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

no, that's cool! i read it quickly and just jotted down that last part. that all caps IN THE SHOP kills me.

it's an amusingly savage letter! I think that page says the letter was written two years after the speech too (ouch).

In theory I like GBS but I'm glad he won't be writing me any letters.

Was it like the "Now go home and get your fucking shine box?" bit in goodfellas?

Specificity

This word sucks and is a tongue Twister

Somebody has instructed the cashiers at the supermarket that when they're ready for the next customer to step up, they shouldn't say "Next" -- they should say "Following!"

Wow that’s tedious as shit

"Can I help who's next?" makes me want to say something cheeky like "Nah, it did okay, it was number one on the UK charts and top five in America, with a bunch of really memorable singles. Still I prefer 'Sell Out' or 'Magic Bus'."

Separate topic: "___ is my jam" vs. "____ is in my wheelhouse."

Hah. "Can I help who's next?" is up there with "Your call will be answered in the order it was received" for giving a painful little jab to one's already-sore syntax neuron.

When "wheelhouse" started getting popular in my workplace several years ago I dickishly interjected in at least two different meetings, "sorry, hold on -- what do you mean? I guess I'm not sure what a wheelhouse is."

the bins for the recycling here are labelled 'recycled waste' and not 'recycleable waste'

lol yeah this salad place i go to has three bins: recycle, waste, and "mixed waste." wtf? composting in the salad spot??

I hate guilt-inducing ones like LANDFILL.

BTW in my jurisdiction we do waste-to-energy so almost none of our non-recycled trash goes in a landfill anyways.

In Seattle, separating into recycling, compost, and landfill is mandatory everywhere. This means quick service and fast casual restaurants all have three bins and extensive but occasionally ambiguous lists telling you what to put where. You can still probably find any given service item in any of the three bins, because people are helpless and indecisive.

people here have no idea what goes where though (and it can be complicated*). the council bags have added a thing where they say 'if in doubt leave it out' to (try and) stop people contaminating recycling with normal waste.

the last place i worked had black bins and green bins and the cleaner would just tip the contents of both into the same sack. (i'd take all my recycling home, do it properly)

(* that plastic bottle, is that recycleable? it says PET(1) on the bottom. but what about the plastic film it's wrapped in? and the cap? and the little perforated ring that was attached to the cap to make it tamper-proof?)

ime it's a mess everywhere- plastic in the waste bin, food in the recycle bin, etc. no one knows what to do

If one tries to figure it all out, one can get lost in details. What about cardboard boxes with a plastic window (like pasta boxes)? Some jurisdictions accept pizza box lids, but not the bottom part that the pizza touched. Should we rinse out jars that are going to get melted anyway? I know a recycling expert who told me that lids over three inches in diameter are recyclable but not smaller ones.

Yeah small lids have to go in the trash here lol

Also the bottom has fallen out of the raw recyclables market apparently so who knows where it’s all going.

the great pacific recycling gyre i assume.

There are a lot of restaurants here in Austin, TX that do multiple trash cans like this. It's a well meaning idea that ends up as a mess because people either don't know or don't care about how they are supposed to separate out. I also find it confusing because, at least at home, we are supposed to rinse out recyclables of any food bits before putting them in the bin, and there's no way that's happening at these restaurants.

Moodles I suspect it's like those self-serve parking garages that say "take your ticket with you! pay at kiosk!" But the exit gates still take credit cards.

No batch of recyclable material will be perfect, but its quality will be increase by the extent to which people follow "the rules."

I thought the rinsing thing was mainly for sanitary reasons, to avoid vermin being attracted to sacks of recycling being left around at residential addresses for a week.

I'm under the impression that it makes it harder to process items if they aren't cleaned out.

YMP, I agree, but in my experience, there's little guidance for patrons to follow, and many just don't care, so it ends up being messy and random.

"bridesmaids"

"a memoir"

[husband/wife] *to* [spouse]

?

I have a cringe allergy to "husband/wife" and generally use partner, spouse. It's funny that you are the opposite.

I posted this elsewhere but "buddy" always sounds molestery to me. Why do people call children this?!?

usually if you say partner, there's a sense that it's a gender-sensitive word, so your partner may be not strictly male/female

i hear gay people say it more than straight people

spouse just sounds too unnecessarily formal especially if you don't use it in formal situations

buddy is like saying pal, partner, friend, little guy, but in a kinder way, unless you're being sarcastic

Because it's gender-neutral?

I go to speech therapists who seem to call every kid "buddy." They don't need to remember it's ten o'clock so this is Sam and Sam is a he.

We were watching two series back to back where everyone was calling each other buddy (and it wasn't even Arrest Development). It sound so creepy to me.

christ, I cannot type today.

I like the word partner, it seems more egalitarian.

One thing I have noticed with people who marry: the name of their partner suddenly disappears, exchanged for ‘my wife’ or ‘my husband’ in regular conversations with people who are accustomed to hearing the spouse’s name. It can sound kind of prissy and rank-pulling, sometimes.

Ok everyone stop saying “timeline”

i don't mind husband or wife or ppl saying 'my husband/wife' or saying 'i am _______'s husband' or even describing one's self as 'husband of [wife's name]'

there's something about 'i am husband TO ________' that seems stilted and milady-ish and makes me think that their wedding vows included one about the wife submitting to the husband's will

Oh that's what you meant. I thought you meant you hated spouse and preferred husband/wife. Yeah, usually I just introduce my boner holder by name.

I do really hate those twitter profiles that list "wife, mother of Jayden, patriot, pikachu" blah blah as their descriptors. I assume they are all bots.

“husband, father, entrepreneur, thought leader”

you forgot boner holder

When I went through Heathrow in Feb. I put N/A under employment on the landing card. Immigration was like "are you a housewife" I said No. They tried to put "homemaker" and I said I don't do that either. I said I JUST HANG OUT, OK. I kind of felt bad that I gave her a hard time when she was just trying to do her job.

this whole thread...where are you, yerac? where i am, if someone hardlines "spouse" it's like emphatically non-gendery, and "partner" it's pretty same-gendery, and "buddy" is canine-y, a kiddo, or a fight about to happen. but also i am an old.

I am American, but currently living in South America and watching a lot of netflix. But also after a certain threshold of time with someone, girlfriend/boyfriend becomes too blech. Partner is more adequate to describe a serious relationship with no religious overtones.

I should just introduce him as "this is my husband...for the time being."

the name of their partner suddenly disappears, exchanged for ‘my wife’ or ‘my husband’ in regular conversations with people who are accustomed to hearing the spouse’s name

this seems really weird to me. I only refer to my wife as "my wife" if I'm talking to someone who doesn't know/has never met her. otherwise I refer to her by her name cuz duh

'i'm a full-time dreamer'

ah, of course, i totally get that use too, thanks. derp. xp

i'm a millennial, i do post-work

you forgot boner holder

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:40 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boner holder, boulder honer

"the mrs" was a suitable reference for the mrs long before she was the mrs

figured you for an "old ball and chain" type