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

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
The ______ Girl
or
The Girl on/with the __________

slow the game down makes sense in football (soccer), a little more than baseball i guess.

books and movies called
The ______ Girl
or
The Girl on/with the __________

yes! and also books called "the *antiquated profession's* daughter"

i swear i just put "the glassblower's daughter" into google and there are two different books called that

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22800000/Wonder-Boys-michael-douglas-22891508-500-261.jpg

long time since arsonist's daughter

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375061805l/23751.jpg

much more worried about the 'rigged' talk turning out intimidation and violence on election day. all that "you gotta watch the polling places" - - - - it poses real, serious dangers imo. in that unpredictable way that inciting people en masse, however vaguely, tends to do.

"self care" is beginning to tip into the annoying

dc otm, rigged is so baconed

(dc also otm)

oh oops ha

Anyone else noticed 'ridiculous' turning up a lot? TV adverts for some online game calling it 'This ridiculous game!' and then 'A most ridiculous tournament' (believe original game is eastern european in origin) and also a bus advert for TK Maxx saying something like 'ridiculous decor options!'

http://i.imgur.com/tNeEBFn.gif

lol

i don't know where it came from but the phrase "a special kind of stupid" is a special kind of stupid

Ready to retire "unpack".

As in "[insert crazy shaggy dog story that goes on for ten minutes] and that's why you can't purchase clipboards through the catalog any more, you gotta go through Kim."

...

"Wow. I didn't know. That's a lot to unpack."

I'd be surprised if it hasn't been talked about on another thread but I can't stand it when it looks like someone's trying to load their thinkpiece with every classic/cliche social justice word. Nothing wrong with most of the words, often I even agree with the viewpoint of a piece that still manages to sound idiotic for using so many of those words. And it's only taken a couple of years for some of these word usages to be cliches and a lot of the time they're really inappropriate for what's being talked about.

There seems something really insistent about using those words as if making them as commonplace as possible is more important than writing persuasively.

Also when "cis het white male" is used and not all those categories are relevant to what's being discussed. "It'd be a shame not to include all four privileges".

Election anxiety

The way every single British review of an album by someone from Australia or NZ feels the need to use the word 'Antipodean'

and "the land down under"

way shape or form

― difficult listening hour, Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:26 AM (one year ago)

whey, shake or pharm

"(Sending out a signal that) we are (officially) open for business"

The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Relevant - http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2016/10/28/everyone-now-officially-an-artisan/

Oppo

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

"Shit ton"

"From the ten-thousand foot view"

"Karma" as a retort when something bad happens to someone you don't like

Don't @ me

"Frit" ... for frightened. The only context I've ever heard this in is UK politics, in fact, I'm posting this because I just heard Polly Toynbee say it. Why would you want to sound like an Edwardian 5-year old?

I blame Thatcher

Mic drop

Clap back

These babby cant frit back

"Pinky finger". How fucking old are you?

old or scottish

if it's not called a pinkie, what is it called?

do you say some weird alien shit like 5th metacarpal?

well "pinky finger" is annoying as shit because it's redundant

otherwise a-ok w me

he says "widdle fingah"

sorry from now on i'll only call it my 5th digit just to make you happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoECwq67Dis

pinky finger? why can't it be purpley finger?

well "pinky finger" is annoying as shit because it's redundant

What if one is describing an action that involves both pinky finger and pinky toe? Then it's important to specify.

Pinky toe? Who says that?

what are the other toes called? big and middle i know -- but index toe? ring toe?

http://imgur.com/0bd6XoE

http://imgur.com/0bd6XoE

ok wikipedia says it IS called the ring toe

the index toe is called the long or pointer toe

Big toe, wee toe, rest o' yer toes. That works for me.