"un-Googleable"
i think pretty much everyone understands how google works now
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
but Ungoogleable is an actual thing
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
but i mean like when you're talking about a band called "the men," i can tell from the name that they are going to be hard to find on the internet. you don't have to tell me that. it's self-evident.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
gotcha
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of which, this makes zero sense to me: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2012/mar/05/coldplay-regret-mylo-xyloto-title"Coldplay live to regret calling their album Mylo XylotoChris Martin says the title of Coldplay's latest album is a disaster, as it's made up of two words that can't be googled."
The actual text of the article says it's down to being not easy to pronounce. Think this is just a case of the Graun subs getting it wrong.
― kinder, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
i know someone who was in an 80's band called *A Band*. still can't find them on the internet...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i've tried googling those words so many times
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
This could explain their lack of a second life amongst the file sharing community. Am thinking how it would've been prescient of them to release a record called "Album" with, like, numbered songs.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
This is a kid thing, but "versing"--as in, "Who are we versing next in floor hockey?" It's got a nice Shakespearean ring to it, but so, so wrong.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 02:44 (2 hours ago)
not the one featuring neil campbell, richard youngs, and eight million other people, no?
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
i always thought that the internet destroyed the the.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
Or maybe the autocorrect function in word processors?
― doug watson, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol my top result for "the men" (with quotes) is the band
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
the first page has several youtube links as well!
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
my first result for the word "men" is my friend's band "MEN"
http://www.myspace.com/men
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^^they are my fourth
~google~
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
I think there was another American A Band that was on one of the Chuck Warner comps.
― timellison, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Homework series, if I remember right.
Paternalistic
Feels bigoted against dads.
― beachville, Saturday, 24 March 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
save the dads
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
smash the dads
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
emboldenaudacity
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Babywearing"
just horrible
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
please, please, please stop saying "the Mad Men era"
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
ok
― Jesus (wins), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
"dafuq"
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
"jolly good"
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
"a good look"
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
"the ___ game" and "on lock" and "has the ___ game on lock"
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 January 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
What if the game is Sonic & Knuckles?
― MarkoP, Friday, 31 January 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
hurting got the pedantry game on lock
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 31 January 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
dnw any more awesomesauce or amazeballs
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
^^^^ otm x 1,000,0000,000,0000,000
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Why is that pedantic? I don't care about the grammar, I'm just sick of hearing it.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
ugh, amazeballs, that is the worst
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
those two words are the cool beans of today
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
"Burst onto the scene"
― Evan R, Monday, 17 February 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
"unlock"
song lyrics or snippets or album covers are not antique secrets held in rustic lockboxes, nor are they Xbox achievements, they're promotional material a label posts, probably regardless of how much their fans do or don't tweet/Like/call. pretty minor, I know, but it's one of the more common examples of PR-speak seeping into journalistic copy and if I'm editing I kill it on sight.
― katherine, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
Hack
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
"______ 101" or "dorm room _____"
(basically anything that means to imply "I have graduated from college and look back on it with bemused condescension.")
― ryan, Monday, 17 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
"his / her / my truth"
put "owning" in front to be shot out of a cannon
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Own your truth
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 February 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Describing some bit of policy as a "Rube Goldberg device/contraption"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
"unhelpful"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 February 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
"and that's a good thing"
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 23 February 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
seriously stop telling me what is a good thing and what isn'tsimilarly, "...what we've learned from this..."
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Sunday, 23 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
katherine otm some words are just annoying but "unlock" is sinister
my dad invariably describes any movie or actor or scene he likes as "watchable" and it makes my eyes bleed
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 23 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
otm re: "and that's a good thing," ugh. The implied "but," as well as the implied tying of a bow around the goodness of the thing, both just seem so patronizingly "reasonable," and close off objection.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 February 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
"transitioned"
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 February 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
"deliverable" (noun)
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 4 April 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link