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

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

It's pretty minor among this guy's crimes of annoyance, but I have a coworker who constantly employs 'yadda yadda' and who probably needs to be exsanguinated for it.

Is that right? I've always thought that it did in fact imply beneficial outcomes for all parties. It would be a burden lifted if I didn't have to be annoyed by it anymore.

xp

Quick win win after a tictac huddle

ogmor otm. i think.

It's kind of the opposite of "damned if you do, damned if you don't."

OK I looked it up, and . . . "of or denoting a situation in which each party benefits in some way" is the primary definition. I did find a couple of secondary definitions along the lines of "a ​benefit for one ​person or ​group no ​matter what the ​result is," but the first is the common usage. I'll have to go on being annoyed by "for everyone." It's a classic lose-lose. For all of us.

(But re-reading Krugman's article, he could've conceivably been using the phrase's secondary meaning, so I'm no longer annoyed by that usage.)

lol, it's the outcome we all deserve

"amazeballs"
"a play/movie about the human condition" (srsly i'm tired of "the human condition" being trotted out for any movie about a 17 year old whose nose is running)
"the truth lies somewhere in the middle" (NO IT FUCKING DOESN'T)

Yes, it does. It's a relative concept.

You should get less mad.

i don't know if you're being facetious or

"argumentum ad temperantiam" et al

"the truth lies somewhere in the middle"

Can't help but wonder, the middle of what?

being and non-being

I replaced the battery in the Honda tonight.

Felt like Instagramming the little red velvet ring snug under the positive terminal with the caption "This is how you adult," underneath it.

But instead, I hooked the jumper cables to my ears and eventually, the urge to do something that dumb just faded away.

LOL I was just about to add "because adult". A friend in her 30s writes things like "because adult" and #friyay" and #legday and #hashtagseverything and I do love her but gah.

#adulting

'(x) was EVERYTHING'

wtf is legday

The day you do leg workouts, but hash tagged for some unknown reason?

International Legday?

as in, this has been a leg(endary)day?

Every time I hear or see FeeltheBern (especially #FeeltheBern), I mentally say Ew.

#adult seems emblematic of people who need a pat on the head for doing mundane things. It's very "I'm a big boy I used the potty!"

Feel the bern bothered me when it began but it seems effective and I like sanders so I let it go.

I feel the bern in everyone,
and then I feel nothing.

#imwithher is almost as bad.

Everybody's Been Berned.

#adult seems emblematic of people who need a pat on the head for doing mundane things. It's very "I'm a big boy I used the potty!"

Correct! It's like the old Chris Rock bit about people getting credit for something they should be doing anyway. "I paid my rent this month! #adulting" "I got out of bed this morning! #adulting"

I like the "because noun" construction because reasons.

'(x) was EVERYTHING'
i use this a lot :/

usually present tense tho tbf

_#adult seems emblematic of people who need a pat on the head for doing mundane things. It's very "I'm a big boy I used the potty!"_

Correct! It's like the old Chris Rock bit about people getting credit for something they should be doing anyway. "I paid my rent this month! #adulting" "I got out of bed this morning! #adulting"

Isn't this precisely the point? Like every time I see this it's ironic/self-deprecatory, playing on the absurdity of being proud of something others find easy but you maybe struggle with

http://i.imgur.com/w9hqIAy.png

Also, be careful digging through #adult tags while you're at work.

Isn't this precisely the point? Like every time I see this it's ironic/self-deprecatory, playing on the absurdity of being proud of something others find easy but you maybe struggle with

― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sure but the irony just kind of reemphasizes the reality.

2053: "Just finished executing mom's will. #adult"

ADDICTING
WHEN IT SHOULD BE
ADDICTIVE

You don't like some of that Addicting Info?

there's some subway ad i noticed today that says something like, "PLAY THE MOST ADDICTING MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME EVER!!!"

me itt: "wtf you know what they meant why is this an issue"

xp i have no idea why subway would be talking about anything other than sandwiches in their ads tho

TBF, I think everyone deserves a little credit for #adulting why because life is a tuff slog, but (to the extent that it's broadcasted unironically) this is credit one should probably give oneself in private instead of seeking public validation. But regardless of its context or usefulness as a concept, the usage of "adult" as a verb needs to be defenestrated and burned.