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

Nae tother a' ba'

Yeah, ‘no worries’ is like ‘nae bother’ to me.

I like the contrast between language change in aggregate being culturally alarming and people day-to-day getting tired of "no worries" and drafting in some other phrase for basically no reason at all.

lol Tom here at 2:40:00, this was gratifying

https://thebestshow.net/episode/the-secrets-of-life-debut-of-spiral-heads-song/

OTOH I do think these phatic expressions vary geographically (and generationally), so maybe this^ reaction is just our shared age/region demo

terrible argument. as we discussed already, retail employees are doing customers a huge favor by helping them and not murdering them, so "no worries" or "no problem" is perfectly appropriate.

ok thank you

I'm still processing some related trauma

The phrase "best television show of all time" really annoys me, regardless of the show it refers to. At least the 50 million mugs that say "World's Best [Dad/Mom]" exist to express some minimally justified sentimentality, but television isn't your mom or dad, so just say you enjoy a program with some enthusiasm and step away.

but television isn't your mom or dad

Obviously not a latchkey kid.

The Sopranos is my mother and my father.

"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable, has anyone figured out its etymology?

for some reason i thought it was a hubie brown phrase, but that doesn’t seem to be the case

"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable

i love to see it

it's a sports commentator sorta phrase, to me

it's just everywhere... too much... good phrase in small doses

we are all too much in the world

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

you, and i cannot stress this enough, love/hate to see it

I very much enjoy subtly mangling phrases and slang that annoy me: "I like to see that!" "We stan a wig!" and so on

"we stan a wig"?

we all stan wigs so let's goooooooooo

lol

this doesn't annoy me tbh but i finally realized the semantic purpose of

me: (opinion)
also me: (another opinion, usually in contrast to the first)

it's a solution to BUT fatigue!! aka "[opinion], but [contrasting opinion]" which is related to The Era of Disclaimers but not its sole progeny

the me/also me format is just a way to do something very common (express two conflicting opinions) while signaling insider status by using the de rigeur form

me is large, me contains multitudes

me needs to express things about me

I:
also I:
—Bob Marley

"we stan a wig" is what they're singing on that Sigur Rós album, right?

Bob Marley would be:
I and I: (opinion)
I and also I: (another opinion)

nobody:
also nobody:

that one is for pointless (or petty?) comments

watching the various ways people try to obscure the fact that they are sharing pointless information always entertains me

I really dug that first Afstan Wigs album

nobody:

me: i don't know who needs to hear this, but you do not, in fact, have to love to see it

...and here's why

forgot to (check notes)

well thanks for coming to my ted talk

i-

imagine being that salty about overused internet phrases

actually CAN relate sksksk

they just pulled cc sabathia out of the astros-yankees game mid-batter due to injury, probably his last appearance on the mound in his (legendary) career, and the stream chat is a fusillade of "you hate to see it"

tbf i do actually dislike seeing that

i mean, he's a yankee, but he (and his family) seem pretty grebt

it is appropriate in this scenario

I've seen this come up a couple times in this thread, so I'm going to be the pedantic asshole who points out that Joanna Newsom's primary instrument is not the harpsichord.

Though I guess she does play it in that song, so I'm also a dummy

Bob Marley would be:
I and I: (opinion)
I and also I: (another opinion)

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

Somehow it became acceptable, then ubiquitous, for a software error message to say just "Something went wrong," thereby offering the user utterly no clue about how to proceed. No, sorry, it tells you how to proceed: "Try again later."

E.g. this is what you get at Reverb.com when your credit card on file expires:
https://i.imgur.com/Mu8sKrb.png/

Until about three months ago I never once heard the phrase 'dog whistling' and since then I have probably heard it twenty times. Dog whistling is the new gaslighting

dog whistling has been common for at least a decade

it's also a simple way to describe a complex behavior. same with gaslighting. I'm sure people overuse the terms but they are quite helpful in describing a pattern of behavior without getting into details.

examples:

us 2009:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/magazine/06texas-t.html

uk 2010:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8227773/David-Cameron-must-face-the-challenge-of-Islamisation.html

australia 2011:

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/89228/enough-is-enough-on-asylum-seeker-politics/

'X for people who don't like X'.

What if instead of gatekeeping the shit out of a given genre you considered the possibility that it might be broader than first meets the eye (or ear)?