"well, it is and it isn't"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Classically trained milkman, Jon Anderson (xps)
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Well, it is and it isn't.
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
^^my human
― mark s, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
lol
― sarahell, Thursday, 12 August 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
"we are going to leverage those learnings"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 09:15 (two years ago) link
"Blast radius".
This spanky new (to me at least) golden verbalrrhea issues from the mouths of anyone above director level at my employer, at least 10 times an hour if they know someone is watching them.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 19 August 2021 06:08 (two years ago) link
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 19 August 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link
"blast radius" is hardly new and it's a useful concept
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
I hate this thread honestly
just stop using words if you hate them so much!
Just stop reading this thread if you hate it so much, lol.
tbh I think this thread annoyed me when it started but now I enjoy egging it on to become a repository for every word, usage and phrase in the English language.
― Alba, Thursday, 19 August 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
we'll get every word in here if it takes all week
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 19 August 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
I hate the word "word", we don't need a word to tell us we're saying a word.
everyone's heard about the word
― there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 August 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
That's fine; I just want to stop hearing them without losing my job.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Friday, 20 August 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
Blast Radius is a global digital agency helping build our clients' businesses by connecting brands and consumers in creative and innovative ways.
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, August 19, 2021 9:54 AM (yesterday)
i had to look it up (outside of the literal meaning) and yeah ... that is useful in a software engineering context. Will it be adopted to refer to other things? ... The blast radius of the unfortunate racist comment made by a company leader ... The blast radius of the typo in the subject line of this week's sales email ... idk. Honestly a lot of this stuff is jargon that I don't hear until much later than a lot of people and I have to do cognitive work to figure out what it means, while the other people at the meeting or email thread are familiar with it, so I thank this thread for saving me from potential embarrassment.
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
agency partner
businesses footprint
brands creators
in creative and innovative ways iteratively in the social space
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
possibly also global impactful, but could be a step too far
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
"chief musical export"
― Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 21 August 2021 07:03 (two years ago) link
lmao sarahell and mooks
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 August 2021 08:55 (two years ago) link
christ, the rise of the "impact statement" aka "write the press release for us"
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 21 August 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link
Aren’t impact statements typically written for use in court to allow a victim of a crime to publicly state the impact of the crime on their lives? That’s how I know the term, or at least what I thought I knew
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 21 August 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
i think it's like blast radius -- and has been repurposed for other things
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 August 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
Impactful statements.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
Sitting in interminable middle school in-service meetings right now. Just heard someone say v. urgently (re a schedule with recess on it) "We don't have recess at ____ School, we have wellness time."
― Lily Dale, Friday, 27 August 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
I just encountered the word "glocal" and may need to lie down for a while
― and after eel, you're my Wonder Wheel (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 27 August 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
was it written by thomas friedman y/n
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
it’s how birds have oral sex
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
have a 'fauci-ouchie' and you'll be back on your feet again
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 August 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
I find that glocalamine does wonders for my arthritis.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Friday, 27 August 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
are we talking literal avians?
― sarahell, Friday, 27 August 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I've started developing an irrational rage for anyone using the phrase "hump day".
I think it's because I associate it with 6music morning DJs, that kind of condescending "we're all one big family getting through the week together" motivational spiel that feels horribly insincere. It...sickens me.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 3 September 2021 10:15 (two years ago) link
right there with you, brother
:)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 September 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
I had never heard the phrase till it was used as the title of a film about two friends having sex, so that's all I hear it as.
― Alba, Friday, 3 September 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Luncheon. Office managers have perverted this word to death.
I get that it is a formal lunch, and there are such things. But getting tacos brought in to the office (remember that?) or going out to eat around noon with some co-workers to discuss an upcoming project is not a luncheon.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 3 September 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
Oh, I thought it was just said by jolly nerds of the type who also like to say 'methinks'.
― Alba, Friday, 3 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Its a meat imo
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Used to share an office with a guy who would rise from his desk every day at 1pm and announce he was "off for lunchingtons". Don't miss him, tbh.
― mahb, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
I am laughing out loud at my vision of this guy, thank you.
― Alba, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
Off for lunchingtons!
― Alba, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
picturing this guyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/wallpaper/images/colin_1024.jpg
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 September 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj1SFtxRTg
― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Friday, 3 September 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
they missed a trick by making a spinoff Swiss Toni series rather than a Colin Hunt one
― calzino, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
i thought luncheon (or its elongated cousin "luncheon service") was used by the same generation of people who say "progrum"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 September 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
slapswhips the jab/jabbed based
― dell (del), Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
“Half a dozen” when you really mean to say “six” but want to make something sound bigger.
― ed.b, Monday, 6 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
‘fortnight’ when you really mean to say ‘two weeks’ but want to make something sound crenellated
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 September 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
one of the reasons i love living in london is that i get to say 'fortnightly' (good) instead of 'biweekly' (bad)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link