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

I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.

This is true.

But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.

Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

Or a colon.

COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"

"hating on"

"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.

Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.

A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

'Whilst'

i’ve got your boy dinner right here

aka my “post-gym protein load”

Fped

lol

Junior Asparagus Bedtime Friend = 20th century schizoid man … now I am cursed.

I also hate “journey.”

I won’t justify the “protein” language but as a total jock who often needs to protein load, I understand it to a certain degree, and it doesn’t annoy me.

I will say that I resent the projection that people who care about what they put into their bodies are “joyless” and don’t know how to “enjoy life.” Maybe the idea that just eating whatever shit you want is “enjoying life” is a actually the disordered thinking.

i know the internet has moved well past this but i still feel a pedantic twinge when someone uses "TERF" to describe a transphobe who isn't a radical feminist

"I won’t justify the “protein” language but as a total jock who often needs to protein load, I understand it to a certain degree'

LOL the entire historical thred about this. i assume it's long abandoned one, tho i don't know or care. the people who spend a huge amount of their efforts to chase results that are useful only in the last 5% of performance bettter be fucking PRO, as they said in the teens.

as far as shorthanding food into protein carb fat or nutritional sectors, fine. it's not un-useful in the big picture, but it's used for daily application that is often just delusional.

I will say that I resent the projection that people who care about what they put into their bodies are “joyless” and don’t know how to “enjoy life.” Maybe the idea that just eating whatever shit you want is “enjoying life” is a actually the disordered thinking.

― out of the cradle endlessly party rocking (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 October 2026 20:18 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not meant as a personal attack, it is the entire culture (I'm thinking UK here but USA seems to be similar) that has a fucked up relationship with food, we are all to some extent products of our culture.

...i.e., yogurt

Hunt3r I don’t know or care about the historical thread.

I bicycle close to 45 mi/week, climb and strength train 3-4 days a week, all told. All available literature points to .7g/1g of protein per pound of body weight with the amount of exercise I do, and I often find it hard to reach the lower end of that if I don’t resort to supplements. But sure, laugh away and be a dismissive dick

LOL the entire historical thred about this. i assume it's long abandoned one, tho i don't know or care. the people who spend a huge amount of their efforts to chase results that are useful only in the last 5% of performance bettter be fucking PRO, as they said in the teens.

as far as shorthanding food into protein carb fat or nutritional sectors, fine. it's not un-useful in the big picture, but it's used for daily application that is often just delusional.

― i am beyond the number of fingers (Hunt3r)

why do you care?

love me some tactical protein

a) tabes and all, i’m sincerely sorry to seem a dick— it’s a general comment about me if course we needn’t pretend.

b) knowing the generals and following from there is great, totally still do that. when my 20 y/o kid bought a food scale lately i forced a talk.

c) alfred, i think you know, let’s don’t pretend. it’s because of me chasing performance i did a lot of orthorexic shit in the 90s.

when you’re weighing your portions, you BETTER be chasing the last couple %. and by then your physio should be doing it for you.

and for all my sincere apologies— and they are sincere— there’s shit i laugh at. been there too much. partially a laugh at me.

seems like there could be a better thread for this line of chat... unless we wanna talk about 'fiber-maxxing', then you're in the right place

I am actually not bothered by the categories tbh … thinking about aging and medical problems that require dietary changes… like, if you are used to eating red meat or lol BACON SAUSAGE etc and don’t know what else contains protein… it can be helpful… or, y’know, being reminded that potatoes are starchy carbs … also portion control idk … though I am certain that in some contexts this would annoy the shit out of me

starchy carbs

O no another platty jubes

c) alfred, i think you know, let’s don’t pretend. it’s because of me chasing performance i did a lot of orthorexic shit in the 90s.

With all due respect, I didn't know -- this is the kind of detail that gets lost on ILX after three decades.

Hunter, I get it. I have had problems with disordered eating my whole life— for reference, I was 215 in December of my freshman year of high school, and 118 by April of my sophomore year. At the moment I am
hitting what I need to but getting everything right, especially as my metabolism has slowed (I am 42), has been very fucking tiresome. Sorry to have lashed out.

you’re all super kind thx. I remember like 25+ yrs afo how i was gonna meet my protein recommendations i was like “yo that shit’s impossible even with greek yogurt in a funnel yo.”

“ago” plus other errors.

also tabes, upon late review those numbers are real hard to read, sorry again. i sure hope you’re well, happy, and content. i know battles similar or overlapping to those, that’s all.

I have reached my limit with 'genocide' used as a verb

what is the genesis of "speaking of"?
it doesn't make sense grammatically and the longer / what i assume to be the more old-fashioned "speaking of which" is easy to say, coming out "speaknawitch", as it does

A lot of the complaints ITT tend to be about words and phrases (and ideas) that have broken out from niche but legit spheres of interest (marketing, fitness, psychology, social justice, gen Z slang) and into the mainstream where they get so inappropriately overused they lose all meaning.

For instance "gaslighting" being used to mean "disagreeing with someone". Or perhaps the complaint upthread about "creative" being used as a noun (literally my job title is "Creative" - a legitimate word in the marketing world for what I do and what I produce as part of my job).

what is the genesis of "speaking of"?

dangling participles perhaps ill-advised in writing but in everyday speech they're as common as they are unambiguous

"speaking of" started as a regular old present participle and over time became an idiom used as a discourse marker, you use it to introduce a new but related topic

Hazel you are always the voice of reason (that is maybe wasted on this thread's nonsense)

yeah those words and phrases are breaking contain

haha, I like being able to use my education!