salman rushdie was "naughty but nice" (important to use quote marks in that sentence.)
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Saturday, 16 July 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
salman rushdie was "’naughty but nice’,” according to ledge
― Alba, Saturday, 16 July 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
My parents bought my childhood home off the man who came up with “This is the age of the train”.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Blimey, he also did “milk has got a lotta bottle” and “I’m a secret lemonade drinker” https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rod_Allen_(advertising_executive)
― Alba, Saturday, 16 July 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
the man who animated the sleepy penguin in the “this is the age of the train” ad used to live directly opposite me
he wasn't elvis costello's dad tho
― mark s, Saturday, 16 July 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Julianna Margulies’ dad came up with ‘plop plop, fizz fizz/oh, what a relief it is!’ for Alka-Seltzer.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Saturday, 16 July 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Hoyt Axton's mother wrote (or cowrote) "Heartbreak Hotel." She was also completely unrelated to Elvis Costello, as far as I know.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 16 July 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
I learned an interesting story yesterday about Elvis Costello’s mother getting contraband Lee Konitz records from the US through a Liverpudlian Merchant Marine who later changed his name to Michael Holliday and had a couple of number one UK hits.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
Have you read his memoir? It's like 85% about his parentage and family history, 7% about being a person of Irish extraction, and like 5% about having created indelibly exciting New Wave music. Then another 3% of sheer random stuff he has to say about, like, early 20th century passenger ships.
If you open it expecting 300 pages of anecdotes about Nick Lowe or Paul McCartney or the Pogues or T-Bone Burnett, it's a disappointment. But if you just want to let him ramble it's fine.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
Something that gets used to death by a couple of the Blue Jays broadcasters: "approach," as in "he's got a great two-strike approach," or "I loved his approach in that at-bat." It's not meaningless, they just use it way too often.
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 July 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
more off-topic milk stuff. i forgot how big a thing the milk marketing board was in the 80s UK:
"Milk Cup – The first major trophy to be sponsored in English football was the League Cup, supported by the Milk Marketing Board between 1981 and 1986."
and
"The Milk Race was the most prestigious cycling event in the British calendar running for 35 years between 1958 and 1993 with sponsorship from the now disbanded Milk Marketing Board."
(the milk race used to come through tewkesbury when i was a lad. and the upcoming 2022 tour of britain is starting a stage there)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
"after aligning internally,"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 August 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
sounds uncomfortable tbh
"i'm conscious of time"
sounds exhausting
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
lol
I don't find it annoying (yet?), but "gatekeeping" seems to be on the same route to ambiguity-via-overuse as gaslighting
― rob, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
"We've decided to go in a different direction."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
They should do what they did in Dilbert
"Knock knock""Who's there?""Not you, anymore"
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Ah, yes! We think your [choose one: a) idea b) experience c) talent] is really amazing and fabulous, but we've decided to go in a different direction; we think [stupid, clueless, no-talent] is a better fit for what we have in mind.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
"So the direction we've decided to go is . . . down."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
― rob, Wednesday, August 10, 2022 7:16 AM (yesterday)
It is definitely on the same route! It isn't as annoying because the original, potent meaning of gaslighting is a form of intimate abuse, whereas gatekeeping is bureaucratic in nature ... the annoyance (at least my annoyance) is less visceral.
Meanwhile, I have made peace with "ideate" and "cashflow" used as a verb.
However, I am currently annoyed by what I feel is the overuse of "trauma" and "healing"
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Gaskeeping meanwhile means holding in a fart
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
I lack gaskeeping capacity tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtvGR8UX1L0
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
"nerd blackface" to describe any show about geeks that insensitively portrays their culture.
like makes me want nerds to get beat up p much
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
i have not heard this term before. i don't think it will have a nice life.
― sarahell, Saturday, 13 August 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
"it's a moveable feast"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
^^^needs my mum to pop her head in and explain at full length which feasts (meaning saints and holy days) are "moveable" and why and how, and how you calculate them
no one's lazy clichetron would survive the info-assault
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
iow RETVRN
"Capture" to describe a photograph. The comments section on Flickr is full of "Great capture!"
(Also, it sounds like an NPR show: The Takeaway, The Pulse, The Capture...)
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
I still quote 'this is the age of the train'.
Perhaps it still is!
I like the references upthread to people who made up slogans, plus Ross MacManus.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
“say less”
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 August 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
I used to work with an awful but malaproptastic woman who thought the expression was "it's a moveable beast".
I am generally a chilled-out linguistic descriptivist these days, but realised recently that people who aren't PC Copper giving evidence in court using "said" as in "we arrived at said hostelry", annoys me to an irrational extent.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 19 August 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
Sounds very Colin Hunt-ish.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 19 August 2022 09:51 (one year ago) link
mum would have loved "moveable beast" and certainly started saying it herself
― mark s, Friday, 19 August 2022 10:44 (one year ago) link
I knew a girl from Philly who thought 'might as well' was 'minds a well' and insisted we were all wrong.
she also called 'tennis shoes' "tenor shoes"
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 August 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
#istandwithher
― mark s, Friday, 19 August 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
hey, you minds a well
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 August 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
My sister thinks the opposite of ‘closed’ is pronounced OMPEN.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Friday, 19 August 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
I once had a boss who was so delightfully prone to malapropisms that I kept a running list in a notebook. Unfortunately the only one I can recall right now is: "I hate eating caramel, because the Rembrandts get stuck in your teeth."
She also pronounced "papal" so that it rhymed with "apple."
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 August 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
A papal smear
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 19 August 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
I used to say "banal" like "anal".
― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 August 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
i had a lot of banal sex
'heh, that's wayy above my pay grade'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 September 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
"what's our playbook on this?"
― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 September 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
"knowledge transfer"
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, December 18, 2014
"the team is complaining about not having enough time for the knowledge transfer - it's been a week"
i overheard a man drinking coffee speak this into a phone, the other day. come on, team, hurry the fuck up! work harder! transfer the fucking knowledge! god damn they're slow
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
my office is a wellspring of trendy nonprofit jargon gobblygook, but they seem to have finally stopped using 'learnings' in lieu of takeaways..
'So what learnings did we take from the conference?' drove me fucking bananas
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
Lessonings and Learnings
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
oh and everybody's a goddamn 'stakeholder' as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
Andy, I yearn longingly for the cuddly nonprofit jargon when I get into a workplace where the jargon is either too military ("after-action") or too sportsy ("playbook").
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
my team is not so bad, except when my boss says 'awesome sauce' in zoom calls
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 24 September 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link