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STOP FUCKING USING "LEVERAGE" IN PLACE OF "USE"

cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:40 (ten years ago)

otm

marcos, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:46 (ten years ago)

i guess i don't *hate* it, but why is everything suddenly being 'gifted' instead of 'given'

mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:47 (ten years ago)

like thrifted

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:49 (ten years ago)

How is "binge-watching" not on this page yet.

pplains, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:59 (ten years ago)

i was in a training session where the guy kept talking about 'learns' as in 'what learns are you hoping to take away with you today?', 'what key learns have you taken from this?'.

canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 10:35 (ten years ago)

What. The. Fuck.

how's life, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:09 (ten years ago)

'Learns' is popular here. Infuriating.

mmmm, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:28 (ten years ago)

there is literally no need for this. are they trying to avoid the word 'lesson'? why not say 'what have you learnt from this?'?

canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:35 (ten years ago)

'learns'
no
no
NO

kinder, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:39 (ten years ago)

I lessoned some learns at school today.

pplains, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:35 (ten years ago)

I've heard "learnings" but "learns" is some next-level wrongheadedness

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:04 (ten years ago)

Here endeth the learn.

jmm, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:11 (ten years ago)

getting all the learns

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:24 (ten years ago)

i guess you learns a new thing every day

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:25 (ten years ago)

sick learn

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:06 (ten years ago)

feel the learn

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:07 (ten years ago)

3rd degree learn

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)

learn notice

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

ha that sounds like a real thing

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

when your CIA handler calls you and tells you.... you've been learned

μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:17 (ten years ago)

so many feels about this

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

"There's no 'there' there" is the worst expression of all expressions. Far worse than "think outside the box."

Treeship, Friday, 6 May 2016 05:42 (ten years ago)

The fact that it is an allusion makes it worse. It was smug and unimaginative when Gertrude Stein said it, and the same is true when internet commenters say it about an artwork they don't understand.

Treeship, Friday, 6 May 2016 05:45 (ten years ago)

there's no 'tree' there

μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:10 (ten years ago)

"caping for"

how's life, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:34 (ten years ago)

caping for???

davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:22 (ten years ago)

"by far one of the _____" is my new least favorite phrase

davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:24 (ten years ago)

e.g. It was by far one of the better episodes of Game of Thrones. Hands down, it was pretty alright I guess. It was far and away an episode of television.

davey, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:27 (ten years ago)

"good shoot"/"bad shoot"

jmm, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:33 (ten years ago)

herding cats

evol j, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:37 (ten years ago)

caping for???

davey wrote this at 2016-05-12 20:22:51.000

I think it means "defending someone who you know has done wrong". I think I have just spent way too much time reading the gawker comments section and I should reconsider my life choices.

how's life, Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:44 (ten years ago)

I find 'TTTT' functional and clever but it has suffered from overuse like anything else

always be charging (rip van wanko), Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:47 (ten years ago)

caping = more polite way to use the "captain save a ____" idea? shameful.

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 May 2016 20:50 (ten years ago)

I think "caping" has been around a while, typically means fighting for a view or cause without questioning whether it's something worthwhile or worthy

μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:11 (ten years ago)

oh ok
new to me

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:15 (ten years ago)

never heard of TTTT

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 13 May 2016 14:31 (ten years ago)

See Treesh above

a mom shaped pom (wins), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:30 (ten years ago)

"fur babies"

Brad C., Friday, 13 May 2016 21:08 (ten years ago)

Fur babies is by far one of the annoying phrases, hands down.

davey, Friday, 13 May 2016 22:01 (ten years ago)

"This is a story about...", usually on a BBC4 doc. I blame Adam Curtis.

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 13 May 2016 22:30 (ten years ago)

xp

TT.TT
used in txt and chat rooms.
TT.TT = cry/sad
kind of like :.(
person:ur cat just died.

me:TT.TT
#tt.tt #t.t #txt misenged #space txt #txt
by barana December 10, 2008

Treeship, Saturday, 14 May 2016 06:21 (ten years ago)

Forever home

Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 May 2016 07:26 (ten years ago)

^yes hate this so much, seems like something that would repel as many people as it charms if not more. has it come into common use in the last few months or have I just started noticing it?

reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 14 May 2016 08:01 (ten years ago)

Few months ime

Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 May 2016 08:18 (ten years ago)

I've got a rolling list of awful phrases.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:15 (ten years ago)

Lol at 1st response there

a mom shaped pom (wins), Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:17 (ten years ago)

circle back

sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:01 (ten years ago)

I'm happy that I only am guilty of using two of the phrases/words on Alfred's list, and only sparingly. I'm going to try to do better.

μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:50 (ten years ago)

circle back

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)

Pleonasms don't offend me besides "refer back" or "reply back"

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:51 (ten years ago)


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