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

Four Words: Use Other Words Please
"Use other words please."
Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug you
Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression
"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!"
words that annoy
Words that should earn the author a slap
PROVERBIAL and other tip offs to poor writing

-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)

Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.

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?"

In the sense that what I wrote depicted not something spicy but horrific and murderous and genocidal

the spicy must flow

capitalism is pretty resilient, unfortunately

fortunately the earth and its natural systems are also resilient under the onslaught. if I had to place my bet on which survives longer, capitalism or life on earth, I'll take life on earth every time. I'd say human life will probably survive capitalism, too, but narrowly.

Whenever I see the word "spicy" I remember The Onion's Our Dumb Century, where the headline for Huey Long's assassination was "Senator Huey Long Assassinated, Cajun Style: Dies 'Real Spicy Like'".

"as to whether what follows will be socialism or barbarism, well, I'm not feeling very optimistic"

That depends on whether you blow up the reactor or choose to merge with Helios. Tracer Tong posits a future where humanity can rebuild along more local lines, without being perverted by a global conspiracy, which is romantic but doomed to failure. The alternatives are to disconnect Bob Page from the network and hand it over to the Illuminati, who come across as the lesser of two evils, or to merge with Helios and become a benevolent cyber-dictator, which at least cuts out the middle man. But what does J C Denton know about parking regulations and plumbing?

I chose Tong's ending the first time I played Deus Ex, because it's the most romantic. It's impractical and won't work, but isn't that the thing with romance? It's impractical, and it doesn't work, but the heart exists in a world of its own.

I also learned from Deus Ex that people who specialised in swimming - such as Michael Phelps - were moron losers! They should have put their points into big guns and hacking. Furthermore Usain Bolt can crouch at high speed, silently, and he can also run really quickly and destroy supply crates by jumping on them, whereas a trained Ninja can only do one of those things. And thus Usain Bolt > Ninja. That's the "greater than" sign. I think. I hope it is.

re capitalism this is a book i’m looking forward to reading

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668/capitalism-by-beckert-sven/9780241269053

fortunately the earth and its natural systems are also resilient under the onslaught. if I had to place my bet on which survives longer, capitalism or life on earth, I'll take life on earth every time. I'd say human life will probably survive capitalism, too, but narrowly.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, April 6, 2026 9:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i agree pretty strongly with this! i think human life will stick around but evolve into something that looks pretty different than it does today, like it has for millenia.

Fortunately Mad Max movies have prepared us for the likely fashion choices. I am stocking up on goggles.

goggles on a top hat?

People seem hopeful that our impending post-apocalyptic future will have a cool cyberpunk aesthetic, but I'm going to personally ensure that it won't be so easy for them to forget about us steampunks by dressing up like I'm on my way to a Dresden Dolls concert every day at the bread line and reminding everyone in my polycule that it's almost Talk Like a Pirate Day

lol

Hat goggles are appropriate for when you are simply asking what's going on.

Let's be real -- we're all going to be eating bbq'ed rats and it won't matter what we're wearing

I thought of ILX this past weekend when for the first time I can remember I opened the milk jug and it did not pass the sniff test

"late capitalism"/"under late capitalism"/"late stage capitalism" just tend ime to be a way for a freelance journalist inventing a theory for the week's dumb ephemeral opinion piece to try to give it some heft. like instead of saying "these days" you've sprinkled on some faux-academic seasoning instead.

Xp aren’t you glad you sniffed? In what world would it be preferable to have rotten milk in one’s mouth vs a quick sniff. It’s basic self care.

it was the final bit of coffee beans so it my was last chance cappuccino... if I hadn't caught it I would have been devastated. as it is I had to use 2% instead which is not great.

I know whole milk is big now in the RFK/Manosphere but I buy it mostly because it seems to last longer than 2%

(but I buy pasteurized only, not raw)

whole milk is about 1000x tastier in a cappuccino than 2%

'manosphere' really annoys me

you came to the right thread!

2% e coli wont even get wussies to the emergency room, you gotta be tough enough to go whole e coli

Fwiw the comment above was about the phrase "passed the sniff test" being broadly used. Not suggesting people drink sour milk which obviously would be problematic.

my dad claimed my grandmother (I never met her) used to drink sour milk daily which really grossed me out until I learned it was probably filmjölk, a kind of swedish kefir drink

the tooth clicking mouth experience of soured milk is maybe more horrifying to me than the surprise taste. always smell test.

i usually just look at the expiration date (expiration dates aren't real)

I know whole milk is big now in the RFK/Manosphere but I buy it mostly because it seems to last longer than 2%

The expiry dates on lactose-free or ultra-filtered (Fairlife, Arla Cravendale, etc.) milk lasts considerably longer than regular milk and has expiry dates months in the future, although it may start to go bad a month after opening.

I always smell milk before drinking it if it isn't almost new.

Jfc people just drink your milk up

that's what's confusing me, i don't buy milk to just have it around or whatever.

Real men just drink directly from the cow

Surprised y'all don't just buy heavy cream and cut it with tap water like I do

I like oat milk in tea and cereal. Wife likes almond milk. Kids like cow milk. Plus half and half for coffee. Half our damn fridge is milk

when oat milk goes off it’s possibly even more disgusting than cow’s milk but alba otm just drink your milk up

Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio at 1:50 8 Apr 26

Surprised y'all don't just buy heavy cream and cut it with tap water whole milk like I do

I like oat milk in tea and cereal

initially read this as 'bat milk' and wondered how but they are mammals so I guess it's possible

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616NKng3dML._AC_SL1200_.jpg

woke has gone too far, we can't even drink real bat milk now?

lol

singing this to the tune of Firestarter

unfortunately I'm batose intolerant

I thought Bat Milk Replacer was a Captain Beefheart album?

love me some fledermilk biscuits

excelsior thread derail

Dunna nunna nunna nunna

Dunna nunna nunna nunna

Bat miiiiilk

you have to pasteurize it otherwise you might get e. cholocation

Anybody else going to Wombaroo 2026?

lol i’m snorting and laughing in the bathroom wombaroo lol

e. cholocation... damn...