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

it just sounds like it'd be a catch phrase from a bad movie

I find it to be a totally impotent phrase, because it implies everything is fine and the only reason anything happens is bad is because it threatens the fineness and okayness that we'd prefer not to disturb.

Class warfare is just a huge tug of war where the rich are never going to get tired or give up.

"no-go zone"

"stand alone film"

Why's that annoying? When you're talking about certain types of films it's necessary.

ime if it's necessary to say it "stands alone" it probably does not stand alone, but in fact depends on one's fandom for a particular series, character, or leverage-ready piece of intellectual property. when i'm feeling snobby, the phrase seems to suggest people who only watch fanservice genre series movies, avoiding anything that actually stands alone but convincing themselves that this film somehow rises above, like hey you might not like star was but hold up buddy... this new one is a STAND ALONE movie, even people unfamiliar with the series will surely be won over to the rich characterization and subtle treatment of serious adult themes previously only available to initiates like myself. i realize this has more to do with my snobbishness than the phrase itself which is just marketing-speak BS being parroted uncritically.

It's useful if you're going out buying books or films that happen to be part of a series and want to know if it can work by itself. I would consider the James Bond films to be stand alone stories more or less.

i was talking about re: Star Wars, yes it bugs the hell out of me, cos nothing, not Rogue One, not the Young Han Solo and Young Obi Wan movies, stand alone, they are 100% about rehashing old material and every time i see the words "stand alone film" in connection to these new films it just seems more and more like a desperate marketing attempt to disguise that no, actually, this is the same old shit

That's kind of a different complaint.

most annoying way for ppl to say they don't like X: "X? ... not so much."

Said by cashier to queue up next customer: "Can I help who's next?

lol I think I may have posted about that one. Also "Will the following guest please step down?"

Sick of people saying "hashtag [x]" in conversation.

Is it the new '[x].com' ?

I didn't hear that one as often.

Can I help who's next? No, but Quadrophenia over there is ready to check out.

"happy new years!!" <- is counting to 1 difficult or

happy

I think it's new year's, as in the popular occasion New Year's Eve

"Best x on the planet!"

Especially, if it's being used to describe something like a new restaurant in Shoreditch.

"Happy New Year's [Day]!"

"What about the rest of the year?"

"Happy... Next 19 Days!"

normalisation

we get it. you didnt want him to win.

i quit sugar

lmao darragh

getting really sick of "pearl clutching" and "hand wringing."

"coastal elite"

actually not really. more just "coastal elite" combined with "pearl clutching" and "hand wringing" and "soul searching"

man alive otmfm

normalisation

we get it. you didnt want him to win.

https://twitter.com/rmkf/status/803561189355700224

i can see the reasons for why people are using the word but many others just caught it like a cold.

xp they have just become shortcuts to conveying that you are too cool for school. "OH ALL THESE PEOPLE PEARL CLUTCHING AND HAND WRINGING ABOUT THING I DON'T EVEN THINK IS A BIG DEAL"

my problem with "normalization" is that he is going to be the president. It is virtually impossible not to normalize a president to some extent. You can live every single day of the next 4 (or god forbid 8) years acting like the world is now upside down.

Every word that migrates from the academy to the mainstream is basically intolerable.

'the academy'

before ppl stop using pearl clutching and hand wringing other ppl are going to have to stop doing those things

nah every instance of it you encounter is basically

"this thing is bad"
"wow hysterical"

now youre just pearlcl....... OH SHIT

pearl-clutching also seems GENDERED. Here's why that's problematic.

I don't like the way a lot of Americans say "loser" as an insult. It sounds as if people are mocked for simply being unfortunate rather than being a waster or someone who never tries.

I'm wearing (and clutching) pearls right now, and that's okay.

RAG, you might be referring to a particular subset of Americans there.

The gendering of pearl-clutching is one of the most bothersome things about it! Used on women it's just straight up sexist, used on men it's classic gay-baiting, like "fussy" "frilly" "prissy" etc.

quit strawclutching doc

my problem with "normalization" is that he is going to be the president. It is virtually impossible not to normalize a president to some extent. You can live every single day of the next 4 (or god forbid 8) years acting like the world is now upside down.

yeah exactly.

Awful looking cgi has been normalized.

strawcucking

(observation, not annoyance)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/marmalize

The revolution will not be martinized

But emails!

'Trump won because racism'
'The world is different now because technology'
etc

^
hate this formulation
ie: basically the omission of 'of' and the combination of smugness and laziness involved.

that's my single favourite formulation of the past few years