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

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

awesome sauce / cool beans
i think "amazeballs" is already in this thread somewhere.

which reminds me of when it's hot outside and someone says "it's hot as balls out here."

One can say hot as hell, cold as hell, hot as fuck, and cold as fuck. One can say hot as balls but for some reason cold as balls doesn't really work. If one cared enough there could be a host of venn diagrams.

Sure, if you don't mind making more hot balls.

http://i.imgur.com/225p7qw.png

i've heard cold as balls before.

i've heard cold as shit which was particularly perplexing because of the generally accepted notion that a turd is usually warm, at best, eg, "one hot turd"

kind of love language and all its quirks though

"watch Fred Armisen" do anything.

i guess that helped me understand that "as balls" is basically being used the same way as "as fuck" except when someone is like "it's hot as balls" it just makes me think of slimey sweaty balls on a hot day and i'm kinda not into that

and i'm totally fine with "as fuck." not annoying at all.

carried over from the politics thread "momentum" used to describe something that's just a trend in a certain direction.

I may be required to utter the word "deliverology" out loud in the near future.

don't do that

Liverology is the study of the liver. Deliverology is the study of removing livers.

Progressive

And any other phrase meaning "I agree with this" that masquerades as an informative term

adding "-y" to nouns.

"This is a house-y track."

"It's a rape-y anthem."

"that was a felchy sandwich"

mom jeans
dad bod
mom _____
dad _____

"At least he/she has a sense of humour"

"Hildog" tbh

mainstreaming

'Curl up with a good book'. Ugh.

Blank and blank and blank, oh my.

(x) just (x) - and it was (x)

i.e. Justin Bieber just redefined herpes and it was basically the best thing ever

fill yer boots

"optics"

it's one I don't see or hear much any more (thank goodness), but "not unlike" annoys the hell out of me.

Think I've heard "going down a rabbit hole" five or six times on CNN tonight.

Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)

Some acquaintances of mine announced their wedding - their wedding! - on fb with "we did a marry"

^maybe one for the innocent aesthetic thread

what well-known expression is that goofing on? the only one i can think of is "i did a poo" which can't have been the association they were going for

No I think that really is it

That's how awful these people are

i'm shitting out my wedding
i'm shitting out my kids
i'm shitting out adulting

^ hearing this to the tune of "Bringing On the Heartbreak"

Very baseball-specific, although maybe this is becoming a cliché with other sports, too: on the Jays broadcast today (and for the last few weeks, really), they must have made five references to how such-and-such a player was able to "slow the game down." You know who knew how to slow the game down? Mickey Lolich--Cecil Fielder, too.

(I'm a little overweight, so I get to say that.)

slow the game down fellas
slow the game down
way, hey, slow the game down
slow the game down fellas
slow the game down
give me some time to slow the game down!

Very baseball-specific, although maybe this is becoming a cliché with other sports, too

That's weird, they've been saying this in soccer since before I was born tbh. Probably before my grandad was born. Something to do with American sports being one-paced?

Maybe it's just reaching baseball--I don't recall hearing it until this year, and now they won't shut up about it.

books and movies called
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The Girl on/with the __________