you can roll your eyes without posting to this thread -- the outward expression of peevishness by its nature says more about the peeved than the peever
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
have a great daythanks for coming inyou got it
These are all unacceptable in the UK, probably fine in the US. "Ya wot?" is more commonly used over here by service operatives.
― The White Hot Stamper With Issues (Matt #2), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
The thread's here, I post--it's a useful outlet! This is the second time this week I've been chastised for posting about x in threads about x.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
I guess I'd say the same thing to you that I said in the other thread, LL; what does it say about someone who's annoyed by x and opens up threads about x to see what people are saying so they can post about how annoying they find that?
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
i am a glutton for punishment! always have been :)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
seeking out bad news to confirm that it's still there is a hard habit to break
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
I'm not averse to that myself: I've been hate-reading and hate-watching lots of people for years. (I even have a couple of FB friends who qualify.) So at least we agree that's a normal human thing.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
Be forewarned: I will continue to post in this thread.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
i have almost entirely sworn off hate-anything except when it comes to language -- somehow i remain in in thrall to cataloging what people find annoying
can't really explain it aside from now i am here just to annoy people more which is -- admittedly -- not very mature but also not self-destructive
keep at it clemenza and have a great day! :)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
Thanks for coming in!
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
You got it!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
sorry i am actually loling rn
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
"keep it merry, dingleberry" is a weird greeting I got in public recently
mostly because nobody said it and I was in fact asleep
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I remember when Geri Halliwell had a song with the lyric, “Have a nice day, as Americans say” and I felt slightly shamed by it.
It’s good to think about the words we use though, and their implications.
― Josefa, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
I'm sure Geri meant it affectionately, like when we tease the English for saying, "Gor blimey, 'ows yer father?" all the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
ftr I'm not chiding anyone in particular, this is something that has come up itt for years and tbh it's imo a surprising blind spot- lads, when it's me raising whether something doesn't pass the eesh test then a lot of ye are ime exhibiting surprising blind spots
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I mean, we're all just finding things annoying itt so, it's not a big problem
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
"mommy milkers" is maybe the most horrendous term I hear regularly on Twitch
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
wtf
― beard papa, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
yes exactly
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 February 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
guess I should be thankful I don't go on twitch regularly (or at all)
tbf I run into 'tiddies' (as in 'big titty goth gf') on reddit way more often than I'd prefer. it's a good/creepy word to use on the internet if you'd like to come across as horny and infantile at the same time, and it seems to be popular with weeb/anime guys. pretty sure it's never been used by an actual woman
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
"All options are on the table"
It seems to mean that all options are options.
― jmm, Friday, 25 February 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah but they're on the table
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
think we need table is the table to weigh in
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
Heh, was wondering when someone would say that. Also,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGj4cfSgP8
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
aiui, the reason for invoking the table is to indicate that the options which previously have been trampled underfoot have been raised to a more secure spot where they might even be noticed, but probably will not be seriously considered.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
WORLD WAR THREEEEEEE
― Maresn3st, Friday, 25 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
otm
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
Don't put your options on me.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 27 February 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link
Oooh, in the name of love
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Ending a sentence with a stray "...so..."
I keep waiting for the speaker to provide more detail
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
"lethal aid". just say "weapons", that's what you mean.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52 (two years ago) link
"Local bar."
People in song lyrics are always going into local bars. What other kind of bar would they go into? Aren't most bars local to somewhere?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8s0vaj1G4i0/TE7GgN759II/AAAAAAAAAHg/Ty5AU7-Z3Vw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/UniversalBar.jpg
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:46 (two years ago) link
I was going to post "lethal aid" here the other day, but 'annoy the shit out of...' doesn't quite cover my feelings in this instance, to say the least. Horrific.
"lethal aid". just say "weapons", that's what you mean.― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link
team meeting just now instead of saying "the elephant in the room" they said "we need to talk about the stinky fish"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
Ugh.
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
seriously ugh ... i regret the time and energy i spent arguing about microwaving fish on ilx, definitely not a hill worth dying on
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
thirded
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
"front of house" referring to people who actually do the work
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link
there's this implied "as opposed to me, a svengali who distributes power and influence behind the scenes"
I suppose it's entirely fair to be annoyed that people are *misusing* common phrases
― rob, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link
right
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 4:47 AM (five hours ago)
lol, i don't think i've heard this usage before ... though i'm familiar with the hospitality industry and theaters where the term is common and it's ... not that? i mean, there's the distinction between interacting with the public and not interacting with the public, as well as a gendered aspect that the people in the back tend to be male or at least more of them are men than front of house.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
i’m talking about as a metaphor in a business context and yes there is absolutely that gendered aspect to it - thank you for putting your finger on it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
There’s now a Twitter bot for this threadhttps://mobile.twitter.com/lifeofwordsbot
― Alba, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
xp - but it's interesting (to me) that the bizspeak translation has that implication, whereas the context it was taken from has other inequitable aspects (e.g. cooks and stagehands get paid more an hour -- minus tips -- than box office staff or waitstaff) but there's a back-and-forth in terms of power relations kinda
― sarahell, Thursday, 10 March 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
“thought leader”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 14 March 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
"Local bar."People in song lyrics are always going into local bars. What other kind of bar would they go into? Aren't most bars local to somewhere?
My job involves a lot of analysis for town/city centres or local authorities/municipalities and colleagues looove to write 'local residents' in their reports. like it's already implied that residents are local otherwise we'd call them visitors
'strategic goals' or 'strategic plan' or strategic anything always feels redundant to me too. like surely a plan is already strategic? what elevates a strategic plan above a regular plan?
Ending a sentence with a stray "...so..."I keep waiting for the speaker to provide more detail― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture),
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture),
apologies, I do this so often but fwiw I cringe inside every time
― salsa shark, Monday, 14 March 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
xp - thought leader is the fucking worst. It sounds like something cluelessly misappropriated from a dystopian novel. I actually find it concerning that people use this term in an unironic way.
When did people start using “high-level” to describe a introductory overview. I get that it’s meant in a “birds-eye-view picture” way, but given that “high-level” usually means “advanced”, it’s very confusing.
― ed.b, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
People in song lyrics are always going into local bars.
I have observed in song lyrics that when there is a conflict between conforming to normal speech patterns and making a line more singable, the more singable version tends always to win out. As it should.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link