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

(i didn't mean to be harsh either, i just disagree!)

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

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!!!

Whenever I hear 'let me pick your brain' I imagine chimpanzees delousing synapses.

I think of Trotsky. But then I often do.

in modern parlance you ask "what's on your mind-grapes?"

I do, yes

'mind if i stir your brain-slurry for a minute?'

let me pick yr nose for a minute

my parents refer to each other as "your dad" and "your mom" but they've been divorced nearly 40 years

"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..."

"I put it to you" is well forensic

"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?

of course not.

but we did probably save the lives as 100,000 american troops when we dropped that bomb on hiroshima"

" 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

sexcapades

it's worse than walkathon. the first marathon wasn't a runathon! an escapade isn't a type of capade!

"global pandemic"

(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.

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

"global pandemic"

― davey, Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:25 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

(as opposed to a local pandemic)

― 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 :(

it's worse than walkathon. the first marathon wasn't a runathon! an escapade isn't a type of capade!

still annoyed

stannoyed!

gonna have a danceathon to raise awareness

I thought 'harbl' was a garbled portmanteau of 'hairy balls'?

it's how cats used to talk in 2006 or so when i made this stusername (that means "stupid username")

'terribad' is terribad.

nobody better complain about amazeballs

'amazeballs' is amazeballs.

I'm also vaguely ok with 'automagically'.

AWESOMESAUCE!!!!

they have a nice, Nickelodeon after-school vibe

my pupper is amazeballs 10/10 would recommend

idk, is Ice Capade a portmanteau? Sounds like a type of capade to me.

it's just a bad pun

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

a shitmanteau

capade is what they call an unmanteau

a suckformation, to use the linguistic term

a shitmanteau should be the poop shelves they allegedly have in german toilets

Is 'portmanteau' a timid portmanteau of 'porte-manteau' or a coat you wear when drinking port in a port?

Lewis Carroll coined the English usage

A poormanteau is a two-word graft that doesn’t quite work.

Should've gone with bearmantle. Clearly a missed opportunity.

xp

Good morning everyone except people that ask "how are we?"

maybe they are avid fans of Ayn Rand's Anthem

*checks notes*

So what did they say?

"sir, this is a wendy's"

twitter memes are a lot like those terrible summer camp "inside jokes" that circulate, where you can be "funny" by just repeating a reference to something without actually making a joke. At least those are among friends with shared experiences though. Twitter memes enable completely unfunny people to be "funny" all the time, and also enable those same people to completely choke the life out of any tweet that actually is funny or incisive.