Just give everyone nicknames. Problem solved.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 10:32 AM (five hours ago)
This is more or less how my Indian in-laws do it actually. And really "Mom" and "Dad" are nicknames
― rob, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
My dad has never been especially progressive (although generally more so than the average Romanian man of his generation) and he calls my mom 'mom' all the time when talking with me. Might also be a cultural thing, idk.
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
never before have i disagreed with la lechera so vehemently
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
refer to my dad as "oscar" primarily or "my dad"
refer to my mum as "my mum", "mum, or "ma maw".
dad calls my mum "mum" in front of me or "your mother". my dad calling my mum "mum" was very confusing when both of my grandmothers were alive as this could mean either my mum, his mum, or my mum's mum (who he also called mum) but is less confusing now there's only one mum left
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
If my dad was called an amazing name like Oscar I’d call him that too
― fă-ți cercetările (gyac), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
come on everyone, the valence of kinship terms is unlikely to be very generalizable but it doesn't mean anyone is wrong, either
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
I’m not trying to be right, I’m no prescriptivist! I’m expressing my opinion based on my experience.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
LL, I am so sorry about whatever was going on in your family of origin. I totally believe what you heard in the way your father spoke.
However, you went further than that, into "dads" generally - that if we don't just say "mom" then it means something (presumably something bad) about our relationships with our spouses and children.
Excuse me but you know exactly nothing about how well or poorly I get along with my wife and children, just because I want to use language that I think is accurate about the situation.
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Can only hear 'yer mother' in the voice of Jarvis Cocker
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Sorry that’s not what I meant please accept my apologies and exit from this conversation. My outburst is regrettable.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
Happy to drop it as well, and again, LL, we're cool - I'm both (a) sorry for what you went through and (b) reluctant to agree that everyone using the same words uses them in the same hostile / demeaning way. So, okay I guess?
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
yes thank you <3
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
(i didn't mean to be harsh either, i just disagree!)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
My actual answer for this thread, and I can’t be fucked scrolling back up, is “let me pick your brain”. Disgusting turn of phrase.
Ugh OTM
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
I still the worst was ....can't remember whom of you posted it in the other Apolitical COVID thread, but calling a 20% salary decrease a "haircut".
I still get mad when I think about it and it DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN TO ME!!!
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Whenever I hear 'let me pick your brain' I imagine chimpanzees delousing synapses.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
I think of Trotsky. But then I often do.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
in modern parlance you ask "what's on your mind-grapes?"
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
I do, yes
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
'mind if i stir your brain-slurry for a minute?'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
let me pick yr nose for a minute
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
my parents refer to each other as "your dad" and "your mom" but they've been divorced nearly 40 years
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
"what I would say is..."or worse "what I would say to you is..."
favourites of vacuous public figures who like to sound smart and considered
see also "I put it to you that..."
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
"I put it to you" is well forensic
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
"straw-man question that i answer myself, to make the reality sound more reasonable?
of course not.
but what i can say is..."
let's see this in practice.
"am i saying that we did everything absolutely perfectly?
but we did probably save the lives as 100,000 american troops when we dropped that bomb on hiroshima"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
" that's a good question.." (meaning the opposite and I'm going to condescendingly talk over you like you are a child and not answer it).
would have thought this would have been considered a little bit hackneyed amongst merchants of practised lying by now, but have heard it a few times recently.
back in the early 90's I recall Walden using "I put it to you" when accusing pols of lying or being evasive during the interview
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
sexcapades
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
it's worse than walkathon. the first marathon wasn't a runathon! an escapade isn't a type of capade!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
"global pandemic"
― davey, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
(as opposed to a local pandemic)
I said that to someone at work but then, annoyingly, I found that dictionaries allow for a pandemic that's not global. Eg, this from Collins:
A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
I'm not over "learning" yet
Can they not just say "lesson"?
It's a good quick way of letting me know that you're a knob tho
― etched upon my eardrums like a hot pie or a pasty (qiqing), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
― davey, Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:25 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
The redundancy had never occurred to me but now it will irk me every time I hear it :(
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
― agent brodie canks (wins), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
still annoyed
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
stannoyed!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
gonna have a danceathon to raise awareness
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
I thought 'harbl' was a garbled portmanteau of 'hairy balls'?
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
it's how cats used to talk in 2006 or so when i made this stusername (that means "stupid username")
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
'terribad' is terribad.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
nobody better complain about amazeballs
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
'amazeballs' is amazeballs.
I'm also vaguely ok with 'automagically'.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
AWESOMESAUCE!!!!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
they have a nice, Nickelodeon after-school vibe
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
my pupper is amazeballs 10/10 would recommend
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
idk, is Ice Capade a portmanteau? Sounds like a type of capade to me.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
it's just a bad pun
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
although I think Ford called the Escape they produced in South America in the 90s a Capade because the Ice Capades threatened them with trademark infringement due to how Spanish speakers pronounced Escape
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
a shitmanteau
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
capade is what they call an unmanteau
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link