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

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

shit show?

Shits how?

"dandle"
which I had never encountered before I read any Game of Throneses but now everyone dandles everyone else all the dandling time.

i don't hate "bad boy" but i think it's stupid. like "let's see what this bad boy's got" or something.

no that's close to the worst thing anyone can say

Do you prefer "puppy" used in the same way?

Let's start this puppy.

"Bad boy" I imagine as like a burb dad thing to say about grilling a steak. Hear that sizzle, son? Time to flip that bad boy over.

upgrade to "awful boy", "atrocious boy" or "worst of all possible boys", makes everything better

"Hilarious"/"Hilariously"

"real life Game of Thrones"

See also house of cards

Butterface

getting tired of the smug liberal use of "racist" as a noun. Like "Donald Trump said x. Well he is a racist, so no surprise there."

It's so self-congratulatory. I guess any politican who doesn't say outright offensive things can sleep well at night knowing he is not "a racist."

Trump is maybe the most famous, influential and dangerous racist alive, I think it's kind of fair to point it out.

you must be the first person in history to point that out, congrats

the phrase "awesome sauce" makes me embarrassed for anyone using it

AB, I appreciate the snark, but idk I'm not sure I get the point of man alive's objection. Okay, self-congratulatory is a problem, sure, but should we really not call racists out as racists?

cultural focus on racists as identifiable and hopeless subclass neatly quarantines racism as issue of character, allows both for unlimited ferocity of attack and unlimited defensive fortification of one's own subjectivity, moves focus to motives over effects, others the problem, rapidly generates both pariahs (if you want someone to hate) and martyrs (if you want someone to hatefully defend); whites-in-particular both woke and sleep have a whole buffet of motives to focus this way imo

donald trump tho in addition to being symptom and synecdoche of long-term systemic illness or whatever, whitehead on enormous political boil etc., is a racist

Yeah I guess I can't really make the case for getting rid of it as a noun. It's more a tone/context that annoys me.

do you need Clearasil

"bragging rights"

"all the"

As in, "What kind of tacos are you getting?"

"All the tacos lolol"

rock up

yum, a buffet of motives

awesome sauce / cool beans
i think "amazeballs" is already in this thread somewhere.

which reminds me of when it's hot outside and someone says "it's hot as balls out here."

One can say hot as hell, cold as hell, hot as fuck, and cold as fuck. One can say hot as balls but for some reason cold as balls doesn't really work. If one cared enough there could be a host of venn diagrams.

Sure, if you don't mind making more hot balls.

http://i.imgur.com/225p7qw.png

i've heard cold as balls before.

i've heard cold as shit which was particularly perplexing because of the generally accepted notion that a turd is usually warm, at best, eg, "one hot turd"

kind of love language and all its quirks though

"watch Fred Armisen" do anything.

i guess that helped me understand that "as balls" is basically being used the same way as "as fuck" except when someone is like "it's hot as balls" it just makes me think of slimey sweaty balls on a hot day and i'm kinda not into that

and i'm totally fine with "as fuck." not annoying at all.

carried over from the politics thread "momentum" used to describe something that's just a trend in a certain direction.

I may be required to utter the word "deliverology" out loud in the near future.

don't do that

Liverology is the study of the liver. Deliverology is the study of removing livers.

Progressive

And any other phrase meaning "I agree with this" that masquerades as an informative term

adding "-y" to nouns.

"This is a house-y track."

"It's a rape-y anthem."

"that was a felchy sandwich"

mom jeans
dad bod
mom _____
dad _____