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

ahaha

reporting for duty SIR

"in flight" rather than ongoing

bartenders get called chief or boss alla time, at least in NYC

"my latest:"

fuck off

referring to bbq as "cue"

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)

all of these: https://twitter.com/John_Quaintance/status/799751549610168320/

bromance

People who refer to THE GROUND as THE FLOOR.

^ Don't watch or play rugby, that's where they do that a lot

Also features in the vocabulary of other stupids - caught a police spokesperson doing it the other day and felt embarrassed for him.

"Thread."

"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.

totes!

amazeballs was never okay

remember when "samich" was a thing

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.

like "gourmet", it means nothing now

mouth-watering

Pan-fried

"baked not fried" on a box of biscuits that would obviously never be fried

I pretty much hate all food descriptors--synonyms of vomit inducing imo

"Mic drop"

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

They want you to be comforted by the fact that some of the food they serve isn't just thawed out TV dinners.

Sculpted turkey

The Cheesecake Factory is about to open up in Toronto. Assume their Signature Cheesecakes are part of the package.

Speaking of thawed out food...

Signature means someone had to sign away their soul to get that recipe you monsters

Enjoy those 4500 calories

"Not the Onion."

people have really off-the-mark ideas about the Onion's house style

shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

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.

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

It's true

"Home invasion" to mean break-in or burglary. Is this part of the affectation where people mimic their idea of police/security lingo?

Who first said "Go sports!"? Was sure it was me.

go nashwan!

i like all these usages by the way

some previous posts remind me of this thread I made years ago after working in Kings Cross too long Food Industry Wanker Words

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.

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.

In a few decades people will probably be paying big bucks for items being made now in this or that particular sweatshop

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.

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