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

Trouble 'n' strife.

She who must be obeyed

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Dmac otm as usu

In romance languages wife is literally woman. Husband/wife can also translate to “handcuff”

My main reason for using 'partner' is to avoid 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend', which sound too...trivial?

Earlier i recognized that my admission of old does fold into a kind of formal legacy sitch on those terms- to me ‘spouse’ seems more gendered than ‘partner’ because partner reflected non legal or non recognized relationships. Im sure y’all smarts got that, but it reached me.

Ok everyone stop saying “timeline”

otm. this went from fun to tedious in nothing flat

thats a pretty short.....sequence

Marks & Sparks.

"Have you swiped your Sparks card?"

lol I like Marks and Sparks but I also think that the whole English people making of cutsey nicknames for literally everything thing is pretty cute.

I hear partner a little more often these days here in the US but I remember people using it all the time when I lived in England. I thought like 3/4 of the ppl I worked with were gay for the first couple weeks.

Do people still say Marks and Sparks? It strikes me as very 80s.

I started saying partner all the time because I work in academia where there are lots of couples, 90% of whom have different last names, and I generally have no idea how many of them are actually married or just live together and/or have children.

many xxxps but completely agree on overuse of "timeline" as in "this is the worst timeline." seems to have replaced (the much worse imo) "time is a flat circle"

the worst dumpster fire timeline, amazeballs

this timeline is a hot mess!!!

that's like 5 awful phrases and cliches combined, excellent work

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I've never heard the "flat circle" one. I've seen "dark timeline" or some variation multiple times a week lately.

Really getting tired of "this is a bad thread"

time is a bad thread

that is good actually ^

string theory discredited actually

The Worst Dumpster Fire Timeline, Amazeballs: A Memoir

Read the book that Neil deGrasse Tyson calls “bazinga-lickin good!”

“is it just me, or...”

"I'm old enough to remember British Rail..."

Limoncello

Also, Lemon Jelly

"I'M SCREAMING"

(Although I've seen enough "YouTube reaction videos" to suggest that some of these people actually do engage in some very performative screaming.)

whenever (clap) people (clap) use (clap) claps (clap) like (clap) im (clap) 6 (clap) years (clap) old (clap) and (clap) my (clap) mother (clap) is (clap) scolding (clap) me (clap) for (clap) ruining (clap) my (clap) appetite (clap) just (clap) before (clap) dinner

But how else will people know it's a clapback?

“Disgusting savages”

“Wait until you hear this”

so theres obv a whole board to be had on the american service industry

but "absolutely" and "of course" will be ringing around my head in all of the wrong tones for months to come after this trip

doesnt help that 3 in 4 of requests met with these responses (often uttered before I'd actually finished) were ignored or ballsed up.

we gauche we know it

its pronounced gauche fyi

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wow

we gauche we know it

― Anglo Scarfy (rip van wanko), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:00 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its pronounced gauche fyi

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:01 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, this is some cold shit. truth tho.

thats a local garda rip from waaay back tbh i use it at every op

whats "byoodiful" mean apparently i say this now

what do you say, "boatyful?"

no i mean i have been noted, in iirc yr very presence, as saying the above

"end of"

end of

I'm not sure where this belongs, but I'll just put it here.

Anyway, at work I was discussing a newly hired person in management with another member of management. He relayed to me a scenario where he was working a shift with this new hire (female) and he was coming to the end of his shift but had not completed his assigned task, because of other things more pressing that only management could handle that come up around the store throughout his shift. He was close, but alas, the task was incomplete. He checked in with the new hire prior to clocking out and told her of the status, to which she responded, "You will not clock out. You will finish the task and then you may clock out for the day" (keep in mind: they are of equal authority). He told me that this was very much a turn on to him that a female would take charge and boss him around on only the second or third day on the job. I thought to myself: that is not only a total dick move (what if the person she was demanding to work overtime had obligations outside of work that would not allow for the longer shift?), it's pretty fucking weird for him to be all into it like that. Like, that's fine if you find her attractive, but don't be weird about it. As a member of management myself, the whole situation just seemed like a cluster unprincipled behavior.

pomenitul's list of Amricanisms was surprisingly accurate

well, not the 'youthful Americans' piece of it, but that changes hourly