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

"you get what you get and you don't throw a fit"

lol who says this, your mum?

nb if who's saying this is not your mum they need to fuck off w/that with immediate effect obv

"Toys out of the pram". I also don't like 'hissy fit'.

I like 'toys out of the pram' because my son does exactly that and I find it quite apt for other situations

I like shitfit and keep trying to make coprolepsy happen

There were so many of these from watching British reality tv years ago, lots I've probably forgotten but the main one was "at the end of the day, yeahr..." followed by some completely obvious statement.

"amazing" when used to describe any kind of quality ranging from pretty good to actually amazing

all adjectives have subjective meaning.

at least when abstracted from clearly defined meanings like "rotten fruit" or whatever

I feel that way about "master" and "masterpiece". They're overused for anyone or anything that has some powerful or distinctive qualities. I rarely use either but I'm not sure being a master of a complex art is possible.

Original meaning of masterpiece was related to the guild system. The masterpiece was a practical demonstration of the apprentice's mastery of his craft, by creating an item that other passed masters recognized as thoroughly competent, allowing the apprentice to be elevated into full membership in the guild.

Have never heard "bean juice", sounds like something from a Clickhole article.

"where do we go from here?" "what does this mean?" and other tribal celebrity death cult language. the taking very seriously or AV Clubbing of pop culture.

http://www.avclub.com/article/definitive-meme-2016-was-fuck-2016-246823

ha

I'm currently very down on "livin' the dream." You ask someone how they are, and they say "I'm livin' the dream, pal. Livin' the dream."

"Teamwork makes the dream work" is even worse.

But I heard a businessspeak phrase yesterday that intrigued me: "the wolf that's closest to the wagon."

I often hear "the long pole in the tent" to mean "the thing that we need to figure out before anything else can get done."

Sometimes I hear of "sharks in the water" to mean "unresolved things we may need to worry about soon."

But "the wolf that's closest to the wagon" is different from either of those. It means "the most immediately pressing problem."

Now when it's fresh I confess I kinda like it. But if I hear it five more times it will probably begin to wear on me.

Jesus christ corporate drones are REALLY DESPERATE to connect with some kind of life-or-death frontier past with this imagery.

"Radical Self-Care"

Haha, I hate "self care". I've seen it mostly around sensitive subjects so maybe that's not nice but a lot of this language seems designed to be annoying.

"Radical Self-Care"

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haha i love this, and just "self-care"

7 years of therapy will do that to you

"low-hanging fruit"

i've been hearing this for so many goddamn years in every job i've had

Jesus christ corporate drones are REALLY DESPERATE to connect with some kind of life-or-death frontier past with this imagery.

Okay, but sports metaphors are just as tired imo, and lots of people play sportsgames. Isn't it just as grating to say that someone is "in the on-deck circle" or "quarterbacking this project"? Plenty of imagery is not directly related to the thing you're actually doing; witness restaurant workers saying they're in the weeds or a driver has his or her head in the clouds.

i misread that and thought you said "on the deck circle" and i laughed out loud and kinda want to use this now

"hey, keep your head up on the ball, you're on the deck circle mister!"

just need to bottom this out

i saw a cafe the other day which specialised in unappealing 'mylkshakes' and smoothies titled with horrifying affirmations including 'i am amazeballs'

"Doggo"

Yeah, it's "dogger", obv

all of that, so done with it

self-care a good one; also misused 'duty of care'

people who call the Champions League the 'Big Cup'.

nonesuch exist pf check again

I'm gonna start doing that

"the large cup"

Overheard somebody unironically suggest 'retail therapy' to a friend who was going through some kind of crisis. The friend didn't comprehend at first and the responded "Oh. Yeah. But now I don't have any money to support it."

"fur baby" instead of "pet"

Judgement call!

i have not heard "fur baby" in the wild but that is LOATHSOME

srsly vg where do you find these people

I can concur ppl say that in FL too

Equally bad is "food baby"

I'm immediately suspicious of readers and writers who bang on about liking "just a good story".

Also a lot of old comic artists saying "just tell a story" who privilege mechanical clarity over giving readers something to get excited about. You might as well be drawing instruction manuals

My dad is always like that which is why I knew taking him to Mad Max Fury Road was a mistake.

fury road tells its story with whiplash efficiency and precision!

i dunno i have a lot of patience for ppl who bang on about storytelling

apart from digital ad execs

whip smart !!

It's not just people talking in-depth about storytelling, it's people who bang on like "I just like a damn good story, just give it to me straight with some damn good characters, none of that fancy stuff mind, just a damn good story" are like the type of rockists who go "just give me a choon I can hum and dance along to". I saw some people saying Fury Road and games like Shadow Of The Colossus are pretentious because they don't have all the stuff I'd regard as extraneous bullshit.

Attention all journalists: This is really getting out of hand. Stop saying "woke." You sound fucking ridiculous.

Seriously, "awakened" only!

like lions roused from snrumber in unvanquishable number

RAG i share your pain. the price we pay for living in a world where every idiot with a camera is a film/tv/videogame critic

"This is not normal"

For when your only frame of reference for a potential descent into authoritarianism is a really shitty horror movie.

I've seen that phrase used a lot lately, describing events that are genuinely fucked up and others that are maybe disturbing but most definitely normal, but tbf never knew it was citing a horror movie? which one?

lol just one that exists in my mind