Mumdex
― soref, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
American Requiem
― (曇り) (clouds), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
That's great! Don't know why I didn't think to combine the horrors.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Could put America or American with every word on your list, although it may have already been done. I sometimes use "convergence," though usually tongue-in-cheek, like "thee convergence," and, just this past Saturday night, non-ironically mentioned "Son House as killing it" on Twitter. No regrets.
― dow, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
fumbled the self-quote, so here's the whole thingAm.Routes,A. Lomax: "If I don't go crazy, I'm gonna lose my mind." Son House killing it
― dow, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
American Hustle 2: Retribution
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
"both sides of the aisle"
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
"he'll really need to work hard to bring in support from both sides of the aisle"
"this is really something that will need support from both sides of the aisle"
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
fuck off, you trite-ass pundit
all of you
I have mixed feelings about that thing people do on the internet where they make a statement about personal preference but deliberately omit the personal pronoun (which gives their opinions an air of irony/detachment even when they're being sincere). did this begin with Hipster Runoff? that's where I first noticed it, but ilx-type people (including me, probably) seem to do it a lot.
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
dyl wrote this on thread Charli XCX on board I Love Music on Aug 26, 2014
not really feeling "break the rules" at all. i'm excited she's getting her chance at a legit mainstream breakthrough tho. "boom clap" is closing in on #1 on top 40 radio.
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Jimmywine Dyspeptic wrote this on thread Spoon - They Want My Soul (2014) on board I Love Music on Jul 29, 2014
Really liking this on first listen; really good on headphones. Not sure how it rates in the larger discography yet, of course, but so far, diggin' it. One of the last indieTM bands whose new releases I actually look forward to.
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
have mixed feelings about that thing people do on the internet where they make a statement about personal preference but deliberately omit the personal pronoun (which gives their opinions an air of irony/detachment even when they're being sincere). did this begin with Hipster Runoff? that's where I first noticed it, but ilx-type people (including me, probably) seem to do it a lot.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/psbKsJ7Kg48/hqdefault.jpg
"We moved to west Texas 40 years ago. The war was over, and we wanted to get out and make it on our own. Those were exciting days. Lived in a little shotgun house, one room for the three of us. Worked in the oil business, started my own.
In time we had six children. Moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house. Lived the dream - high school football on Friday night, Little League, neighborhood barbecue."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
I feel like that's a different phenomenon. Bush = imitating front-porch working-class speech <-> Carles = imitating hipsters airing their 'deep thoughts' on aim/twitter. Bush = affecting plainspoken rural simplicity <-> Carles = affecting plainspoken urban cool. they have more in common then they think, but I don't think they come from the same lineage.
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
(and yeah, I know it's slightly ridiculous to cite Hipster Runoff as a trendsetter in 2015)
― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
not seeing it
― Tanukious D' (wins), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
True that
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I can't tell you how strange it was to hear Bush slicing off those pronouns in '88. Using "I" meant he wasn't being sufficiently humble, according to Peggy Noonan.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
not getting over "speak to" sthing
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 January 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
Starting to get annoyed at 'hot mess'
― MaresNest, Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:26 (nine years ago) link
starting
― contenderizer, Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
― local eire man (darraghmac),
speak toin terms ofwith respect to
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
I'm getting used to "hot mess", but for a long time it had strong connotations of "diarrhea" for me.
― how's life, Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:55 (nine years ago) link
"...because of the way it's culturally encoded."
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 11 January 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
and anally encoded
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
with respect to
'in respect of' I associate with lawyerly Blairite politician stroke wankers
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
... even worse I've noticeD Ian Wright now can't get through a sentence without using it
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 January 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Hot Mess could have been a swarthy 1978 EuroDisco outfit.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 11 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"FTW." "Aaaaaaannnnnd..." I'll take "impact" as a verb over any and all internet shorthand. I'm not even sure what "Aaaaaaannnnnd..." is supposed to communicate.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
have i mentioned how much i hate, hate, hate people who say they love, love, love things
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off
― Tanukious D' (wins), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
i really hate "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over"
― brimstead, Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Have we mentioned "disrupt" yet? Because tech-hype speak is a subsection of corporate/PR jargon that really makes me wanna slit throats. The desperate employing of stupid catchphrases and insider terms to grant oneself an air of importance and connectedness is like that thing dumbass entertainment reporters do when they employ cutesy nicknames for celebrities as if they were close personal friends.
Only I travel a lot, so I have to encounter shit like "disrupt" on huge banner adverts in airports all over this dumbass continent featuring smug-ass Bay Area-types who usually turn out to be Part of the Problem.
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
definition of insanity includes repeating that phrase over and over
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Disruption is very popular these days. Doesn't bother me though, appropriate in some business contexts.
― Jeff, Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Disrupt will soon go the way of synergy and satisficing all the ones I have blissfully forgotten.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
that sentence came out funny
"Definitely" as a meaningless intensifier of assurance. "I'll definitely get right on that for you."
― contenderizer, Monday, 12 January 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
^ often used every other sentence
― contenderizer, Monday, 12 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
So true, I have to be careful to remove excess "definitely" and "very" usage, and I still don't get to all the ones that ought to go. Verbally, with no hope of editing, I add these stupid "definitely"s to the point where I sound like some sleazy car salesman closing a deal. **************
Here's one closer to grammar pedant stuff, an association I don't want because I don't have any sympathy for 99% of the usage that bothers them, but anyway. Where I live absolutely everybody says and writes "based off" rather than "based on". Like, nothing is based ON anything, it's always based off of something. "This movie was based off of a true story." "We decided not to do it based off of our financial figures."
Why does this usage in particular irritate me, when I couldn't care less about "could care less" or "irregardless"? I can't explain. Even the illogicality of it doesn't explain it.
― Vic Perry, Monday, 12 January 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
it's become an area of general prepositional confusion-- you never know whether you'll get an "on", an "off", or an "off of"... at this rate, it won't be long before "based of" enters the lingo. (I'd like to give a shout-out to the perennially underused "based in", before it goes the way of the neanderthal)
social experiment: next time someone drops "based off" in a conversation or a meeting, look puzzled and ask them to repeat what they just said
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 12 January 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
**on 2nd thought "based in" strongly suggests location, which limits its general usefulness
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 12 January 2015 06:20 (nine years ago) link
Googling the phrase led me to this site. Parody or real?
http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/5514/Dr-House-is-based-off-of-Sherlock-Holmes
― Vic Perry, Monday, 12 January 2015 06:33 (nine years ago) link
clickbait. not sure if that's a category of its own these days.
― salsa shark, Monday, 12 January 2015 07:40 (nine years ago) link
i think it's supposed to? it's a euphemism for looking like shit, or something not entirely unshitlike.
― mitt fleekwood (get bent), Monday, 12 January 2015 07:49 (nine years ago) link
relly dislike "creativity" or "creative" to describe a supposedly positive value in art, usually identifying a vague and purposeless unpredictability. It just seems to have so little to do with what actually makes art good.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
"man _____" e.g. "man clothes" "man purse" "man bag" "man cave" "man boobs" "the man show"
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Any variation of "Can I just ask a quick question?"
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link