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

probably Tom!

In some respects I feel bad for laughing because it was a great job and she was a great boss. And _usually_ you could figure out what she meant.

"For Christmas, let's do a Yankee Candle swap!" Okay, not actually what it's called but I know what you mean.

Sometimes, though, I was just stumped.

"Are you excited about the papple visit?"

"The what?"

"The papple visit." Took a while before it was clear that she was talking about the Pope coming to Nationals Stadium.

"Absorb" as used by my friend recently wjn she told me to "absorb the lesson". Probably should find friends who don't thrive on breezy ass language

*when

Papal probably

the paypal visit

it's like you're always stuck in dentures heeeere

“I’m just gonna leave this here”

oh my god otm. that one has sort of died off though thankfully

that was sort of supplanted by "Boom." which was really only a twitter phenomenon and has also died off

http://gaia.adage.com/images/bin/imgstore/work/full/v/e/r/Verizon_DroptheMic17.jpg

yeah not only mic drop but that guy too, whoever he is (bootleg seth meyers?)

i've been told he's on 'silicon valley' and is okay but i don't care, i want to kill him

hell yeah

"burgle" as a verb is a back formation from the noun "burglar", I think, so "burglarize" also kind of makes sense.

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, October 29, 2016 1:36 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This one drives me up the fucking wall.

that's a new one to me
what does it mean, aside from being totally dismissive?

i loathe all glib canned responses like that
i think i loathe glibness in general

Basically it means that if you engage in risky behavior, you should expect negative consequences. In context, there's also an implication that you deserve the negative outcomes.

mess with the bull, you get the horns amirite?!
it sounds like a dismissive shitty thing to say

I would only say that to an actual bullfighter

not all back formations are created equal

There is, for example, a subreddit by that name that mostly shares varying degrees of 'fail video' type antics. But I've also heard it used in real life regarding someone who OD'd on heroin.

jesus
that's cruel
why is everyone such an asshole

Like everything else, gammon is now done lads

I've noticed a lot of people using "macguffin" as insta-snark, like it should be immediately understood as a pejorative - kinda don't think Hitchcock was dissing his own films when he started using it?

Just standard hatred of the scotch I'm afraid

maybe they are confusing macguffins with mcmuffins

[location of latest tragedy]Strong

Otm^

I prefer Je Suis

Je Suis Comet Ping-Pong

When did 'work spouse' start, and how do we make it stop?

Work divorce

"Everything happens for a reason."

The use of "around" effectively in substitution for "about" when referring to subjects of popular discourse, as in "conversations around" a topic. Though, to the extent that it may derive mistakenly from the notion of "talking around" a subject rather than really confronting it, it may be ironically accurate much of the time.

Also, the use of "clean" as a culinary term, the personal-objectionability of which has migrated from fake-food and healthy-lifestyle generally-false advertising to usage as a flavor descriptor.

Work divorce

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, February 26, 2018 1:03 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who gets the kids?

idgaf

Whomsoever travels by air the least maybe

"work wife/husband/spouse" feels of another era, Mad Men style, is this used by anyone that doesn't fly private?

It seems to be one of those phrases that aren't really in actual common use until they get bandied about in a few too many clickbait articles and then people start getting insecure that maybe this hip new lingo has somehow passed them by and they start using it because they mistakenly think other people are using it and by the time you start hearing it come out of the mouths of other human beings the genie is already out of the bottle and all you can do is complain to your work spouse about it.

seems weird that anyone would use it unless they're super sleazy, infidelity is baked into the phrase imo

it's a weird way of defining a relationship to a coworker, because it's pretty unlikely a straight male would refer to another straight male as a work husband even if they have a very marriage-like dynamic

Guys at my last job my supervisor told me that I was expected to be my boss's "work wife" and I lost my shit. It's such an awful phrase/idea.

Heh I think ol's summary has a ring of truth

One lady at my last place said oh we're totally work husband and wife! to me in front of everyone I said iirc lady I just fix printers I got nothing to say about anything else idnr was she devastated or not

was her role to break printers, because... perfect marriage

lmao darragh

You may be mistaking sitcom for perfect

A few years ago, a longtime colleague said I was her "work sibling." I understood what she meant - we'd been at the same company for a decade, often working in parallel on the same projects, but rarely very closely. We didn't share an office or have neighboring cubicles or anything.

Still odd and unnecessary but not as skeezy as "work spouse."

whatever happened to "friend"

Hello darkness, my old work spouse...

i heard you wore a sequined blouse