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

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

Why is calling it "Scotch" grating? Should people say "Scotch whisky" every time they refer to it? Or should calling it "whisky" without an e be enough for others to know you're referring to Scotch?

Does calling Bourbon whiskey "Bourbon" grate too?

I understand where the fingers, ounces etc terminology comes from, but the usage simply annoys me. Isn't that the exact point of this thread?

true

I'm ok with "fingers" because it's a pretty old school drinking term, and I don't get why anyone would have a problem with "Scotch", but the rest of those terms are hot garbage from deep within fedoraland.

imo it’s more old dads who see scotch whisky as a hobby language

Old dad is a good whiskey iirc

I don't even know what a dram is tbh, I just go with metric. An ounce is close enough to a single iirc

better the dad in the bottle than the dad drinking the bottle

In terms of the use of "Scotch"... I think it's just narrow-mindedness and/or superiority on my part that causes the annoyance there, because of course one simply says whisky here in Scotland to refer to Scotch whisky. Maybe the same applies to some of those other terms too, I guess, as I glossed over that they're more commonly used in the USA, so fair enough. I'll try to keep my irritation in check... and leave the offending FB groups, they're probably the real problem.

if you just order “whisky” here you get some sort of well liquor that is brown and probably adheres to a legal definition of the term

tbh cheap bourbon >>> cheap scotch

Oh hell no

there’s some john barr scotch variety for $15/bottle at my local shop that’s probably better than bourbon at that price

I think in general nobody’s exporting anything drinkable at less than export price sooo

hot garbage from deep within fedoraland.

electric miladiland

“architecting”

✓ xp

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― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:13 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaaa

golf clap/slow clap

"draw" for "drawer"

most commonly encountered in the phrase "top draw"

Venn this: the people who say ‘draw’ to mean ‘drawer’ and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

PERFECT FUCKING CIRCLE.

dj dingleberry is top draw and a top drawer on the festival circuit

and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

australia has a phenomenon of overcorrection in which over-60s who say ‘bought’ mean ‘brought’, usually while complaining about swear words or the internet

In terms of the use of "Scotch"... I think it's just narrow-mindedness and/or superiority on my part that causes the annoyance there, because of course one simply says whisky here in Scotland to refer to Scotch whisky. Maybe the same applies to some of those other terms too, I guess, as I glossed over that they're more commonly used in the USA, so fair enough. I'll try to keep my irritation in check... and leave the offending FB groups, they're probably the real problem.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FWIW in the US bourbon is probably substantially more popular than scotch so you have to specify scotch. For related reasons, just saying "whiskey" sounds sort of old-timey to me, like you're going into some western saloon that would only have one or two kinds of whiskey behind the bar.

"concerning" as a gerund, not a preposition, as in, "Trump's temper is concerning." It's a bureaucrat's way of saying "worrying."

or disturbing!

Saying whisky/whiskey here would just invite the question whether you mean bourbon, Scotch, Irish, Tennessee, rye, moonshine, etc., all of which are different things.

I drink bourbon all the time (usually not caring which), but would need a specific occasion and a knowledgeable guide to navigate Scotch whiskies.

If I were to ask for bourbon and ginger and get served Jack Daniel's (which is Tennessee whiskey, most definitely not bourbon whiskey), I would object with vigor.

tennessee whiskey is bourbon that someone poured through some charcoal before aging

I maintain some sentimental preference for the notion that Bourbon whiskey is made in Kentucky. Which Tennessee is not.

Blah blah California Champagne, vodka martini, yadda yadda, I'm not really up in arms about it.

"Rest in Power" is starting to grate when used in every facebook post about every cool person that dies

oh my god tell me about it

Yep

agree

not heard that. Good.

"Terrified"/"Terrifying" in the political context, typically used by liberals. Stop being so fucking terrified of everything. If you are literally an immigrant forced to hide out from ICE, then I accept "terrified." Otherwise it's ridiculously melodramatic.

ugh, Rest in Power is awful, what is that meant to correct about rest in peace?

How much would you have to hate a deceased person not to wish them peace

It's a political radical thing, maybe originating with Black Panthers? I think the idea is don't "rest in peace" rather your legacy should continue to impact things. But it gets really overused.

No more than moderately xp

I may have mentioned this before: when some rent-a-cop or service person ‘needs’ you to do a thing.

srsly why is it always about their needs