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

I'm thinking now that a lot of the problem with some of this terminology today is that it's not specific enough, maybe doesn't have enough additions and variants.

You get people essentially saying

"It's only political correctness when I don't like it"

Or

"It's not cultural appropriation when I think it's okay"

"tone police"

Essentially anything that means "it's ok when I do it"

flappy bird getting back to the core, the heart usage

Yeah 'Tone policing' may be a loaded term itself I guess.

Overall, feels like having good control of tone is a great skill, definitely something to try and get locked down if you want to achieve anything, but also maybe something that can be very difficult, considering the varied nature of the 'audience' even when the audience is just another person face to face, and more so when the audience is online (millions of readers all with their own tendencies); and so the expectation that people express themselves with precision and an ear for how it's going to go over may sometimes be questionable imo

All that said I don't disagree that an awful lot of twitter callouts (that I've seen around anyway) have been pretty cloth-eared

(Although the large number of people who with great reliability come out with reactions such as 'Black lives matter? What about white lives, why are you saying white lives don't matter???' 'Women's rights, what, don't men have rights???' are themselves heading into supremely cloth-eared territory, no?)

flappy bird getting back to the core, the heart usage

they always stick me in the appendix because they don't think i'm the pretty one

"My arms and wrists are numb." God would people just shut the fuck up already?

Thats a phrase?

Don't forget "my face and lips are numb."

i'm old and am sick of political neologisms in the first place. oh, if we use new words maybe people won't notice that they're the same fucking ideas and we don't have to address the problematic implications of those ideas!

more political discourse should be framed in reference to issues surrounding the defenestration of prague. and that's my uncool conservative idea.

my mouth is dry
my face is numb
fucked up and spun out in my room
on my own, here we go

How much is Twitter responsible for the current political terminology? I wish people would only use it for links and signal boosting because I hate trying to work out if people are complaining about white women or Wonder Woman (WW acronym).

it all comes from Twitter

an abridged collection:

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Your long read for the day:

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What do these mean? Is the first one just for humorous dramatic effect?

yes, "humor"

at least an attempt at it

"nothing burger"

that one is bizarre because it came out of a specific cable news channel, MSNBC iirc. their attempt to "get on the same page" like Fox does with every issue & talking point...

I'm at the point where I cant follow what is being said sometimes - and I'm someone who is on the internet 94/7 - but because I dont fuck with Twitter/Insta I think i'm missing this weird "thing becomes a saying after 5.2 seconds" idea.

lol i love "94/7" intended or not. gonna use that one if you don't mind

Its an old ILXism actually!

(or maybe not but back in the day Ally and co used it a lot and it stuck with me)

sick, it rules, it's in the lexicon

"i'm screaming"

OMFG yes that gives me hives, that one.

NO. NO YOU ARE NOT SITTING THERE SCREAMING AT YOUR PC/PHONE. YOU JUST AREN'T.

(and if you are, get help, nothing online is that hysterical)

also the insane abuse and misuse of "literally" before and after it was modified in the fucking dictionary

Man, if I hear/see 'Winter is coming' one more time...

fucking otm, it's like we're all supposed to care about game of thrones

i feel that way about whovians so ymmv

yes but the world isn't soaking with constant "the daleks are coming" pissweak memes

Exactly

You have to take into account that got is far far better than droo

nb never watched nor read got

<brand OR product OR politician OR sports team> Nation

e.g. Ford Nation, Fox Nation, Sens Nation, Trump Nation, Truck Nation

shrinkflation

Carnation

http://www.auntyflo.com/sites/default/files/styles/contentpage/public/Carnation.jpg?itok=C3kvtbuh

Basically any nicknames for Trump, including the ones frequently used on this board: Two Scoops, Yam--whatever those even refer to. You cannot clown Trump's name. It is self-clowning.

an abridged collection:

BOOM!
#NotTheOnion
Shot; chaser
I'm just going to leave this here...
(((if you're Jewish)))
Sigh
Your long read for the day:

― flappy bird, Saturday, July 15, 2017 10:29 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

add to to the list: "my latest:"

also "a twitter play in three acts"

basically twitter sucks and it makes me hate people

Basically any nicknames for Trump, including the ones frequently used on this board: Two Scoops, Yam--whatever those even refer to. You cannot clown Trump's name. It is self-clowning.

"Cheeto Jesus"

Gun, meet mouth.

"i'm dead" or "dead" or any variation of such when attached to like a cute or funny pic/meme

deej posted "dead" this morning on a thread about an up-and-coming young rapper and I assumed she had tragically passed away.

"Your long read for the day:" is especially infuriating because it's so infantilizing, the "long reads" in question are usually no more than 5,000 words, if that.

when someone i hardly know/don't know tells me a 5,000 word article is the only piece of any length i need to read for the whole day, that's a guarantee that i will not read it

"Adult Beverage"

y'all must REALLY hate social media

Holy shit, just discovered that the publishing industry has apparently adopted "pbook" to mean "printed book". Fuck that shit