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

Docking/sounding combo, now that’s living.

I can't begin to say

"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.

You know what annoys me?

Asking someone about a meeting and the following happens:

"Let's meet at [location] on Tuesday."

"When?"

"On Tuesday."

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*.

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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!

no way is "Next Tuesday" 13 days away, you are having a laugh

suzy otm. Get out of here with same day confirmations on our very important cup of tea summit

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'

Oh god

A hardy stablemate of “Um, ”

I thought Alfred was complaining about them not saying what time on Tuesday.

^^ yes

I was using ‘Tuesday’ as a point of departure for another related complaint of difficulty of fixing meeting times.

Tuesday planning terrible all round.

Reminds me of that exchange in The Naked Gun 2 1/2:

- I promised Jane we'd meet her in the rear.

- Where's that, Frank?

- In the back.

Beware - all of these people are just asking to meet on that day of the week in order to exploit the acrostic potential of "C" "U" Next Tuesday! Only agree to meet on days that don't start with 'T'.

I began to doubt myself - so had to check that this confusion is indeed a thing.....(Another inarticulate phrase that slightly annoys.

It is a thing

but it only happens when the Tuesdays in question are occuring in the present week (so the question would have to be asked on a Sunday or Monday) and the subsequent week

no one would use it when referring to a Tuesday two weeks hence

never could get the hang of Tuesdays. We should scrap them really.

that Morrie fella is passed by now right

Yep, in my experience, once the day in question has passed in that week, there is no room for confusion. After Thursday, “next Thursday” always means Thursday of the following week. On Mon-Wed (or Sun-Wed if you’re in one off those weird places where the week starts on Sunday) then “next Thursday” can be ambiguous. Actually not even a Wednesday, as if you meant the next day you’d just say tomorrow.

As for Tuesdays, there is no way today that “next Tuesday” means anything other than the 23rd.

The later the day in the week, basically, the bigger the window of ambiguity. It comes up most for Saturdays and Sundays. In theory “next Sunday” could be a whole 13 days away, but you’d be weird not to just to say “Sunday week” or “a week on Sunday” on that Monday instead.

I offer sincere apologies for implying that this obvious and logical grammatical rule ever strays from the path of efficient self-policing, and agree I should have chosen my words more carefully.(#kwasilwarteng)

Tuesday is tuesday

Next tuesday is tuesday

Tuesday coming is Tuesday

Tuesday week is tuesday after tuesday

Tuesday two weeks is the one after, and so on

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

People say 'new jack', what jack?
You wanna get slapped, Jack
Or get flipped like a flapjack?
I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin mics
Ever since you was on BMX bikes
You was busy braggin bout the mags on your honey
I was in Flatbush tryin to get money
Brooklyn, crookin up the whole damn place
Want to truck jewelry, don't turn your face
But I don't resort to those sort of things
I don't wear big chains or big rings
Gold was stole from caves full of slaves
Now black-on-black, and you're free as waves
In the ocean, without a notion
Am I surfin fast over your head?
Maybe you need glasses or classes in Special Ed
Let me see -
I can fit you in on Monday at 3
Tuesdays is use days
And Wednesdays is friends days
And Thursdays is her's days
And Fridays is my days
And Saturdays is fun days
And Sunday's the one day
I rest, give thanks and bless
Again on Monday I will be back
Yo Ak - get ready to attack

Special Ed

'artsy'

tell me more about how you have absolutely no imagination or whimsy in your soul

Everybody needs to stop using "netizens"

'once more for those in the back'

"I just wanted to flag......"

FPed

"They understood the assignment"

Never use ‘just’ in professional correspondence.

'for your consideration' as shorthand for 'this movie/tv show deserves an award'

Lots of discussion of it on the thread already but the term "creatives" makes me want to jump off a building.

i'm a knowledge worker

i'm a memory worker

barf

Im a shoddy worker

i'm really fucking good at not working

Recently someone who is a DJ and visual artist used the term in something they put out on social media, and I was like, "now i think you are a CIA plant"

earlier today I was thinking about some of the words that I remember being discussed on this thread, namely "bonkers" and "kiddo" ... but in my morning mushy brain, the two words became the phrase "bonko kidders" and now I think about the people I see using the annoying words and phrases as "bonko kidders people"

an ilxor used the term "amazeballs" in another thread and I forgive them but jfc

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

"amazeballs"

My boss briefly used 'awesome sauce' in a zoom meeting last week and I almost barfed in my mouth

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

The reason being it's horrible also wtf?

Amazeballs was like a joke flash word c2007. Does anyone actually use it without a bit of irony these days?

This weather is so amazeballs I should go take the little and the puppers out for a walk.

had a co-worker who used to say "awesomesauce" 30 times a day in each class she taught

she's not with us anymore

oh oh, no, she's not dead, and no we didn't fire her for it, she got another job

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

Reminding me of my nephew circa age 3 referring to his family situation as "two bigs against one little".