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

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 _____

"At least he/she has a sense of humour"

"Hildog" tbh

mainstreaming

'Curl up with a good book'. Ugh.

Blank and blank and blank, oh my.

(x) just (x) - and it was (x)

i.e. Justin Bieber just redefined herpes and it was basically the best thing ever

fill yer boots

"optics"

it's one I don't see or hear much any more (thank goodness), but "not unlike" annoys the hell out of me.

Think I've heard "going down a rabbit hole" five or six times on CNN tonight.

Been around for ages now but this use of "do a ____" in an attempt at being winsome is just awful and needs to stop (I did a cry, you are doing a frighten, &c)

Some acquaintances of mine announced their wedding - their wedding! - on fb with "we did a marry"

^maybe one for the innocent aesthetic thread

what well-known expression is that goofing on? the only one i can think of is "i did a poo" which can't have been the association they were going for

No I think that really is it

That's how awful these people are

i'm shitting out my wedding
i'm shitting out my kids
i'm shitting out adulting

^ hearing this to the tune of "Bringing On the Heartbreak"

Very baseball-specific, although maybe this is becoming a cliché with other sports, too: on the Jays broadcast today (and for the last few weeks, really), they must have made five references to how such-and-such a player was able to "slow the game down." You know who knew how to slow the game down? Mickey Lolich--Cecil Fielder, too.

(I'm a little overweight, so I get to say that.)

slow the game down fellas
slow the game down
way, hey, slow the game down
slow the game down fellas
slow the game down
give me some time to slow the game down!

Very baseball-specific, although maybe this is becoming a cliché with other sports, too

That's weird, they've been saying this in soccer since before I was born tbh. Probably before my grandad was born. Something to do with American sports being one-paced?

Maybe it's just reaching baseball--I don't recall hearing it until this year, and now they won't shut up about it.

books and movies called
The ______ Girl
or
The Girl on/with the __________

slow the game down makes sense in football (soccer), a little more than baseball i guess.

books and movies called
The ______ Girl
or
The Girl on/with the __________

yes! and also books called "the *antiquated profession's* daughter"

i swear i just put "the glassblower's daughter" into google and there are two different books called that

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22800000/Wonder-Boys-michael-douglas-22891508-500-261.jpg

long time since arsonist's daughter

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375061805l/23751.jpg

much more worried about the 'rigged' talk turning out intimidation and violence on election day. all that "you gotta watch the polling places" - - - - it poses real, serious dangers imo. in that unpredictable way that inciting people en masse, however vaguely, tends to do.

"self care" is beginning to tip into the annoying

dc otm, rigged is so baconed

(dc also otm)

oh oops ha

Anyone else noticed 'ridiculous' turning up a lot? TV adverts for some online game calling it 'This ridiculous game!' and then 'A most ridiculous tournament' (believe original game is eastern european in origin) and also a bus advert for TK Maxx saying something like 'ridiculous decor options!'

http://i.imgur.com/tNeEBFn.gif

lol

i don't know where it came from but the phrase "a special kind of stupid" is a special kind of stupid

Ready to retire "unpack".

As in "[insert crazy shaggy dog story that goes on for ten minutes] and that's why you can't purchase clipboards through the catalog any more, you gotta go through Kim."

...

"Wow. I didn't know. That's a lot to unpack."

I'd be surprised if it hasn't been talked about on another thread but I can't stand it when it looks like someone's trying to load their thinkpiece with every classic/cliche social justice word. Nothing wrong with most of the words, often I even agree with the viewpoint of a piece that still manages to sound idiotic for using so many of those words. And it's only taken a couple of years for some of these word usages to be cliches and a lot of the time they're really inappropriate for what's being talked about.

There seems something really insistent about using those words as if making them as commonplace as possible is more important than writing persuasively.

Also when "cis het white male" is used and not all those categories are relevant to what's being discussed. "It'd be a shame not to include all four privileges".

Election anxiety