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

It's following an implicit "I'm not going to be able to do that," I guess? " (But) what I am going to do is..."

"Well, in that case, gonnae no' dae that?"

xp yeah that's actually what bothers me, it's the implicit "I'm not going to be able to do that, but..." only it's used outside that context.

Don't doctors and nurses say things like that to reassure you?

"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that."

Think on
Rigorous academics
ivory tower thinking
Dig into

ivory tower is a really pernicious cliche

"oh, you sweet summer child"

"throwing shade" can't go out of favour fast enough for me. Hate it.

Also "on the reg" is just a more stupid way of saying "regularly" so that can fuck off and all.

"and all"

This is visual language, but the use of gifs and images (usually with text) on tumblr frequently annoys me but I can't always say precisely why.

There is a lot of inspiring/righteous quotes and sequential gif quotes on tumblr and even when what's being said is totally brilliant I can't help but feel what's being said is trivialized somehow. Does anyone else get this?

The other thing is people using images of pop stars and celebrities with text that mocks their enemies. It rarely seems witty or having any point in using an image. Doesnt help that so many of the images of pop stars are so vulgar.

I know this is a hate thread but I find AF funny almost every time.

What does that acronym stand for?

"As fuck"

Is this in common usage?

http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a16745/af-usages/

Admittedly these aren't all top-shelf examples. But a well-placed af hits the spot.

"sharing economy"

(such-and-such) "ruined my childhood"

no one says that one unironically any more do they?

ironically histrionic phrases are awful in their own right

however people mean it, the whole idea behind it is dumb

the whites / the blacks / the hispanics / the whoevers. it ain't hard to drop the article and add a 'people' or a 'folks' if you need to generalize.

... sez remy bean of the whoever folk

oh, and another one: "it's not a big ask to _______ "

doing a disservice

"Webster's defines..."

haha yes

i want people at my job to stop saying shitshow

shit show?

Shits how?

"dandle"
which I had never encountered before I read any Game of Throneses but now everyone dandles everyone else all the dandling time.

i don't hate "bad boy" but i think it's stupid. like "let's see what this bad boy's got" or something.

no that's close to the worst thing anyone can say

Do you prefer "puppy" used in the same way?

Let's start this puppy.

"Bad boy" I imagine as like a burb dad thing to say about grilling a steak. Hear that sizzle, son? Time to flip that bad boy over.

upgrade to "awful boy", "atrocious boy" or "worst of all possible boys", makes everything better

"Hilarious"/"Hilariously"

"real life Game of Thrones"

See also house of cards

Butterface

getting tired of the smug liberal use of "racist" as a noun. Like "Donald Trump said x. Well he is a racist, so no surprise there."

It's so self-congratulatory. I guess any politican who doesn't say outright offensive things can sleep well at night knowing he is not "a racist."

Trump is maybe the most famous, influential and dangerous racist alive, I think it's kind of fair to point it out.

you must be the first person in history to point that out, congrats

the phrase "awesome sauce" makes me embarrassed for anyone using it

AB, I appreciate the snark, but idk I'm not sure I get the point of man alive's objection. Okay, self-congratulatory is a problem, sure, but should we really not call racists out as racists?

cultural focus on racists as identifiable and hopeless subclass neatly quarantines racism as issue of character, allows both for unlimited ferocity of attack and unlimited defensive fortification of one's own subjectivity, moves focus to motives over effects, others the problem, rapidly generates both pariahs (if you want someone to hate) and martyrs (if you want someone to hatefully defend); whites-in-particular both woke and sleep have a whole buffet of motives to focus this way imo

donald trump tho in addition to being symptom and synecdoche of long-term systemic illness or whatever, whitehead on enormous political boil etc., is a racist

Yeah I guess I can't really make the case for getting rid of it as a noun. It's more a tone/context that annoys me.

do you need Clearasil

"bragging rights"

"all the"

As in, "What kind of tacos are you getting?"

"All the tacos lolol"

rock up

yum, a buffet of motives