ahaha
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
reporting for duty SIR
― i am also Tombot (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
"in flight" rather than ongoing
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
bartenders get called chief or boss alla time, at least in NYC
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
"my latest:"
fuck off
― marcos, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
referring to bbq as "cue"
― qualx, Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
morbs mentioned this a long time ago in another thread but it made me feel less alone: fucking 'melty cheese' (mostly played during fast food commercials during sporting events)
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
all of these: https://twitter.com/John_Quaintance/status/799751549610168320/
― Mordy, Saturday, 8 April 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
bromance
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 10 April 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
People who refer to THE GROUND as THE FLOOR.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2017 09:51 (seven years ago) link
^ Don't watch or play rugby, that's where they do that a lot
― Josefa, Monday, 10 April 2017 13:20 (seven years ago) link
Also features in the vocabulary of other stupids - caught a police spokesperson doing it the other day and felt embarrassed for him.
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
"Thread."
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
"This."
"This. So much this."
"This thread."
A lot of this stuff is newbies discovering internettish lingo and taking it for a spin.. "this" would have been ok 10 years ago. Even amazeballs would have been ok 10 years ago. OK maybe 15.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
totes!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
amazeballs was never okay
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
remember when "samich" was a thing
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned "signature" yet when used to hype food? "Tim's signature donuts," "Popeye's signature sides," etc. I see this everywhere now. The piddly little coffee kiosk at a grocery store I go to--not a very impressive one--has a sign up for their "signature sandwiches." They have no signature sandwiches; very likely, they're not even made there. One day I'm going to excuse myself over something by letting the other person know it was just my signature passive-aggressive mind games kicking in.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
like "gourmet", it means nothing now
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
mouth-watering
― DJI, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
Pan-fried
― wtev, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 05:45 (seven years ago) link
"baked not fried" on a box of biscuits that would obviously never be fried
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 06:01 (seven years ago) link
I pretty much hate all food descriptors--synonyms of vomit inducing imo
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
"Mic drop"
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
when almost everything on menus is described as 'hand crafted' or 'house made' like it's fine if's one or two items but when it's everything on the menu it feels a bit braggy and stupid
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
They want you to be comforted by the fact that some of the food they serve isn't just thawed out TV dinners.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
Sculpted turkey
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
The Cheesecake Factory is about to open up in Toronto. Assume their Signature Cheesecakes are part of the package.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of thawed out food...
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Signature means someone had to sign away their soul to get that recipe you monsters
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Enjoy those 4500 calories
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 23:07 (seven years ago) link
"Not the Onion."
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
people have really off-the-mark ideas about the Onion's house style
shit that looks like an onion article but isn't
― pplains, Thursday, 13 April 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
The use of the word 'bland' to dismiss a (TV) series, or its characters.
While it might be a perfectly valid argument for not liking something, I find it's too often casually and easily thrown out as a seemingly factual summary of why a certain show is supposed to be bad. Whenever I see a forum comment or Facebook post of someone saying that a show is bland, it's normally a simple dismissal that somehow the poster still feels the need to post.That gives me a very sad image of the state of the typical present-day audience: downloading and binging every new show and being overfed to the point where they are all but apathic and only the really distinguished series offer sufficient excitement to properly please them, thereby typically attaching themselves to the general consensus, hardly daring to form their own opinion.It's probably just me and I'm making way more out of it than I should, but that's how the word 'bland' tends to get to me these days.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:24 (seven years ago) link
when almost everything on menus is described as 'hand crafted' or 'house made'like it's fine if's one or two items but when it's everything on the menu it feels a bit braggy and stupid
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was thinking how wide the idea of handmade was in terms of clothing etc a couple of years ago.THink it breaks down to either hand made or automated doesn't it?I mean it implies something but there is a lot of play for distorting that idea and still not being quite untruthful
― Stevolende, Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
It's true
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
"Home invasion" to mean break-in or burglary. Is this part of the affectation where people mimic their idea of police/security lingo?
― syzygy stardust (suzy), Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Who first said "Go sports!"? Was sure it was me.
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:05 (seven years ago) link
go nashwan!
― mark s, Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
i like all these usages by the way
― mark s, Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link
some previous posts remind me of this thread I made years ago after working in Kings Cross too long Food Industry Wanker Words
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Hand-cooked crisps seem to have taken over from regular crisps in the last few years. I guess it started with Kettle Chips but even Greggs have a hand-cooked line now. I eat the Sainsburys version when I visit my mother and she regularly remarks on the fact it says they are hand-cooked. She is dubious that there is any such thing as a crisp that is not in some sense hand-cooked. I don't argue with her as I don't know anything about how ordinary crisps are cooked.
― dubmill, Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
Big thing with clothing and handmade would probably be that it might mislead one from thinking things were not made in a sweat shop. But the fact that things were being made in a sweat shop would presumably indicate that they were being made on low level technology i.e. handmade.An automated computerised set up would be less exploitative of a load of individual workers I think. But may not have all factors covered.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
In a few decades people will probably be paying big bucks for items being made now in this or that particular sweatshop
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
There's a not very good restaurant in my town that brags about their house made simple syrup on their cocktail menu. Because someone put a lot of effort into mixing sugar and water together.
― joygoat, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm a Maplogist
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link