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

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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.

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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.

pretty sure it's both

"Protect [person] at all costs"

yeah but what about when it's a small animal

"Failure is not an option."

Of course it is, it always is.

"get belated fucked" just fucking ended me, lmfao

i know that people on this bulletin board are very attached to it, but for me the word "clusterfuck" is unpleasant to read or hear and the mental images it conjures are unappealing to me

i was surprised to learn that it was coined by ed sanders, apparently in an advert in fuck you magazine

"Perhaps her greatest role was playing herself."

"New York City is as much a character in the film as any of the actors."

guys i'm in a zoom launching a new division at my work, are you ready? i'm going to document the phrases IN REAL TIME

we're all aware of the challenges of delivering at speed across the business

'i've started a yammer group'

i'd say approx 80% of this division is on slack

this meeting is unfortunately disappointingly plain-spoken, sorry to raise hopes

ah just copped a 'drive a successful vision going forward' at the end, nice one

lol fuck Yammer

ime yammer is a minefield of misplaced HR questions, IT complaints, and a few dudes' photobucket

I haven't yet figured out how to use the existence of Yammer for evil.

But it seems like it should be possible. We already have lots of ways of communicating and everyone needs to chameleon their way between them.

"Hey, I stopped by your office but you weren't there. I left a Post-it on your monitor."

"Oh, didn't you get my email?"

"Yeah, but I replied using Teams chat."

"Hmmm. I haven't been at my keyboard, maybe send a text next time."

"Well, I called your cell but you didn't answer, so I left a voicemail."

"Hmmm. I didn't get your voicemail so I messaged you in Skype."

"Huh. I saw that Skype message but Skype said you were offline."

"Oh, crap, I left my Skype on Do Not Disturb by accident."

If we can just get Yammer and Discord and Slack involved as well, no one will ever actually reach anyone because each expects that the other is using a different mode of communication.

> 'i've started a yammer group'

either i was listening to the same announcement or there were a lot of Yammer groups created today (much to the amusement of everybody in the communal watch-a-long slack channel).

sadly i missed the morning one, which sounded like a car crash.

fuck "the narrative" forever. shut the absolute fuck up, everybody who insists on it all the time

v. tired of things being ’iconic’

in these trying times, every timeline has its iconic narrative

You could say I'm a storyteller

fairly tired of things being "toxic" as well

some people call me Maurice

enablement

enablement is quite useful therapeutic jargon when it's reasonably employed in the job it was coined to do. when it goes feral, it has a tendency to shit on the carpet.

the chefs kiss thing annoys me

Recently the wildly popular corporate-speak vocab word “learnings” has infected my workplace, and I hate it. “We recently attended Marketing Fest ‘21, and we’d like to share some of our learnings with you”

Part of why I hate shit like this so much is that I know I’m susceptible to picking it up. I frequently find myself at a loss for an alternative to “deliverables”, for example.

Well that’s just it. Perhaps the best examples on this thread are words and phrases form which there is no acceptable alternative, because there are part of an annoying as shit avenue of thought.

For which

"Choiceful."

smh

Can't even

"Choiceful."

it's as ugly as Mitch McConnell, but at least it fits the rules of english

Yes but some perfectly good words - like selective, choosy, cautious, purposeful, intentional, and deliberate - were already there.

in case it isn't clear, I consider Mitch McConnell to be multi-dimensionally ugly

any product "reimagined"

I’m not crying, you’re crying

does reimagined smack of pretentious menus.
I can see some benefit in trying to rework the good bits of what has become cliched. Which is what I assume is the motivation behind that process but done wrong it can come off as very pseud.

Xpost ugh yes

It's doesn't annoy the shit out of me or anything

i'm not even sure it's bad

but "rest in power" (seeing a lot of it wrt George Floyd today)...feels weird to me sometimes