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

"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.

I'm a Maplogist

"adult" as a verb e.g. "adulting"

Adulting was discussed earlier but omg I hate it and it deserves to be mentioned here every few months until it is dead and buried.

Personally I could do without "handy" and "blowie." "Handjob" and "blowjob" are perfectly fine words, immediately understandable. "Handy" is doubly troubled because it's also an adjective that means "able to fix and make things."

I don't know if there is a term for an abbreviation that doesn't actually save you any syllables, but these are some of those.

"gobbie"?

I don't know if there is a term for an abbreviation that doesn't actually save you any syllables, but these are some of those.

diminutive forms of words aren't about saving syllables. the -y ending in English is a suffix... it's derivation, not abbreviation.

who the fuck says blowie? is that a britisher thing

btw what's the american word for wank? i have never been able to work this out

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that… i did not expect

"hold my beer"

we call it Palm Sunday

any story about nightclubs:

"revellers"

More festivals imo. Often used in conjunction with "refused to let a little rain dampen their spirits"

ARGH

These are also the only type of people who celebrate New Year's Eve.

i imagine them cavorting with tin whistles and throwing confetti

In my mind a "reveller" wears a jester hat and invades your space by provocatively waving glowsticks in yr face, tasers should be optional.

"The community"

I'm on the fence about "you do you"

how did 'shook' make its way into internet slang? is it a Mobb Deep thing?

26 Science Tweets That Will Leave You Shook

I read that first one as 15 mph and was like WHHHHAAT

It only took 22 years to make "Shook" happen

I'm All Shaken Up

This is very petty but "yeah" spelled any way other than that. E.g., Yea, ya, yah.

"social media has erupted" and its frequent companion "sparks ridicule"

"took to twitter"

"broke the internet" is played-out like a eight-track imo

"took to twitter"

oh fuck yes

"All the feels"

saw a woman described as "feisty" this morning, for the billionth time

a real smart cookie!

sharp as a whip!

🤷‍♀️

or "tack" even

also "plucky", "bossy"

saw a woman described as "feisty" this morning, for the billionth time

To be fair there are a lot of singers around today who sound like her

my point (which i didn't explain, to be fair) is that any prominent woman who speaks her mind is labelled "feisty" 99% of the time

ya i think josefa was making a Feist joke tho

ohhhhhhh

I've gotten "a real live wire" from two different old dudes more than ten years apart.

I feel like the only time I see "formidable" before "opponent" is "formidable woman" to describe someone who speaks above a whisper