Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)"did a racism"― Sam Weller, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:08 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
"did a racism"
― Sam Weller, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:08 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah these are really bad but I think widely mocked for what they are, infantile regression... see also 'doggo,' 'heckin,' etc.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
'Like', that fatuous word sticking out like a sore thumb in conversational English. It's like killed American podcasts for me, like, the word just pops up like every five seconds. I used to think littering sentences with 'like' was solely an American thing, but last time I was in England I heard it quite a lot?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, November 18, 2019 11:57 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
creeping americanization.
i mean, like, i say like a lot, but i have been living with canadians for 7 and a half years. british people in britain should not be saying like
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
As an American I can say that saying “like” totally rules
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
Everyone should do it
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Probably have said this before, but using BCE/CE rather than BC/AD is some shit-eating namby-pambyness. First of all, "common era" is a meaningless phrase. Secondly, if you want to pretend your dating system has no connection to Christianity, maybe start it in a different year.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
stuff it, sick of seeing BC/AD still in 2019 CE, they're in different languages even.
Guess I could start using the Hebrew calendar exclusively tho
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
xp Fair enough, except that those abbreviations don’t say merely “Jesus,” which would be okay...they say “lord” and “Christ”
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 December 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
I’m happy to start writing “BJ” and “HJ” (for “h’after Jesus”)
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
lollll
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
Indeed quality of life has truly declined over the millennia
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Secondly, if you want to pretend your dating system has no connection to Christianity, maybe start it in a different year.
Yeshua ben Joseph didn't start in that year either, but our commonly-agreed era of dating did
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
I thought this was some kind of criticism of Jdate before I scrolled up
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
Even for you, sic, this is feeble trolling.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:46 (four years ago) link
*wipes brow* lucky I wasn't trolling then!
(obv the dating didn't actually start that year either)
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
Lived in blissful ignorance of this crime against the English langauge until this Joshua v. Ruiz fight tbh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
Such and such an artist/album 'slaps' is a construction I'll happily see the back of.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Saturday, 7 December 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
'We need to talk about... [ultra-niche, super-ephemeral, almost certainly insignificant cultural moment]'
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Saturday, 7 December 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
“slab”
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
slab?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
scottish labour?
Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
to be clear I was saying "slab," not objecting to it
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
God, "thanks for coming to my Ted Talk" is still going around like it's clean. jesus christ
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 06:05 (four years ago) link
"i turned around to them and said..."
― dogs, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
"i'm a _____ kind of person" or "i'm a _____ type of person"
― dogs, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
these words, usages, and phrases annoy the shit out of me, ilx
― dogs, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
"nothing burger"
― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Pssh, what a nothingburger of a complaint!
(Yeah, it's real fucken dumb.)
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
'I'm a nothingburger kind of person.'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Omfg. My boss likes to throw the line “it’s so rock ‘n roll” at random in a conversation. IT MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT. urgh. It annoys the shit out of me.
― nathom, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Shut them down with an 'ok boomer'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
speaking as a boomer this seems an entirely appropriate use tbf -- all the more so if it works
(caveat: 99.9% of the words usages and phrases in this thread are perfectly fine so my approval here may not carry the weight i feel it shd)
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SaltyNeighboringAmphiuma-size_restricted.gif
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
(Stings a bit as I get within spitting distance of that age but the sentiment abides.)
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Tell her 'rave on'
― kinder, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
"I'm speechless" at the start of a long rant
― rob, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
And 'long story short' towards the end.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
Once again: “weaponize”
― omar little, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
it's FAN SERVICE season
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
The Rise of Skywalker has weaponized fan service as a way to bring order to the concluding chapter of the trilogy and that’s ok and here’s why
― omar little, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
omg, I just received an email which said"feedback us!"
― kinder, Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
"Yer" as in yes, not your. Is yeah not informal enough for you? Do you even pronounce it like yurr?
― never knowingly otm (Noel Emits), Saturday, 21 December 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
Australian isn't it?
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 December 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
yarr
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 December 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link
yeah nah
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
smelt when used as past tense for smell.
― Yerac, Saturday, 21 December 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
But "the one who smelt it..." is a classic.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
smelt:https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/chronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/f2/6f20efd2-afe9-11e5-a171-6b164c2e7b59/56856f0322023.image.jpg
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 December 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Smelt fry BAAAAARF
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 21 December 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
"cringe"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link