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

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.

i like it as a culinary term, it has good mouthfeel

Plussed, that great term we all use

Also language evolves

omg...

Where it all went wrong for nonplus was in the verbing. “Reduced to a nonplus” much less likely to be, uh, confused

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

Now that is lol Americans.

figured it was an apostrophe as in "Happy New Year's..." as in "Happy New Year's Eve"

still shit

nobody says “merry christ”

it's already an elision of Christ's Mass

“merry mass” would make more sense then

"data detox"

oof haven't heard that one yet, my sympathies

all the data ones are bad

"data wrangler"

ffs

big data
big ag
big pharma
big oil
big tobacco

big hair

"normies"

failson

3 days behind

oooo word, well it bears repeating

seems antithetical

lol ok otm

idk

Seems kinda like there could be a hiatus on dudes/bros for a while when used as short

hand for dislike of men

idk tho

phantom submit there dudes btw

a balmy _____ degrees

Glamping.

Nicknames for Donald Trump

45 scoops of cheetos

Truth bomb.

lame trump nicknames should be a given at this point

1/2 term, two scoops, Drumpf, 45, Tr*mp, Cheetos and variations... grow the fuck up. is it really that hard to deal with? it's been a year

Trump l'Oily

Have u been here a year? Time flies

i am not donald trump

buckle in for 3-7 more years of people saying "pee tape" daily

oh hell yeah

that one really confuses me because the dossier does not say that trump got peed on or wanted to get peed on. he wanted the prostitutes to pee on the bed that obama slept in. yet everyone that says pee tape, they think it's a tape of trump being peed on or even peeing on the bed himself? no. wtf? how did this happen

Chinese Pisspers

"pedagogy" where "teaching" would be simpler and clearer. pedagogy has a use obv but i feel like it's used too often to add unneeded weight

oh hell yeah

that one really confuses me because the dossier does not say that trump got peed on or wanted to get peed on. he wanted the prostitutes to pee on the bed that obama slept in. yet everyone that says pee tape, they think it's a tape of trump being peed on or even peeing on the bed himself? no. wtf? how did this happen

― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah and when you step back from this for a moment, it's like DEEPLY insignificant other than just being Exh. 82036691 in the case that Trump is kind of a dick. Yet people are like "OOOOH PLEASE LET THIS NEW REVELATION BE CONFIRMATION OF THE PEE TAPE THAT WOULD BE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT!" Supports my theory that a lot of Russiagaters are just the "oooh he said a bad word!" kid grown up.