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

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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

ugh so self righteous though and annoying i hate it

i can't believe this has never come up on this thread, but i really hate when people (especially well-known musicians, it seems like) say

"_____ really gets me off"

e.g., "contemporary classical music really gets me off", which frank zappa just said in a radio segment i was listening to

bleccccch i loathe the insertion* of sexual language/imagery where it doesn't belong. it's disgusting.

* yes i used this gross word on purpose

ime, "getting off" has to do with excitement in general, within which sexual excitement is only one possibility among many.

I get off on 57 Chevys / I get off on screamin' guitars

not buying it
even if the usage has expanded, the framework within which "getting off" exists is still a sexual one

i can't believe this has never come up on this thread, but i really hate when people (especially well-known musicians, it seems like) say

"_____ really gets me off"

e.g., "contemporary classical music really gets me off", which frank zappa just said in a radio segment i was listening to

Zappa just fooling around there tbf.

people used to say they got "turned on" to records and films and philosophies and stuff. seems like a boomer thing, maybe tied to the 60s sexual revolution.

i can't stand it when someone says "turned on" about music either
it's my uncool conservative belief i guess

turn on tune in drop out

You know what really gets my dick hard? Helping out my friends

you shouldn't blow your complaining wad on carnal phrases

https://media1.tenor.com/images/37461ceac99a26ae325d2faa194c95d7/tenor.gif

'shooting your wad' goes back to musketry. the wad was the assemblage of powder, bullet and wadding you rammed in to prepare your musket for firing. once you had shot your wad, you probably didn't have another chance at whatever game you were shooting at, because reloading gave it plenty of time to scram if you missed it the first time.

one that bugs me is people using the word "penultimate" just to let you know they know ~how to use it right~ like they can't just say second-last or whatever and be CHILL

‘one in the same’ in place of ‘one and the same’ (which they are not)

a dude i edit is good but flowery, so

ctrl-f 'in order to'
ctrl-f 'within'
ctrl-f 'ly-' (sorry we are AP)

failson, and especially its verb form

Whenever I think of it I think of Donald Faison

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/5/58/Donald_Fasion.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120401223432

People misusing “nonplussed” or any word and then being like “well language evolves you know”

flappy bird, that begs the question about what we're really disinterested in.

is misuse of nonplussed just due to confusion btwn it and nonchalant? or is it mis-derived somehow from "not plus."

it's because it kind of sounds like what people think it means

only if plussed meant enthusiastic

it doesn't have to

or i guess not enthusiastic - just having any kind of reaction? it's a kinda weird association tbh. which makes me think it's maybe just confusion bc of nonchalant which means what ppl seem to think nonplussed means.

I really don't think it's confusion with nonchalant

I've actually thought about this a lot

This was mentioned above, my pet theory is that it rhymes with "not fussed"

See also ppl thinking "craven" means shameless - this is everywhere these days and I'm pretty sure it's just cause it sounds a bit like "brazen"

Maybe it's something to do with all of the 'un-' words we have denoting passive states.

unconcerned
unperturbed
undisturbed
unimpressed
unemotional
unruffled
unmoved

If we don't have another meaning for 'nonplussed', we're inclined to hear it as falling in this category.

Like "craven", tv chefs/critics etc using 'unctuous' to mean, idk, attractively oozy rather than just greasy/oily

Nonplussed dates back to Google Plus and means something you couldn't even be bothered to 'plus one' ("like")

also patently/blatantly although I guess that's not so bad as the intended meaning is usually the same

Never heard nonplussed used in that way before - lol Americans p'raps?

“happy new years”, unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development

flappy bird, that begs the question about what we're really disinterested in.

And yea apologies I just realized I’m definitely the one that brought up “nonplussed” itt p recently

Seems to me that “happy new years” incorporates the elision so well-beloved by North Americans with the confusion and imprecision so well-beloved by humans everywhere, where the "day" in "happy New Year's Day" gets chopped off and the stump, "happy New Year's" is conflated with the more general greeting, "happy New Year" often used on days that are near to, but not, January 1st.

"unctuous" is unusual in that it's the reanimation of a medieval sense otherwise lost to cynicism: it was once a positive word, in culinary and in religious terms. in the ritual or religious sense, "unction" still maintains some of sense of the approval -- the anointment of the monarch or of the dying -- tho (this is where the cynicism comes in) the adjective seems to have become more associated with fake piety a loooong time ago

basically the problem for chefs is that they very much need a word for the approving quality, but all the ones to hand have gone negative on them: "it's really oily! but in a good way!"

unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development

Would that mean twice as many birthday presents?

I think the downfall of unctuous as a positive word was when it was extended to describe a slick, flattering "oily" personality.