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

i wonder if all the people who say “happy new years” also say “happy new decades”

I thought they were saying happy new year's

They are, someone explains this to AA every year

Same procedure as every year, James

https://i.imgur.com/4HqYWw7.jpg

and yet most of them omit the apostrophe xp

How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?

maybe 2020 will be the year the (correctly) hated apostrophe is omitted everywhere else also: let freedom reign (rain)!

How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?

typing

TS: Happy New Years vs Daylight Savings

Apologies in advance and, in way of explanation, I'm Scottish. It's that time of the year where I get annoyed at people saying Happy New Year before it's January 1st and, this will never stop being intensely annoying, pronouncing Auld Lang Syne as Auld Lang Zyne.

s/b daylights saving, like attorneys general

Passer bys

^^^wanna destroy tbh

number of daylights saved: 182

Next motherfucker with a corny-ass "2020 vision" pun will face sheer wrath

Thxbye

"cringe"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 9:34 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

fuckin happened again

if you describe anything as "so cringe" log out and cut off your hands imo

TS: cringey or cringeworthy or cringe-inducing.

the latter two are fine, "cringey" suspect, "so cringe" from the depths of hell

"It's so concerning" = ugh ugh

^^^ "Concerning" is the fucking worst.

I'm currently reading a book (academic study of pop music) that uses "problematic" as a fucking noun.

'Problematic' qua academic noun has been around for ages and is unrelated to wokeness.

i think the pinefox started a thread about it

(or anyway a discussion in a thread, he was amused by what exactly academics think they're asking when they used it -- it's usually plural in the academic sense tho, maybe)

It's so concerning

will they cancel the parade?

"my dude"

anthropocene

"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:14 AM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know both usages have been around a long time but one is correct and the other makes me want to twist someone's foot off

"nothing burger"

― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)

― pomenitul, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:04 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

"cringe"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:34 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

‘we need to talk about _______’

― mookieproof, Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:33 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

any reference to Twitter as "this website"

― Number None, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 6:52 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

any reference to Twitter as "this bird app"

― groovemaaan, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't seen this but I like it :)

"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.

like genital warts

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

I'm afraid the situation is even worse with "transparent," because it has acquired two functionally opposite meanings: the quality of not being hidden, and the quality of being invisible.

You can say that a government process is "transparent," meaning that everyone can ostensibly see what is going on.

You can also say that e.g. a cloud migration is "transparent to the user," meaning that you don't notice it happening and don't have to do anything.

It's like "oversight" meaning either carelessness or close attention.

heartlands

all power to the overlooked organs

spleenlands

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

maybe liverlands should be the actual name for merseyside and thus labour's truest turf

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

tuns 🛢️🛢🛢️🛢

(why no beer barrel emoji, only oil barrels)

my analogy don't want none unless you got tonnes hun

otm re opaque and transparent, I have now given up on working out what these actually mean except when used 100% literally about the see-through-ness of a material I can actually see (through, or not) there and then

further evidence that words mean anything which means they don't mean anything, also metaphors are bad

also metaphors are bad

also similes are like a thing that is bad

no matter how many times I look it up, my brain cannot hold onto the meaning of "ornate"... it always reads as "featureless" or "plain" to me, even though I know that's wrong

Nothing featureless or plain about The Shape Of Jazz To Come or Dancing In Your Head.

I always have to struggle to remind myself that "enervated" means drained of energy.

Huh, I had no idea.

And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed

it's all very plussing imo

'noisome' always confuses me