"populous" for "populace" really makes my skin crawl.
― New York Review of Wooks (swim), Friday, 8 October 2021 03:17 (two years ago) link
Also "lawmaker". We had a perfectly good word for that already.
― New York Review of Wooks (swim), Friday, 8 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
"It can't be understated..."
― only built 4 lynx africa (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Of course "can't be overstated" is also more often than not not literally true but hyperbole is the point. Can't be understated just sounds like you're telling me not to.
― only built 4 lynx africa (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
“man flu”can we fucking put this one to bed lads
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
never heard that phrase here in the states but it sure sounds like it is adjacent to this thread
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
What’s a man flu?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
the idea that men suffer more than women from colds and flu, the angle being "they're more whiny than women who just tough it out" but also sometimes "men feel viruses more intensely than women because [insert science here] so we should bring them lumberjack soup and various man sprays"
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
A cold. men supposedly exagerrate their maladies so what we/they say is flu is actually just a cold, hence the mocking term 'man flu'.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
xp
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
wait I want lumberjack soup, I think I'm coming down with something
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Never thought this was a thing- but whenever I would get a head cold or sinus infection, I would make the spiciest broth/soup I could, with hot sauce, Tabasco, you name it, the hotter the better. And that would help. Maybe that was lumberjack soup?
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Somewhat amazed this is not also a thing in the US!
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
Is the annoyance that it under or overstates the condition
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
It's annoyingly overused imo but what's buggin' Tracer Hand about it will have to wait I suppose.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
"various man sprays"
― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
originally funny now just overused, it’s 2021 people
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
man spray u
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
Man Spray U
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
My old roommate would get sick for a day or two every time she had a new sexual partner and called it penis flu but I imagine man flu is something different.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
The only usage of "man flu" I'm familiar has been from exasperated partners, and is usually accompanied by an eye-roll and/or sigh of resignation.
― beard papa, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:45 (two years ago) link
When grown men call their trucks/speedboats/ATVs/etc. "toys"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
what, this bad boy?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
big bad boy toys
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
oh yeah and fuck 'man cave' while we're at it, though I'm certain it's already been listed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
"These bad boys"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-N44WIyPjI
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Monday, 1 November 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, November 1, 2021 1:16 PM (three days ago)
I think mancave (one word) is useful as a pejorative.
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
taking sides: man cave vs she shed
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
She shed is so much worse.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
See sheds by the sea shore
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
xp that's what she shed
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
she shed!!!! so bad it's good
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Mancave only good as a pejorative, agree
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
she-basement or gtfo
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 4 November 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
man toilet
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Her Hut
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 November 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
"her hut" sounds like someone clearing phlegm in their throat
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
Two bowls for the split stream mornings.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Skin in the game
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
and a she-basement after the war
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
“Build back better”
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 November 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link
xps there's a barber's in the shopping area of town which advertises itself as a "men's creche" and every time i walk past it i have to check i'm not in fact dreaming
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 11 November 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
That's saying the quiet part of the infantilisation of men a bit loud.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
"Saying the quiet part loud"
it’s okay but yes
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
perhaps english specific gripes: i get unnerved over 'dock/docked' when referring to wages, and 'taking on' when enquiring if medical surgeries are accepting new patients in their registry...
'are you taking on any new NHS patients?' why not use 'accepting'? nobody seems to the phrase 'taking on' any other time...?!
these little usages are so strange to me and seem to stick out - i dunno why... is there a term for words that are only used in conjunction with specific activities like that...?
― maelin, Friday, 12 November 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
"Take On Me" is about trying to book a physical iirc
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
lmao, fuck's sake.
― maelin, Friday, 12 November 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
A slogan rather than a commonly-used phrase, butSee itSay itSortedis beginning to fill me with uncontrollable rage.
― foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link