YAAASSSSS annoys the shit out of me, bcs YASS is a shitty country town in australia that should be burnt to the ground.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
white people?
― conrad, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 09:28 (eight years ago) link
The only person I've ever heard say Yaaaaaaasss was that cat.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 09:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah i remember the thread where yasss was discussed - so okay now i know where it comes from that doesn't stop it mainly coming across as an incredibly stultified meme in the same vein as all the feels or whatever, tho it doesn't help that i do tend to imagine it in a sort of braying tory posh british accent.
not sure knowing the place it came from will stop me doing that, though perhaps i'm too cynical about the possibility that someone's shouted football celebration at a gif of taylor swift raising an eyebrow is an endorsement of trans culture.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
"play out"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
That shit is played.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
"Concerning" for "causing concern"
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
Oh fuck yeah. "Well that's concerning..."
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:07 (eight years ago) link
'SLAY'
(I thought the Beyonce song would kill it off, but it seems like people are still using it unironically)
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 18 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
I'm normally pretty relaxed about this, but the ubiquity of 'invite' as a noun, plus the realisation that it's already gone past the point of no return, are making for a lot of wincing on my part
― ogmor, Saturday, 19 March 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
really hate the modern use of "share" to describe posting a link/marketing a trailer/etc. i guess you can boil this down to the "share economy" but that doesn't bother me quite so much as the "COMPANY X shares the new trailer for PRODUCT Y!" i'm not your friend, we're not sharing anything, you're just trying to sell me something.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 March 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
"guys i was watching the game yesterday and Toyota shared their new finance deal. what a great company, sharing like that."
fuck off
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 March 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Sometime in the decade since I moved away from Michigan people have started using the word "Sparty" as a metonym for Michigan State sports and it makes me want to punch everyone
― joygoat, Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Tell it to Spartyfy someone
― dow, Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
whenever you can spare a share
― dow, Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
i can't even
― akm, Sunday, 20 March 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
awesomesauce, amazeballs,
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
also a friend of mine keeps calling Trump a "hoofwanking bunglecunt" and was basically taking credit for the coinage of the phrase and then someone revealed he stole it from a British dude's Tweet.
which should have been obvious since dude is from Missouri
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
People who let jargon from their shitty marketing jobs seep into normal conversations, like calling Kendrick Lamar a "thought influencer"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 March 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
"my mouth is gushing with saliva"
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Sunday, 20 March 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
"no worries" barf I hear this everywhere now. thank you, crocodile dundee
― stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 March 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Why would anyone not australian say that?
(I say it all the time, lol)
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Monday, 21 March 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
Hippies, Trayce. Hippies.
― how's life, Monday, 21 March 2016 09:35 (eight years ago) link
I really don't like it when people share funny memes and videos on facebook with the caption 'I can't breathe!'
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 21 March 2016 09:45 (eight years ago) link
'no worries' though? that sounds very much like UK vernacular.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 21 March 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link
that video wasn't meant to be funny
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Monday, 21 March 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link
"nom nom nom" to accompany dull pictures of food
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 March 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
"fucks to give" "how many fucks I give" "out of fucks" etc.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Another slangy/bloggy thing that has seeped into bad political blogging, often in connection with Obama, as though he's some kind of badass Rambo of a president machine-gunning down the aisles of congress, instead of a disappointed compromiser eking out modest gains in his last year.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
afaict it started within black twitter a few years ago and white people have, as we like to do, run it into the ground
― k3vin k., Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
Like many of these things, it was a funny turn of phrase when it first came about.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
just like rock and roll man, xp
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
ffs
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 March 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
it was never funny even when it started tho tbh
― k3vin k., Thursday, 24 March 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
ha ha this is third time "no fucks to give" or a variant has shown up on this thread
I chalk these things up to political bloggers/twitters having a sense of humor based on overhearing what the cool kids are laughing at and then repeating it for years after it has grown stale.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Prez of the US as "leader of the free world"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Yep. News hacks haven't read the memo about the Cold War.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
i just heard Molly Ringwald say it on Studio 360
Brat Hack
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
I had an Australian boss for a couple of years and eventually it seeped into my vocabulary. It's gone now.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
i say no worries a lot, didn't realise it could offend anybody's delicate linguistic sensibilities, no fucks given tbh
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
how has it impacted you
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
can we talk about people who write for a living who don't know the difference between "loath" and "loathe"
― k3vin k., Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
there are two choices, and somehow everyone always chooses the wrong one
loath as you are to admit it
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Lately, "veggies" has been bugging the shit out of me... too flip, too Australian sounding.
― andy, Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:18 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Australians still annoying people, 12 years on.
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
i'm still baffled by "too flip", like was he mad that vegetables weren't getting their due respect?
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
This always bugs me and I saw it again in Paul Krugman's column in the NYT yesterday: "win-win for everyone." Isn't that redundant? Shouldn't it just be "win-win" or "win for everyone?"
I suppose it could be appropriate in very rare cases where each party involved in a given situation wins two things.
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
if there are 6 people in the group it should be win-win-win-win-win-win-win
― #amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
all i do is win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win-win
win-win suggests a situation with two possible outcomes, both of which would be beneficial for one party but not necessarily all, so I think its useful information
― ogmor, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link