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

picturing this guy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/wallpaper/images/colin_1024.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj1SFtxRTg

they missed a trick by making a spinoff Swiss Toni series rather than a Colin Hunt one

i thought luncheon (or its elongated cousin "luncheon service") was used by the same generation of people who say "progrum"

slaps
whips
the jab/jabbed
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“Half a dozen” when you really mean to say “six” but want to make something sound bigger.

‘fortnight’ when you really mean to say ‘two weeks’ but want to make something sound crenellated

one of the reasons i love living in london is that i get to say 'fortnightly' (good) instead of 'biweekly' (bad)

Everyone British says fortnight. I even looked up what crenallated means to check if it’s something we are all trying to appear and well I can’t decide now.

if speech were battlements, crenelations would be a useful feature

sounds like someone's got a case of the fortnights

Hardly. I'll never be forty again!

I know it has almost certainly been here many times before, probably I've posted it myself, but continue to be disappointed at how many people feel it is acceptable to ever say/write "monetize"

what would you say?

I would say "stop treating your art like it's a MLM scheme"

A free Spotify account is 'art'?

“All free Spotify accounts are quite useless” – Oscar Wilde

Sorry, not following you, this is something I come across all the time in podcasting, imagine it is the same for any "creatives"

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Well it’s used in other contexts too, is the point, I guess. Monetizing users is a phrase endemic in tech business. On art, I suppose it’s an uglier way of the old “making a living out of it”. Biz should try that on for size. How do we make a living out of these free Bumble account holders?

Right. Where I come across the word 'monetize' it's in the context of getting money out of subscribers who have signed up to some sort of free tier. The accepted business model for basically all of media publishing is to grow your subscriber base as big as you can and then figure out how to get money out of them. You don't really 'monetize' art - you sell it, or rent it, or whatever. You monetize audiences.

I mean, this is all also bad, this is why every app pretends to be free then bombards you with ads which you "accidentally" click on. And of course I know that this is the fault of capitalism and lack of regulation rather than individuals, but it would just be better if people were less gung ho about going along with it.

"creatives" is way way way way worse than "monetize" -- though in the context of art, it makes me think ... "make it like monet" which then leads me to the relations between impressionism / modernism and contemporary capitalism, as opposed to industrial capitalism, and then I think of how many posters and totebags exist and have existed with pictures of Monet's artwork ... whereas "creatives" makes me just feel like vomiting.

Yeah, it's really unfortunate when people refer to themselves as 'creatives'... sir, you've been co-opted by yourself

Yeah, it's really unfortunate when people refer to themselves as 'creatives'... sir, you've been co-opted by yourself

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:10 PM (one minute ago)

yeahhhhhhhhh though some of them aren't very creative, or at least, they make me want to be as un-creative as possible if being creative means being like them

I always think of that one scene in Hollywood Shuffle.

lay off the creatives, they're just trying to generate some content

When people describe themselves as "creatives," it makes me think they know nothing about being creative.

i mean... literally "creative" is my job title so i feel very seen here

"Kieth"

sorry, this is "words, usages and phrases..."
think you're looking for "people..."

When Youtubers say 'let's get into it...'

“Smash that like button”

that one annoys me too because I struggle with imagining it done literally -- maybe it's just me, but I realize a lot of these terms in this thread that annoy me, the reason they annoy me has to do with the relationship between the term and their literal referents, and to some extent the connotations of the referents.

if you smash it, the button will be broken, there is no correlation with how vigorously you press the button with how subscribed you are.

exactly! why would you want people to break the like button? Then they would be unable to give you future likes? And then your influence would take a nose-dive

also sounds uncomfortably like a certain kind of man saying "I'd smash that" - now there is a truly disgusting phrase.

I blame Smashmouth

hey now!

lol

getting a bit annoyed with self-proclaimed leftists adopting Xtian/GOP moralist words like "good" and "evil" to describe people and ideas.

Don't know if this has been covered yet, but influencer and influencer-mimicking ads that begin with a person saying, "Hey guys..."

Shut the fuck up.

lol otm

"wellness" and "mindfulness"

is there a specific context that is the most annoying, or just in general? ... I agree btw, especially when you add "healing"

Also 'detox', unless it's in the context of recovering heroin addicts.

mindfulness is a perfectly simple and useful term that can be understood by nearly everyone without much effort and once it is understood it doesn't need to be talked about very much, if at all. it just means 'paying careful attention and not getting distracted by stray thoughts or shiny objects'.

I work in a community mental health agency and both words (though not "healing") get used many times a day. I understand "mindfulness" to be a very specific concept - more or less what Aimless wrote, but specifically relevant in contrast to the long Western tradition of mental health being intellectualized and cognitive, removed from the physical experience a person is having in the moment. It does have a distinct meaning that explains the use of the word. Not to justify the bazillion apps and initiatives that try to capitalize on it's trendiness. "Wellness" may not be the best term for this, but it also gets used somewhat specifically to refer to those activities that enable a person to live a healthy lifestyle but that are not especially medical, clinical, or therapeutic. So the weight loss support groups and things like that that are run by our center are part of the Wellness Program. It is admittedly a mushier category and some things they have included like painting and board game groups make it mushier. Though I fully believe having hobbies that don't explicitly make you less well is a good thing that many people in this country seem to have a hard time generating.

Beware the wellness industrial complex

kinda