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

(I've even seen people use 'a small but non-zero chance', like they're proud of the fact that they're getting paid by the word)

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"if there's one thing i really hate" people who say this never have one thing they always have loads.

For me it's "there are two kinds of people:" The kind of people who divide people into two kinds, and, um, the other kind.

"miss your face"

The word "rockstar" to mean something spectacular or impressive because nowadays it makes me think of some has-been musician playing at county fairs and casinos.

It always makes me think of the one "rocker" dude that's always in the mix on American Idol-style shows. Sort of a campy caricature of what it used to mean.

being a rockstar, that's where i'm a viking

eurocents

I've heard a ton of political pundits say "Calvinball" in the last few weeks.

wokest bae - I always imagine the writer in mid-stroke when typing this

^ minor character in next star wars film

probably already been mentioned but I'm a bit tired of the whole Charlie Brooker/Chris Morris school of calling hated public figures things like 'cockmangling spunktrumpet' etc.. Kind of funny when they did it on Brass Eye in the 90s but I'm surprised at how impressed people are by this sort of thing

"We do not agree that hindsight is required" - I'm gonna hear this phrase 1000s of times and the present tense "is" will always annoy.

"elevated pub fare" or "elevated pub grub", arrgh, I saw this again this morning, use other words please!

speaking of which, "gastropub"

"Racially charged"

why are there no racial charging stations in this airport

I dislike the term "policy wonk"

"grown-up voters"

Henceforth I propose "wonk" be changed to "wonker."

"What will the political wonkers have to say about this on the Sunday talk shows?"

"Trump will need to recruit a very experienced wonker to be his running mate."

"Bill Clinton had a reputation as an obsessive policy wonker."

Something is written in the dust. You read: 'know ycilop.'

Disconnect. The word is disconnection.

Any eatery that refers to itself as kitchen, e.g. a shitty local chain bar that serves food referring to itself as "kitchen and wet bar". Wet bar even worse than kitchen obv but thankfully haven't seen that much elsewhere.

Sunny's boss the other day wanted to know if she "had a sufficiency of work to do."

Annoys me so much, especially since using the word "sufficient" would have been... sufficient.

lol I say sufficiency

it is but one example of a kind of jocular scots grandiloquence I picked up from my granny

Any time wins uses the word ghostbusters i get ia

For some reason I hate that you can say 'resilience' or 'resiliency' interchangeably.

I vote for resilience and relevance and compliance ("compliancy" ugh).

But for some reason I think I think of "competence" and "competency" as different things.

She displays competence. (mass noun)

Pickling and tickling are among her competencies. (count noun)

Though I guess you could do away with this use of "competencies" by concluding that it means the same thing as "skills."

ymp otm

stop saying t-minus two days when something is happening in two days, please

Only two sleeps left! Is even worse.

the fuck is a wet bar?

Sunny's boss the other day wanted to know if she "had a sufficiency of work to do."

my maternal grandmother liked to describe a satisfactory meal as "an ample sufficiency", so i'm rather fond of that one.

Legend/legendary/epic for everything from a shitty pop star to a pizza

Any time wins uses the word ghostbusters i get ia

And yet you persist in asking me who I'm gonna call

Nonesuch

Y u wanna troll morelike

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- "So this sufficiency has a bath, a stove, and a mini-fridge. What do you think?"
- "Eh, it's enough."

"___-shaming"

like a lot of these phrases, it starts from the right place politically but gets mindlessly overused in clickbait headlines and becomes grating

phrase-shaming

"Street Food"

This seems to only be used to fine dining places that are decidedly not on the street. Plus the supposed authenticity it's supposed to invoke (in the sense of "from the streets" or "out on the streets" which I also hate) really bugs me.

Yeah the more I think about it there's no other context in which "street food" makes sense. Like you would just say "let's go get tacos from the cart," not "let's go eat some street food." So "street food" only gets used off the street.

the fuck is a wet bar?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, July 14, 2016 9:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I don't know, there's literally only one place here that ive seen that uses the term, but it's a god awful term!

... have you guys never been in countries where street food is a literal thing

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like you go out on the street and there's someone with a fryer or a gas range making eggs or donuts or tacos or whatever

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lil bit of dirt w ur burger

even ate fish that was baked covered in dirt and rocks

the latter is not so much street food but village food i guess bc they dont even have streets

true I'm thinking primarily of latin America + Asia where cheap food prepared in the street (and not in an actual restaurant/kitchen). I get that high-end places trying to appropriate this style of preparation to claim "authenticity" is annoying and lame but that doesn't mean street food is not a thing