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

Don't forget "my face and lips are numb."

i'm old and am sick of political neologisms in the first place. oh, if we use new words maybe people won't notice that they're the same fucking ideas and we don't have to address the problematic implications of those ideas!

more political discourse should be framed in reference to issues surrounding the defenestration of prague. and that's my uncool conservative idea.

my mouth is dry
my face is numb
fucked up and spun out in my room
on my own, here we go

How much is Twitter responsible for the current political terminology? I wish people would only use it for links and signal boosting because I hate trying to work out if people are complaining about white women or Wonder Woman (WW acronym).

it all comes from Twitter

an abridged collection:

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Your long read for the day:

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What do these mean? Is the first one just for humorous dramatic effect?

yes, "humor"

at least an attempt at it

"nothing burger"

that one is bizarre because it came out of a specific cable news channel, MSNBC iirc. their attempt to "get on the same page" like Fox does with every issue & talking point...

I'm at the point where I cant follow what is being said sometimes - and I'm someone who is on the internet 94/7 - but because I dont fuck with Twitter/Insta I think i'm missing this weird "thing becomes a saying after 5.2 seconds" idea.

lol i love "94/7" intended or not. gonna use that one if you don't mind

Its an old ILXism actually!

(or maybe not but back in the day Ally and co used it a lot and it stuck with me)

sick, it rules, it's in the lexicon

"i'm screaming"

OMFG yes that gives me hives, that one.

NO. NO YOU ARE NOT SITTING THERE SCREAMING AT YOUR PC/PHONE. YOU JUST AREN'T.

(and if you are, get help, nothing online is that hysterical)

also the insane abuse and misuse of "literally" before and after it was modified in the fucking dictionary

Man, if I hear/see 'Winter is coming' one more time...

fucking otm, it's like we're all supposed to care about game of thrones

i feel that way about whovians so ymmv

yes but the world isn't soaking with constant "the daleks are coming" pissweak memes

Exactly

You have to take into account that got is far far better than droo

nb never watched nor read got

<brand OR product OR politician OR sports team> Nation

e.g. Ford Nation, Fox Nation, Sens Nation, Trump Nation, Truck Nation

shrinkflation

Carnation

http://www.auntyflo.com/sites/default/files/styles/contentpage/public/Carnation.jpg?itok=C3kvtbuh

Basically any nicknames for Trump, including the ones frequently used on this board: Two Scoops, Yam--whatever those even refer to. You cannot clown Trump's name. It is self-clowning.

an abridged collection:

BOOM!
#NotTheOnion
Shot; chaser
I'm just going to leave this here...
(((if you're Jewish)))
Sigh
Your long read for the day:

― flappy bird, Saturday, July 15, 2017 10:29 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

add to to the list: "my latest:"

also "a twitter play in three acts"

basically twitter sucks and it makes me hate people

Basically any nicknames for Trump, including the ones frequently used on this board: Two Scoops, Yam--whatever those even refer to. You cannot clown Trump's name. It is self-clowning.

"Cheeto Jesus"

Gun, meet mouth.

"i'm dead" or "dead" or any variation of such when attached to like a cute or funny pic/meme

deej posted "dead" this morning on a thread about an up-and-coming young rapper and I assumed she had tragically passed away.

"Your long read for the day:" is especially infuriating because it's so infantilizing, the "long reads" in question are usually no more than 5,000 words, if that.

when someone i hardly know/don't know tells me a 5,000 word article is the only piece of any length i need to read for the whole day, that's a guarantee that i will not read it

"Adult Beverage"

y'all must REALLY hate social media

Holy shit, just discovered that the publishing industry has apparently adopted "pbook" to mean "printed book". Fuck that shit

Jesus

make my book the pbook

"Adult Beverage"

― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7

I've been fighting this battle for years. It's my Antietam.

"a drink" referring to that is so perfect that i don't know why anyone would use anything else

"A bridge too far"--CNN must have used that 15 times in two hours yesterday in connection with Spicer's resignation (basically, "After all the humiliation, why was Scaramucci's appointment a bridge too far?").

The media generally are lazy like that. We had 2 Greens senators resign within a week due to dual citizenship fubars, and no joke, about 15-20 media outlets quoted Wilde's "To lose one [senator] may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” in the space of 24 hours on TV, print and twitter.

'mansplaining'

an ugly portmanteau that's getting overused and just means condescending.

Perhaps you need someone to womansplain it to so you can manderstand.