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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

k3vin k., Sunday, 27 March 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link

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

#amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link

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

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.

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link

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

early rejecter, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link

Quick win win after a tictac huddle

Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

ogmor otm. i think.

pplains, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link

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.)

early rejecter, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link

lol, it's the outcome we all deserve

ogmor, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link

"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)

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 23:08 (eight years ago) link

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

You should get less mad.

Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link

"argumentum ad temperantiam" et al

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link

"the truth lies somewhere in the middle"

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

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link

being and non-being

ryan, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link

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.

pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:48 (eight years ago) link

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.

Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link

#adulting

Jeff, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 10:14 (eight years ago) link

'(x) was EVERYTHING'

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link

wtf is legday

kinder, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link

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

how's life, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:20 (eight years ago) link

International Legday?

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link

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

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link

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

mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link

#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.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link

#imwithher is almost as bad.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link

Everybody's Been Berned.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link

#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"

Jeff, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link

I like the "because noun" construction because reasons.

serious human (onimo), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link

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

yellow despackling power (Will M.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link

usually present tense tho tbf

yellow despackling power (Will M.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link

_#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

Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link

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.

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link

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

human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link

ADDICTING
WHEN IT SHOULD BE
ADDICTIVE

ian, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link

You don't like some of that Addicting Info?

how's life, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link

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

ian, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link

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

yellow despackling power (Will M.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link

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.

I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link


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