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

not into the word 'eatery'

re: 'TED Talk' - maybe it's time to ironically revive 'Rant over' at the end of long social media posts about quotidien bugbears

Don't like "good faith/bad faith".

many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter

"trolling"

many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:25 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oooh otm, gonna die on this hill

Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.

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

This, along with "whomst" and "period" are good signifiers for "unfollow this person"

The handclap icon between each word in a Tweet is the worst. And mostly morons use it

“...and it shows”
So petty!!

Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:35 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This.

We had an argument in my office today that divided the staff, it was regarding the correct past tense of "pet" which some were very, very insistent must be "petted" and could not be the more novel and apparently atrocious "pet" (as in "this my dog Bonito Flakes, he likes to be pet")... I united them against me by saying both usages were equally valid.

pooted

Petterated

you could make the case for potten being an option

stroked

petté

"... and it shows"

"Passed" for "died" is fairly recent in UK English, I think (although we've had "passing", "passed away" and "passed on" for ages); certainly recent enough for me still to think "passed what?" whenever I hear it in conversation.

mandatory terminology for questions of mortality in all settings, including funerals, should be 'carked it'

"Sorry for your loss" is the worst.

on lots of old graves from 18th to 20th centuries in the local old rectory grounds, they use "fell asleep" which seems quite fucking ridiculous to me. Especially if you died screaming in agony getting minced in a threshing machine or some dramatic death like that.

xp meaningless cant lines in times of most fathomless realities are the most useful words and phrases of all imo

Very much agree with that statement. One void calls for another.

well guess we'll never see her again that fuckin sucks! cheers

rip indeed

Re: "I'm sorry for your loss", I know that the writer is now awful but this is the sitcom scene that comes to my mind more often than any other:

http://www.youtube.com/TKOrr4XRbg8

https://youtu.be/TKOrr4XRbg8

meaningless cant lines in times of most fathomless realities are the most useful words and phrases of all imo

― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:36 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thank you yes, you'd have to be a very special kind of bellend to worry about not being cliched ooh la la when faced with consoling somebody's loss

i mean obviously the drift of this thread is largely for being a very special kind of bellend but still

lol i remember my mum saying almost exactly that to a younger (and more bellendish) me when i was being prima donna-ish abt a condolence letter i was trying to write

well im defending it but im not up for calling anyone a cunt over it like

god i'm *so sorry* your beloved child died, what's that you say, car accident? *yawn* so trite

It is really difficult writing a message to someone - and I have found it harder doing so for someone I know and love as opposed to someone I’ve been out of touch with for years. I am not quite the age/family age to have experienced loads of deaths in my extended family or among friends, so I don’t do it very often. It’s hard! You’re sitting there looking at this blank space and worrying about what to write. What if you don’t want to write the same lines as everyone else but then accidentally touch something off? What if you do the card equivalent of leaving an awkward voicemail message? Will they even notice the words used?

When I was talking about this to my mother a few years back - who had lost both her own parents when she was young - she said that she remembered who had sent the family cards, and less so what they’d said. So since then, I have gone with the words we all use. Tl;dr deems largely otm.

(Unrelatedish but yesterday I was telling my mam that I thought our old neighbour had died. Can you not check? she says. Check how, I went, they don’t have an rip.ie over here. Pretty sure she’s still shocked over that, but we think ye have awful funeral customs anyway so).

remember who, not what is otm

and you dont ime remember who didnt, tbh

She didn’t mean that she remembered who didn’t in a bad sort of a way, but the people who did meant a lot to her.

ya im in agreement

thank you yes, you'd have to be a very special kind of bellend to worry about not being cliched ooh la la when faced with consoling somebody's loss

Yes it's really tough finding the right words to console someone you've never met over the death of someone you've never heard of on Facebook. Context, dear boy.

thank you yes, you'd have to be a very special kind of bellend to worry about not being cliched ooh la la when faced with consoling somebody's loss

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:22 PM bookmarkflaglink

Otm

"Just leave me alone, your words of support are hackneyed and stilted"

Using "that sucks" for major tragedies, on the other hand...

Yes it's really tough finding the right words to console someone you've never met over the death of someone you've never heard of on Facebook. Context, dear boy.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

Context missing from the original post, but how many strangers do people console on a regular basis.

I can't remember a time where I was on FB and said "oh hey, the guy I met at a Grim Reaper concert once just lost his grandpa, think I'll offer my words of support."

You can't be on FB very much, people are forever announcing deaths on there.

That's one thing Twitter has over FB... or does it?

People dying all the time, what a tired old trope

to the tune of 'love and marriage':

thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers
i suspect that really no one cares

Xxpost yea but i have a FB friend that is some rando I barely know, even if they somehow show up in my feed, I don't offer condolences if I barely know them. That's just weird.

I won't even say happy birthday on FB to someone who hasn't called me an asshole at least once

Well, what can I say, there's a lot of weird people out there!

Evidently.