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

i'm less of a donatello these days tbh

the phrase always makes me think of Scottie & Midge in Vertigo

i realise “blockchain” is probably a word but i don’t need to hear/read it 500 times a day

"bio break"

Nope. No need. Just say short break. Ugh.

"facilitate"

xp: that's super gross. never heard it before.

It is, right? I've heard it three times today already. :(

I've never heard bio break? You should just start saying "I'm going to take an ebola break."

Let's take a break. TO PERFORM THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF OUR SPECIES.

TBF most people who use bio break don't JUST mean "go to the bathroom." They also mean get some coffee or water or whatever. Basically, attend to the needs of your mammalian self. In some workplaces it still includes smoking!

But still ew. I know we're not gossamer beings of spirit and light and pure thought; you don't need to remind me.

EXACTLY.

i have never heard anyone say bio break and didn't know wtf it even referred to til someone said "bathroom"
for a minute i thought it was "get back to nature vacation"
lol

ha I thought "bio break" must be some journalism term, like "insert some biographical stuff between these two paragraphs"

"A polite corporate term for using the restroom -or other biological necessities, usually during interminably long unnecessary meetings."

Kill me.

Seriously with 'bio break'? Never heard that before, but now bracing myself for the inevitability of bio breaking all over myself when I start hearing it daily in the near future.

I KNOW. I've been up since 4:30 and here since 6:30. I have no tolerance for this today. I almost snapped at the guy and told him to just say break the last time he said it.

Biohazard zone: bio break in progress

“sammy”

Makes me think of not just peeing, but also depositing your blood, lymphatic fluid, etc in a jar to have it analyzed and then stored on a shelf for eternity.

This gives me the idea that it could mean something a high school biology class. "Damn, gotta hurry or I'll be late for bio."

So the next time I hold a meeting I'll say "Time for a bio-break. Under each of your seats you will find a tray with a preserved dead frog. Please dissect the frog, identifying and labeling the major organs."

I always preferred "I have to go see a man about a horse."

wee in gran's flange the HR-approved phrasing, iirc

I always preferred "I have to go see a man about a horse."

It's a dog over here.

i have to go see a dog about a horse

lmao

People calling each other "lovely" as a noun. Not like "you look lovely", but like "Hello lovely" or "thanks lovely" or even "hello lovelies" to a group.

Usually seems to be posh/middle class women to other women (I hear it at work a lot). Where did this come from? I think it started a few years ago but seems to be getting more common. It's kind of the same usage as people calling each other "love", "pet" or "duck" I suppose.

I think it started a few years ago

Ymmv but I've heard this in or from UK ppl for at least twenty years.

There's a west country usage like "my lovely" that's been around forever but this seems different, although may have come from it I suppose.

Anti-Welsh racism imo :-O

https://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/farewell-my-lovely.jpg

Lovely is way overused. It's like the default to sound refined when praising something. I had a friend once that used the word lovely to describe every single wine.

Describing food as lovely in your best NPR voice is indeed annoying.

woah that book cover should be a Smiths song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo

https://pictures.abebooks.com/BATHANDWESTBOOKS/17984227977.jpg

https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article10955205.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/daviesJPG.jpg

My only friend who calls me ‘lovely’ is v. middle-class, gay and from Plymouth so I’ll allow it.

North Eastern version...

https://northeastgifts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NE12.jpg

i think the attempt to attach a class marker to "lovely" is p strained tbh

West Country lovelying seems to happen regardless of class background!

Braw >>>> Lovely

Peng >>>>> Braw

"tarmac" "TARMAC MEETING"

"unmasking"

"we live in a republic, not a democracy"

"if you love something let it go"

"All the feels"

"i did a thing"

Good work there guys.

hack-a-thon
do-a-thon
unconference

i like lovely :(

"trash" in almost all contexts now

p sure sapiosexual is latin for "superior person"