"Use other words please."

"boutique" - fuck off! just fuck off!!

you fuck off: boutique is a very useful and normal word.

"Triumph". From musicals to albums to acting, Entertainment Weekly won't stop using it.

xpost but it's used to refer to everything now, particularly as an adjective - boutique fesitvals, boutique beers etc.. it doesn't mean ought really.

Hope the 'pop-up' tide is ebbing.

(Aside: item just received by the food mag I'm in at – 'Cupcake Eggs'. These are completely normal free-range eggs in a pink carton. Press release claims they are perfect for any 'fashionista' who loves making cupcakes.)

what is the cupcake thing about?

it just crossed my mind because I have been at many magazines that like using 'boutique' and 'pop-up', and I was horrified by it earlier in the week. I think it is one of the most redundant products I have ever seen a company attempt to foist upon the world.

haven't heard of "pop-up". "boutique" wasn't necessarily referring to journalism, just stuff in general. It was prompted by an advert that mentioned "boutique beers" which makes me irrationally angry for some reason.

Though it strikes me you might mean 'why are people fixated on cupcakes at the moment?' and I don't know the answer to that. Madmen retroism + rise of the hummingbird bakery?

ok "boutique beers" is kind of stupid but i think saying "boutique hotel" makes sense

re: cupcakes-- food trends be trending

boutique beers is at least more honest than "craft beers" which is basically an attempt to slap a more manly word on there to hide the fact that you're drinking fancy schmancy beer.

"pop up stores" makes sense when it refers to temporary stores, but I've seen it being used in reference to permanent stores that are actually, well, more "boutique" versions of major brands.

I want to kill the word monetize

I'm mildly annoyed at pop-up being used for things that are by their nature temporary events in repurposed locations - ie a 'pop-up jumble sale' is a jumble sale. But tbh I like watching phrases bloom and die - with 'pop-up', feels like its mostly chasing-the-pack types using it now.

I guess I know where I am with boutique, and am ok with it, but then a news trawl on 'boutique festivals' is sort of depressing.

doh, I didn't even notice this was on ILM

Feel like I should make some joke about "kraftbeer." Like

Kraftbeer -"I'm the operator of my pocket chugalugger"

Pomplamoose are practitioners of a genre of music I refer to as Cupcake & Ukelele

seem like the kind to play a pop-up gig.

Sorry, should spell it Kraftbier

Similarly "artisanal" -- especially when used in reference to PRODUCE -- this REALLY makes no fucking sense.

farm-to-table is also annoying unless you are actually in a restaurant situated on a farm

I have never heard this usage of "pop-up".

yeah like a "pop up film festival"? you mean as opposed to permanent film festivals?

http://entimg.msn.com/i/500/popupvideo_500.jpg

I am familiar with that usage of "pop-up".

http://trendwatching.com/trends/POPUP_RETAIL.htm

I guess a pop up film festival would be like if an existing festival like Sundance did a parallel 2 day thing at a single theater in NY or something.

"bags of" anything. "bags of talent". "bags of goals". SHUT UP!!

fapping

"fap fap fap"

dear fellow ilx friends,

you aren't really dying when you post *dying*

good 2 kno

whew

*really dying*

actual "actual lol"

yeah, i knew "fapping" was played the instant i submitted that post.

also as a message board we should be immune from that usage since we have our definition of the word FAP http://i.imgur.com/EucaT.gif

i just wanted to indicate that i found the woman sufficiently attractive that i didnt care which shitty rap song she was singing the hook to. next time, i'll leave the jokes at home and just speak from the heart.

fancy a fap?

I think I've posted "actual lol" when I wasn't, actually

how can we ever trust you again?

"un-Googleable"

i think pretty much everyone understands how google works now

but Ungoogleable is an actual thing

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.

gotcha

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 Xyloto
Chris 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.

i know someone who was in an 80's band called *A Band*. still can't find them on the internet...

i've tried googling those words so many times

i know someone who was in an 80's band called *A Band*. still can't find them on the internet...

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.

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.