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

ha I thought "bio break" must be some journalism term, like "insert some biographical stuff between these two paragraphs"

"A polite corporate term for using the restroom -or other biological necessities, usually during interminably long unnecessary meetings."

Kill me.

Seriously with 'bio break'? Never heard that before, but now bracing myself for the inevitability of bio breaking all over myself when I start hearing it daily in the near future.

I KNOW. I've been up since 4:30 and here since 6:30. I have no tolerance for this today. I almost snapped at the guy and told him to just say break the last time he said it.

Biohazard zone: bio break in progress

“sammy”

Makes me think of not just peeing, but also depositing your blood, lymphatic fluid, etc in a jar to have it analyzed and then stored on a shelf for eternity.

This gives me the idea that it could mean something a high school biology class. "Damn, gotta hurry or I'll be late for bio."

So the next time I hold a meeting I'll say "Time for a bio-break. Under each of your seats you will find a tray with a preserved dead frog. Please dissect the frog, identifying and labeling the major organs."

I always preferred "I have to go see a man about a horse."

wee in gran's flange the HR-approved phrasing, iirc

I always preferred "I have to go see a man about a horse."

It's a dog over here.

i have to go see a dog about a horse

lmao

People calling each other "lovely" as a noun. Not like "you look lovely", but like "Hello lovely" or "thanks lovely" or even "hello lovelies" to a group.

Usually seems to be posh/middle class women to other women (I hear it at work a lot). Where did this come from? I think it started a few years ago but seems to be getting more common. It's kind of the same usage as people calling each other "love", "pet" or "duck" I suppose.

I think it started a few years ago

Ymmv but I've heard this in or from UK ppl for at least twenty years.

There's a west country usage like "my lovely" that's been around forever but this seems different, although may have come from it I suppose.

Anti-Welsh racism imo :-O

https://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/farewell-my-lovely.jpg

Lovely is way overused. It's like the default to sound refined when praising something. I had a friend once that used the word lovely to describe every single wine.

Describing food as lovely in your best NPR voice is indeed annoying.

woah that book cover should be a Smiths song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo

https://pictures.abebooks.com/BATHANDWESTBOOKS/17984227977.jpg

https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article10955205.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/daviesJPG.jpg

My only friend who calls me ‘lovely’ is v. middle-class, gay and from Plymouth so I’ll allow it.

North Eastern version...

https://northeastgifts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NE12.jpg

i think the attempt to attach a class marker to "lovely" is p strained tbh

West Country lovelying seems to happen regardless of class background!

Braw >>>> Lovely

Peng >>>>> Braw

"tarmac" "TARMAC MEETING"

"unmasking"

"we live in a republic, not a democracy"

"if you love something let it go"

"All the feels"

"i did a thing"

Good work there guys.

hack-a-thon
do-a-thon
unconference

i like lovely :(

"trash" in almost all contexts now

p sure sapiosexual is latin for "superior person"

lol

I think the intended meaning is "I want to actually talk to people and connect and not just have sex" but half the people using it mean "I don't think people find me physically attractive, but I am deluded and think I have a sparkling intellect"

I think the intended meaning is "I want to have sex with your brain and vocabulary."

I think that whatever the intended meaning, it's mostly a load of bullshit.

I hate when films are advertised with:

"FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU..."

x-post Not to offend the saps out there, mind. I don't think that's a thing but it is now.

it seems kind of like the "nerd" (in the post tech boom era sense) of the dating world

the actual meaning is "I think girls are vapid"

Also "mic drop" when it's used in a news story regarding some zing that owned someone til they died. Like I guess according to the Yahoo, Hillary just did a mic drop tweet on Trump that ended his life.

like gtfo, incredibly objectively physically attractive but non-brilliant person comes onto you and you say "sorry I'm a sapiosexual so I'm not attracted to you"?

"you wanna buy me a drink? First finish this NY Times Friday Crossword"

always thought sapiosexual sounded like you really wanna get out there in the spring and "tap" some maple trees yknow