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

good book tho?

“across the piece” very common where i work, meaning “affecting many parts of the business”

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, November 28, 2020 6:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have heard this morphed into 'across the piste'...

Christ

On this board specifically, the use of "shockah!" and "evah!"
Glad it's gone out of favor. I hate it.

if ever there was a way to invite its resurgence!

(don't worry i won't be usin either)

heavens!

Sonned in a beef is the new shockah

oh dearie me! I just used “shocker!” in a post. hope it’s acceptable in regular spelling, if not let me know I could ask a mod to redact it

pj sonned in a grim reapah! shocker

xpost it is preferable to the, uh ilxor spelling?

I also hate the phrase "livin' the dream"

I told a coworker I hated it and yeah real shocker he said it every dang day

TS: livin' the dream vs. keepin' it real

write in for livin’ on a prayer

fifty years late but fuck slade

'mama weer all crazee now' etc is incredibly lame

those who forsake Molesworth-speak must go back to skool agane!

Language is annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kq1JQUhwVQ

let's see where we net out

there's this commercial that mentions "secret stinks" and every time that phrase is uttered I recoil

conjures images of the existence of an Olfactory Freemasonry that has unlocked the hidden truth about malodorous areas of clothing

Very apt for 2021.

you're right about that!

Nobody nose it, but

all very reekondite

every time that phrase is uttered I recoil

the ad copywriter reading that would high five everyone within reach

"my dude" ugh

similar to that, the youtube speak

"Hey viewers, it's ya boy/ya girl, <name>"

I heard 'smash that like button' for the first time on a Youtube video the other day and I don't think any other word/usage/phrase has pissed me off like that for quite some time.

Y u all h8 twinsthenewtrend

if u smash the button on your keyboard, u won't be able to like more of their videos

"Step down". It's somehow so obsequious a phrase. Just say 'resign' or 'quit' – especially when someone like Bezos is hardly moving down in becoming executive chairman.

I heard 'smash that like button' for the first time on a Youtube video the other day and I don't think any other word/usage/phrase has pissed me off like that for quite some time.

It was for real!
that reminds me though, there is a new series of Pls Like on iplayer or somewhere

iPlayer yes :)

Colour me intrigued/surprised/amused/whatever.

Awful.

gooey

creampie

coomer

Badd

ooh, would you like to buy this wonderful giclée print?
what’s that? you’re not familiar with giclée?

Derived from the French term gicler – meaning ‘to squirt or spray’, the term describes a printing process whereby microscopic dots of pigment-based ink are sprayed onto archival-quality paper to ensure the fidelity of a limited edition print to an original artwork.

if I were to order a giclee print i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon.

'pigment-based ink'

"i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon" - I literally have an 8-colour Canon A3 inkjet which uses the same pigment based inks (yes that's a thing, pigments are photostable mineral based colour, as opposed to dyes which fade) sitting on my desk at work. It produces exactly the same quality output as a gallery would sell as "giclée". The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

ok i would hope it wasn't printed on *my* desktop canon.

I'd like to publicly apologise for making a post containing the word "literally" twice, it was a rough night.

mid

The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

at a time when that technology wasn't cheap ... and there's a great variation between types of inkjets and the paper, etc. .... anyway, regardless of the method, you are getting a copy, and not an original, if that means anything re value. the term does bother me when the artwork literally looks like something printed on 8 1/2 x 11 HP photo paper on a desktop Canon.

I'm absolutely fine with buying a pigment-ink archival quality inkjet reproduction (or original, if it's a digital image), it's just the use of a pretentious term as if it were a centuries-old printmaking technique perfected in 19th century Paris, instead of just the French word for "squirted". Which was coined by a Californian in 1990, to be clear.

I actually think it’s very funny

a fly marrying a bumblebee

As with any art that depends on a particular technique for reproducing an image multiple times, the quality of the output varies with the skill of the artist and how compatible the image is with that technique and the materials used. Carved woodblock prints come easily to mind.