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

semper fucked up

It's so much better than no worries or no problem

sound
no bother

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

Asking someone to change how they respond to a thank you seems way worse than responding to a thank you with "uh huh"

Xp

lol darraghmac

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), Friday, October 4, 2019 7:35 PM (eleven minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

otm

The only correct response really to “thank you” is “yes”

or "babooshka ya ya"

or "you're welcome"

Just say 'for nothing', the French/Romanian/Spanish/etc. way.

i'm amazed some posters on this thread haven't been killed by hypertension yet

Needs even more salt.

I find a simple "fuck you" sends people on their way with a smile

bitte schon is good you have to admit

often go with 'salright in response to fairly trivial thanks, or just the dreaded/gracious blink nod

"have a ratchet day"

Nae tother a' ba'

Yeah, ‘no worries’ is like ‘nae bother’ to me.

I like the contrast between language change in aggregate being culturally alarming and people day-to-day getting tired of "no worries" and drafting in some other phrase for basically no reason at all.

lol Tom here at 2:40:00, this was gratifying

https://thebestshow.net/episode/the-secrets-of-life-debut-of-spiral-heads-song/

OTOH I do think these phatic expressions vary geographically (and generationally), so maybe this^ reaction is just our shared age/region demo

terrible argument. as we discussed already, retail employees are doing customers a huge favor by helping them and not murdering them, so "no worries" or "no problem" is perfectly appropriate.

ok thank you

I'm still processing some related trauma

The phrase "best television show of all time" really annoys me, regardless of the show it refers to. At least the 50 million mugs that say "World's Best [Dad/Mom]" exist to express some minimally justified sentimentality, but television isn't your mom or dad, so just say you enjoy a program with some enthusiasm and step away.

but television isn't your mom or dad

Obviously not a latchkey kid.

The Sopranos is my mother and my father.

"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable, has anyone figured out its etymology?

for some reason i thought it was a hubie brown phrase, but that doesn’t seem to be the case

"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable

i love to see it

it's a sports commentator sorta phrase, to me

it's just everywhere... too much... good phrase in small doses

we are all too much in the world

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

you, and i cannot stress this enough, love/hate to see it

I very much enjoy subtly mangling phrases and slang that annoy me: "I like to see that!" "We stan a wig!" and so on

"we stan a wig"?

we all stan wigs so let's goooooooooo

lol

this doesn't annoy me tbh but i finally realized the semantic purpose of

me: (opinion)
also me: (another opinion, usually in contrast to the first)

it's a solution to BUT fatigue!! aka "[opinion], but [contrasting opinion]" which is related to The Era of Disclaimers but not its sole progeny

the me/also me format is just a way to do something very common (express two conflicting opinions) while signaling insider status by using the de rigeur form

me is large, me contains multitudes

me needs to express things about me

I:
also I:
—Bob Marley

"we stan a wig" is what they're singing on that Sigur Rós album, right?

Bob Marley would be:
I and I: (opinion)
I and also I: (another opinion)

nobody:
also nobody:

that one is for pointless (or petty?) comments

watching the various ways people try to obscure the fact that they are sharing pointless information always entertains me

I really dug that first Afstan Wigs album

nobody:

me: i don't know who needs to hear this, but you do not, in fact, have to love to see it