'I'll pencil you in.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
An old-timer I've known a long time at the university asked me about a decade ago when did people replace "I think" with "I feel"? If he wanted to hippy-punch, I wouldn't have stopped him.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Oftentimes when I read the prefix to a sentence "Sadly," it is not deployed to indicate any sadness at all, but as a signpost for the author's malicious glee at the following list of their target's shortcomings. "Sadly, his results have not improved" that's right your idiot boy is repeating grade six lol
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
I mentally substitute 'distressingly' or 'grievously' for 'sadly' whenever I come across it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
If I were a teacher I'd be real about it: "It is with delicious pleasure that I have, in Maths, given your Nigel a failing grade."
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, October 4, 2019 10:44 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm not so sure—I still hear it everywhere and TWICE in the past month I've had a phone tech / customer service person from south asia conclude w/ "No Worries" and it took everything I had not to say, hey, I know you mean the best and you are busting your ass in a second language but *please* don't pick up that habit, A) I wasn't worried and B) it sounds like you think you did me a favor or something when in fact I've lost my entire afternoon to your company's shit service
ok this may belong in the IA thread for me
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
I find "no worries" is tossed around a lot more when it's an international group of people.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
isn’t it an Australian thingyou people are so irritable
― brimstead, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
my pleasure
you're welcome
I'm happy to help
don't mention it
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
so many good options!
srsly lads
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
I hear a lot of people saying it (and inserting it when they don't typically use it) when speaking to other nationalities. It's like, a safe space of phrase.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
'no pleasure' is very trumpian.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
I notice all the 'no worries' being used because I hate it. It's as bad as 'cool beans' to me.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
I say 'no worries', partly because of 'pas de souci'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
no wuckers
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xdsZhfrcA
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
(for the non Australians, short for “no wuckin’ forries”)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
I still use no worries even though I hate it, like I hate adding in an exclamation mark to an e-mail for softening.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
No furries!
No problemo
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
everything on this entire thread belongs on the IA thread (unlike nearly everything on the IA thread)
― mark s, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Literal audible lol (LALOL)
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
A) I wasn't worried and B)
Pretty sure you can find me way upthread annoyed about customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.
― mick signals, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Some palare-isms, I guess:
I don't like "yisssss" in the place of "yes" but that's more because of bad past experiences with a yisssser
I don't like [Elektra voice]: "stunning" mostly because I really hated Pose by the end of S2
And I don't like "totes" in the place of "totally"
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
my pleasureyou're welcomeI'm happy to helpdon't mention it― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglinkso many good options!― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol all of those are worse options for certain instances where "no worries" is used
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
what are those certain instances
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
like if someone I know, personally, sees that I am actually worried about something and is making an effort to assuage my worries
ok
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
but if I decided to enter your place of business and bought somthing from you, and thanked you (?) idgi
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
lol it must be fun getting bent out of shape by innocuous phrases
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
thread title to thread
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
say if a colleague apologizes for something that is totally fine, didn't actually bother you at all. "don't mention it" would be fine there...but so would "no worries".
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
well yeah, the "no worries" scourge I'm talking about is not in response to an apology! It's in response to being thanked.
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
ahh ok no worries then :D
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
no worries
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
are we anti-no problem? i find i mumble it a lot when someone rotely thanks me for holding a door open for them - somehow 'you're welcome' seems so formal for what was ultimately an insignificant favor
― Mordy, Friday, 4 October 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
you're grand
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
i so 'no sweat' to british people and they look at me like i'm fuckin clint eastwood
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 October 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
clint eastwood is 89 which is how old you'd expect someone to be who is still saying no sweat in the UK
― mark s, Friday, 4 October 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
in the US too probably tbf
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
I'm annoyed by the push to say "you're welcome," because it so happens that sometimes a person is NOT categorically welcome to whatever I just did for them. Maybe you got lucky. Maybe the beautiful subtext of the alternatives is "you don't need to worry about it this time, but definitely don't get used to it"
― ን (nabisco), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
yeah i mean usually I'm saying no problem because it was a slight problem but I'm being nice
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
When I moved to the city, I had to get used to people saying "uh huh" in response to "thank you". It took me two years to adjust, and I remember at least two instances where I said, "...can you please stop saying 'uh huh' in response to 'thank you'? It's really... weird and sounds dismissive." Both times, they smiled a big shit-eating grin and said, "...well, you're welcome."
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 5 October 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link
The Marine in my class this year would regularly respond to thanks with “easy day.”
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 5 October 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
semper fucked up
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
It's so much better than no worries or no problem
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
soundno bother
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
btw the idea that anyone should note so closely, let alone wish to exert control over, let alone actually attempt to pull customer rank over service industry or whatever staff about shit as petty as how they acknowledge your tossed-off thanks is fucked up have a fuckin look at yourself if this is a thing for you
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
Asking someone to change how they respond to a thank you seems way worse than responding to a thank you with "uh huh"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link