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

'I'll pencil you in.'

An old-timer I've known a long time at the university asked me about a decade ago when did people replace "I think" with "I feel"? If he wanted to hippy-punch, I wouldn't have stopped him.

Oftentimes when I read the prefix to a sentence "Sadly," it is not deployed to indicate any sadness at all, but as a signpost for the author's malicious glee at the following list of their target's shortcomings. "Sadly, his results have not improved" that's right your idiot boy is repeating grade six lol

I mentally substitute 'distressingly' or 'grievously' for 'sadly' whenever I come across it.

If I were a teacher I'd be real about it: "It is with delicious pleasure that I have, in Maths, given your Nigel a failing grade."

Happily, "no worries" has largely seemed to dissipated. I hope it's because it's a dopey expression and not because people are generally worrying more

― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, October 4, 2019 10:44 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm not so sure—I still hear it everywhere and TWICE in the past month I've had a phone tech / customer service person from south asia conclude w/ "No Worries" and it took everything I had not to say, hey, I know you mean the best and you are busting your ass in a second language but *please* don't pick up that habit, A) I wasn't worried and B) it sounds like you think you did me a favor or something when in fact I've lost my entire afternoon to your company's shit service

ok this may belong in the IA thread for me

I find "no worries" is tossed around a lot more when it's an international group of people.

isn’t it an Australian thing

you people are so irritable

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

so many good options!

srsly lads

At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"

I hear a lot of people saying it (and inserting it when they don't typically use it) when speaking to other nationalities. It's like, a safe space of phrase.

'no pleasure' is very trumpian.

I notice all the 'no worries' being used because I hate it. It's as bad as 'cool beans' to me.

I say 'no worries', partly because of 'pas de souci'.

no wuckers

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xdsZhfrcA

(for the non Australians, short for “no wuckin’ forries”)

I still use no worries even though I hate it, like I hate adding in an exclamation mark to an e-mail for softening.

No furries!

No problemo

ok this may belong in the IA thread for me

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 4:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

everything on this entire thread belongs on the IA thread (unlike nearly everything on the IA thread)

At least once a year I combine "my pleasure" and "no problem" into "my problem" or "no pleasure"

Literal audible lol (LALOL)

A) I wasn't worried and B)

Pretty sure you can find me way upthread annoyed about customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.

Some palare-isms, I guess:

I don't like "yisssss" in the place of "yes" but that's more because of bad past experiences with a yisssser

I don't like [Elektra voice]: "stunning" mostly because I really hated Pose by the end of S2

And I don't like "totes" in the place of "totally"

my pleasure

you're welcome

I'm happy to help

don't mention it

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so many good options!

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 4, 2019 8:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol all of those are worse options for certain instances where "no worries" is used

what are those certain instances

like if someone I know, personally, sees that I am actually worried about something and is making an effort to assuage my worries

ok

but if I decided to enter your place of business and bought somthing from you, and thanked you (?) idgi

lol it must be fun getting bent out of shape by innocuous phrases

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say if a colleague apologizes for something that is totally fine, didn't actually bother you at all. "don't mention it" would be fine there...but so would "no worries".

well yeah, the "no worries" scourge I'm talking about is not in response to an apology! It's in response to being thanked.

ahh ok no worries then :D

no worries

are we anti-no problem? i find i mumble it a lot when someone rotely thanks me for holding a door open for them - somehow 'you're welcome' seems so formal for what was ultimately an insignificant favor

you're grand

i so 'no sweat' to british people and they look at me like i'm fuckin clint eastwood

clint eastwood is 89 which is how old you'd expect someone to be who is still saying no sweat in the UK

in the US too probably tbf

I'm annoyed by the push to say "you're welcome," because it so happens that sometimes a person is NOT categorically welcome to whatever I just did for them. Maybe you got lucky. Maybe the beautiful subtext of the alternatives is "you don't need to worry about it this time, but definitely don't get used to it"

yeah i mean usually I'm saying no problem because it was a slight problem but I'm being nice

When I moved to the city, I had to get used to people saying "uh huh" in response to "thank you". It took me two years to adjust, and I remember at least two instances where I said, "...can you please stop saying 'uh huh' in response to 'thank you'? It's really... weird and sounds dismissive." Both times, they smiled a big shit-eating grin and said, "...well, you're welcome."

The Marine in my class this year would regularly respond to thanks with “easy day.”

semper fucked up

It's so much better than no worries or no problem

sound
no bother

btw the idea that anyone should note so closely, let alone wish to exert control over, let alone actually attempt to pull customer rank over service industry or whatever staff about shit as petty as how they acknowledge your tossed-off thanks is fucked up have a fuckin look at yourself if this is a thing for you

Asking someone to change how they respond to a thank you seems way worse than responding to a thank you with "uh huh"