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

"alcohol is a depressant" to mean one can feel depressed when drinking alcohol

Americans describing all drugs of abuse as “narcotics”. Cocaine and amphetamine are not exactly sleep-inducing.

sometimes you really need to concentrate on sleep to get there

"Reaching out".
What happened to just contacting or getting in touch with someone? Reaching out my arse, fucking hell what a precious pile of shite.

Wait, isn't "getting in touch" a similarly euphemistic phrase?

just shorting to 'touching' everyone happy

sending a text message, aka “invisible touch” (ah)

i like reach out but only because when i see/hear it i instantly hear the four tops REACH OUT! otherwise, i hate it very much

poke

"Let that sink in." Typically follows immediate and obvious points that don't need to "sink in" at all.

"expertly trolled"

both execrable, yes. i feel like "let that sink in" is on its way out though - i rarely see it used earnestly anymore. "expertly trolled" i haven't heard but i hate anything that includes any variation of "troll"

I’d really like to encourage everyone to just not say anything you’ve heard someone else say. It’s not doing anyone any good at this point.

i like that idea 230 times

No results found for "i like that idea 230 times".
nice resultless new phrase

Americans describing all drugs of abuse as “narcotics

don’t align me with politicians and cops mannnn

gotta respect the onthenoseitude of "Shell Productions"

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'onthenoseness' About 298 results (0.25 seconds)

'onthenosedness' About 4 results (0.24 seconds)

Frequency of 'onthenoseness' seems to have shot up over the last couple of years or so. None of these really annoy me, though.

xp #notallamericans_mann

Americans describing all drugs of abuse as “narcotics

upthenoseness

i kinda miss when squares called everything dope. didn't matter what drug it was. he's been taking dope!

"dope fiend" is still the coolest term to me.

but that's not what this thread is for. i'm sick of hearing the word "benzo" all the time.

Adding -y to nouns, making them adjectives, especially prevalent in criticism ("It's a house-y vibe").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m54F9fIbTdg

"It's a house-y vibe"

this is truly a nationwide phenomenon. no way to tell how everyone picked it up. probably from television. people on t.v. do it a lot.

shows like the simpsons definitely added things to everyday life. then comedians would use it and then everyone else. like if someone farted and they would get called Farty McFarterson or whatever. that was a nationwide phenom that PROBABLY originated with the simpsons?

no way to tell how everyone picked it up. probably from television.

Or maybe because "noun + y = adjective" has been a common English word formation strategy for like a thousand years?

Rainy, muddy, hairy, glassy, woody, leafy, papery, stringy, bony, meaty, watery, salty, windy, Stormy...

You know that's what not what I meant – I meant useless nothings like "It's the band's vibe-y record."

but the way people do it now is different.

xpost

yeah what that guy said.

people do it with every word now.

pedantic-y

the way people do it now is the same, and fine

Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't.

oh yeah – cooking shows and reviews are awful about it. "This has got a cinnamon-y, licorice-y, kind of bitter-y taste to it."

Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't.

― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin

Often these new words are embedded in flat, poorly conceived sentences.

“It’s a jazzy vibe” oh no

"jazzy vibe" is awful because often the critic means "Oh, it's got horns" or "Oh, it's long."

Actually it means they’re reviewing bobby hutcherson

"Okay, I just don't get why twelfth-century Anglo Saxons can coin words but 20th century Americans can't."

they can and do and it can also annoy. hence this thread.

u mean its annoyy

"Yo Aethelfred, hwaet's up with this weather? Woden's nutsack, it hath been raining a lot lately."

"Thou spake sooth and art on the money, Lothar. It hath been 'rainy,' by my trow."

"Let me estop you there, homeflice! What is uppe with everymanne just wantonly putting a Y on the end of nouns and yclepting it an adjective? What the fucke?"

the thing is it is less "inventing new words" and more "being lazy"

ditto for everyone thinking lame puns are funny because we know they are lame and thus it's a hilarious meta joke and not just, you know, being lazy

"lazy" is a fake idea

laze-y

actually that's a good example of how things have changed. back in the day it used to be La-Z

incredible post ymp

haha yes!

Woden's nutsack

whan that aprille with his shoures soote

punching up / punching down

get a new excuse for why it's ok for u to punch but not for someone else

― Mordy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 10:38 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like i've seen this phrase like 200 times this week

vibes are vibes, vibey is vibey, there are no modifiers

literally never heard vibes used without a modifier

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