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

_#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.

Alongside 'addicting', I harbor more than a little ire for the impish employment of addiction in advertising. Particularly with potato chips, for some reason? "Betcha can't eat just one!" "Once you pop, you can't stop!" And the resigned tone of "Can't stop eating 'em."

^^ Along those lines, can't wait to wait to watch a 16-hour documentary on bulimia in one day.

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

Yep, this, and yep I know right? she hashtags individual words. on FB. WHY.

FB is technically configured to use hashtags like Twitter is now. if you click on one it will show you others that posted it just like Twitter does (albeit not as smoothly).

I blame Tweetcasters, which people used to broadcast their Tweets to FB and rendered their hashtags useless.

Yeah if the post is clearly sent from twitter Im less inclined to snort at it, but otherwise...

"eat a bag of dicks"
"best _______ ever"
"karma will get 'em" in response to anybody complaining about someone's misdeeds

right wing neologisms don't even really need posting here, but I was just thinking about how "islamification" kind of reminds me of "saxomophone"

Seems like everything that people are vaguely familiar with these days is ICONIC

"man that All American Rejects tune is iconic"

'do you know what iconic means?'

"really....really good?"

I remember complaining somewhere about the use of the word "legendary" for anyone who has been around a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7afrkjN3Ag

fam
squad
goals
"squad goals" About 364,000 results (0.34 seconds)
fire
lit
extra
squicked out
about to drop the hottest mixtape of 2016
I love how [something I obviously don't love]
damn, [Ned], back at it again with the [purple tie]

ned has a purple tie?

I've always been fine with fam, but it's definitely entering an era of overuse.

How do you feel about 'famdamily'.

completely unacceptable bullshit.

"Damn ___" is one of the worst, purely manufactured, not actually all that catchy memes I've seen.

In the following quotes from Haringey Council's so-called Wood Green Area Action Plan, I especially hate the use of the word 'offer', but I also dislike "quarter", "curating", "re-skinning", and many others; in fact there are too many to mention:

"This option concentrates efforts on restoring the High Road as the key economic generator, linked to a smaller live work area in the current Cultural quarter, but with an offer that would complement High Road retail with a range of cultural, entertainment and community focused offers ... The Mall would be retained, but targeted façade, lighting and programming changes brought into effect to upgrade the 1970's character of the offer. This would include curating outdoor markets, popup street food events and other happenings alongside the re-skinning of the building, and the better management of the service yards, which impact negatively on near-by residential areas. A greater mix of uses is anticipated on the rejuvenated High Road.

Option 2 recognises the enormous potential of the enhanced connectivity to provide a new cluster of residential quarters drawing on the North London offer typified by quality town centres and shopping, high quality public spaces, leafy streets and innovative food & beverage offers."

similar to "YASSSSSS" i am seeing "YAASSSSSSS QUEEN" and it is super annoying

Marcos have you seen the yaaaassss gaga vids?

haha no should i

"eat a bag of dicks"

Still acceptable on Archer.

haha no should i

― marcos, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:06 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Y.........
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"This option concentrates efforts on restoring the High Road as the key economic generator, linked to a smaller live work area in the current Cultural quarter, but with an offer that would complement High Road retail with a range of cultural, entertainment and community focused offers ... The Mall would be retained, but targeted façade, lighting and programming changes brought into effect to upgrade the 1970's character of the offer. This would include curating outdoor markets, popup street food events and other happenings alongside the re-skinning of the building, and the better management of the service yards, which impact negatively on near-by residential areas. A greater mix of uses is anticipated on the rejuvenated High Road.

lol my job is fixing stuff like this. i try to be understanding and i don't hold personal grudges against whoever wrote it, but like as the language of institution it gets to me on a level that's actually too deep for the word "annoy". it just is so ugly, i guess like the council's new buildings will be.

outdoor markets, popup street food events - these things must be good, right - everyone wants outdoor markets and streetfood events even if they're run by your local council and have a dirty banner flapping in the rain and a few carnival chip vans with "ABC Catering" written on the side.

I do hold grudges. I just can't believe how badly written it is and that someone gets paid good money for writing it. It's mind-boggling. There are 41 pages of it as well.

I don't get where this 'offer' usage came from. It seems very widespread in local government but is obviously connected to some kind of marketing jargon. 'Quarter' has been around for a while, of course, and is much used by estate agents, as well. I really don't like 'curating' just to mean selecting things or putting on events; it just seems pretentious when referring to organising these kinds of street events like farmer's markets and so forth.

'offer' is used by pub companies etc too

The people who write stuff like that must be deeply insecure about the value of what they do compared to the compensation they receive for dong it.

It's as if they know they are suspended above the hard ground of reality and must constantly flap their arms as hard as they can to stay aloft.

Oh totally, it's jargon used to create the illusion of technical knowledge or skill. Jargon which by its existence props up jobs and job titles, waste and wasteful projects, weak legislation and delays.

As well as the obvious need to alienate the public and prevent them from understanding what their taxes are or aren't paying for.

I haven't worked in a council but based on experience in government I can imagine that for someone writing local council blurbs, the concept of serving the public (let alone writing for them) is so alien as to be disturbing and threatening. They work for each other.

Pulled from the annoying co-workers thread:

A co-worker regularly says "verbage" instead of "verbiage," and now multiple other co-workers are doing it, too. I feel like I finally understand that William Burroughs line about language being a virus.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:55 PM

Unfortunately, "verbage" has been acceptable usage in the printing biz going back almost 20 years, ime.
― Honor thy pisstake as a hidden intention. (WilliamC), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:59 PM

"Foilage"

"umbriage"

smoke a little herbage, engage in a little verbage

The term is "doobage," I believe.

"doobiage"

"Frontbutt"

"Yaaaaas Kween!" as a young white people thing is Broad City's fault, isn't it.

Oh totally, it's jargon used to create the illusion of technical knowledge or skill. Jargon which by its existence props up jobs and job titles, waste and wasteful projects, weak legislation and delays.

there's an interesting chapter in Steven Pinker''s 'A Sense Of Style' (which is excellent btw) where he discusses this phenomenon, where language appears to be deliberately designed to put readers off. Very often, he argues, it's not completely deliberate but down to a so-called 'curse of knowledge'.

I've never read his stuff but I know he is a revered figure among people who do my job.

"Yaaaaas Kween!" as a young white people thing is Broad City's fault, isn't it.

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Friday, April 8, 2016 3:14 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark

100%

it's more or less ruined the show too