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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl6i5qgdr9A

had this one in Ireland recently. Didn't go down well

yeah that was a fuckin shocker

Guys I think we got cancer, from having to watch that

"It is what it is."

I find this is used as a "Get out of jail free" type term for people who are assholes and whose assholery has created a sour situation and that's their way of saying, "You get to deal with my bad disposition."

I've thought a lot about "it is what it is." I agree that it is often used in the context described above, and that it is overused in general, but I do think the phrase has value and use and is certainly better than "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Do what serves you

^ that one makes me want to scorpion bile all over people

Ime it’s used by selfish assholes

My ex-wife would get sloshy, rip-roaring drunk and then create a conflict; which almost always involved baseless, indisputably false accusations of me fancying another woman. She would garble through her "evidence" with increasing volume and belligerence, only to declare, "IT IS WHAT IT IS!" at the end of her ridiculous tirade, as if to really clobber me with her perceived revelation.

Both Kane and manager Gareth Southgate were asked by an overseas reporter about the significance of playing England’s first World Cup game at such an important historical site as Volgograd, where the battle of Stalingrad was fought.

Kane said: “It’s great to play football in such a place. We travel the world a lot as footballers. You obviously want to go and see the history, the things we don’t always get to do. But we have to play football. History is what it is."

“Friendly reminder”

using "pissed" to mean angry, instead of "pissed off"! pissed, used as an adjective unaccompanied by a preposition, means drunk. this is non-negotiable.

i like the use of "it is what it is" in the kacey musgraves song "it is what it is"

“offering up” instead of “offering”

adding "up" to most verbs tbh ("I need to change up my car").

Was thinking about the 'up' as an Americanism - as in 'slow up'. But the 'down' in 'slow down' is superfluous too!

"slow up"? is that regional?

"slow up" is pretty rare ime, but not unheard of. as a kid, the accepted way to ask some other kids to let you catch up who were outdistancing you was to yell "HEY! WAIT UP!"

oh yea wait up for sure

brad otm

I think 'slow up' is an occasional southern US thing? I don't know - I've heard it a few times. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/slow-down-v-slow-up.940985/

offering up has a specific connotation ime

Yeah, more like surrendering something, maybe?

its a sacrifice to a higher cause, yeah

specifically a hurt or suffering (afaict whether or not twas asked for or not, you can offer it up the way youd swap a gift for store credit iirc)

Though I suppose I've heard it in the sense of 'The restaurant offers up a wide variety of dishes etc.', which seems to have less of the sacrificial element.

well it adds a frisson until the food arrives at the very least non

offering up has a specific connotation ime

i keep seeing it in the context of companies “offering up” products and services

awesome sauce

stop it now

thought that one finally died. just let me believe that, okay?

OK.

it didn't go away, it just morphed into Shut The Front Door! Shut. The Front. Door!

first time I heard STFD I thought it was hilarious, and I still kinda do! guess I haven't been bludgeoned to death with it yet

Are ppl saying that now? I mean I've heard it but rarely. It feels very old fahioned to me.

tbh i don't know what people say these days, i spend most of my life in the same 25 ft radius

first time I heard it was just, idk, 6-7 years ago. is it old?

sick of heartbrokenness

^ terrible

add heartsick, brokenhearted

anything having to do with the state of one's own heart that is not literally about heart disease

I always liked the Germanic flavor of "heartsick" it's so radiantly non-Latinate! The Old English heortseoc actually meant literal heart disease but we ruined it

"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.

Ha! I think I'm right about that one!

if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs. it's endearing at sufficient remove

https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1404632

It's Napoleon Dynamite isn't it, along with "flippin'" etc., it's all Napoleon Dynamite

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"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.

― Dan I., Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:22 PM

lol

if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs

i literally forgot those two were separate things

decine of western civ: awesomesauce is in the OED

I have experienced heartsickness/heartbrokenness, as the word is used in the emotional sense, not in a medical sense. It was during the time when our desperate struggle to take care of our daughter was reaching its nadir and the only apparent remedy that might bring anything resembling peace would be death, either mine or hers.

fwiw, it felt like a peculiar sensation more or less where the heart is located, somewhat behind the sternum, not quite an ache, but more a sense of painful loss and emptiness that rarely went away except in sleep. My physical heart muscle did not seem to be connected to it, other than sharing a similar space. Some weeks after I began to notice it, occurred to me that I was "heartbroken", a word that made perfect sense to me at the time. It still does.

Oh. That is very moving, A.

but LL is probably correct to say it is overused hyperbole in almost all cases

famous example: "the heartbreak of psoriasis". hell, I have psoriasis and heartbreak isn't even in the same country.