a pre-emptive self-congratulatory "you're welcome" when someone does something unexpectedly helpful
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 July 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
yeah, i was gonna thank you, but not i feel like i'm just paying tribute to an asshole
"Let's link"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
do Americans say 'fam'? Sounds very British slang to me
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
I thought it was only disgruntled Arsenal fans who said it.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
its the new bruv
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Monday, 16 July 2018 11:13 (six years ago) link
I can't fucking stand it!
― calzino, Monday, 16 July 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
let it go fam, just leave it
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Monday, 16 July 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
yes i've heard "fam" (or "fams") in the US and it's just as annoying
― Lee626, Monday, 16 July 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
Jamaican origin maybe? Or West Indian.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 12:12 (six years ago) link
definitely been around longer in the UK than the US anyway
― Number None, Monday, 16 July 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
i like "fam" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯except when my son calls me that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 July 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
(xp) I wouldn't have thought the US picked it up from the UK, so I imagine it must have come from the Caribbean community. Unless Arsenal TV is really popular in the US.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
I’m fine with ‘fam’ and have been for the past 10 years or so.
― suzy, Monday, 16 July 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
I automatically lose interest in anything subtitled "A People's History"
― Jules Rimet still leaving (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Hypebeast.
― neutral yogurt (doo dah), Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
some people on the internet seem to think a 'stan' is a celebrity who is the object of a fan's obsession:
[url=https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%22my%20stan%20is%22][url=https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%22love%20my%20stan%22]
I really applaud the way he stood up for @chloebennet and women in general. Proves he is maturing and tackling issues that need to be spoken and the objectification of women by @ksi is one of them. Proud to call him my stan ❤️ pic.twitter.com/cUpBL5okDy— vic (@logansmeme) July 29, 2018
in another decade this will have become the dominant usage, and anyone who tries to correct it ("have you even heard that Eminem song from 30 years ago?") will be written off as a joyless prescriptivist windbag 😔
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
(uh sorry for Logan Paul's face)
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link
let me reiterate: "Let's link"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
"(drink that is on the menu) as cold as your ex's heart"
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link
Oh that's a thing is it? There's a shop/off licence near me that's had that on a board outside it for (it seems like) decades - I thought they'd thought it up for themselves!
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link
― how's life, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 10:36 (six years ago) link
they would then be your eminem.
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 10:43 (six years ago) link
I haven't searched the internet for it because I know it would dismay me but I'm certain there's a clever business from which you can obtain gently used clever one-liners to display cleverly each day outside your liquor store or bar.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
^ ditto for the 'religious humor' posted on message boards outside churches
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
i feel
fuck your feelings!!
― sleepy sweet (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
I have some friends who aren’t voting for Ben Jealous because one of them sat opposite BJ and his much younger girlfriend on a train and had to put up with the pair making out across from him for almost the whole journey.
― suzy, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
seems fair
― eris (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Oh, Christ - wrong thread!
I voted for BJ and that story is endearing imo
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
pda is for savages
― eris (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
key question: was it the quiet car?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
'nagl', empty criticism
― ogmor, Friday, 3 August 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
I've come to detest hearing all variations of "We'll call you back if interested." Most of the time I'm responding to THEIR ad or inquiry. "Interest" is beside the point, stop making me feel like a beggar/salesman, I am neither. It's a demeaning phrase.
― Real Compton City G, Friday, 10 August 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
yes - they need to decide if they're interested or not BEFORE replying to you
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 August 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
"big dick energy"
I get it, it's ironic because you're the last person who'd ever seriously equate penis size with power and self-esteem. now stop it.
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Monday, 20 August 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
"self-care"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
I didn't think much of "self-care" at first, but I've been growing to like it and am desperately in need of it most of the time.
"big dick energy" sucks big dicks though. "weird dude energy" was a great term and I'm concerned that it will be tainted by this offshoot.
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
“Self-care” as a term originated in mental health and disability self-advocacy communities and now brands are using it to sell soap
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
yeah the thing/act of "self-care" itself is obv good & important, but as silby said it's being overused and abused now
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
"self-introduction"
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
I thought I had already posted "deep cuts" here--must have been on another thread. Just hate it. And it's out there now, it's infecting the general population. A Facebook friend, a local musician my age (a little older even), had a post this morning asking for Monkees deep cuts. The Monkees didn't have deep cuts. They had singles, and they had filler, and some of the filler was better than the singles, but most of it was worse, and that's why those songs weren't singles. They're not deep--not in the sense of being especially profound, and you don't have to look really hard for them, they're right there on the albums. "Album tracks"--that works too.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
doesn't deep cuts literally refer to tracks later on the album?
― challops trap house (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
I don't like 'deep cuts' either, sounds wanky.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
I always understood "deep cuts" to mean relatively obscure album tracks (and by extension to anything more obscure than that).
― JRN, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
I had always interpreted it to mean non-singles. If it does mean later on the album...that's a really weird category. How do you decide where the deep cuts start and the shallow ones end? Is it the third song on side two or the fourth?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
clemenza OTM, "Album track" will suffice
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
it means non-singles, however deep into the tracklist they are placed
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
If it means obscure, that's a little better I guess, but again, that's a rather subjective call (do the Beatles therefore have no deep cuts?), and why isn't 'obscure' good enough as is?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link