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

YAAASSSSS annoys the shit out of me, bcs YASS is a shitty country town in australia that should be burnt to the ground.

white people?

The only person I've ever heard say Yaaaaaaasss was that cat.

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.

"play out"

That shit is played.

"Concerning" for "causing concern"

Oh fuck yeah. "Well that's concerning..."

'SLAY'

(I thought the Beyonce song would kill it off, but it seems like people are still using it unironically)

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

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.

"guys i was watching the game yesterday and Toyota shared their new finance deal. what a great company, sharing like that."

fuck off

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

Tell it to Spartyfy someone

whenever you can spare a share

i can't even

awesomesauce, amazeballs,

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

People who let jargon from their shitty marketing jobs seep into normal conversations, like calling Kendrick Lamar a "thought influencer"

"my mouth is gushing with saliva"

"no worries" barf I hear this everywhere now. thank you, crocodile dundee

Why would anyone not australian say that?

(I say it all the time, lol)

Hippies, Trayce. Hippies.

I really don't like it when people share funny memes and videos on facebook with the caption 'I can't breathe!'

'no worries' though? that sounds very much like UK vernacular.

I really don't like it when people share funny memes and videos on facebook with the caption 'I can't breathe!'

that video wasn't meant to be funny

"nom nom nom" to accompany dull pictures of food

"fucks to give" "how many fucks I give" "out of fucks" etc.

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.

afaict it started within black twitter a few years ago and white people have, as we like to do, run it into the ground

Like many of these things, it was a funny turn of phrase when it first came about.

just like rock and roll man, xp

ffs

it was never funny even when it started tho tbh

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.

Prez of the US as "leader of the free world"

Yep. News hacks haven't read the memo about the Cold War.

i just heard Molly Ringwald say it on Studio 360

Brat Hack

Why would anyone not australian say that?

(I say it all the time, lol)

I had an Australian boss for a couple of years and eventually it seeped into my vocabulary. It's gone now.

i say no worries a lot, didn't realise it could offend anybody's delicate linguistic sensibilities, no fucks given tbh

how has it impacted you

can we talk about people who write for a living who don't know the difference between "loath" and "loathe"

there are two choices, and somehow everyone always chooses the wrong one

loath as you are to admit it

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.

i'm still baffled by "too flip", like was he mad that vegetables weren't getting their due respect?

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.

if there are 6 people in the group it should be win-win-win-win-win-win-win

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