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

I've gotten "a real live wire" from two different old dudes more than ten years apart.

I feel like the only time I see "formidable" before "opponent" is "formidable woman" to describe someone who speaks above a whisper

not before "opponent", that is

"rock-ribbed" only ever used to describe right-wingers

"All the feels"

― p.j.b. (pj), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES.

"Living my best life" can sod off as well.

we have done this. cf "(x) was EVERYTHING"

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'fiercely independent'

Any mutation of the "Keep _______ Weird" concept. Like I hear people offhandedly calling places "weird" as a compliment, or saying that a city has "weird areas" by which they mean hipster gentrified neighborhoods.

Man you guys are on a roll

Last night I got called a groupie and I responded that calling me (us, 2 women) a groupie is insulting. He agreed and then later I asked for the wifi pwd for the bar and he called me milady :-/

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as a citizen of Austin, where I believe that phrase originated, I sincerely apologize. It was meant to indicate support for local businesses, which I can get behind, but it is still very cringeworthy.

https://squirrelthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/keep-missoula-weird1.jpg

http://assets.vancouverisawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/keep-vancouver-wet-sign.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BsW_8k33doA/UsMu_hkwNCI/AAAAAAAABM4/jRoi7GtY2U0/s1600/yytutu.bmp

then later I asked for the wifi pwd for the bar and he called me milady :-/

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, April 28, 2017 4:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh

http://i.imgur.com/K62QbgU.jpg

Firing squad not pictured

st valentines day MRAssacre

lol

Interpreter of M'ladies

lol a guy got arrested in my area handing out cards to select women that read: "Dearest Damsel, When I looked upon I deemed you to be fair and thus have committed the sin of lust against you. I am very sorry for dis-honouring you."

https://media.giphy.com/media/bcl5yVYiti4ik/giphy.gif

So we're using 'liberal' as a pejorative on ilx now. Cool.

now? since at least ilxors got hip to the left vs. liberal tiff.

feel like we should just keep bumping this thread until infinity's gif disappears below the fold but i actually do have a word which has been annoying me recently - the use of 'iconic' to describe even the most mundane things

feels like it's taking over from 'epic' as the internet wasteman's adjective of choice

I'm annoyed at the use of "prolific" as a synonym for great.

amazing, awesome, amazing, awesome, amazing, awesome

why bother with a language full of words when you have amazing and awesome

awesome point, amazing

iconic even

Oh god, a reporter behind me just asked someone about his "state-of-the-art" facility...

I have a feeling "code-word level" is going to be run into the ground pretty quickly

now? since at least ilxors got hip to the left vs. liberal tiff.

― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:16 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Must've just not noticed it before I guess, I tend to just scroll on through threads when they get shitstormy, I find that stuff tedious.

I'll take amazing or awesome over bonkers any day.

i still like bananas
bananas!

Down with bananas

Any D of chess higher than 2.

https://files.chesscomfiles.com/images_users/tiny_mce/chessroboto/chess-3d-custom.jpg

all of these:

As a public service, here are the two boards from the Workaholics writer's room of comedy phrases that need to be retired, started season 2. pic.twitter.com/DHZqhqU5D5

— John Quaintance (@John_Quaintance) November 18, 2016

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How the fuck is "you're welcome" not on this whiteboard

important sandwich update, from the new restaurant opening in the old location of ilx-famous-i-guess piratz tavern

The outdoor patio is named Sam’s Garden after his son (which also explains why the section of the menu listing burgers and such is labeled “Samwiches”).

"Samwiches" unegregiously fits in that context.

all of sam wiches

Ate in a place last week with the menu category SARNIES

"Throwing someone under the bus" doesn't make much sense. You can't throw someone under a bus that you're both riding on.

If (in the metaphor) you're on the bus with a person, you can really only push them out of the bus. And if you push them out the window, they will land either to the side of the bus, or behind it. Not under the bus, unless you can somehow lean out the window (holding a struggling person) and throw them at an awkward angle.

You can throw someone under a bus that just happens to be passing by, but that requires you to know exactly when the bus is coming. More likely it would just be *a* bus, not *the* bus.

PLUS you need to be able to lift a person, and relatively few people can lift another (presumably unwilling) adult.

So expressions that would make sense are either (a) "Push them out of *the* bus." Or (b) "Push them under *a* bus."

ye mad

"people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

"onboard" as a verb

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Yeah! They totally could! Especially if they threw them out of the door or window. Or just threw the stones a short distance, into a pillow or something. Lots of ways to throw a stone in a glass house. Even MORE ways if you don't care about breaking glass or replacing it.

"WHen you assume, you make an ass of u and me"

(Talking of annoying the shit out of people)

can someone actually become so agitated that they excrete!?