i'm game to up my game game with this venison, but i hope i'm not gaming the system.
― no fucks given or implied (get bent), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
I put in a new staircase this weekend -- really upped my step game
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
sounds like you took it to another level
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
landinged that one
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
I remember this gross dude I knew in the 90s that referred to his facial hair as his "flavor savor" so that.
― Darin, Thursday, 29 January 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
"saver", surely
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
Favor Savior
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 29 January 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Yeah flavour saver is so gross. OTOH, the pidgin for moustache is "mouth grass" which totally rules, so.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
Hello. I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate" but it appears I already did it ten years ago under the moniker "Anyone For Newcomb." Not for nothin' but I have no recollection of making that post.
Submitted for your displeasure: the incredibly annoying suffix "licious" Booty-licious, Jersey-licious, etc. Barf out man!
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 January 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
simultaneous cranial anal bi-location.Or at least people with this rare skill do. Or is it that rare, hope it is.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 29 January 2015 08:57 (nine years ago) link
basically all food blogs are awful and full of irritating words/usages/etc, not to mention boring longwinded stories about the origin of a recipe interspersed between a dozen 'arty' pictures of ingredients laid out on an artisan chopping board or whatever the fuck, like stfu and just tell me how to make the thing
lol otm, i just immediately scroll down to the bottom where they finally post the recipe
― marcos, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
if i'm not in a rush i can enjoy some photos or artisan chopping blocks but otherwise it can be very tedious
― marcos, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
i don't look at food blogs at all anymore because that was irritating me so intenselyi get that way about everything where the person explaining something inserts themselves too much into what they're explaininglike teachers who make too many jokes
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
I was just listening to an otherwise really good lecture from iTunes U. where the (famous) professor kept saying "I'm oversimplifying..." -- it drove me crazy.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
It's like saying "I have five cards with important information on them, but I'm just going to show you one of them, try not to think about the other four"
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate"
People do this? It seems like a weird word to pull out if you aren't planning to use it exactly as intended. Like using 'septuagenarian' as a descriptor for all old people.
― Hairpiece Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
M-O-U-T-H-F-E-E-L
― qualx, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
yes
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
That one popped up hilariously in a recent Bob's Burgers.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
http://38.media.tumblr.com/0c813e20312065adbedc5cbb94189dc0/tumblr_ngjdj2Ntri1rj8nzio1_400.gif
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
/I clicked on this thread to express my disgust with the misuse of "penultimate"/People do this? It seems like a weird word to pull out if you aren't planning to use it exactly as intended. Like using 'septuagenarian' as a descriptor for all old people.
I was reading about misused words and found this:
Turns out, the San Francisco Symphony had used “penultimate” improperly in a recent program description of a certain Mozart symphony....
“All the otherworldly ability that Mozart possessed was brought to bear in the Jupiter Symphony, the final—and perhaps penultimate—symphony he produced.”
― Je55e, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Maybe they mean it was perhaps the second best?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
This use never occurred to me!
Australian TV reported a few months ago, “AMP clears penultimate hurdle to buy AXA AP,” which, the news presenter explained, meant that the corporation’s takeover bid had “cleared the final hurdles.” Here, the use of “penultimate” is as a synonym for “final”
― Je55e, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
I always assumed everyone learned the word from the Monty Python "penultimate supper" joke, and hence knew what it meant.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
misuse of whom and whomever
i have been trying to think of a good analogy for this phenomenon of doing something that is sort of an 'advanced level' move, but actually totally unnecessary in the first place, and then completely fucking it up. the ultimate of course is doing this while supposedly correcting someone else.
it is...extremely annoying to me
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
dunnism
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
wassat?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/x4fsLeCjB4s
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
beautiful, thank you. i am ashamed that didn't register immediately.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
altho it is not exactly the same thing i lump "feel badly" in with this too
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
'so this happened' or it's permutations
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
'This is the moment...' It's used a lot on news websites, usually where an embedded video, or still image from one, shows a CCTV camera capture of a crime or other incident:
This is the moment a “senseless” yob pushed an 82-year-old lollipop man to the floor and ran off with his stick.
This is the incredible moment a man is mugged for his bag - and gets up to chase after his assailants.
This is the heart-melting moment an adorable little kitten is saved after finding herself stuck under a Land Rover's bonnet.
THIS is the moment a former showjumping horse had to be dramatically winched upside down out of a metre-wide WELL in an unbelievable rescue mission.
― dubmill, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
file under: I couldn't stop sobbingand what happened next changed my lifeyou'll never believe what this toddler/grandma/teacher did
all the same thing
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
this 'weird trick'
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
How about "10 Things You Didn't Know About ______ That You Actually Totally Knew About _____" or "5 Obscure Albums You've Never Heard Except For The Fact That You Have"
― Pastor Of Muppets (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
It's like...you don't know me. How dare you. How dare you.
― Pastor Of Muppets (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
― wins, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
nice, ty
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
James Thurber should always have the last word on who v whom:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3955
― ledge, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
"Furever home".
STOP IT.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Nooooooooo really??? No.
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
No as in youve never heard that one? Ugh they use it all the time at pounds/shelters. "take me to my furever home!". NO.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
"Inbox"
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
'_______ is one of our finest ______'
just say they're good ffs
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
But Mookie is one of our finest proofs!
― Jeff, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
'cray-cray'
― Wiggywoo, Friday, 30 January 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
Confusing/confused use of "percent" or "percentage" in journalism. For example, you sometimes see an article claiming that homeownership rates "fell four percent" when what's actually meant is "fell four percentage points.'
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
How else would you interpret fell four percent?
― badg, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Number of homeowners dropped by four percent. E.g., say there are 100 million people in a country, and half of them are homeowners. You have 50 million homeowners, and a 50% homeownership rate. If the homeownership rate falls by 10 percentage points, you now have a 40% homeownership rate, and 40 million homeowners. If homeownership falls by 10 percent, you now have 45 million homeowners.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
because the "price point" of homes is too high prob
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link