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

j/k

our work here is done

Worse than any of the belated wishing is people, and belated love to ye all, saying "noun phrase" like it means anything other than excusing this awfulness

If anything "happy birthday" is imperative tbh

So "get fucked" is actually the correct response even when the wish is timely

get belated fucked

fellated happy birthday

get belated fucked

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:52 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

have I belatedly told you all that I love you?

fuck off with this “timeline” bullshit already

ugh yeah

huge cringe the time or two i've heard someone say it out loud irl

anyway i think it makes a lot of sense that his market worth is so huge because he's basically an avatar for the continued dominance of car culture. it's certainly not because he's competent in any way. he's kind of a similar figure to trump in the sense of being a stand-in for the relevance of a huge reactionary industry where his incompetence is a feature. like his real asset is just the fact that he's a stupid blowhard true believer.

haha wrong thread

think the first i heard of of 'c-suites' was when (otherwise beloved) max used it to defend gawker's outing of some rando

anyway it's probably fine and useful but nevertheless i hate it

I don't know what the C stands for but I have my own headcanon

"well, here's where we netted out with that"

What does that mean?

i don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re not ____________, you’re doing it wrong

"I don't know who needs to hear this"

well, probably someone who doesn't actually follow your posts

Patriot

What does that mean?

kind of like "after taking everything into consideration"... "net" in the sense of "what's left over after costs". "where did you guys net out on that?" like.. when all's said and done, what did you end up deciding?

it's totally horrific obv

TH owns this thread btw.

an extremely dubious distinction but i'll take it!

Or rather, your workplace owns this thread. You are merely the whistleblower.

twinkle fingers

Also not a fan of those standard form funny phrases people add to their tweet, like "thanks for coming to my ted talk" after the message or something like that. If you don't have the confidence to let your thing stand on its own then it's probably no worth tweeting.

― ninthyoung, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 7:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

This also applies to "I don't know who needs to hear this"

"(x) is good people"

ilx is good people

GAH

Love it when I hear terrible phrases for the first time on this thread (usually from Tracer)

smarmy folksiness like that does grate, but I have to say that phrase pales in comparison to virtually everything Tracer has ever posted here

It grates for me much more than any corporate guff, which I'm mostly past caring about.

"(x) is good people", as well as the cutesy 'because reasons'-like toying with grammar, also hits a nerve because the whole idea of good people is such pernicious bullshit.

"One of the good guys" can fuck off too.

It's not even new! I've heard that one since the 90s at least. Always a bit vague as to what it's supposed to imply.

xpost, yeah I guess that's it, basically.

As much as I try to please everyone all the time it would be incredibly satisfying to hear myself referred to as "one of the bad guys"

Ha ha - make it your screenname!

Tracer would you settle for bad'un?

If I did, it would be a sign of weakness

Don’t forget, I’m one of the bad guys

got it: Tracer Hand is bad people

Now you know

I would add “That’s it. That’s the tweet” to “I don’t know who needs to hear this” and “thanks for coming to my TED talk”.

Maybe not a word or phrase but I hate the way that one emoji is used to denote drug use and have also grown to hate the way people use the “monkey see-no-evil” emoji.

in the same vein, talking about a person in general: "XX is a GIVER."

oh no

https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Dumont-The-Giver-Remixes/master/516358

The way all of those witty tweet cliches are deployed makes me think of the techniques to get the best youtube SEO with particular thumbnail image recipes. Things are just done a certain way to maximize views and shares.

xposts

one emoji is used to denote drug use

Which? Googling didn't help narrow it down …

https://www.drugaddictionnow.com/2018/10/03/emojis-give-youth-a-new-way-to-communicate-about-substance-abuse

oh the newish world of emojis and reaction gifs ... fuck, there is so much annoyance there. I am really glad that digital blackface article got circulated relatively widely, because I definitely see a lot less of the "I don't feel comfortable expressing my actual self using actual words, so I am going to let a black person with funny facial expressions 'speak for me'" bullshit now, and damn, did that annoy the fuck out of me. ... Like, I'm white, you're white, just ... don't.

I'm so glad I have no idea what you're talking about

Oh yeah, that's shit. The weird preference among white people for reaction gifs that feature black people. I don't know if those gifs started out being used by black people and it's just appropriation or if it's some specific fetishization.