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

Apparently, "Homecoming" is now known as "HoCo".

"dogfooding" is truly gross

i think steve jobs invented it? or gets credit for inventing it? though his phrase was "eat your own dogfood"

oh oh i have one

"maker"

steve jobs: "think different"
steve jobs: "eat your own dogfood"

yeah maker sucks

Also 'creative' is a term for people that don't actually have a specific skill - architecture, knitting, ju-jitsu - but wish they did

Does Zuck actually use Horizon outside of appearing in corny promo videos? I'd love to see his dogfooding dashboard, what kind of dogfood he regularly dines on

it's really funny to imagine top executive leadership doing their meetings in the metaverse, talking about how much they love it

talking about how much they love it because it would cost them what their job is worth to say anything else

Also 'creative' is a term for people that don't actually have a specific skill - architecture, knitting, ju-jitsu - but wish they did

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, October 7, 2022 5:56 PM (two hours ago

haha wait, are you listening in to my internal monologue? ... I have made peace with "maker" (after maybe a decade of annoyance) ... at least it doesn't have the condescending and exploitative context of "creative" ... if a techdad wants to consider himself a "maker" for painting star wars models in his garage or experimenting with DIY beermaking, or idk, customizing skateboards, it is less awful than "creative" ... maybe these two will meld and there will be the new noun of "funmaker"

maker is a bad word the exact same way teacher is a bad word tbf

abdabs at english operating as it normally does and should lol, oh no a verb was converted into a noun, we must allow literally no way for this to happen

it's really funny to imagine top executive leadership doing their meetings in the metaverse, talking about how much they love it

― Karl Malone, Friday, October 7, 2022 9:03 PM (yesterday)

I first heard the term dogfooding from a Google employee who was telling me how absurdly difficult it was to book a conference room due to the reservation & access system they were dogfooding at his building

xp I don't think nouning a verb is the basis of objections to "maker"

Nouning

lolling

the villain: let me find a straightforward way to describe and generalise activity in my own sector
this thread: we must allow literally no way for this to happen (doesn't apply to me)

phraseshitting? 🤔

There’s something twee about maker is perhaps the objection. Twee is perhaps not the word but you’ll get what I mean by telepathy.

the villain: let me find a straightforward way to describe and generalise activity in my own sector

which hated term are you talking about here? Maker or creative or both?

the issue i have with 'maker' and 'creative' is they describe things that literally make us human and are what we would be doing a lot more of if we didn't have to deal with 8 hours of soulcrushing, inane 'real' 'jobs' every day. but these regular human activities need a badge-of-honor catchphrase in order to be established as real, viable and allowable activities in the all-consuming ontology of capitalism.

wait till you hear abt writers

Also twee. Call them wordsmiths.

Scribblers

https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/joker-movie.jpg

im going to become the maker

In the US, I tend to think of "maker" as supposed opposite of "taker"---although it's been pointed out that many officially Live Free Or Die-type Red States are actually dependent on evil Feds because of so many tax cuts to the rich etc. So the term gets guilted (noun to verb!) by too-frequent association.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bridgeopedia/images/0/01/Lower_Trenton_Bridge3.jpg

wait till you hear abt writers

― mark s, Saturday, October 8, 2022 5:15 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair lol

poopsocking tbh

Maker is only acceptable in reference to giant sandworms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makar

Middle Scots makar (plural makaris) is the equivalent of Middle English maker. The word functions as a calque (literal translation) of Ancient Greek term ποιητής (poiētēs) "maker; poet".

Scribblers

Ink-stained wretches

“a creative” actually does mean a skilled person ime? a video editor or a copywriter or a designer usually? “maker” self-employed, a by-hand, computerless type of production. both terrible words obv

Just call them all 'the talent'.

there are lots of makers in your raspberry pi / adafruit circles

in fact
https://make.co/
has existed since 2005 and is full of that stuff

"Anyhoo".

Now, to be fair, I had never heard anyone say this irl (or even imagined I would) till approximately half an hour ago when I was stood at the lifts at work. To be fair (again), anything the person that said "anyhoo" says annoys the shit out of me. What this guy constantly does is he makes "funny" remarks out loud to no-one in particular and, particularly if you're in a lift with him, you don't know whether you should respond to him or even just acknowledge he's there. As I say he does this constantly as in I've never known him not to do it. So, not for the first time, I climbed three flights of stairs rather have to travel in a lift with him for any time whatsoever. Oh and he also used to always always seem to go to the bathroom at the same time as him such that I had to try to, in some way, time my refreshment breaks not to coincide with his. And there's this other excruciatingly annoying woman at work who literally laughs at everything and my worse nightmare came true a couple of months back when I got in the lift and they were in there together! Anyway, he's kind of like this character but 10 times worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiIyYq5-czE

I know those faces Alan Partridge pulls so well.

i say 'anyhoo' a bit but it's usually always when I'm uncomfortable, like at a point of the conversation where neither of us know what to say and I don't know the other person very well.

Americans are allowed to say anyhoo, British people must never say anyhoo under any circumstances.

And there's this other excruciatingly annoying woman at work who literally laughs at everything and my worse nightmare came true a couple of months back when I got in the lift and they were in there together!

nightmare scenario, one reason i don't miss office

anyhoo and bedbugs, anybugs and ballyhoo

I always thought the anyone that uses 'anyhoo' kinda knows it's lame and dorky, that's sort of the point

I can imagine Thurston Howell III saying that when they realize they're shipwrecked

i don't like people who say "i wish i would've (done this or that or whatever)" when they mean "i wish i had (done etc)"

those sonofabitches

polymath for obv reasons

I think I might have already said this but it's especially pressing at the moment - I've just watched a Tory MP use it twice in the space of a minute - but the only time I want to hear the phrase "big beast" ever again is in connection with woolly mammoths or whatever.

last chance saloon as big beast stalking horse throws hat in ring

― mark s, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:52 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well it's an animal I suppose.

you have 2 big beasts inside you

The verbal tic of academics of my generation is not "like" but "right?"

— Rafael Walker (@raf_walk) October 24, 2022

"annoy the shit out of you" is a little strong, in general, but i do notice when people pepper their conversations with "right?". i don't think most people intend to be doing this, but i think in effect it creates a weird pressure on the listener to nod or say "right" or confirm that the other person is right, even when they're not sure that the other person is "right", or not sure even what point they're trying to make

i think a lot of podcasters say "right"