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

"Reminder:" followed by something political or #SoImportant

One that drives me crazy (especially once you start noticing it) is "the fact that." It's become this annoying tic that people use which is completely unnecessary.

or worse:

"due to the fact that"

I've realized this horror was born of students hearing from elementary and high school teachers that – get this – you can't start sentences with "because" and other conjunctions.

God, yeah, the constant reminders on Twitter. Everyone wants to remind you of something.

I have so many of these bad habits from high school that work emails require me to re-review them three times to trim the fat

That and the "assume your audience is stupid" line of teaching i got

presser

so-called

Lump crabmeat. This sounds like something the crab is worried will show up on its x-rays. If you mean nice crabmeat, just say nice crabmeat.

crabmeat

wtf call it meat?

We don't call other stuff codmeat or tilapiameat or lobstermeat.

Also, shellfish is weird.

tuna fish!

"Due to the fact that... " pales before the phrases

- as you can see
- as I have indicated
- as I proven
- as should be clear
- in conclusion
- in summary

Appending -fish or -meat is a necessity with tinned or frozen product, as the provenance of a grayish protein isn't always obvious.

thread diving deep into lesswrong territory

interesting footnote - meat used to mean food in general and only came to mean animal flesh later on. there's a vestige of the original meaning in sweetmeat which isn't meat at all obv.

soda, ugh, yes. that comes from years of shit teaching in high schools which sadly is used even in Honors level classes.

When I made it into AP English I took forever to succeed because I kept using what they taught me in Honors and the teacher was all like "lol that's bullshit".

tuna fish!

― DJI, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 08:48 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never understood this, unless somewhere there's a species of tuna horse

tuna ferret

you can tune a piano but you can't tuna horsemeat

at long last, the REO Speedwagon / Jim Capaldi supergroup we've all been waiting for

tuna horsemeat overdrive

I also hate "boss", like when people say "what's up, boss?" or "what can I get for ya, boss?"

LIKE A BOSS
#BOSS
BOSSIN IT

Different connotations over here bass

LIKE A BOSS is an odd one!

how about 'Your daily reminder that [x]'

this is part of the whole serialized "nu-golden age" of TV shit, but i hate "Big Bad" as both a phrase and increasingly as lazy in both idea and execution.

Yeah what's the origin of that

Big Bad is a term originally used by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series to describe a major recurring adversary, usually the chief villain or antagonist in a particular broadcast season.[1][2] It has since been used to describe annual villains in other television series, and has also been used in scholarly work discussing Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[1][3]

lol shoulda known

Buffy innit?

i like boss, i picked it up from the turkish shops round here -- they aways call male customers boss

Basic
Extra

FREE WILL

BROWN SAUCE

brown sauce is lush but it's existence led to the not so lush "red sauce" for tomato ketchup

Brown sauce, red sauce, salsa verde, salsa roja all good

weak sauce

awesome sauce, boss

i love awesome sauce, i even love ok sauce

have never knowingly had A1 sauce, not sure how good that is

mark THAT style of boss i love. it's almost as great as getting called "chief".

"Big bad" is so annoying but so is lots of Whedony stuff.

lol my Bensonhurst-raised boyfriend calls everyone "chief."

"well-adjusted"

"Festival-ready"

SOP = please just say instructions
CONOPS = can we just say "charter" when that's what we mean
Work Instruction = please just say instructions
"Joint-" sorry, I have to ask you some questions before we continue
"Team Lead" THAT'S NOT A THING

"Threat"

If anyone at work finds this thread they're going to immediately figure out I'm me. Oh well.

you need decoy Tombots

ahaha