I have never heard that from a customer service/help desk person! Usually they have a relatively strict script and it ends up being something like “mr. mh thank you and have a good rest of your day”
― mh, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
When I worked in tech support (phone-based) we were banned from saying "no problem" in response to customers thanking us because management asserted that some customers calling from outside of Texas would not understand what we meant.
"have a good one" makes me think of this from Blade Runner:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4c5dfecd-190c-4849-84c8-1f78e26b0be8
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
any book title involving food, eating, love or the bodily organs associated with such, e. fucking g.:
https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387733384l/1439038.jpg
also any review or blurb that refers to an artist as 'one of our' anything
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link
NOURISHING
the
SPLEEN
By Mooki E. Proof
Back cover blurb: "Mooki E. Proof is one of our most trenchant commentators on the contemporary scene." - Reynolds Price
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link
not so much a specific phrase as this entire style. only picking these because they were back-to-back in my timeline:
Every single day of my life I think about the severe German yoga teacher who once looked at my pose up and down and said “fascinating” before correcting me— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) March 2, 2019
This is the worst thing I have ever read. https://t.co/L7GkI4KSBr— Eliza Skinner (@elizaskinner) March 2, 2019
can't stop thinking about this
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
yeah I know what you mean and it's extremely irritating
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 March 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
Nearly every time I look at Twitter I get the urge to post itt. I'm not sure if these terms are industry parlance or if Jane Espenson made them up for her blog I used to read a decade ago, but it always makes me think of what she called clams and clamshells. Twitter is rife with clams, but worse is how it's like a machine for turning clamshells into clams.
A clam is a joke or a line that has gone stale by being reused too many times. Something like "I just threw up in my mouth a little bit" might have been vivid and funny once but becomes repellent the more you hear it. Clamshells, otoh, theoretically have a longer shelf life because they're a joke form within which the content can change and stay fresh. But on twitter set-ups like *checks notes* get adopted and repeated so rapidly (and used so poorly) they almost instantly become clams themselves.
― rob, Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Yeah totally, a lot of the examples in this entirely bad thread aren’t intrinsically bad so much as they’re overused by people who are bad at them; tbh your restraint is appreciated rob as there are many people itt who follow that urge to post here every time they look at twitter
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
lol I admit complaining about twitter itt is like alerting people to the fact the garbage dump smells bad
― rob, Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
"canceling" w/r/t a human being
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
Sometimes I want to make a quick joke in a post but then think it's likely been made hundreds of times already on twitter.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
xp yeah I feel like it's cresting rn tho, will be gone soon enough
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
I don't really even care about its currency or overuse, it's just needlessly callous
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
like so much else on this thread, its not the phrase/term its everyfuckingone buzz buzz buzzing it all at once now all of a sudden but
overton window
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
atherton wicket
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
I may be the mayor of Overton
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
“late capitalism” is overused
― marcos, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
I hate hate hate that I have adopted irl the phrase "hill to die on" and plan to stop
I guess some of these irk more than others. Really happy "dumpster fire" and "stinkin'" (as in "so stinkin' cute") seem to have fallen out of fashion. Also people on social media demanding I let things sink in.
when do these things come back around and become ironic? Because I can't wait to tell someone born in 2010 to talk to the hand
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
^ scheming
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
total self-own here but i keep using the word "inexorable" recently and it sounds really pretentious but it's just such a perfect word to describe some things
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
also was it this thread where we were discussing calling an amount of money "cool" or was that just a conversation i had in my head? there are very few of these phrases that actually annoy me because words is words but "made a cool million dollars this year" drives me up the wall. it seems like every blog that has to describe a salary or a windfall or whatever uses "cool" and it's like, but, you know you could have just not written that word right? it serves no function?
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
"beautiful / wonderful / awesome human" instead of "person" makes me twitch every time.
― macropuente (map), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
“awesome” makes me twitch regardless because it’s vastly overused
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
there are very few of these phrases that actually annoy me because words is words but "made a cool million dollars this year" drives me up the wall.one of the harry potter books (the biggest one?) has all the characters saying things “coolly” about 600 times
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Haha, someone ran a count. 59 times across all the novels.
https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/66dz7t/i_looked_at_the_frequency_of_word_pairs/dgi5qfg/
― jmm, Friday, 8 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
jeez
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
coolly high hermione
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
✓
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan I., Friday, 8 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
i'm reading these fucking books with my kids and there is no way [redacted] NO WAY
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
ah fuck i’m not up to that bit yet
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
lol sorry it might just be a fake-out i dunno. i will get a mod to remove in case it's real??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Tracer's reading slash to his kids
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
I was wondering why my copy was just a sheaf of papers printed out in a dot matrix monotype font
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
fucking “pooch”, fuck that word to hell, it makes me gag
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 9 March 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
pooch out
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 March 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
*snigger*
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 March 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link
Companion for my recent whining about "deep cuts": "deep dive." "Detailed," "thorough," "exhaustive," these are perfectly descriptive words. I may throw it when I write my last set of report cards, though: "Johnny took a deep dive into pulleys and gears for his science project, and I haven't seen him since."
― clemenza, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
"Deeply" has been pretty bad for a while, as in "Deeply disturbing." Agree with all the above, clemenza. "Deep cut" is a little different, since it's been around for a while, whereas "Deep dive" seems invented out of whole cloth all of a sudden. but I had to catch myself from referring to an obscure movie as a "Billy Wilder deep cut" the other day. going on about Stereolab or whoever "deep cuts" isn't noxious to me.
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
I had to catch myself from referring to an obscure movie as a "Billy Wilder deep cut"
what did you say instead?
― mark s, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
I'm going to just start referring to things as "lesser-discussed works"
― mh, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
Still better than 'neglectorinos'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
haha I think "an obscure Billy Wilder movie"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
Watched a Wilder I'd never heard of last night; looked it up later & found it had four Oscar noms.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
The Fortune Cookie?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
yah
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
Judging from its appearance several times recently on ILX, "at this point in time" seems to be making a comeback. It shouldn't. It's just a pompous way of say "now" or "at present". Ditto for substituting "at that point in time" for a simple "then". These abominations gained a foothold in the public psyche during the Watergate hearings, when members of the Nixon administration used them constantly during their testimony.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
My dad always used to blow his top when he heard "at this moment in time".
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
mine would for 'rate of speed'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
That’s me and ‘as yet’.
― suzy, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link