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

One of the flats I lived in Glasgow had housing instability, that was down to subsidence though.

"House" as a verb is almost a different word, it's pronounced differently... a bit like "read" (present) and "read" (past tense).

Hows that

"Any more for any more?"

80s prog band Twelfth Night prominently used that phrase in one song so I have a soft spot for it.

"I just want to cover off some key points"

TH you gotta stop or I’ll never make it through a meeting again

"no recipe" recipes is some bullshit I keep seeing amongst my spam email. I'm capable and confident enough to a bit of improv in my kitchen - but even if you are making it up as you go along - It's always a FUCKING RECIPE!

“It’s _____’s world now, we’re just living in it.”

what if, as i increasingly suspect, it's snrub's world

i mean the browns are sort of good now

"aged like milk"

get a new simile

impactful

probably because it is "newish" and it is everywhere and it is usually used in a douchey context

"Say it louder for the people in the back!"

"aged like milk"

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:16 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes this one does seem to have curdled fairly quickly

so ur saying....?

excessive use of literal or literally as an unnecessary appendage to be more emphatic or something. It doesn't really annoy the shit out of me as a regular butcherer of sentence structure, good grammar and spelling, but I just feel like it is overused. I was reading a comment about a convicted sex-offender on twitter on my phone and very briefly misread "literal pedo" as "literary pedo" and then was cheerily imagining Tommy Robinson doorstepping Martin Amis.

Again: calling the ground/the road/the sidewalk/the pavement “the floor”. UK police and their spokespeople seem to be serial offenders here.

"we need to have this conversation"

meaning some vague societal 'conversation' rather than an actual back & forth between two people

"tulip bubble"

There are enough other bubbles to reference that you don't need to keep pointing to one from hundreds of years ago that you're only familiar with because the professor in the one economics class you took pretended to read the book his economics professor assigned him.

tulip bubbles are a specific type of bubble though

it can have more weight to refer to a precedential historical antecedent than to cite beanie babies, depending on the audience or intent of the writing

its also kind of a gross sounding phrase. i agree it's kind of useful though

tulip bubbles are a specific type of bubble though

agreed, and I think the "beanie babies bubble" (if it existed to the extent tulipmania did) is different re the underlying origins and "value" of the thing in question.

The South Sea Bubble is the one that got the bubble name first iirc, so, I also agree with man alive

then there's the Bubble Bobble bubble of 2019-2021

The Teletubble of xmas 2001 was real

Bubble works beautifully as a metaphor for a speculative mania, in that a real life bubble consists of a very small amount of substance inflated to an enormous size.

that wasn't anyone's annoyance but thanks for sharing?

Weirdly, I'm sick of "the venn diagram is a circle" but I will never tire of "time is a flat circle"

we need to establish an ongoing cadence

as part of an ongoing business conversation

Tracer, your workplace is cursed.

it is

i wouldn’t be surprised if we “laddered up” to outright demonic position

POSSESSION see my phone is already possessed

'ongoing cadence' is a+ honestly

any way to avoid 'going forward' is okay with me

need to give absolute clarity that we still have too much wheelspin in some aspects

Just got a meeting request asking to tie in with my skill code "to help us understand what the art of the possible is related to s/w and testing requirements", and "art of the possible" has me grimacing. Just say "options" instead of nine other words.

wow that's a new one for me, and yeah it stinks

i'm pretty sure it means they want you to cut corners and call it 'agility'

Wait what the heck is “tying in” with your “skill code”

the fart of the pissable

I really, really hate when writers (and I'm seeing it a lot in manuscripts I edit) use the word "prior" when they could use "before." It's a romance novel, not a contract.

controversial take ahoy but referring to the pandemic as "the end of the world"

I don't think I usually take much notice when someone says out loud "a couple __________" rather than "a couple of __________".

When reading, though, that missing "of" makes me (irrationally?) angry.

Happy belated birthday

Motherfucker the birthday was on time

omg yes
this has started to bother me more and more. clearly not enough other stuff to worry about, eh, brain?

I fucking hate getting PR emails offering me an "Advanced Download" of an upcoming album. What's advanced about it, exactly? These are often the same idiots who will offer me a "Sneak Peak" at a new music video.

imo the "belated" has implied apologetic brackets around it

the reaction is worth the annoyance tho