^ given that the phrase is consistently used as the prelude to saying something you would prefer to be a falsehood,
― calstars, Thursday, 29 November 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"
― ninthyoung, Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
otm i alvvays luvd that qvote
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Sometimes that phrase comes to my mind when I walk into the bar. Though I’m not sure what result I’m expecting
― calstars, Thursday, 29 November 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
*checks notes*
really, ffs. do not.
that's not a reply to anyone on this thread, btw, it's a new offence.
― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 30 November 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
“big spoon”/“little spoon” – spoons of different sizes do not nest together; spoons of the same size do. That’s why it’s called spooning
“The Venn diagram of A and B is just a circle” – this is not how Venn diagrams work. They do not represent proportions. Generally.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
impactful
― mookieproof, Wednesday, November 28, 2018
I've waged a Sommes-level battle against it for years. We've lost.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
whoa @ spoon
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 November 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
“Business Garden”
― calstars, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
on-boarding
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
“Business Garden” is a terrible euphemism
― mick signals, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
getting online in the matrix
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
"how busy are you right now?"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
i mean. motherfucker you did not just say that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
'overly
the lamest of adverbs. it just looks wrong to me
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
stray apostrophe, there
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
referring to twitter as "this website"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
yeah the proper term is "this hell website"
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I've got an 'overly bunch of coconuts
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i LOVE "this website"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Thanks, customer service wageslave. Yes, when I requested that billing correction, I actually only wanted your deep understanding and sympathy, not money.
Thanks for reaching out to us, I certainly understand your concern and assure you not to worry at all. I truly see the importance of being fairly charged. Rest assured we're actively working to make sure all of your experiences are up to your standards, so you, coming to us with this concern will help us determine how to improve our services better. We apologize for your inconvenience caused by our policy and we wish you to know that customer satisfaction is our highest priority.
I truly see the importance of being fairly charged. Rest assured we're actively working to make sure all of your experiences are up to your standards, so you, coming to us with this concern will help us determine how to improve our services better. We apologize for your inconvenience caused by our policy and we wish you to know that customer satisfaction is our highest priority.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
The specific usage or phrase in this case would be telling me not to worry, which is IMO appropriate to say only a) if I have expressed worry rather than a simple professional request; b) if you are about to resolve a problem that might be causing me worry; and/or c) if you know me personally.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
, so you,
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
like "that marabou scarf is so you"?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
mick signals, those go down a lot easier if you mentally read them in the voice of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
Huh! You're right. Even better if I mentally set myself adrift in frigid vacuum afterwards.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
“There’s no need to press numbers. You can speak to me just like you would a real person.”
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
"rapey"
― marcos, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Had this yearly 15-minute meeting with my principal today where you look over whatever diagnostic testing you did in the fall, flag students of concern, etc. And this: "How are you empowering modern learners?" "Um...I talk about Richard Nixon a lot!"
I didn't actually say that--it occurred to me on the way home that that's what I should've said. (I instead, as I always do, mumbled something close to "Um, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.") I have to remind myself that I'm retiring this year, and now's the time to openly mock every mind-numbing bit of jargon I've encountered the past 20 years.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
clemenza, have you considered
~activating~ the modern learners?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
they are full of stored up potential, waiting to be unleashed. but first you must activate
And me in love with modern learningMe in love with modern rock & rollModern learning and modern rock & rollDon't feel so alone, got the modern learners activated
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
"I had that dream again" is getting pretty tedious
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
"hellscape"
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
"jobby"
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
People that apologize for saying something weird. Being a normie isn't something people should strive for.
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
"what fresh hell..." was good when it was new. it is no longer new.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
No longer fresh.
― jmm, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
What everyone really needs to accept is that it’s horribly grating to hear anyone say anything that anyone else has ever said before
― devops mom (silby), Friday, July 6, 2018 6:18 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
ugh my mom used to say that
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
In The Flowers of Tarbes: or, Terror in Literature, Jean Paulhan distinguishes between rhetoricians – those who believe that language is a pre-existing reservoir of commonplace tropes – and terrorists – revolutionaries who demand that language be perpetually reinvented. I assume most of us itt are terrorists.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
I like that construction
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I'm absolutely a terrorist, there's nothing I love more than the abject crimes against comprehensibility I sometimes find in the wild
you might think of advertising and other forms of commercial text as tropey but the innovations I've seen in ads and headlines and marketing-speak have affected me profoundly
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
jazztalkers 4lyfe
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
on NPR I heard the termed "pwned" pronounced like "owned" with a p at the beginning ("poned" if you will). i don't know that i've ever attempted to pronounce pwned but would you say "poned" or just "owned" or "owned with a p"?
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I still hear it in my head as "pawned"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 14 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I'd say it the NPR way.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
made me cringe for some reason, but it's always a little embarrassing when internet lingo gets thrown around irl
― rip van wanko, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
That word should never be spoken
― calstars, Friday, 14 December 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link