yeah i wilt at verbose sarcasm. one of the reasons i can't handle john oliver.
― bagging area (map), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:34 (nine years ago)
"it's almost as if"/"it's almost like"
yeah have consciously retired this in recent years.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)
"perfect pop"/"perfect pop song"
― punksishippies, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:24 (nine years ago)
you guys would put john oliver out of business
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:25 (nine years ago)
"...if that makes sense."
i'm really good at this one
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:29 (nine years ago)
music writers saying a song is 'all x and y'
i'd like to yell everyone about this one though
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:30 (nine years ago)
Xxxpost ooh, good point! let's also add asides of the form '' --- and this is true ---''. been losing potency ever since dave barry wasn't making things up 25+ years ago.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:32 (nine years ago)
"for white people" is gross, both in it implication about white people and non-white people
― punksishippies, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:32 (nine years ago)
"blew us away"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 08:32 (nine years ago)
"batshit insane"
had a great run, truly wonderous, but now it's time to fucking stop
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 19 February 2017 18:43 (nine years ago)
"tasty," in general, but especially for describing music. just visceral skin-crawling ick
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 20 February 2017 21:50 (nine years ago)
i like it for describing a situation that has just gone from bad to worse
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:04 (nine years ago)
"i wouldn't go out there, miller - it's gotten pretty tasty in the last hour"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:05 (nine years ago)
visceral skin-crawling ick
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, February 20, 2017 4:50 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 20 February 2017 22:29 (nine years ago)
I thought "bonkers" is the new "batshit insane".
― MarkoP, Monday, 20 February 2017 22:40 (nine years ago)
What if… certain journalistic clichés merely mirror the hackneyed musical material under review?
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 February 2017 22:53 (nine years ago)
haha katherine ok
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 09:14 (nine years ago)
Some riffs are tasty and that's all there is to it I'm afraid.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:27 (nine years ago)
I have to say I can kind of identify, the person i know who uses that word the most is a kind of posh dude who makes my skin crawl in a number of other ways. I think I like it because it's so exotic to my American ears..
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:47 (nine years ago)
"stripped back"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 March 2017 09:29 (nine years ago)
"copious amounts" - why does this phrasing shit me so much?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:08 (nine years ago)
it's very "I just finished my sixth-grade vocabulary lesson"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:11 (nine years ago)
everything counts, in copious amounts
― larry appleton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 03:12 (nine years ago)
buttloads is way better
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:31 (nine years ago)
It's like copious is already an amount, so it's like saying "excessive amounts amounts" maybe.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 05:30 (nine years ago)
"a myriad of" when you can just say "myriad"
or drop the preciousness a bit and just say "many"
or if you want to be extra precious go with "divers and sundry"
― may all your memes be dank (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:36 (nine years ago)
"what's not to like"
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:37 (nine years ago)
"frothy"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:30 (eight years ago)
had hoped one of dan savage's redeeming factors would be to remove that from the non-ironic lexicon
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:40 (eight years ago)
santorum has def ruined 'frothy' forever
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:40 (eight years ago)
simultaneous santorum
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:41 (eight years ago)
dumpster firegarbage firefire
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:44 (eight years ago)
huh those are both totally different from the contexts I was thinkingof - music criticism (Pfork on Katy Perry's "frothy pop") and financial/market analysis ("tech stocks are getting a little frothy lately")
I guess my distaste is because it does have this animalistic sexual connotation, like frogs mating
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:45 (eight years ago)
My brother in law refers to beers as "frothies" and it makes my hands clench and unclench.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:34 (eight years ago)
YES! These make me want to jump out a window. Also "garbage person," "trash person," etc.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:48 (eight years ago)
In regards to guitar effects pedals: "creamy." Usually used to describe distortion or fuzz pedals.
Just, no.
― Austin, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:09 (eight years ago)
'cockwomble' really needs to fuck off right about now
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 6 July 2017 08:07 (eight years ago)
if there's one word that shd have a prison-term attached it's "wondrous"
(prison-term for me not unlikely: i want to slap writers who use it, even and esp.when they are ppl i otherwise have time for)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:24 (eight years ago)
only should be used by evil wizards when describing cursed delicacies they are tempting our heroes with
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:34 (eight years ago)
*must not post Jon Anderson on this thread*
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:36 (eight years ago)
i too hate wondrous
― clouds, Sunday, 3 September 2017 22:01 (eight years ago)
what do people mean by "vibey" wrt music? i know what a vibe is, but vibes can be anywhere, on any spectrum
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:50 (eight years ago)
I don't know if I've heard/seen that, but it reminds me of 'evocative' in its lack of specificity.
― the scarest move i ever seen is scary move 4 (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:02 (eight years ago)
it means it's got a lot of bass, man
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:11 (eight years ago)
Roy Ayers and Bobby Hutcherson and the like
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:13 (eight years ago)
its a dance thing
drugs
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:14 (eight years ago)
Sounds like I could use a refresher course in vibeology.
― the scarest move i ever seen is scary move 4 (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:20 (eight years ago)
v-i-b-e-ology
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:33 (eight years ago)
i have no idea what vibey means
evocative sounds otm