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

"can't get enough of siamese twins, pornography is classic, always in the mood for a strange day"

context's a helluva drug

otoh once irl a friend enthused about the theme song to bond film the world is not enough and i said "oh that's garbage" and he looked hurt

My joke examples would be easy enough in their likely context but I've seen more than a few head scratchers when people are talking about quite obscure stuff here.

otoh once irl a friend enthused about the theme song to bond film the world is not enough and i said "oh that's garbage" and he looked hurt

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour

Similar story: in 1999 some friends and I, rolling hard, played the remix of "Special" and I said, "ooh Garbage!" and the bison-like dude who thought he could hit on my girl friend said, "Nah, bro, it's good!"

Back in the 90s there was nothing i enjoyed more than scraping foetus off the wheel

Though sometimes i would get in a more old-school mood and i could only be happy if weasels ripped my flesh

was on the turntable

Have you guys heard of the band

Or the music

Or the the

I think "the band" is one of the ones that confused me here, I've been into them a long time but if you're not on their thread it's really not obvious unless there's something else to tell you it's The Band.

Wife of a friend of mine came out with, "What the WTF", she still says it but now it's a joke.

I heard there was a wrestler called OMG that caused a lot of confusion on wrestling forums. Can't find anything about him, perhaps because of the popularity of the "oh my God" acronym.

I heard there was a wrestler called OMG that caused a lot of confusion on wrestling forums.

That was probably One Man Gang.

never seen "rescreen" outside of ilm, like everyone here has their own private movie theater for when they want to watch blade 2 again

"Hiddleswift" sounds like bad fantasy.

The Hiddleswift Chronicles Book VII: Curse Of The Falcon Keeper's Magic Gloves.

Yeah, it's a dumb portmanteau. But speaking of fantasy, between the two of them I'm not sure who to be jealous of. They're just too pretty.

"atm" is my least favorite, especially since that acronym already has a meaning: Ass to Mouth

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, August 12, 2016 12:01 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In that case you can indirectly easily receive money from 2/3 of the common interpretations. Not bad.

With class starting, it's time to start compiling again..

pivot

mostly because I keep using it, and I want to stop, but apparently can't

sounds like you need to pivot

Why is it universal (in the US at least) that phone customer service people say "What I am going to do is I'm going to ______ (put you on hold/transfer you to a manager/whatever)"? This grates on me.

To make the actions of the representative clear, given the calls are usually recorded.

is it the narration of the actions, or the repeating of "I am going to"? if the former, I agree with Evan. If the latter, then I get it.

It reminds me of students who preface questions with, "Professor, I have a question..."

It's following an implicit "I'm not going to be able to do that," I guess? "[But] what I am going to do is..."

It's following an implicit "I'm not going to be able to do that," I guess? " (But) what I am going to do is..."

"Well, in that case, gonnae no' dae that?"

xp yeah that's actually what bothers me, it's the implicit "I'm not going to be able to do that, but..." only it's used outside that context.

Don't doctors and nurses say things like that to reassure you?

"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that."

Think on
Rigorous academics
ivory tower thinking
Dig into

ivory tower is a really pernicious cliche

"oh, you sweet summer child"

"throwing shade" can't go out of favour fast enough for me. Hate it.

Also "on the reg" is just a more stupid way of saying "regularly" so that can fuck off and all.

"and all"

This is visual language, but the use of gifs and images (usually with text) on tumblr frequently annoys me but I can't always say precisely why.

There is a lot of inspiring/righteous quotes and sequential gif quotes on tumblr and even when what's being said is totally brilliant I can't help but feel what's being said is trivialized somehow. Does anyone else get this?

The other thing is people using images of pop stars and celebrities with text that mocks their enemies. It rarely seems witty or having any point in using an image. Doesnt help that so many of the images of pop stars are so vulgar.

I know this is a hate thread but I find AF funny almost every time.

What does that acronym stand for?

"As fuck"

Is this in common usage?

http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a16745/af-usages/

Admittedly these aren't all top-shelf examples. But a well-placed af hits the spot.

"sharing economy"

(such-and-such) "ruined my childhood"

no one says that one unironically any more do they?

ironically histrionic phrases are awful in their own right

however people mean it, the whole idea behind it is dumb

the whites / the blacks / the hispanics / the whoevers. it ain't hard to drop the article and add a 'people' or a 'folks' if you need to generalize.

... sez remy bean of the whoever folk

oh, and another one: "it's not a big ask to _______ "

doing a disservice

"Webster's defines..."

haha yes

i want people at my job to stop saying shitshow