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

if i had a son i would, for as long as it took, instruct him on the very simple difference between a dress and a skirt. i would not launch him into the world not knowing this.

No dressing around the issue

I didn't post it to this thread, but I have given in and started using 'puppers' to refer to my dogs. Someone I know and respect used it about a month ago and inside I was so mad at her. Then, this morning it just slipped out while I was putting the dog food down and I guess now I'm over my hatred.

Upthread Phil D mentions 'doggo' which I will remain steadfastly against.

It's a slippery slope

HAMM: Did you get him?
CLOV: Looks like it. (He drops the tin and adjusts his trousers.) Unless he's laying doggo.
HAMM: Laying! Lying, you mean. Unless he's lying doggo.
CLOV: Ah? One says lying? One doesn't say laying?
HAMM: Use your head, can't you. If he was laying we'd be bitched.

I posted "radical self-care" upthread. I'm sure it had some kind of legitimate origin,

i think i may have posted it too. mine was in response to a Broad City article where they were fighting back against the horrible political apocalypse we live in by buying shit

doggo, pupper, all of it drives me batty

Watching educational youtube videos with my kid, I have to say that the new usage of "myth" to mean "thing which is basically true but hey I'm going to impress you by telling you some minor nuanced or that some experts say it is slightly different" drives me up the fucking wall.

Not to put too fine a point on it, people use affectionate nicknames for those they love and dogs are not excluded from this process. But just as it is faintly disgusting to hear "sweetie-kins" or "sugar pie" used aloud in a public space, people saying "puppers" ought to have the decency to use it only within earshot of their beloved.

audre lorde thinks not neglecting yourself is political

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc7pq0dXQZ1qzyo7n.jpg

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, September 8, 2017 11:08 PM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I think I remember this now and it's in the context of the idea that when society wants to oppress you, push you down and destroy you, even caring for yourself is fighting back. I think. Like many things that come out of radical political theory it filtered down into the twittersphere and seems like it became a buzzword for soft college kids who can't even. Like people asking each other what their self-care routines were and including stuff like massage and fancy teas, where it's just hard to believe that that's what Lords meant. But I guess you never really know who someone is from twitter so maybe it's better to give them the benefit of the doubt.

That also reminds me of another thing that occurred to me recently about the left and twitter, which is that the left has this bad tendency to take terms from academia and use them (often not that well) in everyday discourse that doesn't really make for good messaging.

some ppl I know who use it on twitter etc. are survivors of abuse or other trauma, who are not public about that, tho some of their readers are friends who will know the context for the self-care point. so yeah, not assuming too much abt ppl online is as good a point as always.

good messaging (!)

I'm getting annoyed at myself for using "Thanks for the heads up" too often in emails at work. "Thanks for the advance notice" sounds awkward, and "Thanks for the warning" sounds sarcastic, but I haven't come up with another option besides those three.

Thanks

or if it’s really about the timing, “thanks, I needed this for X meeting next week”

if i had a son i would, for as long as it took, instruct him on the very simple difference between a dress and a skirt. i would not launch him into the world not knowing this.

I sell clothes for a living, and I work with someone who I am not entirely sure knows the difference between the two.

idk it’s not that difficult, sheesh

it's easy

dress is what you do to a turkey

skirt is a kind of steak

skirt is what you do around a topic

a dress is what you don't do to the topic

if i had a son i would, for as long as it took, instruct him on the very simple difference between a dress and a skirt. i would not launch him into the world not knowing this.

― estela, Saturday, 9 September 2017 06:26 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No dressing around the issue

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 September 2017 09:01 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

skirt is what you do around a topic

a dress is what you don't do to the topic

― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Monday, September 11, 2017 7:48 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tho

I had something for this thread yesterday and now I've forgotten what it was.

it's easy

dress is what you do to a turkey

skirt is a kind of steak

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 11, 2017 12:03 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Ffs

Reminded of a Minneapolis scene legend who was a bit of a perv to local teen girls, but his humour and oddity always shone through:

"This is cotton, that's rayon, these must be ...felt!"

That Dan Perry is incorrigible.

"changed the world" or "changed the course of history"
Both wildly overused, and often speciously. Plus, EVERYTHING changes the world. Doing a fart changes the world, if only slightly, and for the worse.

Says you.

Hey, look, I rediscovered the wallogina pic earlier today, does that count as changing the course of history?

wallowing changed everything

wallogina changed everything (thank you autocorrect)

wall-o-wing eh? I'd like to catch a little flap of that, if you know what I mean.

I'm ashamed to admit that wall-o-wing is basically my fantasy

using the word "practice" to make yourself sound rigorous and academic. i.e. instead of art "artistic practice" or instead of theatre "theatre practice"

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:37 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"

Allahu akhbar

It's everywhere all a sudden

there is a "critical librarianship" cadre in my field and they are all good people, many of them friends, but we don't have to say "archival praxis" come the fuck on

i forgot to add to this thread that i was in a meeting with this blatant spoofer recently and someone asked a question about future plans for the thing he's building and he said: "yes that's something we hope to be visioneering soon"

unless he was discussing a renovation of the Figment ride at Epcot that is disgusting

it wasn't like he dared to say it either, it was as if he was saying anything else, just flowed out like sewage

"tweeted out"

basically fuck every superfluous preposition

Retcon/retconned. Is Twin Peaks to blame for the resurgance of this? I acknowledge the word serves a purpose, it's just so damn ugly a word. And it seems to be everywhere right now.

it has always been omnipresent in fandoms

Twin Peaks must have been my first brush with the word. Not a comic reader, nor have I been attached to any kind of "fandom". Just think it's an extremely ugly word to use.

it's a shitty word but it seems to do the job of no other word ("he totally retconned laura" v "he totally altered laura's continuity retroactively")

I wouldn't know of a better word for what it's trying to convey, it's just such an ugly combination of two abbreviated words merged.

repurposed

might work for retcon

worse yet, "praxis" when you can just say "practice"

I had to resist doing this earlier today. My inner critic was a little bit of a dick about it, too