Really annoying guy who uses "I get it" constantly: Chris Cuomo.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
"I get it" as in "I understand" or "Enough already"? feel like the latter has been around a lot longer than the decade
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:30 (five years ago) link
It sort of splits the difference. It's in the tone--I'd have to provide audio.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
“firebrand”
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
"thank you for coming to my ted talk"
― marcos, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
yes
any reference to the bastardin things tbh
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Whataboutism-- this concept seems too obscure to have gained the amount of usage-sans-explanation that it has
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
continually telling someone they're gaslighting you when they're not is the next level move
― ogmor, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
whataboutism is just tu quoque
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
What about whataboutery
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUH4Kgmyk2Y
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png/220px-What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of Richard Dreyfuss
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
everything means this post imma say 2012
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
"say the quiet parts out loud" already over.
― Yerac, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
my problem with "gaslighting" is that it's meant to distinguish between "you disagree with me" and "you agree with me but are lying to trick me" which is essentially just an accusation of bad faith. i'm sure there are ppl who "gaslight" as a control +abuse mechanism but 99% of the time i've seen it used [online only] it's really "you are acting like your disagreement with me is in good faith but that's impossible so you must be trying to trick me," which is often fairly delusional and self-serving.
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
overton window yes yes we get it
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
"let me be clear"
― dogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
"rocked up"
"so she turned around to me and said..."
― dogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
Got some more awfulness. Yesterday my students couldn't understand that starting sentences with "because" was fine.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
Because they do not hope to learn again
― Berks & Cow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
Wait Alfred you object to "very" as an intensifier? You are hard line.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
― dogs, Friday, January 11, 2019 7:12 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idgi... the redundancy of "to me"?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
bc of Alfred I am more conscious of overusing intensifiers
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
im fierce aware of it now
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I’m still bad at it though
soveryreallyfuckingsignificantly incredibly too
I use often, sometimes in the same sentence
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
rather!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
I swear Bernie Sanders precedes every utterance with "let me be clear". Let me be clear, honey, I am going to eat the fuck out of your pussy
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
I had a terrible, terrible boss a couple of years ago that I hated. During a one on one meeting where I just didn't want to talk to him anymore about work I brought up how he said "at the end of the day" and "let me ask you a question" so many times during a conversation that it was distracting. For the next six months he was incapable of saying 3 sentences in a row without taking longs pauses or making "ughs". It was so great.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
I've had multiple bosses that do stuff like this, it really wears you down after a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January
I'm not sure I would, but I am somewhat relaxed about these things.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
"Let's link"
No
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
the ubiquitous use of "like".
mainly because i am horribly guilty of it myself and it sounds even worse coming from someone with my accent
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
You could repurpose that list as 'Pet Shop Boys albums, ranked!', Alfred.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Mark Twain famously claimed that every time he was tempted to write "very" he'd substitute "damned" in order to make certain the editor would remove it for him.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
I have a few verbal crutches which I always wince at myself for using: "kind of," "really," "maybe," "I think."
I've also been told that I say "sorry" way too much, even by Canadian standards.
― jmm, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
strunk+white call rather and very "leeches that infest the ponds of prose, sucking the blood of words" iirc
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Those clods are dead though
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
"rather" is undead
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
li-cherally.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
everything is a matter of personal style and deployment and offering anything here in the spirit of correction as opposed to an "i dont like this meself" is snobbery
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
controversial position
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
xp You are correct, sir. Even the most tired of cliches has valid uses in the hands of a good writer. But it is not the purpose of this thread to inveigh against writers whose skill surpasses the bounds beyond which normally lie annoyance.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
let it never be said about me that I am not a snob
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
xps alf m8 tisnt gold yere given a fella to work with yknow
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Affirming a negative in a question - “Santa Claus isn’t real, right?”
― calstars, Saturday, 12 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link