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

"sessions." Every fucking music blog/wanna be publication calls their live sets "sessions."

Haha, good friend of mine who is a professional event DJ, has lots of radio experience, etc. puts up Instagram photos all the time of what he's listening to on his turntable and labels them "vinyl session."

"session" just screams tongue-clicking indieboy thoughtfulness to me idk it makes my skin crawl

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'tweetstorm', as though someone typing with their thumbs on a phone is some awesome display of majestic rage. 12 consecutive sentences is not a storm. It's a paragraph.

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:25 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the term and the genre equally irritate me. Just write a fucking op-ed.

Your opinion about Trump is not the fucking tractatus logico-philosophicus

xpost yeah, there's something super annoying about all the knuckle-cracking and here-we-going before someone fires off 20 tweets. But I suppose confining that much self-righteousness to a single paragraph might cause some kind of black hole to appear in the internet.

JM laying down a tweetstorm truthbomb

tweetstorm truthbomb thumbstrain

I'm getting pretty tired of the ironic usage of lizard people/person

otm making light of a serious issue imo

they need to be stopped

should be scaled back

i don't like "sessions" that much either but it's one word. it's hard to find another one-word description of a live performance that quite fits. "gigs" sounds kind of wanky and somehow tied into selling tickets at a venue. "live set" is two words and sounds a bit insiderish. ???

and don't even get me started on "performance"

i hate crooked now

by David Sedaris

:D

Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.

"atm" is my least favorite, especially since that acronym already has a meaning: Ass to Mouth

Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 12 August 2016 16:55 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

lol

reasons for use on twitter are pretty obv, imo

idgi

Yes, it makes sense but I still hate what twitter does to people and language.

It taken me a year to figure out what "otm" meant, it was difficult to search. It means "oh that's marvellous".

But honestly it did take me it year to get "on the money".

clearly ilx needs faq

X-post had me confused for a while too.

ofc is the worst currently popular abbrev, tempted to say the only bad one

Oh fucking christ?

I like nagl because you can make jokes about Thomas/Julia with it.

TFW I always initially read as "trigger fucking warning", which works a surprising amount of the time. I do know what it actually means, too.

Of these, only otm seems to be ilx-specific. As is the stubbornly prevalent lowercase.

I think of nagl, dgaf, imo, lol as internet-wide. Interesting how older netisms like IMHO, NSFW, and IIRC are less used here than elsewhere.

smdh took me a while.

"Fuiud" is the only one of these modern acronyms I like. I still think "lol" is wrong but it's probably here to stay for a while.

Who are Thomas and Julia?

Yes, sometimes the lowercase make some sentences really infuriating if we're talking about titles.

I see all of those older netisms here I think, but maybe it's just in my own posts...! Sadly, AFK, BRB, BBIAB, etc. have no place. RIP ROTFLMBO.

Regularly it'll be albums or song titles mentioned without being obvious.

"He did a terrible thing didn't he?" (song called "A Terrible Thing")

"The album you're talking about is total shit" (album called "Total Shit")

"can't get enough of siamese twins, pornography is classic, always in the mood for a strange day"

I always thought FFS = Fuck Fuck Shit

TFW-- had to google the meaning of that just now. Please don't ever use this ever.

OTM is ILX-specific? I had no idea

I find your lack of george michael's faith disturbing.

"Went to see the ruins of beverast and was changed by what I saw, ever since then I've immersed myself in the foulest semen of a sheltered elite"

TFW-- had to google the meaning of that just now. Please don't ever use this ever.

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, August 12, 2016 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tavon Foster Wallace?

fandom

― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, June 9, 2016 5:44 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is a word that annoys the shit out of me

Who are Thomas and Julia?

Thomas Nagel - philosopher, best known for What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Julia Nagle - member of the Fall and musician in her own right.

lol how do you grandfolks not know what anything means

the acronym that puzzles me most is: wins

well I never, sir

ty

mbdtf

Shit, I thought it was a fetlife thing and meant "woman in nylon stockings".

"can't get enough of siamese twins, pornography is classic, always in the mood for a strange day"

context's a helluva drug