hear=heap
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
I hear you.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
it just sounds glib I guess
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
I don’t think “fuck cancer” is anthropomorphic any more than “fuck this weather”, it’s expressing simple disgust with the whole notion. “Fuck you, cancer, you took X from me,” is personification. Also, fuck cancer.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
fuck tsunamis
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
fuck mortality tbh
― cheeky Nandez (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Stuff like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJEmMDQXoA
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
jesus wept
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl6i5qgdr9A
had this one in Ireland recently. Didn't go down well
― Number None, Sunday, 17 June 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
yeah that was a fuckin shocker
― tired culché (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 June 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Guys I think we got cancer, from having to watch that
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 17 June 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
"It is what it is."
I find this is used as a "Get out of jail free" type term for people who are assholes and whose assholery has created a sour situation and that's their way of saying, "You get to deal with my bad disposition."
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
I've thought a lot about "it is what it is." I agree that it is often used in the context described above, and that it is overused in general, but I do think the phrase has value and use and is certainly better than "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Do what serves you
^ that one makes me want to scorpion bile all over people
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
Ime it’s used by selfish assholes
My ex-wife would get sloshy, rip-roaring drunk and then create a conflict; which almost always involved baseless, indisputably false accusations of me fancying another woman. She would garble through her "evidence" with increasing volume and belligerence, only to declare, "IT IS WHAT IT IS!" at the end of her ridiculous tirade, as if to really clobber me with her perceived revelation.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
Both Kane and manager Gareth Southgate were asked by an overseas reporter about the significance of playing England’s first World Cup game at such an important historical site as Volgograd, where the battle of Stalingrad was fought.Kane said: “It’s great to play football in such a place. We travel the world a lot as footballers. You obviously want to go and see the history, the things we don’t always get to do. But we have to play football. History is what it is."
Kane said: “It’s great to play football in such a place. We travel the world a lot as footballers. You obviously want to go and see the history, the things we don’t always get to do. But we have to play football. History is what it is."
― Number None, Monday, 18 June 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
“Friendly reminder”
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
using "pissed" to mean angry, instead of "pissed off"! pissed, used as an adjective unaccompanied by a preposition, means drunk. this is non-negotiable.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
i like the use of "it is what it is" in the kacey musgraves song "it is what it is"
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
“offering up” instead of “offering”
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
adding "up" to most verbs tbh ("I need to change up my car").
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
Was thinking about the 'up' as an Americanism - as in 'slow up'. But the 'down' in 'slow down' is superfluous too!
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
"slow up"? is that regional?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
"slow up" is pretty rare ime, but not unheard of. as a kid, the accepted way to ask some other kids to let you catch up who were outdistancing you was to yell "HEY! WAIT UP!"
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
oh yea wait up for sure
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
brad otm
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
I think 'slow up' is an occasional southern US thing? I don't know - I've heard it a few times. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/slow-down-v-slow-up.940985/
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:49 (six years ago) link
offering up has a specific connotation ime
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:18 (six years ago) link
Yeah, more like surrendering something, maybe?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:00 (six years ago) link
its a sacrifice to a higher cause, yeah
specifically a hurt or suffering (afaict whether or not twas asked for or not, you can offer it up the way youd swap a gift for store credit iirc)
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:10 (six years ago) link
Though I suppose I've heard it in the sense of 'The restaurant offers up a wide variety of dishes etc.', which seems to have less of the sacrificial element.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:12 (six years ago) link
well it adds a frisson until the food arrives at the very least non
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link
offering up has a specific connotation imei keep seeing it in the context of companies “offering up” products and services
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:14 (six years ago) link
awesome sauce
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
stop it now
thought that one finally died. just let me believe that, okay?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
OK.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
it didn't go away, it just morphed into Shut The Front Door! Shut. The Front. Door!
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
first time I heard STFD I thought it was hilarious, and I still kinda do! guess I haven't been bludgeoned to death with it yet
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
Are ppl saying that now? I mean I've heard it but rarely. It feels very old fahioned to me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
tbh i don't know what people say these days, i spend most of my life in the same 25 ft radius
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
first time I heard it was just, idk, 6-7 years ago. is it old?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
sick of heartbrokenness
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
^ terrible
― mind how you go (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
add heartsick, brokenhearted
anything having to do with the state of one's own heart that is not literally about heart disease
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I always liked the Germanic flavor of "heartsick" it's so radiantly non-Latinate! The Old English heortseoc actually meant literal heart disease but we ruined it
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Ha! I think I'm right about that one!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs. it's endearing at sufficient remove
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link