i have to go see a dog about a horse
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 1 March 2018 18:08 (eight years ago)
lmao
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:02 (eight years ago)
People calling each other "lovely" as a noun. Not like "you look lovely", but like "Hello lovely" or "thanks lovely" or even "hello lovelies" to a group.
Usually seems to be posh/middle class women to other women (I hear it at work a lot). Where did this come from? I think it started a few years ago but seems to be getting more common. It's kind of the same usage as people calling each other "love", "pet" or "duck" I suppose.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:31 (eight years ago)
I think it started a few years ago
Ymmv but I've heard this in or from UK ppl for at least twenty years.
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:39 (eight years ago)
There's a west country usage like "my lovely" that's been around forever but this seems different, although may have come from it I suppose.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 2 March 2018 12:41 (eight years ago)
Anti-Welsh racism imo :-O
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:48 (eight years ago)
https://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/farewell-my-lovely.jpg
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2018 12:53 (eight years ago)
Lovely is way overused. It's like the default to sound refined when praising something. I had a friend once that used the word lovely to describe every single wine.
― Yerac, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:06 (eight years ago)
Describing food as lovely in your best NPR voice is indeed annoying.
― Evan, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:08 (eight years ago)
woah that book cover should be a Smiths song
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:14 (eight years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:08 (eight years ago)
https://pictures.abebooks.com/BATHANDWESTBOOKS/17984227977.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:12 (eight years ago)
https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article10955205.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/daviesJPG.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:16 (eight years ago)
My only friend who calls me ‘lovely’ is v. middle-class, gay and from Plymouth so I’ll allow it.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:23 (eight years ago)
North Eastern version...
https://northeastgifts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NE12.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:26 (eight years ago)
i think the attempt to attach a class marker to "lovely" is p strained tbh
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:35 (eight years ago)
West Country lovelying seems to happen regardless of class background!
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:45 (eight years ago)
Braw >>>> Lovely
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:52 (eight years ago)
Peng >>>>> Braw
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 14:56 (eight years ago)
"tarmac" "TARMAC MEETING"
"unmasking"
"we live in a republic, not a democracy"
"if you love something let it go"
― marcos, Friday, 2 March 2018 16:18 (eight years ago)
"All the feels"
― p.j.b. (pj), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:41 (eight years ago)
"i did a thing"
― marcos, Friday, 2 March 2018 16:54 (eight years ago)
Good work there guys.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:57 (eight years ago)
hack-a-thondo-a-thonunconference
― marcos, Friday, 2 March 2018 17:02 (eight years ago)
i like lovely :(
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 18:51 (eight years ago)
"trash" in almost all contexts now
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 05:19 (eight years ago)
p sure sapiosexual is latin for "superior person"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:23 (eight years ago)
lol
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:24 (eight years ago)
I think the intended meaning is "I want to actually talk to people and connect and not just have sex" but half the people using it mean "I don't think people find me physically attractive, but I am deluded and think I have a sparkling intellect"
― mh, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:27 (eight years ago)
I think the intended meaning is "I want to have sex with your brain and vocabulary."
― omar little, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:30 (eight years ago)
I think that whatever the intended meaning, it's mostly a load of bullshit.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:34 (eight years ago)
I hate when films are advertised with:
"FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU..."
― omar little, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:34 (eight years ago)
x-post Not to offend the saps out there, mind. I don't think that's a thing but it is now.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:35 (eight years ago)
it seems kind of like the "nerd" (in the post tech boom era sense) of the dating world
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:35 (eight years ago)
the actual meaning is "I think girls are vapid"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:36 (eight years ago)
Also "mic drop" when it's used in a news story regarding some zing that owned someone til they died. Like I guess according to the Yahoo, Hillary just did a mic drop tweet on Trump that ended his life.
― omar little, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:36 (eight years ago)
like gtfo, incredibly objectively physically attractive but non-brilliant person comes onto you and you say "sorry I'm a sapiosexual so I'm not attracted to you"?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:36 (eight years ago)
"you wanna buy me a drink? First finish this NY Times Friday Crossword"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:37 (eight years ago)
always thought sapiosexual sounded like you really wanna get out there in the spring and "tap" some maple trees yknow
― flippy bard (Will M.), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:38 (eight years ago)
http://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/0513f80cf6e44c877324a94a9a640deaae47af-wm.jpg?v=3
― omar little, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:38 (eight years ago)
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:39 (eight years ago)
wait lol "your"
taking bets on whether his maximum age is 29
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:53 (eight years ago)
Apparently he thinks it means 'desperate to have sex with anyone posessing a vagina and a dictionary'
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 10 March 2018 00:37 (eight years ago)
The use of sapiosexual to describe oneself, is not in any way limited to the makes of the species. I basically take it to mean this person is going to make a big show of demonstrating how clever they think they are. In other words, steer clear.
This probably belongs more in the IE thread, but conversations that revolve around someone showing off their knowledge of this or that subject make me feel deeply uncomfortable.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:15 (eight years ago)
*males of the species
counterpoint: girls who self-describe as such also think (other) girls are vapid
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:44 (eight years ago)
there are a handful of dating profiles I've run across where that's not the case and it's just a woman who is trying to communicate that she's tired of dudes dating her until they have sex and then ghosting :/
― mh, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:01 (eight years ago)
patrick swayze really oversold the tactic theres no doubt
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:28 (eight years ago)
I hate when films are advertised with:"FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU..."
Especially since the 'guys' are usually the producers, not the creatives.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:33 (eight years ago)