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

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

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

Somehow it became acceptable, then ubiquitous, for a software error message to say just "Something went wrong," thereby offering the user utterly no clue about how to proceed. No, sorry, it tells you how to proceed: "Try again later."

E.g. this is what you get at Reverb.com when your credit card on file expires:
https://i.imgur.com/Mu8sKrb.png/

Until about three months ago I never once heard the phrase 'dog whistling' and since then I have probably heard it twenty times. Dog whistling is the new gaslighting

dog whistling has been common for at least a decade

it's also a simple way to describe a complex behavior. same with gaslighting. I'm sure people overuse the terms but they are quite helpful in describing a pattern of behavior without getting into details.

examples:

us 2009:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/magazine/06texas-t.html

uk 2010:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8227773/David-Cameron-must-face-the-challenge-of-Islamisation.html

australia 2011:

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/89228/enough-is-enough-on-asylum-seeker-politics/

'X for people who don't like X'.

What if instead of gatekeeping the shit out of a given genre you considered the possibility that it might be broader than first meets the eye (or ear)?

"That will be just..."

immediately before eye-watering price for mundane item

"Imagine thinking...."

"imagine ..." and how it has generally taken over for "what a maroon"

"Do better"

"questionable"

come back problematic, all is forgiven

"You do you"

One cup of coffee please.

That will be just £4.25

Imagine thinking thats a suitable price. Listen *clap emoji* to *clap emoji* customers. Do better

Fine, you do you

no worries, I will

i couldn't stand to hear 'you do you' but now i use it all the time. brevity wins.

always think that one is quite handy and supportive.

sounds extremely pass agg to me

Go do yourself

One does one.

Kinky.

impossible to escape the word "dogwhistle" during the 2008 election

'Pre-Prep'.

"I am absolutely shocked that _________ who does _______ is also doing_______"

"It's almost as if ________ who does ________ doesn't know/understand/care about_________"

i regret to inform that this thread is back on its bullshit

sorry trace this construction annoys me

but like most of these it's a lot to do with the ubiquity

lol sorry hadrian i wasn't clear - i was demonstrating a phrase whose ubiquity has become unavoidable and rather grandly irritating rather than replying to you :)

ah, ok!

“no worries”

“It’s not you. It’s me.” Ok, so you’re just an asshole throwing out cliches.

“latest and greatest”

Thanks to duolingo i can now say walk with me in french.

Deep dive

ok boomer is everywhere and 99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative

Ok boomer

punching old

99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative

language must be liberated from notions of content asap

"Doggo"

Also "very good boy"

14/10 heckin' good post

my puppo just done a bork

this is precisely the point of it
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:27 AM (one hour ago)

how so? the point appears to be "acting like a self-satisfied older neoliberal is obnoxious and due for many of our current problems" not "let's call anyone annoying us a boomer" - it's like an even dumber bye felicia.

and responsible for* etc u get the pt

"give your head a wobble"

customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.

https://i.imgur.com/N9PJi9a.png

I think that "don't worry" in that context is code for "please do not yell at me like everyone else does".

Shoot, is it? Too late.

Not sure I hate it, but lately the thing where people reply 'That's okay' to 'Thank you' is really tickling me:

CASHIER: 'That's £5.95, and here's your change'
CUSTOMER: 'Thank you'
CASHIER: 'That's okay'

FRIEND 1: I just got accepted for an amazing dream job!!
FRIEND 2: Wow, congratulations, that's brilliant
FRIEND 1: Thank you
FRIEND 2: That's okay