to college with this guy. Maybe it's a Midwestern thing.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60927-d4455771-i77660510-Bleu_Bistro-Corpus_Christi_Texas.html

http://i.imgur.com/VpfuBk3.png

And I'm fully on the record of not having either heard or having a clue what that raisin phrase meant before it was added into an ILX thread title.

Adam Raisoned a Cain