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

I don't remember what her actual weight was

Lol President

"muh"

"cuppa tea". Either say "cup of tea" or "cuppa" but to say "cuppa tea" is just wrong
WHO'S WITH ME?

otm

"cup of" only if a saucer is involved

mugga

^^^this wd please the shit out of me tbh

Turkey absolutely piss on England in annual per capita consumption of tea, so I wish shit comedy writers on R4 + dickheads like Rees Mugga would stop presenting it as something quintessentially English. Everyone knows in the UK only the Scottish actually grow any tea, and it costs a bomb and tastes like pish.

I'm from the West of Scotland, we don't pronounce the word 'of'. Nonentheless, 'cuppa' seems very 70s, see below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6qxDPmOGM

"and so on and so forth", i.e. I don't know what to say next but please hold the line while my Celeron brain buffers the next sentence

A new low

Turkey absolutely piss on England in annual per capita consumption of tea, so I wish shit comedy writers on R4 + dickheads like Rees Mugga would stop presenting it as something quintessentially English. Everyone knows in the UK only the Scottish actually grow any tea, and it costs a bomb and tastes like pish.

Cornwall grows some

"great"

Very specifically, the "great" in "great britain"

Very very specifically, as uttered by the vapid pondscum procured by british television to offer what might laughably be excused as analysis or commentary on sporting events in which british athletes compete

sorry, "compete"

The original usage is fine, just means the biggest island of the British Isles, sounds fair enough. The use of it to describe everything as the "Great British Whatever" really puts my teeth on edge though.

It's the ringing declamation aspect in the specific offered

"Cornwall grows some"

there ought to be laws against those inbred racists selling foul tasting tea with union jack type marketing for 30 quid a fucking box!

Did someone itt just assign a ukness to cornwall

http://d25hqtnqp5nl24.cloudfront.net/images/products/11/LN_598377_BP_11.jpg

The original usage is fine, just means the biggest island of the British Isles

That's all it's ever meant.

(xp) The Cornish should be up in arms about that, what's this 'England' shite?

That's all it's ever meant.

Yes. But let me introduce you to thousands of cutesy products and services that apparently have a different idea. (I haven't seen GBBO so dunno if that should be included)

Oh, I know, "Putting the Great back in to Great Britain" etc, ugh, anyone saying that should be strung up.

the great in GBBO always referred to the bake-off IMO, tho now of course it refers to paul hollywood's treachery

any country with the prefix "Great" has major psychological problems imo, like when Eddie decided he was henceforth actually an Eagle.

I hear Great Missenden is pretty crazy tbf.

"doggie" as an insult

"Antifa" instead of "antifascist" seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language that gave us gems like "Brexit", etc

came here to post 'healing', but I can see it was posted a couple of months back. Lots of new-agey wellness and healing retreats and workshops being advertised round here, but the people going on them don't appear to be injured.

did you expect bloodied and bruised people to go to a healing retreat?

seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language

more accurately -- and historically -- it derives from what it is: the abbreviation of the 30s german movement antifaschistische aktion, according to the usual precepts* of german shortening of very long somewhat tongue-twisting terms (which german is somewhat prey to)

*ie that you string together bits of the words into something memorable, as opposed to just using acronyms

(on the whole i think abbreviations are good not bad -- useful rather than infantile -- but i'm a sub-editor so i professionally favour moves that bring down unneeded word- and letter-count: in my opnion writing that rigourously sticks with the full long-form versions of wordy terms will be unreadable, certainly less read)

(grexit -- the parent-word for brexit -- was apparently coined by citigroup economist ebrahim rahbari: as neologisms and jargon from within the finance industry go, it is a good deal clearer than many)

lol i can see a way of losing a letter in the word "rigourously" *sigh*

Antifa the word isn't a problem

antifascism annoys the shit out of you

Mild irritation, we don't have a thread for that tho

"Opposing fascism is bad" really a challop for a Friday no

jk rowling obituary thread is ilx's longstanding king of the reactionary challop doesn't matter which day of the week

"That will be 'just' £4.75"

'Just? Its not the Ritz! Whats this 'just' thing, its everywhere, you can't just put a 'just' in front of the price and it makes it ok!

xp u said it etc

we should give a medal to the marketer that coined the phrase "radical self-care"

It just seems that the word Antifa draws attention away from the fact that it's fascists you're fighting, when that needs to be pointed out very clearly and frequently

It is also one letter away from Antifap

"good things come to those who wait"

what the fuck is this

If you stop waiting at any point then it resets and you have to start over from the beginning.

'like marmite' to mean divisive

I love 'like marmite'

"Wonk"