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

A locution most often heard on political talk shows: prefacing statements with "The question is..." – an unsubtle way of hiding an opinion

insisting that rationality is a precondition for being taken seriously and included in the conversation doesn't sit that well with the old trick of parroting a caricature of someone's views back to them in a funny voice imo

"so important"

all intensifiers are terrible

Its best use was always to mock someone who holds a position that they believe they arrived at by the cold light of pure rational thought, but is actually just a tribal emotional cudgel.

also this is the problem; instead of being forced to contend w/ whatever [odious] thinking underlines the sentiment being mocked (and surely there's something beyond just a tribal emotional cudgel - people always consider their own positions reasonable & well justified) it just hand waves it away. it fails to comprehend the position it's critiquing and fails to represent its own position so it functions entirely as content-free snark. this is why btw it is at risk of being overused (and in fact was overused the day it began). since it can only function as an idiomatic snipe it became cliche immediately.

post-truth era

all intensifiers are terrible

first, "so" alone is not a legitimate intensifier; it is a stranded fragment from a "so X that Y is true" statement that stupidly drops everything after the X.

second, Twain wrote that every time he was tempted to use the word "very", he substituted the word "damned", so that his editor would be sure to remove it.

p.s. "altogether" is not altogether bad as an intensifier. it has a quaintness the others lack.

"Important" kinda gets overused right now.

what is 'Shitposting'

i think i already posted this itt

but still

"carte blanche" when used in the workplace (elsewhere I'm not bothered by it)

Answered:

What is 'Shitposting'

― flappy bird, Monday, January 16, 2017 11:52 AM

it's a metaphor

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, January 16, 2017 11:53 AM

where did it come from & how did it become so ubiquitous so quickly

ilx first mention:

frogbs wrote this on thread Clusterfuck Summary Corner on board I Love Everything on Apr 7, 2011

dude if shitposting was a bannable offense like 95% of this forum would be gone

Presuming it came from reddit or 4chan.

how did it become so ubiquitous so quickly

he who smelt it dealt it

'we the people'

gift as a verb

any attempt at shortening the word "sandwich"

sammich
sammie
sandie
i literally saw "wiches" recently

dane cook's best bit was saying 'chicken sangwich'

sarnie
ˈsɑːniː/
nounBritishinformal
noun: sarnie; plural noun: sarnies

a sandwich.

hate that too

butties for all

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/what_can_you_learn_from_the_jeely_piece_song.shtml

Which Wich is a franchise

http://www.whichwich.com

woke

oh cool everyone else is asleep solid rhetorical base give yourself another congratulation en route to wherever the fuck youre headed hi five fuck off

like i know its been done itt but ppl still using it so

I thought people only used "woke" to make fun of people? Like "sjw" tends to be.

Like "sjw" tends to be.

how on earth did "you're nice to other people" became an insult

*become

But the stereotype of an sjw is that they're not nice to lots of people. As far as I know the term originated in left wing places as an insult before the right wrapped their arms and legs around it.

ah okay

regardless it seems a bit of reach as epithets go, just like most of the derisive labels the alt right thinks are offensive

Answered:

What is 'Shitposting'

― flappy bird, Monday, January 16, 2017 11:52 AM

it's a metaphor

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, January 16, 2017 11:53 AM

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, January 23, 2017 2:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/4i0FW9o.jpg

Referring to an attractive woman as a "smoke show".

I guess it would probably grate on me to see a man described that way too, but that has yet to happen.

what are the best ways to tell someone a particular person is sexy. is "sexy" the best? i see "hot," and "gorgeous" pretty frequently. "knockout" less often and i don't think i've ever heard someone irl use "sex bomb" or "bombshell" which urbandictionary def for "smoke show" #4 compare the idiom to. as far as these things go i kinda like "smoke show" which i also don't think i've ever heard before bc it seems maybe suggestive of something noirish - like maybe the way sam spade would describe an untrustworthy dame to the reader.

A word used to describe a sereously hot girl (must not be overused and abused on medeocarly hot woman!)

2154 posts and nobody's put forward "butthurt"

I felt slightly disgusted with myself for even typing it just now.

yeesh

what are the best ways to tell someone a particular person is sexy. is "sexy" the best? i see "hot," and "gorgeous" pretty frequently.

"Fuck me, handsome."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AusdlWwuz0

we have whole threads on butthurt tbf

Names of farts by their sensation doesnt dmac

Count*

'butthurt' feels like a homophobic slur, even if it isn't. 'bag of dicks' and 'cockfarmer' are fun to dispense because i can't see anything homophobic about carrying dicks in a bag and/or planting them in a field.

guys

i know youve had a tough few months but listen

you have got to, really got to, stop saying leader of the free world

you have to. it was kinda shit before but it doesn't even wash as ironic now.

what are the best ways to tell someone a particular person is sexy. is "sexy" the best? i see "hot," and "gorgeous" pretty frequently.

"total babe" works for any gender imo

best not to mention it at all imo but if you must

"lovely" a la fr ted

xp i almost included a sarcastic disclaimer that commenting or even thinking about anyone's attractiveness is objectifying and should never be done but i thought it was too on the nose oops

idk, everyone's thoughts are their own
it's the words that bring the thoughts into the open that might get you into trouble/chafe