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

i don't have the bandwidth to double-click on you right now

Weird, when I've heard people say "double-click", they used it to mean dig deeper into a topic, also horrible.

Well it means that too. But specifically the double-click-on-a-human usage is what punks my pancake.

'Deep dive'

nice try but nothing will ever be as bad as 'double click'

its made me twice as sorry as usual to have opened this thread, certainly

somehow to some 'cool beans' has become 'cool bananas' :[

none of this is true, you're putting me on

cool bananas is good not bad, i am going to use it non-stop

Who approved 'cool beans' in the first place?

feels like a California thing

love the mouthfeel of cool beans

http://www.word-detective.com/2009/11/cool-beans/

I think that what we have in “cool beans” is actually an updating, unconscious among its users, of the colloquial US expression “some beans,” which has been used since the mid-19th century to mean “quite something” or “excellent, awesome” (“By golly, you’re some beans in a bar-fight,” 1850).

Aw, I want someone to tell me I'm some beans in a bar-fight.

Hmmm:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=double%20click

That's every urban dictionary entry.

cool beans went big with cheech and chong i think

This right here is peak urban dictionary tho:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=challop

Cool bananas is Australian slang, has been around since at least the 70s, but has perhaps only recently debuted in the rest of the anglosphere

The use of “myself” and “yourself” when “me”/“I” or “you” would do the trick.

Gaun yerself, big man.

weve done this

I blame The Apprentice UK.

i blame people of celtic extraction

Like michaellambert.

take the blame away from michaellambert and what have you?

michaelrt

michael RT

hes a plant sent to sow division

so says meself anyway

OTM yourself.

once saw one of those custom painted bug shields you can get for your child molester van and it said "HIMSELF" (including the quotation marks) in green with shamrocks on either side

little enough of that makes any sense but as its yourself im happy to operate on trust

like this but "HIMSELF"
https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-43538418999218/bug-shield-lettering-2.gif

[statement.] full stop.

Did “cool runnings” fall out of favor because of the movie?

I have never heard the phrase “cool runnings” in a context unrelated to the movie

I should have been clearer, no issue with celtic-extraction variants such as “yersel’”. It’s the faux-formal Apprentice UK form that grates.

"asking for a friend"

"Best (whatever) in town, go!"

(Someone looking for recommendations, I mean)

The use of “myself” and “yourself” when “me”/“I” or “you” would do the trick.

― michaellambert, Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:09 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

no no no no no no no no no

the most common examples of such usage is due to the use of reflexive pronouns nominatively in irish gaelic (and maybe scottish gaelic, I'm not 100% sure, though they do use reflexive pronouns for emphasis sometimes in scottish gaelic) and that influence on the lovely hebridean and scots english tongues

https://www.catholic.org/files/images/saints/419.jpg

sorry, hibernian, hebridean and scots english tongues was what i meant to write there

jim its ok ourselves got it earlier jist now

who's the spaceman

Cloistered

'a word in edgeways/edgewise'

The influence of Celtic languages on English is a fascinating topic! On top of reflexive pronouns, you have the use of the continuous present for simple present (describing present actions by saying "I'm working" vs "I work") likely comes from Celtic, as does our preference for tag questions and meaningless do (saying "do you have a pet?" instead of "have you a pet?").

No one except the very posh says "have you a pet?" though. For some reason brevity doesn't win and people prefer to say "have you got a pet?".

Sorry, I misread your point. You're right: I'm as likely to say "do you have a pet?" as "have you got a pet?" though with the former I'd probably be stressing the "you" or "have" depending on context.

does one pet

That is an elegant solution

"Do ye huv a pet, yersel, big yin?"