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

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

boy mum wtf

Also: binky

"full-throated"

all cutesy-lazy-portmanteu journalistic crap like 'Brexit' and "Hiddleswift' and so on

"Taylor Swexits Social Media After Kimye ELindaTrip-P her!"

"melts down", as it's now being used as a pejorative term to describe anybody who gets upset on camera, regardless of the magnitude of the reaction or even the validity of it

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

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, February 13, 2017 8:35 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Especially when it gets used by proper newspapers about proper news. The Independent seem to be doing it a lot. It feels like something broadsheets are going to do a lot of and further deepen a gulf (if you can deepen a gulf? de-bridge?)

man this Nazi punching thing has really taken off, where were all these people in the 40s?

Nazi shooting

brb gonna kick a conquistador in the nuts

http://unionstreet.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/supermanhitlerpunch.jpg

"baby bump"

especially when they're being "debuted"

And especially given most of the time they ARENT ONE.

Remembered a documentary about romance/love story readers and writers. Some of it focused on the husband of one of the readers. He was quite macho and he stood by his personal bookshelves with his arms folded and said "the male of the species likes to improve himself".

"nom nom"

cukes

smashed potatoes

cukes is awful yeah

"ya" instead of "yes."

There's a local pub/restaurant with a sandwich called a Cool Hand Cuke

"one in the same"

"Operating in silos"

What, grain workers or sumthin'?

doing a disservice

"No, yeah" in conversation. Or the other way around.

food coma / food baby

Oh just all words terrible things really the tyranny of language eh

don't drag my legit feelings in, this thread is all bollocks afaic

"life experience"

"Operating in silos"

― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 6:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost every single presentation i've seen in my field uses the word "silos"

"licking his wounds"

gross dude

I've moved from the bizspeak world to the psychobabble world, and recently caught myself telling some coworkers (after venting about some social work stuff), "thanks for letting me process that!"

ctrl+F - "spitballing" = 0

amazing. anyway, SPITBALLING

i kind of unashamedly love psychobabble and therapy jargon. i was in therapy for five years and i'm married to a social worker, have a lot of social worker friends

<3 "process"

"thought process"

"thought process" is ok. it's stupid but unoffensive imo.

silo/silo mentality is an old one in corpspeak.

"made that ask"

like instead of "I asked them that question", it's "I made that ask". wtf