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

"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

probably been mentioned but "Crossfit box"

http://www.waywordradio.org/ive-slept-since-then/

is "box" their special snowflake word for "gym"?

Big Data

Big Pharma

Big Ag

Big Pharma really annoys me because I mostly hear it from anti-vac people

It's like turning over the chess board -- "Well the CDC is controlled by BIG PHARMA"

Anyone still using "I can't even..."

"late capitalism" - sorry guys capitalism is going to be around regenerating itself and fucking up the earth forever

i think its useful as a way of indicating that this is the last stage capitalism will be recognizable in its traditional form. the foundation of how a market works may stay the same but micro transactions, high frequency trading, 3d printing, online crowdfunding, automation/robotics etc (all phrases that annoy...) all point to a much more unrecognizable form that's clearly right around the corner. the generation born a few decades from now may not even recognize physical currency, which would be a pretty big break from everything thats come before.

nevermind, wikipedia says i'm off with my definition, didn't realize it was a marxist term. i'm now fully onboard with it being annoying

it keeps getting later
and later and later
i feel like i'm in
a falling
elevator

"late capitalism" is pretty useful IMO, just not if you're using it in an apocalyptic way (like you're reading the tea leaves that it's doomed, doomed!). at the least, it's possible to have meaningful and interesting discussions about whether the term is applicable or whether the purported changes are just spatial (i.e. it's the same capitalism as before but many of its classical formations have been disappeared to Somewhere Else in globalization).

Using "pup" instead of dog

using parental/child terms for pets

I've called my dog "pups" forever and have started referring to my baby the same way (though sometimes he's "bubs"). I'm doing it wrong all ways and in reverse.

xp "baybehs" in particular

"late capitalism" is permanently cursed with that Hegelian/Marxian conceit of predicting world history we should not still have to suffer through. These guys were lousy prophets. Anthropology exploded the idea that there are specific repeatable paths of cultural progress long ago. Find another term.

yeah sure, but a phrase that describes "thing that emerged somewhere in the last century, different from the capitalism observed by marx through lenin," divorced from the above, isn't without use.

basically you can actually use it productively in a conversation about something, which puts it wayyyyy above most of the stuff in this thread by default IMO.

late capitalism is less obfuscatory than neoliberalism, which to me seems to imply that the exploitative elements of our current world system are due to something new, rather than just a reformulated capitalism

kudos to anthropology

well yeah...sorry it took looking at some other cultures to get (some of) us to realize our process of development was not "THE" process of development.

capitalism is a global system though. i think it makes sense to look at it as a whole instead of assuming that societies have their own culturally specific "capitalisms"

when people call men 'men' and women 'females'.

whenever i hear that, i always recall that rubbish skit by anti-pop consortium called 'tron man speaks' where someone says 'there's nothing wrong with females'.

They're strong as hell

estela OTM

"Lashes out". I am lashing out at people who use the phrase.

i'm lashing out rite now *eye flutter*

starting to feel like "zero fucks given" should be put into a fucking trash bag

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/716/134/b1a.jpg

irl lol

For consistency, I feel like the first line should say "thy fucks," right?

uptrend

committing acts of journalism, committed journalism, or any variant upon

having skin in the game

When some financial or political disclosure is described as "opening the kimono"

yeesh. never heard that one before.