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Bedbuddies, Buttbuddies, Rumprangers.
Sure, those words are juvenile, puerile and possibly homophobic, but they are so mellifluous and conjure such comical imagery.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 28 September 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.fuzzlogic.com/flex/a/119.php

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Word that most annoys me when others say it: Bam!

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

(As in, "I took one look at her and Bam! I knew I was in love." It seems to be a "guy thing" -- creating the illusion of interesting dialogue by inserting action movie/comic book sound effects.)

Word I hate to use and avoid using whenever possible: Feet. But only if I'm referring to human appendages; I can say "feet" without a care in the world when I'm talking about measurements. If I'm talking anatomy though, I'll say "legs" or "ankles" or "shoes" or whatever, even if it's not quite accurate, to avoid calling feet feet.

― ScottRC (ScottRC), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sweet. Especially when Mr. Flipflops McBusinessmajor casually shouts it into his cellphone. "You goin' out? Sweet, buddy..."

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 29 September 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Spoken like a man/woman who.... [x]"

Makes me think of either Pierce Brosnan trying to put the moves on you or some dilapidated old granny fruitlessly attempting to be charming

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

"interestingly"

THE WORST!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still hate "enlighten me."

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

What about "enlighten me, BIATCH!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

what about it?

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well I think it's a-ok! Cause "enlighten me" has this sneery passive-aggressiveness to it that you can't exactly hold the speaker accountable for.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

on the $$$

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"dream kitchen".

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love the idea of a dream kitchen! A whole kitchen where I can sit around creating and cooking up dreams! But would it be dreams, in the sense of "goals you hope to achieve" or in the sense of "fantasies" or the sense of "strange half-digested thoughts that flap through your head at night"?

Either way, it's still a great phrase. "Dream Kitchen" would be a great name for a studio. DON'T ANY OF YOU THINK OF STEALING MY NAME FOR THAT!!! I've now copyrighted it by posting it. So hah! My next studio will be called the Dream Kitchen.

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like it better when you put it like that, but it never is. It's always "Win your dream kitchen!" "Buy your dream kitchen with nothing to pay until January! Yes! Next January!"

I resent the implication I have nothing better to do than dream about kitchens. I may waste too much time on ILX, but this is far more rewarding than fantasising about work surfaces.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

This leather sofa, just seven nine nine.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hate that when the price is just less than a round hundred. Do they really think we are so stupid as to think this makes a difference?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hadn't even thought about that (and you're right, of course). It's more the fact that they can't be arsed to say seven hundred and ninety nine pounds that gets me.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I assume that 99 thing does work, as it is extra work for the sellers. I kept finding it with estate agents - I'd say "It's a two bedroomed flat at a hundred and fifty thousand" and they'd say "We don't have any at that price - do you mean the one at one four nine, nine nine five?"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tell them yes but that you intend on tipping them five pounds for their attention to detail!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Burger

― Aaron A., Friday, 10 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Burgher

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Write me'

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 11 October 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Literally. That literally does my head in. My work colleagues are literally the worst offenders at misusing it at literally every possible opportunity.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

1) "Pazz"
2) "Jop"

― jazz odysseus, Monday, 23 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

"up close and personal"

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Partner", in reference to a boyfriend or girlfriend.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago) link

grotty

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

detritus
vacillate
uproarious
human spirit
afterglow
dreck
shockah
cultural

― Le Coq, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago) link

I hate the word 'admits' used in the Hello magazine sense, as in:

Victoria Beckham admits that her children are the most important part of her life
Jennifer Aniston admits that she is very much in love

You should only admit to bad things.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

People not only say mimimalist when they mean minimal but some people even say MINIMALISTIC (which isnt even a word). Makes me want to throw up.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

Supercaliminimalisticexpialodocious.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

I think Ronan, mentions it upthread, but "son" as an address at the end of a sentence and "sonned" make my SKIN CRAWL. There is nothing worse than an attempted belitting that is paternal and patronizing by someone mentally beneath you. Oh and if someone younger tries to use that on me, well, let's just say that their uppance will come.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

"the proverbial"

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

"Boss", as you are endlessly called in London by shopkeepers who are trying to rip you off

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

My friend J had to show a London shopkeeper his nipple to get beer when we were about 16 - true story.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

It was good beer.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

I've been hearing "admiral" used in place of "admirable", and it is FINGERNAILS ON A GODDAMNED CHALKBOARD.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

blogosphere

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

guestimate, pro-active, synergy.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Victoria Beckham admits that her children are the most important part of her life
Jennifer Aniston admits that she is very much in love

You should only admit to bad things.

I don't get your point here.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

pontificating
throatfucking
the ___ set
socialite
structuralist (and all variations of)
meathole
negritude stuff like 'shake your bootay' that is obviously the anomalous 'fun' bit in an article, usually film or fashion related, written by some white bitch that probably hates rap music and doesn't even keep in touch with Shantelle from college even for blackup purposes
anomalous
blackup

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, i love LeCoq

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

wait a minute, what did i just say?!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Masculine. I hate this word. It's the most un-manly sounding word for manly.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

schedule. when people say it like, 'shhhedule'

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

peruse.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

some white bitch that probably hates rap music and doesn't even keep in touch with Shantelle from college even for blackup purposes

Beautiful.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I the only one who loves new words and ways of saying things? Maybe it's my linguistics degree that's to blame.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

around the newsroom here, whenever the reporters do good and pat each other on the back they say they "commit journalism." and a hush falls and tears are shed because it's a very HEAVY thing apparently. drives me fucking nuts.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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