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

Yep, in my experience, once the day in question has passed in that week, there is no room for confusion. After Thursday, “next Thursday” always means Thursday of the following week. On Mon-Wed (or Sun-Wed if you’re in one off those weird places where the week starts on Sunday) then “next Thursday” can be ambiguous. Actually not even a Wednesday, as if you meant the next day you’d just say tomorrow.

As for Tuesdays, there is no way today that “next Tuesday” means anything other than the 23rd.

The later the day in the week, basically, the bigger the window of ambiguity. It comes up most for Saturdays and Sundays. In theory “next Sunday” could be a whole 13 days away, but you’d be weird not to just to say “Sunday week” or “a week on Sunday” on that Monday instead.

I offer sincere apologies for implying that this obvious and logical grammatical rule ever strays from the path of efficient self-policing, and agree I should have chosen my words more carefully.(#kwasilwarteng)

Tuesday is tuesday

Next tuesday is tuesday

Tuesday coming is Tuesday

Tuesday week is tuesday after tuesday

Tuesday two weeks is the one after, and so on

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

People say 'new jack', what jack?
You wanna get slapped, Jack
Or get flipped like a flapjack?
I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin mics
Ever since you was on BMX bikes
You was busy braggin bout the mags on your honey
I was in Flatbush tryin to get money
Brooklyn, crookin up the whole damn place
Want to truck jewelry, don't turn your face
But I don't resort to those sort of things
I don't wear big chains or big rings
Gold was stole from caves full of slaves
Now black-on-black, and you're free as waves
In the ocean, without a notion
Am I surfin fast over your head?
Maybe you need glasses or classes in Special Ed
Let me see -
I can fit you in on Monday at 3
Tuesdays is use days
And Wednesdays is friends days
And Thursdays is her's days
And Fridays is my days
And Saturdays is fun days
And Sunday's the one day
I rest, give thanks and bless
Again on Monday I will be back
Yo Ak - get ready to attack

Special Ed

'artsy'

tell me more about how you have absolutely no imagination or whimsy in your soul

Everybody needs to stop using "netizens"

'once more for those in the back'

"I just wanted to flag......"

FPed

"They understood the assignment"

Never use ‘just’ in professional correspondence.

'for your consideration' as shorthand for 'this movie/tv show deserves an award'

Lots of discussion of it on the thread already but the term "creatives" makes me want to jump off a building.

i'm a knowledge worker

i'm a memory worker

barf

Im a shoddy worker

i'm really fucking good at not working

Recently someone who is a DJ and visual artist used the term in something they put out on social media, and I was like, "now i think you are a CIA plant"

earlier today I was thinking about some of the words that I remember being discussed on this thread, namely "bonkers" and "kiddo" ... but in my morning mushy brain, the two words became the phrase "bonko kidders" and now I think about the people I see using the annoying words and phrases as "bonko kidders people"

an ilxor used the term "amazeballs" in another thread and I forgive them but jfc

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

"amazeballs"

My boss briefly used 'awesome sauce' in a zoom meeting last week and I almost barfed in my mouth

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

The reason being it's horrible also wtf?

Amazeballs was like a joke flash word c2007. Does anyone actually use it without a bit of irony these days?

This weather is so amazeballs I should go take the little and the puppers out for a walk.

had a co-worker who used to say "awesomesauce" 30 times a day in each class she taught

she's not with us anymore

oh oh, no, she's not dead, and no we didn't fire her for it, she got another job

People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.

Reminding me of my nephew circa age 3 referring to his family situation as "two bigs against one little".

I prefer that to "hatchlings"

Incidentally, this thread turns 18 today

the thread is a big today

nearly 8000 posts. so much annoyance prompted by so many words, usages and phrases. well done, ilx!

TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND

an ilxor used the term "amazeballs" in another thread and I forgive them but jfc

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, December 23, 2021 8:41 AM (four hours ago)

related to testicles y or n?

Brits

Brit vs. Yank: The Face Off

Yes, I don't like either of them tbh.

"that's sooo aesthetic". NO.

keep it copacetic

I won't even try to open the whole thread, so I'm sure people have posted about this one before, but "saying the quiet part out loud" is reaching epidemic proportions; I've heard it four or five times on TV the last couple of days.

It's the new elephant in the room.

butt-hurt

i prefer butthurt

happy one year anniversary to that thing

A friend of mine used the term "crypto creatives" to describe two friends of hers and I will not let her hear the end of it.

Even fans of Yanigahara admitted that her story, which focused on a group of gay male trauma survivors, created a state of prolonged emotional agony. Well! There’s more where that came from, starting in January. The Smart Sads in your life will be carrying this one around before you know it.

ok i have seen it enough in the last week to need to vent about this: could we stop using the phrase "gun to the head" to imply "if i were forced"? please? it's not necessary.

unless you or someone you love has had a gun to their head, you might not feel this way. i get it. still, it's a very grim situation and i would prefer not to be reminded of guns near heads unless the situation is indeed quite dire.

i understand it's hyperbole; it's too evocative for most situations it's used in and it can be triggering for people whose loved ones have had guns to their heads and i know that is not the intention :(

Wow "smart sads" is insidious in the extreme. Most people think they're smarter than average. Most people are sad at least some of the time. Patting yourself on the back for those or making it your identity is cringe af

everyone otm