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

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

You don't get to call yourself a "smart sad" unless you've got a gun to your head.

(Halfway saying the quiet part out loud.)

Not funny
Find another way of making your joke unless you really enjoy making people feel terrible. In that case nothing I say will matter.

there are a lot of violent, domineering figures of speech we should really be more conscious about before tossing them off. i was thinking the other day about the corporate word "spearhead." like, imagine using that in a meeting with a native american attending. awful.

just use a direct word or phrase instead of opting for the war or sports metaphor every time imo

Thank you! I agree 100%

It’s the least people can do to try to remove violent imagery from casual conversation

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.

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, January 9, 2022 7:00 AM (three hours ago)

as in they are secretly creative? Or they seem creative but you can't quite figure out how? .... or, as in they specialize in making NFTs?

xp
yes was reminded of this when during the Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal cup game earlier the commentator said when the lower league Forest were on the verge of defeating Arsenal that this would be "another famous scalp for them".

wow that's truly awful. I'd like to think you'd be unlikely to hear that in N. America but idk

The only good thing about crypto enthusiasts is that the word cryptofascist was already at hand

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haha it me

When people say that someone's career (for example) "spanned three decades" if it lasted from, like, 1989 to 2000. OK, it spanned three decades - who cares? Just say it lasted twelve years. Or "over a decade". Spanning three decades could mean anything from 12 to 30 years and thus is a useless phrase.

That's journalese for 'please admire this person who agreed to let me interview them'.

Assume the decade-spanning person in question is Mr. Loaf?

"hopium"

30 years you'd span 4 decades

Well, it's true that 30 years can span four decades (e.g. 1965-1994) but what I meant was that the maximum amount of time that the phrase "spanning three decades" can describe is 30 years (e.g. 1970-1999).

And yes, this irritation was inspired by a CBC radio news report of Mr. Loaf's passing.

at the end of a meeting saying "thanks that's really helpful"

nothing particularly offensive about this it's just become a placeholder meaningless thing to say

"i appreciate you" is a total platitude at this point ... kinda wish we could all just go back to "thanks" as it has fewer syllables and takes less time to say

The latest, and possibly all-time worst, new word from the SF writing world - Squeecore. Hopefully its shelf-life will be mercifully brief.

I have recently heard people use "solve for" in non-math contexts, where the more appropriate word would be "solve" or "address" or even just simply "write."

Like, what we're doing is technical writing, not algebra. Someone points to a bit of content that hasn't been written yet and says "hey, Jane, do you think you can solve for this?"

Um, can I just write it instead?

Don't get me started on "solution" as a verb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw40yqSZP6g

Don't get me started on "solution" as a verb

things I wish I were even older when I realized they existed

xp - I can totally imagine all these technocratic biz coinages being used in the service of Hitlering

'anniversary' includes 'year'

stop saying things are a ten-year anniversary when they're a tenth anniversary

feel like this goes back to junior high when couples had 'two-month anniversaries'

"rest in power"

i’ve never heard “solution” as a verb. however i HAVE heard “solutionize”…… which is actually a more useful word than it think!! it means “frame the problem in such a way that you’ve already suggested the solution” and let me tell you computer programmers and digital product people HATE this

it = you

fp

fair

"Off-ramp," as in looking for one. Heard it applied to both the Ukraine (numerous times) and Kamala Harris the past couple of days--been around for a while, I know, but its moment may have arrived.