Commonly used phrases that make you pass negative judgement on someone

"Cool beans"

"Shits and giggles"

once, i said "cool beans" and this annoying guy told me to never say that to him again, and i told him to fuck off

and never spoke to him again.

"Commonly used phrases that make you pass negative judgement on someone"

one of my best friends says cool beans, so i can't pass negative judgment on it. it does annoy me in that i can't really comprehend where it came from or what it's supposed to mean that isn't covered by just "cool."

I say cool beans

that's cuz it's fun to say4

""Commonly used phrases that make you pass negative judgement on someone""

Have seen a bunch of times in the last couple of days, for some reason: "suppose to be". I realize this is an error and not just an innocent choice of words, but it's bugging me.

ohhh i have one! :

i've been doing bla bla bla SINCE I'M TWELVE

i notice this ALL over TV.

it's supposed to be SINCE I WAS TWELVE ya dumb fucks

sorry.

"commonly used phrases that you use to pass negative judgement on someone"

is for some reason how i read this thread title

"been there, done that"

I'm sorry Surmounter but I really really hate "cool beans". The only person I knew who used to say it regularly was a former co-worker who drove me up a wall so I think it just has bad associations for me. I cringe if I hear anyone say it now. Also, yeah as CAD said - what the hell does it even mean and where did it start??

"useless"
"tough"

don't be sorry. but there are lots of expressions that don't really mean that much, or have an obvious origin. just sayin.

ok can i just say that i pretty much cringe whenever anyone says "fabulous" or "fantastic" more than once in a 10 minute period

Of course there are but for some reason this one just really gets to me.

"Nightmare!"

it's ok honey, i understand

does anyone actually say "shits and giggles", like anyone here? it is horrendous

"lovely" when used like "darling" always makes me think the person goes to the woods and plays a lute as part of some Robin Hood reconstruction at weekends

Matt DC - Yes, that's horrible. Did you post once about sandwiches at Pret having a note attached that used the phrase "Nightmare!"?

"FIERCE"

it's like, if you have to say it...

"true dat"

gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

xp surm otm!

"no homo"

"lovely" when used like "darling" always makes me think the person goes to the woods and plays a lute as part of some Robin Hood reconstruction at weekends

― Local Garda, Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

"lovely jubbly"

ENBB, I do believe the word cropped up in a link on that Innocent Smoothies thread

Commonly used phrase that makes me pass positive judgement on someone:

"Twist!"

"weak sauce"

It'll end in tears... this thread that is

"do me a flavor"

the fuck says that

x-post ^^ ppl say that?!

I try to distance myself from my snap judgments. Sure they happen but I don't wish to be that shallow nor be to be judged on such a facile basis.

I know someone who says "lovely jubbly". It's SO incongruous and he's so patently crazy that I can't help but laugh each time. Also basically no one says that EVER in this country so it's basically a unique personal characteristic.

ARA9RGWRQ349*(&)@(*&%#)*@&*%#( SOMEONE I KNOW SAYS "DO ME A STRAWBERRY FLAVOR" and he's about sixty-five and he says it to YOUNG WOMEN AND I HATE HIM.

"happy days"....do people say this in the UK? Probably not in America unless discussing the TV show.

I fucking HATE this and Irish people say it all the time. "I'll get a round in" "Happy days", "Her cancer is receding" "Happy days", "I am eating a bar of chocolate" "Happy days!"

On the same lines "fair play". "Ah fair play man" used for any achievement whatsoever, however big or small.

x-post Michael otm of course, I should add that doing this is silly and actually plenty of perfectly nice people say these things, but it's still a fun discussion.

I like "fair 'dos", though. Again, completely un-American.

sounds like "good times"

(happy days)

I used to know someone who said "happy days!" years ago - suddenly I have the urge to punch him in the face over and over

"lovely" when used like "darling" always makes me think the person goes to the woods and plays a lute as part of some Robin Hood reconstruction at weekends

I do not! My weekends are nothing at all like that.

sorry i mean "fun times" which i hear a lot

(xxpost) (whereever the hell he is 10+ years later)

"hella"

I'm on record as feeling very negatively towards any use of "nom nom" that does not originate with a small child, cat, or rabbit.

Also: I say "shits and giggles." I have no defense.

Also also: I hate "cool beans" because my stepmother uses it, except she spells it "kewl beanz" in emails. Although she hasn't emailed me in a long time. Or maybe I spam filtered her. I can't remember.

I'll get a round in" "Happy days", "Her cancer is receding" "Happy days", "I am eating a bar of chocolate" "Happy days!"

Am I the only person who sang this in their head to the TV theme?

Alas, no.

"let me ax you something"

mdk

"not for nothin'"

"fell pregnant"

^ LOL commonly used

"I have murdered seven children and dumped their bodies in a quarry"

Also: I say "shits and giggles." I have no defense.

Also also: I hate "cool beans" because my stepmother uses it, except she spells it "kewl beanz" in emails. Although she hasn't emailed me in a long time. Or maybe I spam filtered her. I can't remember.

― blow it out your hairdo (Jenny), Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

all of this is beautiful

ugh, yes, I hate "hella." Stop being an Achewood character, damn it!

i actually like "hella" but i'm pretty much done with "nom nom"

I'd like to see a regional breakdown for "shits and giggles" vs. "shits and grins."

Also also: I hate "cool beans" because my stepmother uses it, except she spells it "kewl beanz" in emails. Although she hasn't emailed me in a long time. Or maybe I spam filtered her. I can't remember.

YES! In my mind pretty much everyone who would say "cool beans" would spell it that way.

There is someone on my facebook list who goes "kamping with her kool krew" who uses "kewl beanz". She is 36 years old.

ohhh also DONE with "oh hi" or any variant of it

ugh, yes, I hate "hella." Stop being an Achewood character, damn it!

Isn't this just NorCal slang?

(Not that it makes it defensible or anything, just I think most people who use it are either from California or picked it up from No Doubt.)

Stop being a NorCalian, then!

Okay maybe my last one doesn't really count as commonly used.

i think hella's pretty classic, if slightly annoying

"Love it/her/him to bits"

The only people I know who use any of these slangy phrases are pretty much ILXors who use them on purpose as a reference to teh internets. So none of them seem bothersome to me. Do people really say "hella"?

"Irregardless"

Fabulous and amazing are the verbal biohazards of the fashion industry. I told certain ESM staffers I was going to install a 10p-a-cliché jar in our office, for those two words, because it would be full of enough dosh to pay an assistant in about 10 days. And I only wanna hear you say FIERCE if you're lisping and you're part of a Vogueing House.

Cool beans is verboten apart from when used by my friend N., whose ancient English father also encouraged her to say 'wizard!'

ppl who reply "I was born ready!" when you ask them if they're ready.

hahaha

i've never actually heard anyone say 'hella' IRL, and i live in NorCal

Used to sit next to a chap at work who, every time he completed a minor task - and the job was a perpetual accummulation of minor tasks -, would say, 'Bish, bash, bosh - got that done,' and dust his hands egregiously.

I haven't come across anyone else who says this, but I did want to punch his face in. He said it about thirty times a day.

Oh, and there was another guy in a different job who used to say 'wicked nachos' but I knew he was a knob before I heard him say it, and again, he was the only person I've ever met who says this.

'irregardless': every time i see or hear this word, i just want to say the user "take a moment and really THINK about this"

OKEY DOKEY SMOKEY

"Fifty squid"

data point: I first heard "hella" when I lived in a house full of snow-boarding tweakers in northern California. This may or may not pertain to why I pass negative judgment on people who use it in conversation.

"I wasn't thinking!" <--- which is why people are unhappy with your thoughtless arse.

"hella" and "mad" still happen

"downloading isn't stealing"

"hit the ground running"

OH STOP IT IT'S NOT THE LATE 80'S EARLY 90'S

"Thanking you" <-------- the worst

i prefer to judge people by their actions rather than by their usage of stupid phrases

I'm normally A-OK with whatever phrase a person wants to use

but there is one slight exception

"It's all good"

ugh i just used "thanking u" for the 1st time the other day and kind of winced

"110%"

"Thanking you" <-------- the worst

agreeing with u

I love "thankin u", it reminds me of max thanking Keith that way after some bit of ILX coding wizardry, and it makes me smile.

"my bad"

"let's agree to disagree" <---- I have never, ever used this phrase. My feeling is you forfeit whatever argument if you use that phrase on me instead of, y'know, proving your point.

People who say 'pound' to refer to a plurality of pounds: 'fifty pound'.

^^^hates northerners ;)

"so-rry" (usually with hands held up in a please-don't-shoot-me-mister-bandit way)

"Thanking you" <-------- the worst

I hate to be disloyal, but my wife says this all the poxing time. I think she does it deliberately to break my brain.

(I actually like "thanking u", I just wanted to make a bad joke)

My feeling is you forfeit whatever argument if you use that phrase on me instead of, y'know, proving your point.

Um. My personal experience is that people say this when the argument has grown to the point where you seriously need to consider whether it is more important to keep a friend or win an argument, and they've picked "keep a friend".

"no harm no foul"

"big up"

"my bad"

*shudder*

"no harm no foul"

Don't drag Chick Hearn into this.

"good times" cosign

"cheers m'dears"

"ticketyboo"

maybe i just don't like english people

okay I am now glad I don't live in the UK

(xpost lol)

"my bad" is a useful phrase when playing basketball

also a useful phrase when attempting to claim a tub in Germany

or when accidentally breaking someone's nose

"good times" and variant "good times, great memories" are FANTASTIC when used sarcastically

wrong

Wait, does anyone actually use "good times" non-sarcastically?

yes

Only as a throwaway thing, of course. xxp

They do, jaymc.

i use it to refer to good times

Dan, there are a million other ways to convey the same meaning without 'agree to disagree' as a go-to. I just hate the phrase, not the sentiment behind it, because it's something stupid people say when they're feeling clever (in my experience).

LJ, I have MANY Northern friends, some of whom have even directed me with 'down t'snicket' before. You soft Southern git /markesmith

if anyone referred to something actually good and fun as "good times" i would assume they were being sarcastic and wonder why they were being so snotty about it.

oh well tracer doesn't agree with me.

RIP

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/ripgoodtimes.jpg

Calling anyone "boss" <-------- impossible to escape this in London

(i was just waiting to post that picture by the way)

"donkey's years"

jesus fuck i hate it.

do donkeys live longer than people or something? have you ever even seen a goddamn donkey? perhaps the donkey is YOU you mulish ass.

"let me ax you something"

Ugh.

Have been using "donkey's years" for, err, quite a long time. My bad.

never heard donkey's years, also so glad i don't live in england, i would be killing everyone

i fully cop to my revulsion being down to some miswiring in my brain, i have no idea, but when i hear it i'm just like ABORT ABORT ABORT

Donkey's years comes from rhyming slang I think, that stuff is in my blood I'm afraid.

was srsly considering "LL Cool Beans" as a display name one time

i think the idea is that donkeys have particularly long and harsh years filled with underappreciated labour

"downloading isn't stealing" — who says this? most of the people i know who download a bunch of shit haven't actually bothered thinking about it enough to get that far — and if they did would be going "hey, this is stealing! cool!"

—

nothing here approaches the majesty of "at the end of the day, right"

Jaymc, didn't JBR use that one for a while a few years ago?
xpost

"weird"

unless you are talking about something disturbing or occult or perverse, I will assume that you have no vocabulary at all

"this music is weird"

Any inappropriate use of 'yourself'. Many a salesman has lost my interest this way - "I can thoroughly recommend this to yourself"

People who say 'pound' to refer to a plurality of pounds: 'fifty pound'.

my friends and I have started doing this in as many contexts as possible for a laugh. "3 beer", "bag of chip" etc. it started with discussing how a Ronnie Drew type Dubliner might say "must be 20 year ago"

"confused.com"

Basically apart from "hello", this thread makes me think you guys all hate English people. Even the English people.

I mean, hella. Anyway. I always thought "at the end of the day" was a Britishism too.

bag of chip

"take a chill pill"

in Dublin people sometimes say "three chip" when they mean like "three portions of chips", not v often but I love it when it happens.

this thread board makes me think you guys all hate English people. Even the English people.

it started with discussing how a Ronnie Drew type Dubliner might say "must be 20 year ago"

That's West of Scotland too

"This is a sentence, yeah? I'm sayin' it, yeah?"

xposts reminds me of Black Books. "um...30 chips..."

"random"

FUCK. OFF.

all of these

'put the world to rights'. but i split the negative judgement 50/50 between the culprit and me for being a crank.

that dropping the s shit makes me really happy and I don't know why

"big time"

"This is a sentence, yeah? I'm sayin' it, yeah?"

OTM

I really hate when people, and this prob only is an online thing, cos you wouldn't say it, type: "nail. head. hit." or something to mean "you've hit the nail on the head there."

Except actually there's no standard version of this so it's like "nail. hit. head." or "nail. head. hit on." or "nail on head." or "head nail hit on." or whatever and ends up actually being a wildly off target way of saying something that's supposed to describe pinpoint rhetorical accuracy.

"majorly"

muchly

I went on a youth group retreat in 1994 that mixed us up and assigned us with roommates from other parts of the country, and my bubbly popular-girl roommate and her friends said "random" EVERY. TWO. SECONDS. It was obv the new teen word at the time? No idea, it never caught on in my town so it passed me by except for that brief exposure.

"Ta" for thanks, but I've gone on about this one before.

"randoms" to refer to people one doesn't know

TA MUCHLY

TA MAJORLY. I say "ta".

also xp - "pot. kettle. black."

ballers with randoms

You guys, you're taking all the fun out of life and Technicolor movies with stock British village character types.

i love "ta", but i'll tell you what winds me up, and which i just heard today, is when someone says "ta very much"

"ta very much"?

if you really want to elaborate on and emphasize your thanks, you might want to actually say the whole word

xposts

"Thanks for that"

also xp - "pot. kettle. black."

otm

i'm pretty sure no-one out there says "how ya diddlin'?" anymore but man '93-'03 was tough times

Hahahahaha Tracer, my sentiments in a nutshell on TA. It's the verbal of 'Thanx!' in a management memo.

I never say 'randoms'; it's a PR word for 'I don't know these unimportant people'.

has anyone here actually said "lol" in conversation?

had some close shaves, near misses

What I hate the very, very most are the ingratiating non-puns universally used by jolly types - "opporchancities", "holibags", "fairy snuff"

has anyone here actually said "lol" in conversation?

had some close shaves, near misses

^ I'll get me coat/ kill meself

you just made those up

xpost

"hella" is ok. it seemed to become common parlance after 'hella good', i don't know what achewood is though.

"cool beans" - have never even heard OF this. if someone said it to me i would look at them quizzically.

"shits & giggles" - this can be classic in the right context! by the right context, i mean attending a low-level pro tennis tournament, and watching neckless, tough-as-old-boots canadian journeywoman maureen drake have an ongoing argument with the umpire of her match at every change of ends, and one of their exchanges ended with drake shouting "i ain't out here for shits & giggles, ya know!"

the answer for me = people who go overboard with the internet speak. writing "lol" on occasion is fine but all that CAN HAZ NAO infantile shit makes me want to stab.

What I hate the very, very most are the ingratiating non-puns universally used by jolly types - "opporchancities", "holibags", "fairy snuff"

"Opporchancity" is v. Glasgow in 70s/80s - either from Billy Connolly or Rikki Fulton. There's a few others like that.

mega xp "ta very much" = the first thing you say if you are a Canadian trying to pretend to be a britisher, IME

and my contribution: "staycation." UGH

oh god my geography teacher used to say "guesstimate"

NO. YOU MEAN "ESTIMATE".

"ta very much" always reminds me of Eddie Hitler so is FAIR DO'S

x-post I thought "do not want" was your catchphrase lex?

lex "hella" is 80s-era surfer slang!

"latest and greatest"

referring to something incredibly pedestrian like "the most recent memo"

haha no xp - my recruitment agent used those three all the time, as did the guy who had the desk opposite mine. I'd be on the phone at work and hearing that shit in stereo

Whereas in a marathon setting, Paula Radcliffe is all shits, no giggles...

"Chillax"

I somehow took to saying "good times" and passed negative judgement on myself every time. I'm now weaning myself off, but am only at the point where I realise I'm going to say it, stop myself, and get flustered thinking of something else to express the sentiment. "At this juncture there is an accumulation of positive elements." Bad times.

oh yeah and stuff like "challops" needs to fuck off too

yeah "challops" is really stupid

the word "hotties"

oh i thought the only reason to object to challops was because you might associate it with people you don't like

god you know it really riles me up when people say words!!!

really 99% of internet slang makes my skin crawl

hey you know guys this would be a pretty easy thread to bend towards juvenile puns, who wants to take charge

i'll take this charge

so you're saying this thread should bend over so someone can take charge????

i wd say "legend" and even moreso "ledge", but idk, everything has its time and place, sometimes (a lot of the time) using annoying words "ironically" is funny.

"awesome"

"totes"

^^^whoaaaa xp

mr t? LEGERND

timmy mallett? LEGERND

heath ledgernd

ha i use "awesome" and "totes" all the time

also "blates'

u hangin w/surgeons???

what's the party line on "laters"? me, it annoys me a bit but i never object

think u mean "lates"

used "laters" all thru my teenage years

ok I figured one out: "what's the party line on _____?"

what is blates

fuck yeah, dogg, my new excimer laser is totes awesome, blates like a ~motherfucker~

"awesome"

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

For some reason this annoys me when fellow Brits use it, but not when Americans do.

blates = blatantly

i'm not ashamed

y'all oversensitive mofos imo

^^^bet i've just done like 3 of them

also i am actually agreeing largely with the lex in this thread

I have no idea where "weak sauce" even came from but I fucking hate it. Also not a big fan of "ginormous".

i'm not ashamed

― lex pretend,

Well, you should be.

"This kicks some serious fuckin' ass!"

i realise there's a potential open goal in my last post

"graduate of the University of Life"

'Thanks muchly', or any variant with muchly in - 'ta muchly' for instance.

Fuck off muchly.

"self made man"

yeah, i say 'weak sauce' with some regularity

xp 'fuck you very much' <--- retarded

"Chillax"

One of our students said this the other day and I went after him with my umbrella.

"don't forget, when you ASSUME you make an ASS out of U and ME"

the last person who said this to me repeated it a few times with increasing emphasis the pun bits to make sure I got the point. It's obviously one of the those things that isn't really true and doesn't really work and somebody's basically put the cart before the horse so they could squeeze another pointless pun into an existence it didn't deserve

"Irregardless"

I like to drop in "irregardlessly" from time to time to really push my luck

i say almost everything listed on this thread with greater or lesser degrees of irony :/

"No worries" this one seems to have picked up lately. I blame Outback steakhouse commercials

I think the largest demographic of hatred here is the British luvvie class. Leave the poor dears alone to their twee little lives.

i say "no worries" all the fucking time.

no wuckin furries mate

i say almost everything listed on this thread with greater or lesser degrees of irony

I was about to say that too UP MIDDLE FINGER

"the PC police" (are trying to stop us from calling women sluts and bitches... that's fascism!)

saying "no worries mate" with an annoying aus/nz accent: is this a vic and bob thing? i'm sure i do it de temps en temps.

i usually think of vic when i say it (not that i say it in an oz accent).

"He's his own man". Oh fuck right off.

xxxpost Okay only ever say anything to do with "PC" ironically. See also "it's namby-pamby Health and Safety culture gone mad"

Anywho

Drives me nuts.

Also - when people say "I feel really badly about __________." No, you don't. You feel bad about it. If you were sad about it would you say "I feel really sadly about ____________." Nope.

^^ Esp since someone corrected me once when I was using it correctly. Why the hell I was friends with someone who would correct anyone's grammar to their face is another question all together.

the whole [] thing

the mps expenses thing

the whole big brother thing

the whole alcohol thing

the whole my eyes are bleeding here thing

ilx is mad neurotic

how do ppl feel about 'addicting'?

I think the largest demographic of hatred here is the British luvvie class. Leave the poor dears alone to their twee little lives.

Brit English is kind of slang-bloated, and based on reading too many football forums I think watching semi-intelligent but not very self aware English guys get into slang heavy, cliche peddling arguments about trivial shit is one of the most embarrassing things on the internet

like I dunno with Americans it seems fair enough, I guess they're not really paying attention to it, it's just something they do between visits to Dairy Queen and torture sessions

Why the hell I was friends with someone who would correct anyone's grammar to their face is another question all together.

Haha, I'm always correcting my friends' grammar. But I correct foreigners' grammar for a living, so it's become a habit.

addicting as opposed to addictive you mean Coz?

"addicting" boils my piss

Yeah, phrases based around "the whole [INSERT NOUN OR NOUN PHRASE] thing" get me in a lather.

I think a lot of the more rhetorical stuff like that it tends to be because yr quite jaded and you get bugged by people who are all wide eyed and excited about saying stuff that is really cliched

Never heard of addicting. But "medalling" is criminal

people who say "omg" irl

this includes my fiancee sometimes tbh

oh em gee!

like yeah "Nail. Hit. Head" or whatever, how did this phrase not just fall by the wayside because of how clunky and wrong it is, instead of becoming this massive smug display of conferring ultimate legitimacy on some other guy's opinion

Like spell it out O-M-G?

Disclaimer - None of these are actually enough to make me think less of a person as implied by the thread title. They're just things that irk me.

spelling that out is . . . not good

how about loose used in place of lose?

"randoms" to refer to people one doesn't know

This is bad; however, "randies" is okay.

also how would one pronounce "omg" without spelling it out...?

Yeah, phrases based around "the whole [INSERT NOUN OR NOUN PHRASE] thing" get me in a lather.

So you don't like the whole "the whole ___ thing" thing?

A former friend of mine was a grammar Nazi who used to point out every single time someone used "literally" incorrectly. After a point it got so annoying that another friend snapped and was like "Listen Dave we all know what "literally" means and that I may have used it incorrectly just now but you know what? It doesn't fucking matter so shut the hell up."

"I don't care, I say what I think." Well done you.

RANDIES!!!??? Oh no Dan. Not acceptable.

"I'm all about [insert word]."

You could get into a whole argument about how pedantry about a common form of usage of a word is wrong in itself since usage dictates meaning but I find a swift cockpunch is a more effectual retort.

My feeling re: "randoms"/"randies" is that if you're going to be that hostile and dismissive, don't half-step.

I use "literally" incorrectly for humor purposes all the time.

I literally shit in my pants laughing.

^^^^ exactly like that

I use "literally" incorrectly for humor purposes all the time.

Exactly and this idiot didn't get that and acted like we were all morons who didn't actually know how the word is supposed to be used.

He'd be like - Oh, did you LITERALLY shit your pants now? NOW DOUCHNOZZLE THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT NOW STFU.

I was not a big fan of this particular individual.

err NO not NOW

literally opening a can of worms here

you should have literally shit your pants, for further lols

Oh, did you LITERALLY shit your pants now?

To which you say, "Yes. Yes I did. Why are you mocking my medical condition?" and then burst into tears.

I weep for my stoma, as my stoma weeps for me

Yeah in that situation I probably would have gone with Dan's response. Curtis' might have been going a little too far for my taste.

heard an NPR segment that had some dude saying that something was "literally selling like gangbusters"

which reminds me: gangbusters

What does it even mean?

Someone said to me once that they "came like gangbusters" and I was all o_O. Pls explain Elmo.

i cannot stand whenever someone says "wouldn't it be cool if... <insert some far fetched fantasy, ie, if the world were plaid>?"

and then expects you to respond?

it means it shot out like a tommy gun

heard an NPR segment that had some dude saying that something was "literally selling like gangbusters"

This is the funniest fucking thing.

110% gangbusters, it's all good

Ha: "literally selling like gangbusters" is okay due to the "like"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

My online sources tell me that it is "most commonly used in conjunction with "like" to describe something that is extremely effective" so the aforementioned phrase was a positive one I guess but yeah gangbusters . . . still dumb.

uh what's the context on that one, e o_O

LOL. Uh . . . nothing I'm going to write about here, that's for sure.

Hahaha I was walking home from something late at night the other day, and some gangly teenager smoking by his front gate said to me, "Oh Em Gee, you look fantastic." Which was so incredibly silly, the whole thing...like, I'm old enough to be his mother and he said "Oh Em Gee". Really?? Is that what all the best gangsters are saying these days?

dude was talking about hybrid vehicles iirc, which are not much like gangbusters at all

"these things are literally bursting into crowded spaces with axes, busting open barrels, and making people buy them by force of law"

Laurel that's pretty funny and awesome at the same time.

Someone said to me once that they "came like gangbusters" and I was all o_O. Pls explain Elmo.

Have you seen "Bugsy Malone"?

maybe he could just tell that you were web-savvy, Laurel

For some reason, I'm imagining Laurel's admirer in a fedora and an undershirt.

Actually

"epic fail"

"pause" (in that "really I'm not gay" defensive meaning)

"asshole to elbow" (altho, tbh, only ever heard two people use this one in reference to a really crowded place)

trying to figure out that last one visually

"pause" (in that "really I'm not gay" defensive meaning)

wait, what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJt16OPkj_s

either giants or midgets involved

"embedding disabled by request"

epic fail/win disgust me.

Love that song (xpost)

[heard an NPR segment that had some dude saying that something was "literally selling like gangbusters"]

Is this really incorrect usage? (of 'literally')
if you want to be simultaneously hyperbolic and earnest, there's no other word that fits.

I was at Target last Saturday and I didn't see any gangbusters.

"This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."

well I can't help you with that

I am seriously considering prefacing all similes with "literally" -- "the sea was literally as dark as wine"

^^^yeah fuck youtube and the prs xxp

i passed judgement on "literally gangbusters" dude so acceptable usage is moot

I mean, look, if you aren't willing to stand up for your metaphor with a "literally," you're clearly not that big of a believer in it -- when Homer said the sea was as dark as wine, he meant that shit was in point of fact looking the same color as some wine

wait, what?

You haven't come across this? My younger brother and his friends say it all the time, its pretty much the new version of "no homo". Like my brother will say to his male friend, "I like that shirt, pause". Its stupid and ridiculous.

update gangbusters to bang-bus-ers, for the amateur porn savvy kids these days

Because he was blind, so everything was that color

good variation: "literally, and I'm not even kidding, [...]"

You haven't come across this? My younger brother and his friends say it all the time, its pretty much the new version of "no homo". Like my brother will say to his male friend, "I like that shirt, pause". Its stupid and ridiculous.

but that sort of makes the previous statement sound gayer...?

So the new generation talks like text messages.

x-post Yeah I've never heard that - weird!

Exactly. Didn't say I understood it, just commenting that it makes me think less of the person saying it.

That's some weak sauce.

I think I learned about "pause" on ILX; never heard it IRL.

but that sort of makes the previous statement sound gayer...?

^^^ OTM, this is what I don't understand about kids saying "pause"/"no homo", etc..

Maybe it's "pos" short for "possibly", like they are not sure about the previous statement and want to add a quick caveat to it?

Or they are referring to each other as Posdnus from the hip-hop supergroup De La Soul?

I have never seen anyone do an audible voice-over for their own awkward gay-panic pause, thankfully, but I'll be on the lookout -- I think Dan is OTM about how much that would just call attention to it and make an internal awkward gay-panic pause sound like a meaningful suggestive pause

"Pause"

this 21 yr-old girl i work with always talks about how she needs to "secret" something, i think meaning she is hoping for something to happen? i feel like i'm 80 years old talking to her.

OK I HATE "hilaire"

Soon he will just say "nice shirt (wink)"

oh, gay-panicpaws

this 21 yr-old girl i work with always talks about how she needs to "secret" something, i think meaning she is hoping for something to happen? i feel like i'm 80 years old talking to her.

does this have anything to do with self-actualization cult 'the secret'?

she's saying "secrete," dude

you don't wanna know

loool

"She was placed on five years probation, banned from owning or controlling animals and was told not to go within 100 yards of a rabbit."

"big guy"

he/she "means well"

okay i can't quite believe this "pause" thing

"Alls I know is..." No way this can be correct, but so many people, including my dad, use it. How can you pluralize "all"? Yet spellcheck lets it go red-underline-free here.

"my bad" is a useful phrase when playing basketball
Word.

i've never actually heard anyone say 'hella' IRL, and i live in NorCal

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3),
Seriously?? I grew up in Sacramento and use it, though I'm self-concious about it. I try not to use it in more "sophisticated" company, but when I'm around my high school bros, it's on.

"wonderful"

my sister says "omg" out loud. i think it's cute. stuff like "hilaire" just makes me think of "one serious negosh" from 30 Rock, so i like it too.

he/she is a "people person"

"proactive"

use "to be fair" all the time but no doubt it's shit

"get on board" (invariably w/some ill-fated or half-assed scheme)

literally thinking outside the box like gangbusters

http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/86653-2/Table_cat_distracted.gif

"my bad"...also a useful phrase when attempting to claim a tub in Germany

bilingual LOL

I love that cat so much.

"save-a-ho"
"would smash"
"bro/s" but concession: generational thing, "brah" easily googel to infinity worse.

oh i thought of one i hate. when people say "amaze" instead of "amazing".

I'm always a little disappointed when I hear someone say "a big ask". So many ways to phrase the concept and you picked that one?

Got very annoyed recently when incredibly sexist bullshit was defended with eye-rolling about "politically correct do-gooders" and somehow nobody else there seemed to notice this was a giant flag of cockdom. Even when the guy claimed that our tiny PC minds would burst if confronted with the wit and genius of Jeremy Clarkson.

(Fuck! How can I be the person who came out of that exchange looking bad? ok, don't answer that)

Suzy, not only do you hate northerners, but you also hate Crutis' Borad! When will the madness end? :D

"hella" - kind of annoying unless it's achewood.

"hell of" - ok, but i've only typed/ seen it typed. never used or heard it used in conversation.

"is what it is' has been officially retired, yeah?

"is what it is" much preferable to "thirdpersonself gonna do what thirdpersonself gonna do"

I say about half of these things, have never heard of a quarter, and completely and totally agree with the remaining quarter. ESPECIALLY GUESSTIMATE. Just... estimate. Or guess. There is absolutely no need to combine those words. (See also: hatred of bromance, stacation, neologisms, people, fun.)

"prezzies"

Now you just made that up.

Got very annoyed recently when incredibly sexist bullshit was defended with eye-rolling about "politically correct do-gooders" and somehow nobody else there seemed to notice this was a giant flag of cockdom. Even when the guy claimed that our tiny PC minds would burst if confronted with the wit and genius of Jeremy Clarkson.

Ugh. Waving an anti-PC crusader flag as a "defense" for blatantly offensive language is a total, total dud. Also: "I'm sorry you were offended."

xp I think it is British? But I have heard Americans use it, too.

Yeah, "prezzies" is British, or at least I assume so. My parents and grandparents would say it when I was a little kid. Think my mother still might.

my Scottish relatives would say it

"check out this bad boy"

"I'm Jeremy Clarkson"

I thought only 15 year-old anglophile girls from the US said "prezzies".

along with "no homo" and "pause" i'd like to nominate any straight dude who says "i didn't need to see that" when confronted with another dudes ass or junk for "lamest way to jokingly assert your heterosexuality"

"I'M NOT GAY I'M NOT GAY I'M NOT GAY!!!"

if you mean, like, on film, then okay, but in terms of real-life confrontations with other guys' penises, if I say "I didn't need to see that" it would be less an assertion of heterosexuality and more a polite way of saying "for the love of god keep your genitals in your pants from now on"

pause

along with "no homo" and "pause" i'd like to nominate any straight dude who says "i didn't need to see that" when confronted with another dudes ass or junk for "lamest way to jokingly assert your heterosexuality"

― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:49 PM (6 minutes ago)

huh? i wouldnt consider myself homophobic but i def dont want to see dudes' junk

xpost nabisco otm

nabisco otm; also I have never seen/heard that term used to mean "I'm straight, btw" (I've heard it used about every type of person you can think of, male/female and straight/gay, because Boston is full of grimbos)

it makes sense in terms of film, though -- like if you were watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall and some dude spendt 10 minutes making a big show of how he didn't need to see Jason Segel naked, etc.

but yes, when it comes to real-life junk-exposure I don't think there's really such a thing as "protesting too much"

i didn't need to see that suggests that SURPRISE a penis just showed up, out of nowhere, popping up like a groundhog or something

not talking about put-your-penis-away-that's-not-funny situations here

more like, dude's bathing suit fell down over his ass and i have to make a great show of disgust because my eyeballs saw it

I think I've actually heard it used most often in response to the female muffin top, uttered by my wife.

how can a bathing suit fall down over someones ass????

^^ with like a big wave or something. It can happen!

lol I am trying to mentally catalog "keep-your-penis-out-that's-hilarious" situations now

I didn't see it my eyeballs did...

i still don't want to see anyone's ass at the beach, male or female????

not gonna lie, I want to see Halle Berry's ass at the beach

this thread is all bout foreign expressions over my head but "female muffin top"? kind of seems like a contradiction.

xp I agree, ass is never welcome

Yeah I was just thinking - I don't know, there are some asses that I don't think I'd mind seeing in that context.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=muffin+top

Dan pls define 'grimbo'

oh obviously i thought muffin top was something entirely different

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grimbo

Definition 1 is closest to what I mean, although my usage is gender-neutral.

(ie, "grim bimbo" or "grim himbo")

(I am aware of exactly how bitchy my social circle is coming across here)

"It is what it is"
"Know what I'm sayin'?"
"aight"

"don't take it personal"

"unban _____"

How is one supposed to be goofy if they can't say all these phrases???

wear a vest, turtleneck, gloves, and a funny hat

How is one supposed to be goofy without shelling out money to The Man at Goodwill if they can't say all these phrases???

My bad, I'm hella taking this tots literally, yanno what i'm sayin, boss?

while scrolling I read that as "unban dictionary"

"do me a flavor"
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the fuck says that
― surm, Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

x-post ^^ ppl say that?!
― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I know someone who says that often. He's in his mid-50s, so I don't know if it's a generational saying or what.

do me a flavor

authentic 70s stoner slang

^hey jaymc you remember Ms Brub3ck saying that?

oh man, my elementary school teacher said that

revelation

"anywho" and "it's all good" - mentioned upthread

srsly "it's all good" is the only phrase (nb not word but phrase) which srsly irks me and i have no idea why, think it's that it might be the most banal platitude ever invented AND is used by young people everywhere all the time

"end of."

but something about inane language warms my heart

xp LJ: part of why it bothers me is that it's usually used to reassure or assert the goodness of all things in situations where it's obvious to a more observant person that they are not. You are making the best of a less-than-ideal set of circumstances, but it would be dishonest to say that the set of circumstances are all good.

"________gate" for any "controversy" or "scandal"

"rad"

YES sarahel it is CLASSIC problem-avoidance passive-aggressive stfu-speak. It basically amounts to "I don't have time to discuss this shit but hey your problem if it fucks up".

"shit the bed"

^^otm.

^hey jaymc you remember Ms Brub3ck saying that?

Nope, but it doesn't surprise me. I just remember her saying "rank," as in "Woodwinds, that was rank!"

shit the bed vs. screwed the pooch

"CLASSIC problem-avoidance passive-aggressive stfu-speak."

huh? the only way i've heard "it's all good" used is as palliative like
"you brought meat loaf to a vegan picnic? well jerry is actually anemic and is off the wagon anyway so it's all good. no worries"

i like saying shit the bed

"Woodwinds, that was rank!"

OK this sentence is classic. I don't know why.

xp Philip - that's the usage I'm most familiar with ... on the other hand, it sucks to be you when all the vegans get up in arms when they see your meatloaf, Mr. "it's all good" is probably not going to stick his neck out to protect you from the offended vegans.

i only want to hear someone say "screwed the pooch" in 'the right stuff'

xp omar - I try to make a concerted effort to find opportunities to say "fuck the dog"

"you brought meat loaf to a vegan picnic? well jerry is actually anemic and is off the wagon anyway so it's all good. no worries"

tears in my eyes from laughing at this

fuck - "no worries" bugs me too

'Mr. "it's all good" is probably not going to stick his neck out to protect you from the offended vegans.'

even anemic Jerry with face full of meatloaf?
HARSH REALM

you woodwinds were pretty rank, let's be honest

the Lord willing.... grrrrr. Grrrr. GRRRRR.
We're not eating our own dog food with this. Yes yes yes, people should all have to use the tools they produce, and there has to be a better way than this of putting it.

i say "no worries" all the fucking time.

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Good for you, I fucking hate it.

We're not eating our own dog food with this.

Haha I don't see how this means what Jaq's explanation says, and also have never heard it or the sentiment of the explanation!?

"I ain't tryin' to hear'dat"

"________gate" for any "controversy" or "scandal"

― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:04 PM (32 minutes ago)

O
T
M

xp alex basically anything a young person would say

"End of."

Yup. It's the cliché teamed with the attitude of 'I'm the smartest guy here', and then abbreviating it for added misplaced smugness, that makes this especially loathsome.

You are a lot of snobs.

true dat

wait, wouldn't meatloaf be good for someone with anemia?

that's the point

mmm meatloaf.

We are not eating our own meatloaf on this = I would judge much less negatively.

oh oh oh I've got one:

"Enough said."

Or even way worse, in print:

"Enuff said."

I have the misfortune of occasionally having to hang out in the company of a dude who calls himself Dav3-O. If he enters a room and someone says, "Hey Dav3-O it's good to see you!" he responds with "It's good to be seen!". I guess it's sort of one of his catch phrases. I don't know why but this drives me up a fucking wall. Thankfully he's the only person I've ever heard say it.

It's between "hilair" and "totes" for me, those are pretty much the worst.

Although living with an Australian has made me realise that virtually every bit of slang they have ending with an 'ie' is terrible. "Tinnie", "stubbie", "sleepie" etc. It actively makes me want to grab him by his shoulders and shake him and shout "shut up" repeatedly.

how about 'amirite'?

To 'hilaire' I too say bellocs.

More: "lecky" for electricity; "my" coffee.

"my" coffee hein?

"lecky" u hate northerners (further) confirmed

so wait, if someone says "that's my coffee" you lose it?

I quite like 'tinnie', but what's a 'sleepie'?

"i haven't even had my coffee yet" like it's a teddybear or a binkie, i get this

tinnie = can of beer
sleepie = the rohypnol that goes in the beer

I believe they refer to sleeping tablets. This may be his own invention. (xpost)

oh right, my coffee, I get it

people will say "i'm gonna stop on my way into work to get my coffee"

people will not say "i'm gonna stop on the way home from work and get my beer"

good few things on this thread I say.

This thread is already adversely impacting upon my life. I just sent a text to a friend including the phrase 'keep me in the loop' and had a crisis of confidence before sending it.

def have said "my beer"

i totes know whatcha mean bro xp

i'm gonna put on my beer jacket! (i like and use this phrase.)

Interesting. The "my" sort of implies routine, doesn't it? It's not just coffee, it's your daily cup.

how about "that's a thing"?

"keep me looped" is better than "keep me in the loop"

weak sauce = classic imo

I know a dude who made up a catch phrase last week but I don't want to post it because it's probably good enough to sell to a cruise line or credit card or something

"amirite" makes me shudder

Interesting. The "my" sort of implies routine, doesn't it? It's not just coffee, it's your daily cup.

Yeah agree. But weirdly, "my beer" doesn't seem to work, but for some reason "my pint" does.

"keep me looped" is better than "keep me in the loop"

you're joshin, right?

there used to be a bar in manhattan that had little "gone to piss, please don't fuck with my drink" cards.

Stretching the definition of commonly used: 'collectivism'

how about "that's a thing"?

― cozwn, Friday, June 19, 2009 12:43 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ total classic shit

Yeah, I don't mind the "that's a thing" thing.

"my coffee" is especially terrible when in use by soccermama who will go neuro if not given it as a fix; v v precious. Imagine someone who thinks they have angels (and definitely has one in stained glass) registering coffee in the possessive. Then scream.

As to shortened words stereotypically favoured in the North, "leccy" is the only one I hate and I was first exposed to it living in squat with loads of people from BRIZZLE; very fucking North it is, too - IF YOU'RE IN CORNWALL, which is where the other folks in the squat came from who also overused 'leccy' - as far as I'm concerned, the fucker is nationwide. I am not at all annoyed by 'baccy', 'busies', 'hozzie' or whatever and 'pound' comes from wanting to punch the Mr. PAAAAAHND guy on Oxford Street in the head for bleating it out a hailer all day, for years.

i've never heard anyone say "that's a thing" ever, wtf does it even mean

"Have you reached a verdict? And what say you?"

I used to (ahem) pass negative judgment on people who said "random" until I realized that doing so was dickish and then I relaxed.

Right now the one that I hear WAY too much is "got it" or "gotcha", meaning, "I understand what you're saying". This must have been big on some tv show or movie recently? B/c about a year ago I started hearing it from colleagues, from my mom, from your mom, etc.

Don't think that one needs to be blamed on TV

got it

"I don't give a rat's ass"

but seriously I hear the "gotcha" thing now all the time, like even to the point where people say it instead of nodding while I explain something---imagine explaining something that takes a few steps and getting interrupted at each step by a staccato "gotcha". It's irritating initially b/c it breaks my flow, and now irritating even when it just comes once at the end of what I'm saying.

i've never heard anyone say "that's a thing" ever, wtf does it even mean

You don't think "that's a thing?" is a thing?

Another list idea would be phrases that, were they commonly used, would cause you to pass negative judgment on someone, but since they're uncommon, they cause to pass positive judgment on the person who says them. For me I think Beavis and Butthead speak has passed into this category.

i also hate the "gotcha" thing. i have gotten a few of my friends to stop doing it after berating them about it.

they should collectively replace "gotcha" with "will do"

"shit the bed" is essential sports vocabulary

this is weird -- I think of "gotcha" as a standard feature of all speech everywhere I've ever lived, and don't think I've ever noticed any variation in the number of people who say it or the frequency with which they do

Agree.

(and I suspect that if they weren't saying "gotcha" while you explained something, they would still be saying "sure" or "sure thing" or "okay" or "mm-hmm" or "check" or "you got it" or whatever)

"whatevs"

also people who interrupt when you're talking and go "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"

"whatevs" is a very useful expression

Yeah, but this guy said it like 18 times over the course of 5 minutes the other day.

And really is that third syllable such a nuisance?

think you meant third syllab

RE: "Gotcha"

It is dependent on what context it is used in. if someone says it as I am giving directions, it is likely that I will not even notice it. however, if used while I am relating a funny story to a friend, it bugs me enough that a simple disinterested-sounding "gotcha" blurted in the middle of what I'm saying can completely throw me off, and make me not want to finish it. that combined with the folksy sound of the word makes it seem pretty flat and disingenuous. Me being the fun and happy guy I am, I tend to react by stopping what I was saying, and respond with "fuck you, then."

third sylla is totes nuisie

also people who interrupt when you're talking and go "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"

haha this is the NewYorkese equivalent of people happily finishing one another's sentences

- So I was just talking to -- do you know that guy with the hair?
- Yeah yeah yeah, the guy with, yeah yeah, with the red hair --
- No no no, I mean no, the guy with the spiky --
- Oh yeah yeah yeah, no, yeah, no, that guy, yeah yeah yeah, the tall guy --
- Yeah yeah yeah exactly, that guy.

- So I was just talking to -- do you know that guy with the hair?
- Yeah yeah yeah, the guy with, yeah yeah, with the red hair --
- No no no, I mean no, the guy with the spiky --
- Oh yeah yeah yeah, no, yeah, no, that guy, yeah yeah yeah, the tall guy --
- Yeah yeah yeah exactly, that guy.

this makes me miss new york SO MUCH.

also "righ' righ' righ'"

ha ha yeah yeah totally

I've noticed that people are saying "yeah no" all the time. Which is it? Yeah or no?

Yes No

yeah, no = "I want to affirm to you that the negative is the case"
no, yeah = "Don't worry, the negative is the case, I am affirming that right now"

nabs I KNOW you want it to be that simple but it's just not, not all the time. cf mark's example at the beginning of that thread.

"Here, check out this new design. It's nice."

"Yes, no, it really is."

Wow some of you must have ulcers and high blood pressure from being "disgusted" and "annoyed" every 20 seconds by innane shit people say. You poor fuckers.

I mistyped inane, before anyone wants to kick my arse.

"does anyone actually say "shits and giggles", like anyone here? it is horrendous"

this is the first thing i thought of when i saw this thread. i don't know why i hate this so much. i hate shit the bed too. i don't hate the word shit though.

Trayce, you are one sick puppy!

Trayce otm!

I try to distance myself from my snap judgments. Sure they happen but I don't wish to be that shallow nor be to be judged on such a facile basis.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Michael otm of course, I should add that doing this is silly and actually plenty of perfectly nice people say these things, but it's still a fun discussion.

― Local Garda, Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that was sort of a joke, Tracer -- see other thread for more in-depth examples of yes/no no/yes usage!

My main memory of "shits and giggles" is getting a call from a Marine recruiter when I was in high school and having him say "okay, well, let's say that you were to sign up, just for shits and giggles -- this is what would happen ..."

Like, if I enlisted in the Marines, for, let's say, "shits" and "giggles"

stop saying shits and giggles.

"I was all set with my college plans, but then it hit me: what could be more defecatory and hilarious than enlisting in the U.S. military?"

Having said what I did, there are phrases that can annoy or be inane for their stupidity, but I usually only notice them when they're massively overused or misused.

i just picture someone giggling maniacally and shitting themselves whenever i hear it.

trayce, dude, take a chill pill. you know what it's like here. same shit different day.

this thread is just for shits and giggles, guys

it's all good :)

Its cool innit Scott, yeah? Yeah nah I'll chill, innit.

I know a lot of people who say "yeah, no" all the time. Its an odd reflex, don't know where it sprang from.

yeah i gotcha

it probably ambled rather than sprang xp

um, like, you know, yeah, no, whatevs. you know?

i forgot about maria's brother till now. he's one of those "hellz yeah!" dudes. he went to evergreen.

i'm no better though. i say: "Oh my god, that is awesome!", like, 20 times a day. i find a lot of things awesome. apparently.

i know someone who exclaims 'that's all right' while people are telling her things, it makes it sounds as if it's not really all right and also as if she thinks they require her approval, it makes me want to never see her again.

yeah i know ppl who say that

bogans, generally

i just picture someone giggling maniacally and shitting themselves whenever i hear it.

I picture someone taking a shit in the middle of someone else's floor, then getting everyone else to come in while pointing at it and laughing hysterically.

pretty happy 'believe you me' died out

My bf's mum says "but" at the end of setences that don't require it, quite often. "it's really good, but!" and suchlike.

Shes a lovely lady but a little on the bogany side I guess.

I'm not sure if it's a Perth thing, but.

we have to put up with that here as well.

do me a flavor

authentic 70s stoner slang

haha, Do Me a Flavor was the name of an ice cream shop the next town over when I was in college.

Is "do me a flavor" related to "exsqueeze me" ?

something about people replying in chats with "aye" just irks me, it just seems oddly curt

"that's cool" when used to show that you're open-minded and accepting, even if you have no idea about what the person just said, for example:

"Oh so you're really into the films of Andrei Tarkovsky? That's cool.."

usually said in a trailing off kind of way, with lots of head-nodding, as if to indicate you really get it and are appreciative.

"Don't be hating on xxx"

One doesn't hate on, one merely HATES. That stupid slackjawed shit sends me into orbit.

"i love you"

"rock on"

"he, she, it, whatever it is"

"i don't care if you're black, white, purple"

i say an alarming number of things on this thread completely unironically, including "lol" (as it is spelt) and "hell of"

the only phrases that infuriate me relate to fail/epic fail/full of win etc etc. this shit makes me see red so badly it literally looks like my eyes are bleeding

I hate colloquialisms.

I love them when they're new to me. And clever.

(I love them, but that's basically what this thread boils down to.)

"Don't be hating on xxx"

One doesn't hate on, one merely HATES. That stupid slackjawed shit sends me into orbit.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:50 PM (2 hours ago)

omg ur right, an entire generation is unwittingly misusing grammar!

haha

Alex in NYC hating on colloquialisms.

I believe they refer to sleeping tablets. This may be his own invention. (xpost)

yeah i've never heard of sleepies.

"weak sauce" -> same goes for awesome sauce.
also true dat

urgh. sorry, just don't like it.

"Don't be dissing..." especially coming from public school types is beyond terrible. I also think less of anyone who uses the word "vile" to describe something they don't like.

"Shit the bed" is classic. And as Tracer says essential sports vocabulary.

"junk" came up upthread, in reference to one's genitals.

I'll have you know, mine are quite the opposite. And I thought you fuckers all *hated* Juno?

I also think less of anyone who uses the word "vile" to describe something they don't like.

:-((((((( Can you forgive me, PLEASE? English is my second language, you vile geezer. ;-)

Vile's a fine word, but it is possibly overused.

I also think less of anyone who uses the word "vile" to describe something they don't like.

What the hell's wrong with vile?

in england it's got a kind of snootiness about it.

Vile is great! But yeah it's overused, like "batshit." Batshit means that you have really lost reason, and vile means, like, squashed caterpillars.

u associate it with posh girls in particular, slightly drawled and italicized.

"vile" is great esp if used as snootily as poss

vile means, like, squashed caterpillars.

Ewww. That is vile.

A friend of mine started using "bugfuck" in place of "batshit," which I found pretty entertaining. For a while.

xp No reference for that. Still works around here, mostly.

i think the idea is that donkeys have particularly long and harsh years filled with underappreciated labour

Have always understood that "donkey's" comes from 'donkey's ears' = years and adding the 'years' is a bit superfluous.

I always thought it meant "years as long as a donkey dick."

I would probably say "donkey's" rather than "donkey's years", so you might be right about it being rhyming slang. Any thoughts on "yonks"?

"what it is, is"- not as in the american term, but the british way of starting a complaint.

but donkey's ears, although used little in recent years, has been a jokey alternative for some time - certainly from the early 20th century, viz. E. V. Lucas' Vermilion Box, 1916:

"Now for my first bath for what the men call 'Donkey's ears', meaning years and years."

u associate it with posh girls in particular, slightly drawled and italicized.

pronounced vaaaaaaaaaaahl. ws those italicized posh girls.

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Many people have told me that they have been told, or assume, that it is a corrupted form of aeons. Others say that they have heard it is formed from “Year, mONth, weeKS”. These are intriguing and highly inventive speculations, but I suspect strongly that they are the usual well-meant attempts at finding an origin where none is known. The second origin is too convoluted to be at all plausible.

A few reference books suggest that it might be a clipped version of donkey’s years, also meaning a long time. This sounds quite daft on first hearing, but if you think about it, you can see how the onk of donkey might just have been prefixed by the y of years, perhaps as conscious or unconscious back slang. Another way of looking at it is that the source was a spoonerism on donkey’s years — yonkey’s dears, from which yonks arose by clipping. It’s only a theory, mind — nobody knows for sure one way or the other.

"X is vile" = "I have an unnecessarily visceral reaction to something trivial but I can't articulate it without resorting to a tone of whiny superiority, and I very possibly have unexamined race, class and body fascism issues".

easy

It's better than un-ironic use of "pleb" or "prole" though.

"that shirt is vile" <- don't see a problem with this.

"X is vile" = "I have an unnecessarily visceral reaction to something trivial but I can't articulate it without resorting to a tone of whiny superiority, and I very possibly have unexamined race, class and body fascism issues".

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so otm

I said "proles" this morning!

Oh sorry, do you mean "Person X is vile"? Yeah would agree that is not so good.

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"reggae is vile"

But that's just not true.

Haha yeah Morrissey was at the forefront of my mind when I was writing that.

It is a bit camp and queeny

Ouch.

as with el moz, "vile" bespeaks a smallmindedness. theoretically hot they may be, but the ex-public-strawgirls we're associating it with aren't necessarily the most intellectually curious people you could meet.

Now HEY, moz is sometimes camp, but camp is not an intellectually dull thing to be, and you would never say the same about the New York Dolls, right?

And Queeny is just what it is, and fuck you.

What's your problem?

it's a weird thing for morrissey to have said coz most skinhead racists like reggae (or ska at any rate) and he loves those dudes :/

xp I honestly don't know where to begin.

OFFER TO PISS IN SOMEONE'S EYES

It was a very long time ago Mozza said that.

uh oh

Errrrrrrrr, I mean "Reggae is vile" not "OFFER TO PISS IN SOMEONE'S EYES" (xp)

okay now, that song is stuck in my head with the lyrics changed to "ask my why and I'll piss in your eye."

Moz has never supported the POV of racist skinheads -- isn't that controversy like 20 years old, and all about a backdrop he used at one concert, once, that racist skinheads have also said was stupid and that they hate? Such a non-issue.

xp HAHA

There was also that time two years ago when he said foreigners were diluting British identity.

I love arguing on the internet about Morrissey being a racist.

Yeah that was not the classiest thing ever said.

the ex-public-strawgirls we're associating it with aren't necessarily the most intellectually curious people you could meet.
I might say "vile" very occasionally about, say, some curtains. Am I not being intellectually curious enough about curtains?

wkiw ex-public-strawgirls

I love arguing on the internet about Morrissey being a racist.

trolling 101, people

Happily, I do not look to Morrissey for my political insights.

Have always understood that "donkey's" comes from 'donkey's ears' = years and adding the 'years' is a bit superfluous.

Aha this makes perfect sense and explains exactly why I hate it. It is BOTCHED. As if one said "oh, I'll just go have a butcher's look."

That is VERY botched!

ehhhh "they" (imaginary cockneys) say "up the apples and pears" rather than "up the apples" don't they? idk.

"plates of feet", "the dog and phone"

getting CRS wrong on purpose can be quite funny sometimes

Would you adam and believe it?

^ that's quite annoying

oh i read butchers HOOK

fail.

I would like to apologise for implying Morrissey was a ginger queer or iron poof upthread

you berkshire cunt

xp

No one under the age of 40 should really be using Cockney rhyming slang and I'm not sure any working class kids do any more. It is a wonderful British tradition that should be allowed to gracefully die out.

There you go diluting the British identity

me old china blates

newer urban youth speak, slang etc. is mostly immune to internet chattering class derision

Hardline racist skinheads don't really listen to reggae, that's more the "trad" skinheads, a lot of them are "a bit" racist though, and SHARPs, who aren't.

Ex-public-strawgirls overrated imo.

newer urban youth speak, slang etc. is mostly immune to internet chattering class derision

I think we know at least one "commonly used phrase" that causes internet poster "the pinefox" to "pass negative judgement on someone"

You mean "Lloyd Cole is shit"?

Bu that needn't even be said.

Liverpool won't be on dis ting 2008/09

i "fuck with" Lloyd Cole

that really especially needn't be said

phrases which only BIG HOOS and selected others should use

I like 'blatant' or 'blaytant'. dunno if tht's familar tho

it's "fux with" now. à la electrik red

oh yeah I thought of ones I don't like

real talk
gdlk
you just don't know

"real talk" is sooooo classic (real talk)

we fux0r you

not in the circles I hear it, lex

every sentence punctuated w/real talk and yjdk? barf

still hating "britishes" and "britishers"

tho my perspective is more that as soon as any interviewee starts a sentence with "now this is real talk" my brain goes "ker-ching, money quote"

wtf is "gdlk"??

but don't let that stop you xp

basically "real talk" is classic in the mary j blige sense.

what needs to die - people archly scare-quoting hip-hop slang every time they talk about it as if they have no idea what it means

wtf is "gdlk"??

And how do you pronounce it?

TS: merkins/britishers

fuck with is f/w now tbh britishers

lex otm

gdlk = godlike

"real talk. east coast is gdlk. you just don't know."

what needs to die - people archly scare-quoting hip-hop slang every time they talk about it as if they have no idea what it means

You're just daring us to say "^ real talk"

That was so meta I just made my own head explode

just like to point out that 'happy days' is a quality expression used non-sarcastically in the right irish accent.

"Just a bit of fun"

Way upthread at this point, but Alex, there's a subtle difference between someone hating something and hating ON someONE. hating on implies an underpinning of jealousy/envy.

i never knew that about the connotations of "vile" usage. i say that a lot. good to know.

there's a subtle difference between someone hating something and hating ON someONE. hating on implies an underpinning of jealousy/envy.

Huh, I never really thought about it, but I think that's spot-on.

Way upthread at this point, but Alex, there's a subtle difference between someone hating something and hating ON someONE. hating on implies an underpinning of jealousy/envy.

no it doesn't.

alex you seem to pass negative judgement on a lot of black slang, why is that

Yes it does, Alex.

good idea lets merge the copy editing thread with this one

"common comma-usage disasters that make you sneer at people"

I think the entire point of this thread is that each poster will say some of the things posted on it, I mean there are 600 answers. As soon as I started it people started citing stuff I know I say. It's funny though. Prob just to do with that one jerk we know who always says whatever phrase...

alex you seem to pass negative judgement on a lot of black slang, why is that

'black slang' is probably not a good way of describing it but whatevs

fair point, just wondering how often one could be exposed to "i ain't tryina hear dat" without frequent listening to positive k?

haha, you should ride my bus sometime