Docking/sounding combo, now that’s living.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
I can't begin to say
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
"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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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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!
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
no way is "Next Tuesday" 13 days away, you are having a laugh
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
Oh god
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
A hardy stablemate of “Um, ”
I thought Alfred was complaining about them not saying what time on Tuesday.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
^^ yes
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
I was using ‘Tuesday’ as a point of departure for another related complaint of difficulty of fixing meeting times.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Tuesday planning terrible all round.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
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.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
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'.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
I began to doubt myself - so had to check that this confusion is indeed a thing.....(Another inarticulate phrase that slightly annoys.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
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
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
never could get the hang of Tuesdays. We should scrap them really.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
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)
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
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
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNbTdLfBwQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
People say 'new jack', what jack?You wanna get slapped, JackOr get flipped like a flapjack?I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin micsEver since you was on BMX bikesYou was busy braggin bout the mags on your honeyI was in Flatbush tryin to get moneyBrooklyn, crookin up the whole damn placeWant to truck jewelry, don't turn your faceBut I don't resort to those sort of thingsI don't wear big chains or big ringsGold was stole from caves full of slavesNow black-on-black, and you're free as wavesIn the ocean, without a notionAm I surfin fast over your head?Maybe you need glasses or classes in Special EdLet me see -I can fit you in on Monday at 3Tuesdays is use daysAnd Wednesdays is friends daysAnd Thursdays is her's daysAnd Fridays is my daysAnd Saturdays is fun daysAnd Sunday's the one dayI rest, give thanks and blessAgain on Monday I will be backYo Ak - get ready to attack
Special Ed
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
'artsy'
tell me more about how you have absolutely no imagination or whimsy in your soul
― maelin, Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Everybody needs to stop using "netizens"
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
'once more for those in the back'
― Sam Weller, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link
"I just wanted to flag......"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
FPed
― mark s, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
"They understood the assignment"
― jmm, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
Never use ‘just’ in professional correspondence.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 29 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
'for your consideration' as shorthand for 'this movie/tv show deserves an award'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 December 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
Lots of discussion of it on the thread already but the term "creatives" makes me want to jump off a building.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
i'm a knowledge worker
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
i'm a memory worker
barf
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Im a shoddy worker
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
i'm really fucking good at not working
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
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"
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
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"
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 December 2021 06:01 (two years ago) link
an ilxor used the term "amazeballs" in another thread and I forgive them but jfc
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
"amazeballs"
My boss briefly used 'awesome sauce' in a zoom meeting last week and I almost barfed in my mouth
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
The reason being it's horrible also wtf?
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
Amazeballs was like a joke flash word c2007. Does anyone actually use it without a bit of irony these days?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
This weather is so amazeballs I should go take the little and the puppers out for a walk.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
had a co-worker who used to say "awesomesauce" 30 times a day in each class she taught
she's not with us anymore
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
oh oh, no, she's not dead, and no we didn't fire her for it, she got another job
Reminding me of my nephew circa age 3 referring to his family situation as "two bigs against one little".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link