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

feel bad about where i dropped those babbies now :(

Just use deck instead.

This bad thread is never worse than when it is just listing every meme, but

“____ can have a little ____, as a treat”

is annoying cause the original image said “cats can have little a salami” and these things matter

"‘Forest floor’ is the only acceptable use of ‘floor’ outdoors that I can think of right now."

How about "ocean floor"?

'sleeps' as a noun has been mentioned, but it's still like #1 THE WORST

I say bring back the "Dual" of early & Attic Greek and possibly v. early Latin too: a special ending required for if I have to email exactly two alums at once

Old English had dual forms of 1st and 2nd person pronouns, but they disappeared by the 1300s:

wit "we two"
git "us two"
unc "you two"
inc "you two" (accusative)

Had a neuter third person, too (hit).

tbf i use all those words except unc, which my niece uses of me

Just saying there's an opening for "yeet" as the first-person dual pronoun in Modern English

a few years i jokingly suggested alumnx as a solution to this problem.

since then i’ve become aware that at least one college has started doing so

xp

you can just call them "wallets"

"Fixed your headline for ya"

i have started considering the floor-ground thing bcz it so reliably enrages suzy

Fuck that. Ground is floor. Apartment is house.

-dead prez

blame willie dixon

the word "aesthetic" being overused as an adjective, i.e. "that's so aesthetic"

really, when it's used to describe anything, without being used as a prefix

Haven't encountered that... till now.

Just saying there's an opening for "yeet" as the first-person dual pronoun in Modern English

The kids are using 'yeet' as a verb, meaning to lob or chuck something. 'What happened to my pen? I yeeted it out the window' etc.

recent reddit joek: "What's the difference between a baked sweet potato and a flying pig?"

"One's a heated yam. The other is a yeeted ham."

This morning, within a few minutes of each other, I saw an ad for pork chops that claimed they were "raised thoughtfully" and a label on a jar of instant coffee claiming it was "grown respectfully". These are not so much annoying as deeply bogus. These feeble attempts feel even more bogus than good old 'nongredients', where marketers label a bag of sugar as having "No Trans Fats!".

really, really tired of "circular firing squad"

yeet is an excellent word and should not be being dangled into this often silly thread

"grown thoughtfully; slaughtered gleefully"

While paying a bill just now: "Please complete this challenge to prove you are a real person:"
Then I clicked the "I am not a robot" button.
Conclusion: just because you do something, it doesn't make it a "challenge". Especially posting a photo of yourself to Facebook or whatever.
*grumble*

it's a "challenge" in the sense of "Halt! Who goes there?"

yeah, challenge/response is online security jargon... I'd nix it in customer-facing stuff though, just use "verify"

it's challenging for many of us to prove our innate humanity in this rapidly digitized world

my phone has a small membrane I have to cry a single tear on sometimes

This bad thread is never worse than when it is just listing every meme, but

“____ can have a little ____, as a treat”

is annoying cause the original image said “cats can have little a salami” and these things matter

― Last night I dreamt I watched The Mandalorian (wins), Sunday, February 16, 2020 8:01 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

the wrongness of this post has been bothering me for a week... a) it's only one version out of dozens that was worded like that, and b) the humor of the meme isn't 'hey internet, remember how dogs have their own funny way of speaking, well so do cats and hold onto your butts bc it's even more grammatically incorrect!', the humor is that it's a cat assuring you that yes, it's ok to give cats salami, but only a little bit, you know, as a treat

this is not in reference to anything specific -- because it's too widespread to do that -- but the increased use of "grift" to mean "thing I dislike," much like how "trolling" is now completely detached from its original meaning -- is irritating as all hell. unless someone is deliberately scamming, they are not a grifter! things can be bad without being that!

in particular, if someone is a true believer in whatever it is they are doing, that isn't grift (nor trolling), they just believe something that is bad

wins is (as usual, bcz he's funny ) entirely correct and esby is (as always, bcz never funny) completely wrong

wins being correct on a thread he (correctly) despises is also funny

all financial transactions under capitalism are grift btw

Wow seriously I don’t understand “X can have a little y, as a treat” because it’s not clever at all? What’s funny or clever about a treat? Idgi unless it’s like the Bloomberg-spaghetti face thing where it truly means nothing and you just have to subscribe to it being “funny” or be on the outside.

I think the last meme that made me laugh was the one of Leonardo DiCaprio doing a dog impression for Cillian Murphy and that must be almost a decade ago so I dunno.

Wow seriously I don’t understand “X can have a little y, as a treat” because it’s not clever at all? What’s funny or clever about a treat?

the typo is what was originally intended to be funny, especially as it suggested that a cat had written the article. (cats famously have an inexact grasp of English grammar.)

the subsequent memes are stating that other things can be a treat for various recipients, not that treats are inherently clever.


Bloomberg-spaghetti face

never encountered whatever this is btw!

Ok consider it clarified :) Still not very amusing but I’m not a cat person so it’s clearly not for me.

Re spaghetti — I heard there was a meme with Bloomberg’s face superimposed on a plate of spaghetti!? I heard this on NPR while driving through Iowa so I thought it was well known lol :)

Bloomberg’s face superimposed on a plate of spaghetti!?

I'd jam a fork into it.

cats famously have an inexact grasp of English grammar

This is one of those things that suffuses popular culture that I wish we had the temperament to examine critically.

Like, we can believe that pets read and write... but we always imagine that they don't do it very well. We anthropomorphize nonhuman animals' skills into a very specific range: just enough to be relatable and amusing, but not so much that they'd threaten our hegemony. So a dog can write CAT FUD, Toonces can drive but is terrible at it, a cat can write "cheezburger" but somehow not "cheeseburger."

There's the related phenomenon of deliberate misspelled words in specific online contexts (e.g. joek, borad, baout), but again there's a weirdly specific range where people think that's cute - short of which it's just wrong; past which it's just incomprehensible.

I vaguely recall that one proposed etymology for "OK" was a 19th-century fad for deliberate joke misspellings like "oll correct," which is basically doge / can haz avant la lettre.

very linguistics, wow

all financial transactions under capitalism are grift btw

― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, February 23, 2020 7:53 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

by this definition you are a grifter, as am I, as am virtually everyone in the country and possibly the world, which means that you are asserting that every single person in that category is deliberately out to scam others and truly believes in nothing

s/are, rewrote a few too many times

This is one of those things that suffuses popular culture that I wish we had the temperament to examine critically.

I know of at least one Ph.D. dissertation about lolcat, there are undoubtedly more now

but we always imagine that they don't do it very well.

In my experience, Gary Larson in The Far Side was the first place I saw this trend consistently illustrated. A much earlier counter-example would be Don Marquis, who wrote the Archy and Mehitabel vignettes. Archy the cockroach spelled exquisitely well, but couldn't capitalize, being too small to use the shift key.

he was exactly the right size and wisely chose not to

"cringe" again

Gary Larson in The Far Side

Yes CAT FUD is a classic Far Side reference and even non-Larson fans ime write it that way.

Like, I have had cats for 40+ years and I can't remember ever writing "cat food" on a shopping list. Cat fud or gtfo.

I really hate the use of equity as a replacement for equality. It seems that apparently they have different meanings, but not THAT different and maybe we could have just updated the meaning on the one word.