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

Related to that: 'we're all a bit on the spectrum, aren't we lol?'

OCD and "Aspy" being casually thrown out, also rageworthy

People seem to have eased up on using schizophrenic or bipolar to mean labile, two-sided, or conflicted, though

Oh god yes. My kid was pissed when some classmate said:"I'm depressed bec we're having a test on Latin tomorrow." Otm

A trend, not a word/phrase/usage: once a day, the all-news radio station here reports a story (sometime sports or entertainment, but regular news, too) in terms of what people are saying on Twitter. Is this a temporary thing, or is this kind of idiocy here to stay?

That’s been a thing here for ages, we have a thread about guardian stories that say “twitter user @angry_whovian called it a ‘bloody disgrace’” or whatever and it’s probably about 5 years old

xp I’m in total agreement re “I’m so ocd/add/autistic about x” but I totally think you should be able to say you are depressed or anxious without actually having clinical depression or an anxiety disorder

related: people who don't understand that obsessions and compulsions are separate things

Is this a temporary thing, or is this kind of idiocy here to stay?

This is rooted in the desperation of the print and broadcast news media to be seen as relevant in the internet age. I'd say that, although idiocy is a permanent part of human society, this particular manifestation will be temporary, just because almost everything is temporary.

"Have a good one" = I do not care enough about you to actively recollect what time of day it is, bye

― mick signals, Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:07 PM (seven months ago)

Have realized that this is useful ending phone conversations when you have no idea what time zone the other party is in. Possibly also no interest.

this phenomenon is how the phrase "took to twitter" doubles the length of pointless news articles

(xp to clemenza's twitter post)

Takin' it to the Tweets

can we add casual "i've got ptsd lol" comments to the list

i kind of like "have a good one" for some reason. it sounds vaguely friendly in an inoffensive and like brotherly way to me? i don't have any brothers so idk where i am getting that.

related: people who don't understand that obsessions and compulsions are separate things

― kinder, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:48 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having some deep thoughts right now related to this one. good point!

i say have a good one. it's nondenominational.

who am i to know what time of day it is where you are, yk?

news radio stations quoting twitter is just a way for them to voice reactionary sentiments that are otherwise difficult to pound into a news-like shape.

can we add casual "i've got ptsd lol" comments to the list

xp I’m in total agreement re “I’m so ocd/add/autistic about x” but I totally think you should be able to say you are depressed or anxious without actually having clinical depression or an anxiety disorder

when "have a good'un" was surpassed by "have a blessed day", that was the day Donald Trump became president

Kid I said "see ya" to last night said "yeah have a good day..er night!". And therefore, per societal rules, he is a moron to me. Could've avoided his fate if he was a "have a good one" person.

now I'm thinking of some frat dude with a pukka shell necklace and a tie-die shirt using "one" as a generic greeting

I have no idea if this still happens but it was definitely a thing

i kind of like "have a good one" for some reason. it sounds vaguely friendly in an inoffensive and like brotherly way to me? i don't have any brothers so idk where i am getting that.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:05 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel the same way -- it has a universal quality to it and I use it a lot. So does "have a nice day" I guess, but that sounds less friendly somehow and is more tainted by its association with the smiley face. Maybe the fact that "have a good one" is not a phrase you'd get from a customer service rep makes it feel more personal, but not overly familiar.

yes
it's close but not too close
"have a nice day" is meaningless -- "have a good one" = maybe this person has a shred of care about my wellbeing

(even though they probably don't actually care -- it gives the impression of caring just a little, which is the right amount usually)

I am getting a lot of milage out of "take care" lately

that's usually my signoff of choice because i do want people to take care. i sometimes say "take care of yourself" because that is important

likewise, I genuinely would like to smell some people at a later date

"take care" is nice, I've been using it lately too

I never really say "take care" but a guy was outside in the cold with his kid the other night and was asking people walking by if they had a few bucks so he could get his kid a sandwich and I gave him some money and said that. A moment later, I realized I really meant it. That's a bad situation to be in.

I still remember 1st time I ever used "take care": at the end of last game of Little League season, to a teammate. I'd heard my parents say it to their friends/family. It sounded odd coming out of my mouth. Felt like I had my 1st adult sign-off.

When I moved from the Midwest (where nobody said ‘take care’) to NYC (where everyone says it) I kinda felt menace in it, as in ‘that’s a nice life ya got there, too bad if anything should happen to it’.

it's catching on in the midwest now

but it's been a few years

semi relatedly, has anyone ever used, or heard used (in the wild), any variation on "a cold one" in reference to beer? I feel like I have only ever heard this in commercials or movies ("I could go for a nice cold one right now.")

i hear it but it's always with some irony, cf "barley pop" or "brewski" etc

Hand me the hot one

I will invite friends to meet me for a cold one when it seems like an added touch of salesmanship is called for.

Maybe the fact that "have a good one" is not a phrase you'd get from a customer service rep

My original annoyance with this was because I ONLY hear it from customer service reps, and only robotically. If someone I even slightly know said it to my face, I can see how it would sound pleasantly colloquial rather than like a line from an employee training binder.

It also always sounds to me like a laxative ad slogan.

I have never heard that from a customer service/help desk person! Usually they have a relatively strict script and it ends up being something like “mr. mh thank you and have a good rest of your day”

When I worked in tech support (phone-based) we were banned from saying "no problem" in response to customers thanking us because management asserted that some customers calling from outside of Texas would not understand what we meant.

"have a good one" makes me think of this from Blade Runner:

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4c5dfecd-190c-4849-84c8-1f78e26b0be8

any book title involving food, eating, love or the bodily organs associated with such, e. fucking g.:

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387733384l/1439038.jpg

also any review or blurb that refers to an artist as 'one of our' anything

NOURISHING

the

SPLEEN

By Mooki E. Proof

Back cover blurb: "Mooki E. Proof is one of our most trenchant commentators on the contemporary scene." - Reynolds Price

not so much a specific phrase as this entire style. only picking these because they were back-to-back in my timeline:

Every single day of my life I think about the severe German yoga teacher who once looked at my pose up and down and said “fascinating” before correcting me

— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) March 2, 2019

This is the worst thing I have ever read. https://t.co/L7GkI4KSBr

— Eliza Skinner (@elizaskinner) March 2, 2019

can't stop thinking about this

yeah I know what you mean and it's extremely irritating

Nearly every time I look at Twitter I get the urge to post itt. I'm not sure if these terms are industry parlance or if Jane Espenson made them up for her blog I used to read a decade ago, but it always makes me think of what she called clams and clamshells. Twitter is rife with clams, but worse is how it's like a machine for turning clamshells into clams.

A clam is a joke or a line that has gone stale by being reused too many times. Something like "I just threw up in my mouth a little bit" might have been vivid and funny once but becomes repellent the more you hear it. Clamshells, otoh, theoretically have a longer shelf life because they're a joke form within which the content can change and stay fresh. But on twitter set-ups like *checks notes* get adopted and repeated so rapidly (and used so poorly) they almost instantly become clams themselves.

Yeah totally, a lot of the examples in this entirely bad thread aren’t intrinsically bad so much as they’re overused by people who are bad at them; tbh your restraint is appreciated rob as there are many people itt who follow that urge to post here every time they look at twitter

lol I admit complaining about twitter itt is like alerting people to the fact the garbage dump smells bad

"canceling" w/r/t a human being

Sometimes I want to make a quick joke in a post but then think it's likely been made hundreds of times already on twitter.

xp yeah I feel like it's cresting rn tho, will be gone soon enough

I don't really even care about its currency or overuse, it's just needlessly callous