"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
"adult" as a verb e.g. "adulting"
― marcos, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Friday, 14 April 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Help! I'm trapped in a display name factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 April 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
"gobbie"?
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 14 April 2017 13:09 (seven years ago) link
diminutive forms of words aren't about saving syllables. the -y ending in English is a suffix... it's derivation, not abbreviation.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 14 April 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
who the fuck says blowie? is that a britisher thing
― qualx, Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:48 (seven years ago) link
btw what's the american word for wank? i have never been able to work this out
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:55 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gW179x4BL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― qualx, Saturday, 15 April 2017 04:06 (seven years ago) link
that… i did not expect
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 April 2017 04:34 (seven years ago) link
"hold my beer"
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 15 April 2017 06:45 (seven years ago) link
we call it Palm Sunday
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 15 April 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
any story about nightclubs:
"revellers"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link
More festivals imo. Often used in conjunction with "refused to let a little rain dampen their spirits"
― Number None, Monday, 17 April 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
ARGH
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
These are also the only type of people who celebrate New Year's Eve.
― pplains, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
i imagine them cavorting with tin whistles and throwing confetti
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
In my mind a "reveller" wears a jester hat and invades your space by provocatively waving glowsticks in yr face, tasers should be optional.
― calzino, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
"The community"
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
I'm on the fence about "you do you"
― Lee626, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:16 (seven years ago) link
how did 'shook' make its way into internet slang? is it a Mobb Deep thing?
― progge went a-courtin' (unregistered), Friday, 21 April 2017 07:48 (seven years ago) link
26 Science Tweets That Will Leave You Shook
― progge went a-courtin' (unregistered), Friday, 21 April 2017 07:49 (seven years ago) link
I read that first one as 15 mph and was like WHHHHAAT
― kinder, Friday, 21 April 2017 09:04 (seven years ago) link
It only took 22 years to make "Shook" happen
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 21 April 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm All Shaken Up
― jar-jar bin laden (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 April 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
This is very petty but "yeah" spelled any way other than that. E.g., Yea, ya, yah.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
"social media has erupted" and its frequent companion "sparks ridicule"
― estela, Thursday, 27 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
"took to twitter"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
"broke the internet" is played-out like a eight-track imo
― okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
oh fuck yes
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
"All the feels"
― p.j.b. (pj), Thursday, 27 April 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
saw a woman described as "feisty" this morning, for the billionth time
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
a real smart cookie!
sharp as a whip!
🤷♀️
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link
or "tack" even
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
also "plucky", "bossy"
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
To be fair there are a lot of singers around today who sound like her
― Josefa, Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 April 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
ya i think josefa was making a Feist joke tho
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 28 April 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
ohhhhhhh
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 April 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
I've gotten "a real live wire" from two different old dudes more than ten years apart.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 28 April 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
I feel like the only time I see "formidable" before "opponent" is "formidable woman" to describe someone who speaks above a whisper
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 28 April 2017 06:50 (seven years ago) link