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

One of my dad's preferred boozers that, The Hole In The Wa'.

... just googled it and it's gone now :(

It’s acceptable for a pub, but not an ATM.

I think BevMo possibly started as a organic abbreviation of Beverages & More.

However, Washington Mutual tried to jump on this wagon by christening themselves as WaMu, and I guarantee nobody had ever uttered that dysphonic phrase before.

One of my dad's preferred boozers that, The Hole In The Wa'.

― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:26 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

... just googled it and it's gone now :(

― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:27 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

One of the best pubs in dublin still, so theres some comfort for ya

However, Washington Mutual tried to jump on this wagon by christening themselves as WaMu, and I guarantee nobody had ever uttered that dysphonic phrase before.

Which makes me think of UPS's unappetizing slogan "What Can Brown Do For You?"

let’s see if we can put some meat on the bones

Any variation on "no lies detected"/"where is the lie."

no cap!

'Verticals' to describe selling categories on online marketplaces.

"good stuff"

Thread is now just a wall of sheer hatred tbh and tracer hand chief amongst the frenzied

It must say something about ILX that this is the most repeated topic of all time:

Four Words: Use Other Words Please
"Use other words please."
Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug you
Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression
"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!"
words that annoy
Words that should earn the author a slap
PROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:48 PM (seventeen years ago)

not excluding myself or anything, but this thread makes me wonder how many people go through life like this

I had one for this thread the other day but I forgot what it was. There aren't that many phrases that bother me that much unless they're concocted to obscure unjust things tbh.

i mostly just hate shitty sayings like...

"Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present"

other than that, or crap meme-y stuff, say what ya need to say #mayer

what I do love is at work, there's a digital bulletin board and there's a group of like 5-10 people who like to come up with their own inspiration sayings but half the time they don't make sense or they're hilariously bad.

"Tomorrow's all about you - that's why they call it the f-YOU-ture"

That sounded better in my head than it looks written down tbh

i already feel aggrieved that you haven’t shared them with us Neanz

The local library has a sign board out front and I love it:

"Long fairy tales tend to dragon."
"Scrabble: it's all fun and games until someone loses an i."

See this is good content

Tracer, the one that stuck with me is:

"No matter in which direction you throw a rock, it always finds its way to the bottom of the river. Keep your goals in mind and no matter what direction you take, you will reach them."

like...are you saying no matter what, we're going to sink???!!

lol I love the dragon one xxpost

my friend's local church had one that said:

"I bet jellyfish wish there was a peanutbutterfish".

they are famous for secular joekz on one side, religious sayings on the other.

xp
lol that makes no sense from any angle

https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4fa0d447a0c8e7b3cda4d01f5e01916/tumblr_n74jcz8d9j1sykpjyo3_400.gif

any iteration of "creating jobs / job creation"

The current advertisng slogan for Aperol in the UK is "Together We Joy". It's lke fingernails down a blackboard to me everytime I see the posters.

sounds vaguely nsfw tbh

this more SFW or nah?

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706c0000bebbb00db9924b136621e68bdc41

When will the copywriting trick of using a word a novel, ungrammatical way die out? It's been a long time since "Find your happy".

Here's someone unhappying it in 2014, lol:

https://weallneedwords.com/find-your-happy-sad/

How we feeling about this?

https://i1.wp.com/reelchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/whiteclaw.jpg

pretty good, all for it

Apple's "Think Different" is in this category

that’s using the adjective as an adverb, very common in informal English

those White Claw billboards are legion here right now, make me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS9zBaBmZxc

In around 1984 or 1985 I had to explain to my father that not only was the band he was driving me and my friends to see called Echo and the Bunnymen, but the band supporting them was called Let's Active. It was painful. Later, after we'd escaped my father's scorn, a drunkenly belligerant man approached me during the support set and demanded to know what the band was called. It was very loud and communication was difficult. Hey! Let's Active: fuck you guys.

(oh, my first ever gig was those two in Gloucester Leisure Centre)

"I appreciate you" in the same context that one would usually just say "thanks" or "thank you" ... because so much of the time I hear it, it seems perfunctory and polite as opposed to actually appreciative. But presumably, the speaker is saying "I appreciate you" as opposed to just "thanks" in order to convey more sincerity or warmth or ... idk ... it reminds me of when everyone had to say "Have a Nice Day!" at shit retail.

'Pingdemic'

I appreciate the neat construction, but overuse has worn me out already, I'm afraid.

It's probably going to end up as 'word of the year' as well, or at least somewhere in the list in the UK.

"I was today years old when I learned..." very much one of those "it was clever the first time" things

and often used before things that aren't actually true. the one that most infuriated me was...

"I was today years old when I learned Michael Jackson was singing 'Ima say it one more time, I'm not gon stop' on Wanna Be Starting Something"

"classically trained"

like who cares how you were trained?? what does that even mean?
or maybe I'm just insecure because I learned chords with a Mel Bay book

i get annoyed by "i love your face," "so great to see all your beautiful faces," "i miss your face!" etc.

also calling people "human" as in "they are a beautiful human," "look at this human," "my human," etc.

annoyingly precious and very grating imo.

"Classically trained" also is used to cover an extremely and almost uselessly broad range, from "took some piano lessons" to "advanced degree in music".

"well, it is and it isn't"

Classically trained milkman, Jon Anderson (xps)

classically trained means "didn't learn music mainly by playing along to records, can kind of read a score"

and it's fine (it's a useful fact) but everything in this thread is fine so

Well, it is and it isn't.

^^my human

lol