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

thank u quincie for not using "a little bit of" any of those things

soup sounds dope as hell btw

oh god yes

Somewhere there's a passage from the middlebrow yet genial Bill Bryson that parodies that flowery culinary language; lemme find it:

I had, and I quote, 'Fanned Galia Melon and Cumbrian Air Dried Ham served with a Mixed leaf Salad' followed by 'Fillet Steak served with a crushed Black Peppercorn Sauce flamed in Brandy and finished with Cream' .... I was greatly taken with this new way of talking and derived considerable pleasure from speaking it to the waiter. I asked him for a lustre of water freshly drawn from the house tap and presented au nature in a cylinder of glass, and when he came round with the bread rolls I entreated him to present me a tonged rondel of blanched wheat oven baked and masked in a poppy-seed coating. I was just getting warmed up to this and about to ask for a fanned lap coverlet, freshly laundered and scented with a delicate hint of Omo, to replace the one that had slipped from my lap and now lay recumbent on the horizontal walking surface anterior to my feet...

lol

<3 Bill Bryson I think of Notes from a Small Island all the time re British place names: "They live in Barking and Dorking and Shellow Bowels!"

This post brought to you by me watching a show called like "Animal SOS" about vets rescuing foxen and badgers and other English countryside animals and referring to a place called "Woking" which it turns out is not far from Dorking after all.

British Isles town names (eg. Twatt in Scotland, Studland down south) are great LOL. Alien.

heddington fosley
wilming-on-sea
snibbinghamshire
cuxforth dale
east glesforth
hostencester (pron. hoster)
minceworth
twabbingwood
charking

(they don't annoy me, just contributing)

Scunthorpe ftw

Used to work with a guy from a Scunthorpe. A Scunny man, as Peter Cook would have said.

Don't ignore the good folk of Penistone.

What's their demonym?

(Like Mancunian, Cantabrigian, Liverpudlian, or - my favorite - Crested Beautician for residents of Crested Butte)

Gotta be Penistoners.

any attempt at shortening the word "sandwich"

― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:23 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sammich
sammie
sandie
i literally saw "wiches" recently

― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:24 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

update

"sando", from an institution apparently "Known for their #baconslut sandwich & a customer favorite PB&J"

sando is the worst, might as well call it a bro-wich

Sandos for randos

"Tonight Beyonce Ended Music"

almost as bad as "[Celeb X] Won Halloween"

(x) just (y) and it was (z)

http://www.englishcountrywalks.com/blog/walks/5/190507/11-fingringhoe.jpg

"Tonight Beyonce Ended Music"

― billstevejim, Monday, February 13, 2017 3:22 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What a terrible sentiment.

Ended music 58 years to the month that it originally died.

It just means she ended some music. She ended a song.

Beyonce invented ending things. Before then stuff just went on and on and it all got pretty tedious.

Music was fun while it lasted.

getting so fucking sick of "fake news"

Re cooking lingo above, some of it really gets on my nerves.
I noted one ina book the other day that called for "a scant 2L of stock"

OK so is it 2L of stock, or less? Or heckwhocares?

Its like Jamie and his glugs and slugs and sloshes of every fucking thing.

a scant 2L of stock is 2 QT of stock irl

Fie on your quarts!

so then, I expect you'll be wanting to use ~1890 ml for this recipe

i'm tired of seeing "GASLIGHTING - the word you need to understand to survive 2017"

Political gaslighting is different, though: it's about dismissing people as 'not real' in the service of trying to flesh out some bullshit about 'real people'.

'A feature, not a bug' has been grating with me recently.

I feel like this isn't the proper thread to report that I hate the handclap emoji.

'And so it begins'

I saw this for the first time on Monday. I saw it for a second time today. I'm afraid for how many more times I'll hear it again.

"boy mom"

http://i.imgur.com/pyn6X98.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YydzZFO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PmFDBBY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cKEviQM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YQnMNCF.jpg

Search for "girl dad" reveals a mugshot, some abortion memes, two photos of Peter Gallagher for some reason, and this:

http://i.imgur.com/I5dFGOP.jpg

Blech to all of that!

i'm the drummer from boy dad

boy mum wtf

Also: binky

"full-throated"

all cutesy-lazy-portmanteu journalistic crap like 'Brexit' and "Hiddleswift' and so on

"Taylor Swexits Social Media After Kimye ELindaTrip-P her!"

"melts down", as it's now being used as a pejorative term to describe anybody who gets upset on camera, regardless of the magnitude of the reaction or even the validity of it

(x) just (y) and it was (z)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, February 13, 2017 8:35 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Especially when it gets used by proper newspapers about proper news. The Independent seem to be doing it a lot. It feels like something broadsheets are going to do a lot of and further deepen a gulf (if you can deepen a gulf? de-bridge?)

man this Nazi punching thing has really taken off, where were all these people in the 40s?