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

(xp) The Cornish should be up in arms about that, what's this 'England' shite?

That's all it's ever meant.

Yes. But let me introduce you to thousands of cutesy products and services that apparently have a different idea. (I haven't seen GBBO so dunno if that should be included)

Oh, I know, "Putting the Great back in to Great Britain" etc, ugh, anyone saying that should be strung up.

the great in GBBO always referred to the bake-off IMO, tho now of course it refers to paul hollywood's treachery

any country with the prefix "Great" has major psychological problems imo, like when Eddie decided he was henceforth actually an Eagle.

I hear Great Missenden is pretty crazy tbf.

"doggie" as an insult

"Antifa" instead of "antifascist" seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language that gave us gems like "Brexit", etc

came here to post 'healing', but I can see it was posted a couple of months back. Lots of new-agey wellness and healing retreats and workshops being advertised round here, but the people going on them don't appear to be injured.

did you expect bloodied and bruised people to go to a healing retreat?

seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language

more accurately -- and historically -- it derives from what it is: the abbreviation of the 30s german movement antifaschistische aktion, according to the usual precepts* of german shortening of very long somewhat tongue-twisting terms (which german is somewhat prey to)

*ie that you string together bits of the words into something memorable, as opposed to just using acronyms

(on the whole i think abbreviations are good not bad -- useful rather than infantile -- but i'm a sub-editor so i professionally favour moves that bring down unneeded word- and letter-count: in my opnion writing that rigourously sticks with the full long-form versions of wordy terms will be unreadable, certainly less read)

(grexit -- the parent-word for brexit -- was apparently coined by citigroup economist ebrahim rahbari: as neologisms and jargon from within the finance industry go, it is a good deal clearer than many)

lol i can see a way of losing a letter in the word "rigourously" *sigh*

Antifa the word isn't a problem

antifascism annoys the shit out of you

Mild irritation, we don't have a thread for that tho

"Opposing fascism is bad" really a challop for a Friday no

jk rowling obituary thread is ilx's longstanding king of the reactionary challop doesn't matter which day of the week

"That will be 'just' £4.75"

'Just? Its not the Ritz! Whats this 'just' thing, its everywhere, you can't just put a 'just' in front of the price and it makes it ok!

xp u said it etc

we should give a medal to the marketer that coined the phrase "radical self-care"

It just seems that the word Antifa draws attention away from the fact that it's fascists you're fighting, when that needs to be pointed out very clearly and frequently

It is also one letter away from Antifap

"good things come to those who wait"

what the fuck is this

If you stop waiting at any point then it resets and you have to start over from the beginning.

'like marmite' to mean divisive

I love 'like marmite'

"Wonk"

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Wonk is better/more meaningful when you realise it's 'know', backwards.

I think it should be changed to "wonkers."

sreknow the terrible

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/adams

"<name>, go home, you're drunk"....

"<city>, i am in you"

yes, it sounds like you're fucking a municipality, we get it

hangry.

Self care

self care is a real thing!
it means taking care of yourself

what else do you want people to call it?

sure beats PAMPERING
i loathe the word pamper

it's also not the same thing as caring for oneself

self care is a real thing!
it means taking care of yourself

what else do you want people to call it?

Masturbation.

nothing wrong with that either

la lechera otm not sure what else to call it!

it may be overused but "self-care" is a useful term

super useful, and important in shifting us OUT of the language of "pampering" which infantilizes yourself when what you want is a word that conveys that no, fuck you, attending to these needs is genuinely important to my emotional well-being and I am consciously in control of that project.

imo it's irritating when used as a "do things that will give me immediate gratification" placeholder

that is a very small piece of the puzzle and I do find it irritating when used that way, although I am also not qualified to judge how other may best care for themselves

pamper and spoil can both gtfo as ways to indicate "treat yourself well"

cleanse
detox
the cult of splendor and cleanliness will implode someday and all we will have left is the relatively benign "self care"

I have no argument with the sentiment and agree that it's a relatively benign and accurate term on its own; it also is much better than any of the alternate phrases used here - detox, pamper, spoil, etc.

I just started seeing it very suddenly and frequently, often used to excuse something indulgent and/or for immediate gratification (not that there's anything wrong with it), and in a public, performative manner, like "look how BUSY I am all the time, time for some self care" that feels martyr-ish and attention-seeking to me.

if so, it's the performance that annoys, not the word
fight the real enemy!

acceptable under the second world of the title imo