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

maybe four years off would do us all some good, we could come back refreshed with bold new zings, a great repository of saved-up petty complaints about life in the end times, and ready to poll everything all over again.

“Veg” (for “vegetables”; “to veg out” is fine)
“Kit” as in “a good piece of kit”

Hate both of these BrEisms.

AAVE-originating slang when deprived of all meaning by white ppl and brands.

“Punch up” is now a thought-terminating cliche and sounds childish.

I remember when it was something you did to scripts

Evan - there's chuckling at the boorishness in our spare time, and regarding it .

Hah, he can't spell, his hair looks ridic, he eats shitty food, Bannon wears multiple shirts, covfefe, Diet Coke.

If the #resistance began and ended there, that would be one thing, and it would be pretty weak-ass.

The thing is that most decent people are ALSO horrified about "tax reform," Dreamer shenanigans, travel ban, relaxed environmental regulations, poking North Korea with a stick, and defending Nazis. I mean, I feel like we CAN mostly walk and chew gum.

Well I'm not actually angry at anyone for wanted to joke about the situation in that way, it's just that it feels so insufficient and easy that I end up having no patience.

the extreme obsession with the "grab her by the pussy" quote was about more than just sexual assault and betrayed a fascination with the sordid and juvenile

We've had plenty of crude and profane presidents. Both LBJ and Nixon loved crudity. But this was on a different level than mere crudity. There was (and continues to be) an element of shock and incredulity that a man capable of casually bragging about assaulting women was a major party nominee for president. Among the thousand awful or inane things he's said or done in the past 20 months, this still stands out as one of the ugliest of his self-indictments.

this still stands out as one of the ugliest of his self-indictments

Not just an indictment of him himself, but also of everyone who yawned and said "oh, that's just boastful locker-room banter" and voted for the fucker anyway. Because, y'know, her emails.

omg you just said "her emails" on the words, usages and phrases that annoy you thread

lol

"I moved on her like a bitch" was the sleeper hit of that tape, in that it makes no sense... what does that mean?

Evan I feel the same way about people in the Trump & GWB admin being 'rehabilitated' in the eyes of the public. the most egregious example being Sean Spicer at the Emmy's. larfing about GWB being a clown is not as maddening bc that's just the way time works, people forget easily, but damn, Scaramucci on CNN? Spicer at the Emmy's? totally baffling

"Self-reflection."

third wheel

sorry not sorry

^otm

"Gravity always wins"

Is this ever more than a meaningless expression where banal poetics are meant to invoke an ostensible poignancy?

'See also ppl thinking "craven" means shameless"

Thank you! I've recently had to look it up to make sure I was using it correctly.

Narrator:

Gravity just confuses me

any attempt to spin anything donald trump says into a pun or a joke or a slogan.

wtev was that a sfa reference because now I'm not sure if clarity or gravity has been confusing me

wtev was that a sfa reference because now I'm not sure if clarity or gravity has been confusing me

maybe some crossover appeal here:

'this is nonsense' vs. 'this is a nonsense'

“extra”

like “this [cat video/ fashion item] is so extra”

i haaaaaate it
it makes me feel like i am at a mall food court with a bunch of teenagers

i've never heard it used but u are right that is truly v bad

i watch a lot of terrible youtube

i like it, but the threat of finding myself on a mall food court with a bunch of teenagers is pretty distant tbh, and even if it wasn't i have no bad memories -- or indeed good ones -- to have set up the association in the first place

tbh my attitude to most stuff in this thread is: go for it! not only don't get OFF my lawn, get ON it! my generation left yours an utterly fucked world, even if most of us don't acknowledge this yet, and i'd rather spend time being charmed by the babble of the invention of new silly habits than aggrieved that it's no longer something i get to do

The fuckedness of things might be somewhat overstated donchuthink

It's certainly not anywhere near so bad as to negate the irritation caused by teenagers like

Do teenagers even go to mall food courts anymore?

I thought they all just tweeped sexies at each other on bint.

Mark s is on the money slash mark

logic compels me to understand that as good not bad

Either that or he's confused u for a dragon

lol @ bint

don't you remember? we met on bint!!!

i agree with deems

let me irrationally rail against teens, it’s all i have

teens do a lot of language innovating and some of it is pioneering but a lot of it is lousy. obv posterity will judge which words, usages, and phrases stand the test of time (tho everything ultimately changes) and not us people who are no longer teenagers now and certainly not teenagers in the future. still i think criticism is totes cool bc we still get some say in how the language works now and if it's ugly the dumb teens should be told.

I'm not a fan of "thirsty" to denote sexual/romantic desperation. Maybe it just hits a nerve for me?

Mark S otm, I fucking love the way the current teens kick and mash language into crazy new shapes. Endlessly entertaining and so so droll.

I thought “extra” was kind of a “this is too much” indicator, not really complementary? kind of indicates someone is doing something that’s a little too try-hard

maybe it already passed into that, or from that back into a complement

compliment, sheesh

yeah Mark S OTM. But I'm less annoyed by teen neologisms than blunt-repetitive guru-eaucratic things of the 'blue sky thinking' vein

"Too extra" / "so extra" strikes me as an update of "she's so _very_" or "you're too much."

For some reason, I associate the usage with campy drama / theater / showbiz types rather than food-court teens.

otm^

yr all a bunch of teen apologists imo

like, whatever

eat some more tide pods and check back in an hour

Some whisky related words and phrases that are increasingly infuriating me in various FB groups with heavy US memberships... calling whisky "juice", referring to "pours" or "fingers" or "ounces" for a dram, talking about "bottle kills" let alone if combined with "man down" or "lost a brave soldier" type nonsense. Even calling whisky "Scotch" is grating to me.

I want a glossary of how people refer to bourbon whiskey corresponding UK messageboards in order to make a judgment call, here

omg that whisky language is something else
so unnecessarily hypermasculine!

what does man down/lost a brave soldier mean?

finished a drink/bottle presumably

"juice" is horrible, "fingers" is a colloquialism referring to holding two fingers to the side of the glass to know how much to pour, ounces refers to.. what americans measure liquor in

nobody other than a scotch (or scottish, if you prefer) whisky drinker in the US is going to talk about measuring their drink in drams, unless they're in some bar with old-timey trappings

all the death/soldier stuff is horrible

Most of those measurements seem fine to me