Her Hut
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 November 2021 00:11 (four years ago)
"her hut" sounds like someone clearing phlegm in their throat
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:33 (four years ago)
man toilet
Two bowls for the split stream mornings.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:41 (four years ago)
Skin in the game
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 19:47 (four years ago)
and a she-basement after the war
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:30 (four years ago)
otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:33 (four years ago)
“Build back better”
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 November 2021 12:49 (four years ago)
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 (four years ago)
That's saying the quiet part of the infantilisation of men a bit loud.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:09 (four years ago)
"Saying the quiet part loud"
it’s okay but yes
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:36 (four years ago)
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 (four years ago)
"Take On Me" is about trying to book a physical iirc
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 13:49 (four years ago)
lmao, fuck's sake.
― maelin, Friday, 12 November 2021 14:01 (four years ago)
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 (four years ago)
oh yikes
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:15 (four years ago)
deems are you responsible for this
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:19 (four years ago)
'taking on' sort of implies 'taking passengers on board' kind of thing imo. I don't mind it. "Taking on new staff" is another usage.
― kinder, Friday, 12 November 2021 16:52 (four years ago)
pretty common in the US - "taking on a new project"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 November 2021 16:54 (four years ago)
Yeah, I think it’s common in other contexts in the UK too. “I’m not taking on any more work at the moment” a freelancer might say.
― Alba, Friday, 12 November 2021 16:59 (four years ago)
Might be nice to expand it usage though. “I’m sorry - I’m not taking on any more sexual partners at this time”.
― Alba, Friday, 12 November 2021 17:00 (four years ago)
"I'm not taking on any more accusations of sexual assault, sorry"
― foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:15 (four years ago)
Irrationally angry when i hear our provincial health minister, a Brit, say "at the weekend". No one here knows what the hell you are saying.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:51 (four years ago)
'On the weekend' has the same effect on me.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:52 (four years ago)
divided by a common language.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:53 (four years ago)
can't relate to joy, huh
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 November 2021 17:57 (four years ago)
i mean it's usually talk of covid cases "at the weekend" so uh...well my mind first goes to a nonexistant nightclub called "the weekend", that brings a little joy to it.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:59 (four years ago)
is "over the weekend" us only
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:03 (four years ago)
No.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:07 (four years ago)
"out on the weekend" is the only acceptable way to say this
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:11 (four years ago)
Not here it isn't.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:13 (four years ago)
I actually remember when I first heard the Neil Young song, "Out on the Weekend", thinking it was an odd title!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:15 (four years ago)
"the weekend" is correct imo
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:32 (four years ago)
if Uncle Neil says it's right, we all must obey
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:35 (four years ago)
i get unnerved over 'dock/docked' when referring to wages
how about when referring to the tails or ears of domesticated animals?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:53 (four years ago)
“Cinematic universe”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:58 (four years ago)
Lol first used on ilx in 2011 in reference to... David Lynch.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 12 November 2021 19:02 (four years ago)
how do you feel about "docking"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:03 (four years ago)
keep it out of my universe
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:09 (four years ago)
lol
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:23 (four years ago)
Docking/sounding combo, now that’s living.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:38 (four years ago)
I can't begin to say
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:15 (four years ago)
"Up with this I will not put."
Once upon a century ago this was a funny riposte by Churchill to criticism that he occasionally ended sentences with a preposition. 5000 years later, British politicians and journalists are still wont to trot out this phrase, apparently unaware of the original context, for no reason other than Colin Hunt-like jocularity... or so it seems. Just stop.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 09:15 (four years ago)
You know what annoys me?
Asking someone about a meeting and the following happens:
"Let's meet at [location] on Tuesday."
"When?"
"On Tuesday."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:45 (four years ago)
When you’re making plans via WhatsApp and reply quickly, only for the person to leave you hanging over the final FINAL confirmation. I am very much a ‘make plan, stick to plan’ person who does not require reconfirming an hour before the agreed time of activity. Or person presents you with a bunch of options, you choose one, and then *tumbleweeds*.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:07 (four years ago)
(x post)
There's room for ambiguity about 'Tuesday, which I've never fully mastered:
This Tuesday?
No - next Tuesday
Tuesday 23rd?
No - not this Tuesday, next Tuesday - Tuesday coming
???
Tuesday 30th obv - dummy!
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:42 (four years ago)
no way is "Next Tuesday" 13 days away, you are having a laugh
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:36 (four years ago)
suzy otm. Get out of here with same day confirmations on our very important cup of tea summit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:39 (four years ago)
Possibly - I do find there's room for surpising ambiguity with this and next.
Has this thread had people answering a question with 'So... (pause) (answer)' ? That's quite annoying, with its inference of 'you don't quite grok the full meta-level implications of this issue as clearly as I do. Let me enlighten you a little'
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:57 (four years ago)
Oh god
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:58 (four years ago)