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

seeking out bad news to confirm that it's still there is a hard habit to break

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.

Be forewarned: I will continue to post in this thread.

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! :)

Thanks for coming in!

You got it!

sorry i am actually loling rn

"keep it merry, dingleberry" is a weird greeting I got in public recently

mostly because nobody said it and I was in fact asleep

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.

I'm sure Geri meant it affectionately, like when we tease the English for saying, "Gor blimey, 'ows yer father?" all the time.

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

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 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, we're all just finding things annoying itt so, it's not a big problem

"mommy milkers" is maybe the most horrendous term I hear regularly on Twitch

wtf

yes exactly

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

"All options are on the table"

It seems to mean that all options are options.

Yeah but they're on the table

think we need table is the table to weigh in

Heh, was wondering when someone would say that. Also,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGj4cfSgP8

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.

WORLD WAR THREEEEEEE

otm

Don't put your options on me.

Oooh, in the name of love

Ending a sentence with a stray "...so..."

I keep waiting for the speaker to provide more detail

"lethal aid". just say "weapons", that's what you mean.

"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?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8s0vaj1G4i0/TE7GgN759II/AAAAAAAAAHg/Ty5AU7-Z3Vw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/UniversalBar.jpg

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

team meeting just now instead of saying "the elephant in the room" they said "we need to talk about the stinky fish"

Ugh.

seriously ugh ... i regret the time and energy i spent arguing about microwaving fish on ilx, definitely not a hill worth dying on

thirded

"front of house" referring to people who actually do the work

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

right

there's this implied "as opposed to me, a svengali who distributes power and influence behind the scenes"

― 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.

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

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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

“thought leader”

"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),

apologies, I do this so often but fwiw I cringe inside every time

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.

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.

Local bar seems completely normal to me but I've known a lot of people for whom it was completely normal to travel 30 minutes to the bar they like vs. the nearest dive.

When did people start using “high-level” to describe a introductory overview.

my co-worker has used it for at least a couple years .... i use it ironically because of that, like "high-level, you need to get me your receipts if you want to get paid back"

Ending a sentence with a stray "...so..."

I keep waiting for the speaker to provide more detail

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture),

I like this usage. How to say "there's more to this -- we can go deeper or leave it there" in one syllable.

Pointlessly ornate British expressions such as 'indeed it is' instead of 'yes', or 'your good self' instead of 'you'. I'm sure it's all bound up in social class somehow, because how could it not be in this fucking country?

I think it's more tied up in the tradition of the great British twat.