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

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

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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

'Man' is a common one where I come from, for a husband. No-one would ever say 'woman' though, unless you're Ted Nugent.

... old fashioned though, my mother might say it but my sister wouldn't.

xos and is the inference that this has been confirmed or not

because there is a clear negative connotation to one and if you project one that isnt there onto the other you should probably interrogate that yourself

The little woman.

e.r. indoors

My good lady wife.

the bread knife

Trouble 'n' strife.

She who must be obeyed

w1fe

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Dmac otm as usu

In romance languages wife is literally woman. Husband/wife can also translate to “handcuff”

My main reason for using 'partner' is to avoid 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend', which sound too...trivial?

Earlier i recognized that my admission of old does fold into a kind of formal legacy sitch on those terms- to me ‘spouse’ seems more gendered than ‘partner’ because partner reflected non legal or non recognized relationships. Im sure y’all smarts got that, but it reached me.

Ok everyone stop saying “timeline”

otm. this went from fun to tedious in nothing flat

thats a pretty short.....sequence

Marks & Sparks.

"Have you swiped your Sparks card?"

lol I like Marks and Sparks but I also think that the whole English people making of cutsey nicknames for literally everything thing is pretty cute.

I hear partner a little more often these days here in the US but I remember people using it all the time when I lived in England. I thought like 3/4 of the ppl I worked with were gay for the first couple weeks.

Do people still say Marks and Sparks? It strikes me as very 80s.

I started saying partner all the time because I work in academia where there are lots of couples, 90% of whom have different last names, and I generally have no idea how many of them are actually married or just live together and/or have children.

many xxxps but completely agree on overuse of "timeline" as in "this is the worst timeline." seems to have replaced (the much worse imo) "time is a flat circle"

the worst dumpster fire timeline, amazeballs

this timeline is a hot mess!!!

that's like 5 awful phrases and cliches combined, excellent work

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I've never heard the "flat circle" one. I've seen "dark timeline" or some variation multiple times a week lately.

Really getting tired of "this is a bad thread"

time is a bad thread

that is good actually ^

string theory discredited actually

The Worst Dumpster Fire Timeline, Amazeballs: A Memoir

Read the book that Neil deGrasse Tyson calls “bazinga-lickin good!”

“is it just me, or...”

"I'm old enough to remember British Rail..."

Limoncello

Also, Lemon Jelly

"I'M SCREAMING"

(Although I've seen enough "YouTube reaction videos" to suggest that some of these people actually do engage in some very performative screaming.)