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

It's like, if a ship is harboured and then takes to sea... isn't it?

If Trump has a thought, picks up his phone, opens the Twitter app, and posts, then you can perfectly legitimately say he 'took to' Twitter. But in the case of him sharing the Britain First videos, you might assume he saw them on Twitter in the first place, in which case he was clearly already using Twitter and the 'took to' idiom is not appropriate (unless, that is, he watched the videos on Twitter, left Twitter, then thought to himself, 'I'm going to share those videos I saw', and opened up the app again in order to do so).

Yes, of course, duh... except a ship at harbour is still 'on the sea', sort of, it's just not sailing on the sea, to extend my tortuous analogy to breaking point... ummmmmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3SNk3ffoA

What if a boat spends all afternoon sailing round and round the harbour, is it at sea?

A harbour is not the sea, of course, so even that doesn't work. I did say a ship and not a boat though, a ship sailing round and round a harbour wouldn't be the done thing.

Come to think of it, the phrase normally used is 'put to sea'.

A presenter used the word "deprivatize" at a workshop I was at last week--as in, "Deprivatize your strategies with other teachers at your school." As in, "share."

People just standing about are already on their feet, yet if they begin to run we may say they "took to their heels and ran".

lol @ deprivatize

makes sense though -- the word focuses on the proprietary nature of some teachers and their teaching materials

The ameliorating language of receptionists/similar junior-staff gatekeepers: asking you to do something eg. “Could you wait over there FOR ME?”

AAAARGH

come on, do it for mommy! :)

In office terms, the people saying it to me are basically twelve.

Sir! Please reprivatize yourself immediately!

"slutshame" is kind of ridiculous word esp used by a us senator in reference to another us senator

"late capitalism"

yeah, for sure, on it's way out, any day now...

it keeps getting later
and later and later
i feel like i'm in
a falling
elevator

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, March 12, 2015 9:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i stand by my defense of "late capitalism" offered ages ago in this thread. though i am sure it is annoying in many hands. maybe "later capitalism" would be better.

The term "late capitalism" was first used by Werner Sombart in his 1902 magnum opus Der Moderne Kapitalismus

Basically if we've been in "late capitalism" for like 48% of the years since Wealth of Nations was published it does seem like we're ready for a new phase

have i complained about the "you don't get to..." formulation as a substitute for "you shouldn't do..."

"you don't get to tell me what i think" etc.

increasingly, "the middle class"

mental gymnastics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17rt_xo9x0

"constitutional crisis"

don’t come to australia ever then

gift as a verb

― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:46 PM (ten months ago)

just use give, dammit

_gift as a verb

― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:46 PM (ten months ago)_


just use give, dammit

the world's a mess it's in my wild gift

gift as a verb is def from the same ppl who brought you invite as a noun

and thrift as a verb

dud:gift as a v.
classic: re-gift as practice

bad/good faith

"pro tip"

love bad/good faith - such an important concept

alternatively you're stuck with charitably/uncharitably i think

I was just thinking about "bad faith" strangely enough

As an accusation it stinks of the assumption that the end goal/result has already been decided and the right/wrong line has been drawn

Pretty fucking abhorrent imo but hey

i think the opposite - accusation of bad faith suggests that the result is not prejudiced bc there's new information to be considered. good faith readings might bring that information to light. bad faith readings assume that the result has already been decided so no new information is worth treating charitably.

No we agree I referred to bad faith

"beat" as screenwriting jargon

"comrades" as leftist jargon

oh man, yes^

nah it's good

picky tea

have i complained about the "you don't get to..." formulation as a substitute for "you shouldn't do..."

"you don't get to tell me what i think" etc.

― Mordy, Friday, December 15, 2017 2:10 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

timely revive of please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread shows that you have!

you don't get to tell me what i think deems

― Mordy , Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:07 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when i first started hearing that "you don't get to tell me" formulation was pretty formative too

― Mordy , Tuesday, September 17, 2013 5:08 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

comrades is good not bad, it smokes out the class traitors

i'm not saying in which direction

"leftish jargon" is annoying and bad.

"Solidarity" might be "leftish jargon" but this is also good.

timely revive of please temp-ban Mordy from the Thatcher Is Dead thread shows that you have!

― how's life, Saturday, December 23, 2017 7:37 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And of course by the principle of 'we mock the things we are to be', I just told my cat 'you don't get to go on the porch - that's not part of your privilege'.

"mom" (ie calling Beyonce "mom")

"my son" (ie the "don't talk to me or my son ever again" meme)

"Bad faith" needs to be talked about much more, not less