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

I am into ''practice'' where it has some relation to the ''practice of everyday life'' - recognizing that your job/calling/duty/ethics are not static things, but made up of countless little actions and choices, is super important to me. Also implies getting better at something, working towards something, trying an approach through doing... idk I think it's okay.

"activist judges", mostly cos it aggravates me that people still think SCOTUS randomly seeks out cases outside of its purview and creates new laws in a fluid motion

My cooking-show pet peeve is the invariable formula "I've made for you" in presenting dishes to judges. This is so prevalent on Chopped (and its spinoffs) that I wonder if it's contractually required.

Contestant 1: "Chefs, today I have made for you a toe jam remoulade with a crisped snakeskin tartlet, garnished with some wild phlox berries."

Contestant 2: "What I have prepared for you today is a gumball goulash with a garlic gastrique, served on a bed of jalapeno polenta."

Contestant 3: "Judges, I've made for you some persimmon fritters dipped in balsamic reduction with flash-fried nose hairs on top. It's my playful take on an authentic Albanian flrzigribl."

Contestant 4: "Chefs, what I've made for you today is..." DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP

Overuse of "curate". You don't run a museum, you just made a spotify playlist.

DJI - instruction manuals do this too. Sometimes subbing in the word "just":

"Just create a bootable installer and follow the instructions that appear on the screen."

No no that's fine it's not like these are the INSTRUCTIONS that ought to be taking me through the process step by step instead of telling me how goddamn SIMPLE everything is well guess what if it was so SIMPLE I WOULDN'T BE READING THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU COCKFARMER

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7jYPp9w-0Uk

Feeling Tracer Hand on this 100%.

I was thinking about VG when I was making dinner tonight and telling a story in my head about how I would present it on a cooking show to a panel of chef judges. It went something like "today I've prepared for you a 'Game Day' soup, which "reconstructs" chicken, carrots, and celery in a cream soup with blue cheese and Buffalo seasonings, served with diced "French Fry" potatoes and crispy duck skin."

I actually prepared this and it is good, but it sounds way more fancy with the mandated cooking show lingo.The contestants must be coached/forced/edited to use that formula.

"prepared"

thank u quincie for not using "a little bit of" any of those things

soup sounds dope as hell btw

oh god yes

Somewhere there's a passage from the middlebrow yet genial Bill Bryson that parodies that flowery culinary language; lemme find it:

I had, and I quote, 'Fanned Galia Melon and Cumbrian Air Dried Ham served with a Mixed leaf Salad' followed by 'Fillet Steak served with a crushed Black Peppercorn Sauce flamed in Brandy and finished with Cream' .... I was greatly taken with this new way of talking and derived considerable pleasure from speaking it to the waiter. I asked him for a lustre of water freshly drawn from the house tap and presented au nature in a cylinder of glass, and when he came round with the bread rolls I entreated him to present me a tonged rondel of blanched wheat oven baked and masked in a poppy-seed coating. I was just getting warmed up to this and about to ask for a fanned lap coverlet, freshly laundered and scented with a delicate hint of Omo, to replace the one that had slipped from my lap and now lay recumbent on the horizontal walking surface anterior to my feet...

lol

<3 Bill Bryson I think of Notes from a Small Island all the time re British place names: "They live in Barking and Dorking and Shellow Bowels!"

This post brought to you by me watching a show called like "Animal SOS" about vets rescuing foxen and badgers and other English countryside animals and referring to a place called "Woking" which it turns out is not far from Dorking after all.

British Isles town names (eg. Twatt in Scotland, Studland down south) are great LOL. Alien.

heddington fosley
wilming-on-sea
snibbinghamshire
cuxforth dale
east glesforth
hostencester (pron. hoster)
minceworth
twabbingwood
charking

(they don't annoy me, just contributing)

Scunthorpe ftw

Used to work with a guy from a Scunthorpe. A Scunny man, as Peter Cook would have said.

Don't ignore the good folk of Penistone.

What's their demonym?

(Like Mancunian, Cantabrigian, Liverpudlian, or - my favorite - Crested Beautician for residents of Crested Butte)

Gotta be Penistoners.

any attempt at shortening the word "sandwich"

― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:23 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sammich
sammie
sandie
i literally saw "wiches" recently

― qualx, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:24 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

update

"sando", from an institution apparently "Known for their #baconslut sandwich & a customer favorite PB&J"

sando is the worst, might as well call it a bro-wich

Sandos for randos

"Tonight Beyonce Ended Music"

almost as bad as "[Celeb X] Won Halloween"

(x) just (y) and it was (z)

http://www.englishcountrywalks.com/blog/walks/5/190507/11-fingringhoe.jpg

"Tonight Beyonce Ended Music"

― billstevejim, Monday, February 13, 2017 3:22 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What a terrible sentiment.

Ended music 58 years to the month that it originally died.

It just means she ended some music. She ended a song.

Beyonce invented ending things. Before then stuff just went on and on and it all got pretty tedious.

Music was fun while it lasted.

getting so fucking sick of "fake news"

Re cooking lingo above, some of it really gets on my nerves.
I noted one ina book the other day that called for "a scant 2L of stock"

OK so is it 2L of stock, or less? Or heckwhocares?

Its like Jamie and his glugs and slugs and sloshes of every fucking thing.

a scant 2L of stock is 2 QT of stock irl

Fie on your quarts!

so then, I expect you'll be wanting to use ~1890 ml for this recipe

i'm tired of seeing "GASLIGHTING - the word you need to understand to survive 2017"

Political gaslighting is different, though: it's about dismissing people as 'not real' in the service of trying to flesh out some bullshit about 'real people'.

'A feature, not a bug' has been grating with me recently.

I feel like this isn't the proper thread to report that I hate the handclap emoji.

'And so it begins'

I saw this for the first time on Monday. I saw it for a second time today. I'm afraid for how many more times I'll hear it again.

"boy mom"

http://i.imgur.com/pyn6X98.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YydzZFO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PmFDBBY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cKEviQM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YQnMNCF.jpg

Search for "girl dad" reveals a mugshot, some abortion memes, two photos of Peter Gallagher for some reason, and this:

http://i.imgur.com/I5dFGOP.jpg

Blech to all of that!

i'm the drummer from boy dad