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

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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

on the spectrum

when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link

would kill to never have to read or hear "meh" again

qualx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link

"______ gets it", in reference to people/things that are obviously not capable of "getting it". this baby gets it, this dog gets it, this penguin knows wassup, this bee colony really has life figured out. please just stop.

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link

^^^gets it

Οὖτις, Friday, 13 February 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link

^^ first to jump into pool yelling "CANNONBALL!"

Aimless, Friday, 13 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link

would kill to never have to read or hear "meh" again

― qualx, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 11:43 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I ilx-mailed you the dossier

walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 13 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link

^^^gets it

well shit

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link

"crossfit box" obv

rip van wanko, Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link

"business angel"

bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 09:25 (nine years ago) link

getting so sick of "hack"

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link

like "hack and slash" or "that guy is such a hack"

Mordy, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link

or like hacking computers?

Mordy, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link

like in the sense of "lifehacks", e.g. "cut your travel time in half with this commuting hack"

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link

"24 fitness hacks that will make exercising easier" (real buzzfeed article)

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hacking

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link

I cannot wait for "disrupt" to pass out of the tech lexicon

DJP, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link

i cannot wait for the entire tech lexicon to be thrown in a garbage bucket

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link

"life hack" is discussed at length upthread

walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link

"business angel"

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 4:25 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this similar to "angel investor"? Cuz I hate that one.

walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link

xp yes! i knew it was talked about on some thread but i didn't search this one

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link

ironically, most of the people who use "hack" are hacks

walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link

"This is how we do"

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link

e.g. "Another snowstorm in Boston? No biggie. This is how we do"

marcos, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link

I cannot wait for "disrupt" to pass out of the tech lexicon

― DJP, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 7:27 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link

as long as it also stays out of the educational sphere i'm ok with that

groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link

lol, too late...

Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link

gaydar

describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link

Use of "tech" to describe 'anything we don't understand' and applied to everything from a Leatherman to a webpage has REALLY started to grip my shit over he past couple of weeks.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link

τέχνη basically covers any manual skill or craft. technology in its broad sense can refer to cans and can openers just as much as to iPhones and routers. we used to call out specifically "high tech" to make this distinction.

Aimless, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link

"He is a good man"

"Good person" is fine by me, but "good man" has this vague air of gravity or officialness or I don't know what that's just irritating.

ed.b, Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link

"I could tell you what that stores' name was, but I've slept since then."

pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link

Hoo boy yeah, misplaced apostrophes, don't get me started

kinder, Sunday, 8 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link

Soon as I posted that, I thought, "Oh, great. A typo on the pedantic thread."

pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link

not sure pedantic is the right word

Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link

B-|

Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link

There's a sentence fragment up there too.

pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link

I've slept since then.

I don't know what this means.

Orson Wellies (in orbit), Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link

^ I've never even heard that!

Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link

"you're better than that"

brimstead, Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/K3XHPKK.png

pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link


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