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

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

like so much else on this thread, its not the phrase/term its everyfuckingone buzz buzz buzzing it all at once now all of a sudden but

overton window

atherton wicket

I may be the mayor of Overton

“late capitalism” is overused

I hate hate hate that I have adopted irl the phrase "hill to die on" and plan to stop

I guess some of these irk more than others. Really happy "dumpster fire" and "stinkin'" (as in "so stinkin' cute") seem to have fallen out of fashion. Also people on social media demanding I let things sink in.

when do these things come back around and become ironic? Because I can't wait to tell someone born in 2010 to talk to the hand

^ scheming

total self-own here but i keep using the word "inexorable" recently and it sounds really pretentious but it's just such a perfect word to describe some things

also was it this thread where we were discussing calling an amount of money "cool" or was that just a conversation i had in my head? there are very few of these phrases that actually annoy me because words is words but "made a cool million dollars this year" drives me up the wall. it seems like every blog that has to describe a salary or a windfall or whatever uses "cool" and it's like, but, you know you could have just not written that word right? it serves no function?

"beautiful / wonderful / awesome human" instead of "person" makes me twitch every time.

“awesome” makes me twitch regardless because it’s vastly overused

there are very few of these phrases that actually annoy me because words is words but "made a cool million dollars this year" drives me up the wall.

one of the harry potter books (the biggest one?) has all the characters saying things “coolly” about 600 times

Haha, someone ran a count. 59 times across all the novels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/66dz7t/i_looked_at_the_frequency_of_word_pairs/dgi5qfg/

jeez

coolly high hermione

✓

lol

i'm reading these fucking books with my kids and there is no way [redacted] NO WAY

ah fuck i’m not up to that bit yet

lol sorry it might just be a fake-out i dunno. i will get a mod to remove in case it's real??

Tracer's reading slash to his kids

I was wondering why my copy was just a sheaf of papers printed out in a dot matrix monotype font

fucking “pooch”, fuck that word to hell, it makes me gag

pooch out

*snigger*

Companion for my recent whining about "deep cuts": "deep dive." "Detailed," "thorough," "exhaustive," these are perfectly descriptive words. I may throw it when I write my last set of report cards, though: "Johnny took a deep dive into pulleys and gears for his science project, and I haven't seen him since."

"Deeply" has been pretty bad for a while, as in "Deeply disturbing." Agree with all the above, clemenza. "Deep cut" is a little different, since it's been around for a while, whereas "Deep dive" seems invented out of whole cloth all of a sudden. but I had to catch myself from referring to an obscure movie as a "Billy Wilder deep cut" the other day. going on about Stereolab or whoever "deep cuts" isn't noxious to me.

I had to catch myself from referring to an obscure movie as a "Billy Wilder deep cut"

what did you say instead?

I'm going to just start referring to things as "lesser-discussed works"

Still better than 'neglectorinos'.

haha I think "an obscure Billy Wilder movie"

Watched a Wilder I'd never heard of last night; looked it up later & found it had four Oscar noms.

The Fortune Cookie?

yah