My dad always used to blow his top when he heard "at this moment in time".
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:52 (six years ago)
mine would for 'rate of speed'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 21:59 (six years ago)
That’s me and ‘as yet’.
― suzy, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:17 (six years ago)
“At this point in time” is the kind of dumb bullshit cops say
― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 01:47 (six years ago)
"the individual exited the vehicle..."
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:41 (six years ago)
as of the present point in time
― j., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:46 (six years ago)
came across "at a more rapid rate" in print today
― mick signals, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:51 (six years ago)
in most cases you don't need "then" or soon" in sentences or, fuck, "going forward." The verb tense indicates when the action takes place.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:56 (six years ago)
fuck a “going forward”
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 02:59 (six years ago)
Much of this stuff consists of the bad or sloppy habits we pick up from the various influences that always float around us, but even if these constructions are technically forgivable, the basic message should be "Resist!"
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:03 (six years ago)
at work, I usually write every email by writing what comes into my head, spending a second draft revising and usually overcompensating by bloating up the thing, then pausing, re-reading it, and stripping every fucking unnecessary word, phrase or modifier out of the thing , and it usually shrinks by 33%.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:24 (six years ago)
“I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree”WHAT ?
― calstars, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:45 (six years ago)
lol
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 March 2019 16:56 (six years ago)
Biopic doesn't rhyme with myopic, ppl.
It's "BUY oh PICK." Just like if you said "bio" and then "pic" right afterwards.
Not "by YOP ick".
Please.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:00 (six years ago)
This has been well-covered
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:02 (six years ago)
also it's funny to say it wrong
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:07 (six years ago)
Increasingly bugged by people increasingly prefacing all requests and demands with "I need you to" or (a million times worse) "I'm gonna need you to"
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:16 (six years ago)
IS there a way to issue commands like this that doesn't rankle tho?
the very worst is obviously "how busy are you right now?"
but there's a whole spectrum of badness.. "if you could (x) that would be graaaaaaate"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:22 (six years ago)
Good old "Can you clean the bathrooms before you leave today?" or "Please clean the bathrooms before you leave today" do not rankle. "Make sure to" is okay. "It's your day to clean the bathrooms." "The bathrooms need cleaning; do it before you leave."
Directness is a virtue.
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:35 (six years ago)
"If you get a chance, can yo wipe the toilet clean with your tongue? Only if you can. Thanks!!! xoxo"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:36 (six years ago)
Directness is a virtue.otm, viva plain language for most immediate communicative purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:45 (six years ago)
my mom is a proponent of 'how would you like to _________?'
i, of course, would prefer not to
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:46 (six years ago)
my partner and her sister especially ask "Are you going to ____?" when they'd like me to do something and I try not to be deliberately dense but like, I don't know the future!
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:53 (six years ago)
these requests are couched in politenesses because it beats getting their heads bitten off for asking directlystill, usually the "politeness" is excessive and unneeded, reading to the receiver as passive aggressiveit's a tactic that is not particularly effective in doing what it sets out to do if it lands the speaker in here :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:57 (six years ago)
If the task is clearly not one of my many recognized responsibilities, my wife usually opens with "would you do me a favor?" to which my standard reply is "it depends on what it is". Occasionally she'll substitute, "can I ask you to do me a favor?", to which my standard reply is "of course you can ask, but I'm not sure if I'll do it". I now accept this little dance as standard operating procedure and it doesn't irk me as much as it used to.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:10 (six years ago)
mick's bathrooms example suggests they are thinking of a professional situation tho, where yr boss in fact expects automatic compliance w these sorts of requests but chooses instead to phrase them as if you are a pair of yeoman farmers moved only by their own wills, and whether it's to assuage some personal discomfort of their own or to chip in on the maintenance of a superstructure it is annoying.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:14 (six years ago)
wait no i was conflating mookieproof's mom w mick's bathroom owner. rly what i want to complain about is "do you want to".
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:16 (six years ago)
I was indeed thinking of professional bathrooms, where the boss-peon power dynamic makes any indirectness sound passive-aggressive, as LL said.
In personal relationships, there's more leeway in phraseology. If my spouse said to me, "I'm going to need you to not leave your shoes on the kitchen counter," the formal tone would sound hostile, while "Do those need to be there?" is fine.
Depends I guess on whether you fundamentally like or hate each other.
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:27 (six years ago)
"Agree to disagree" is fine to my ears, it means "mutually accept for the moment that we disagree, rather than continuing to debate and to fail to sway each other from our opposed positions"
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:29 (six years ago)
I consider "agree to disagree" to mean "agree that this is getting us nowhere, so let's stop", except it is shorter and easier to say.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:33 (six years ago)
I don’t know when I hear this it’s less “we’ve reached an impasse” and more “I am unilaterally ending this rather than concede your point.”There a great Curb where Larry refuses to agree to disagree.
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:39 (six years ago)
Usually in an agree to disagree moment, the person who suggests it is trying to assert power over the other person.
― suzy, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:42 (six years ago)
― mick signals, Friday, March 29, 2019 12:27 PM (seventeen minutes ago)
there's gender dynamics in play but I respond much better to orders than hints
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:45 (six years ago)
like "Do those need to be there?" I don't know the answer to that question.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:46 (six years ago)
this is a boring thing to say but probably when it comes to requests different ppl respond to differently to different approaches maybe
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:48 (six years ago)
we shd call this "winsing the thread"
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:49 (six years ago)
best if we all check in w each other
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:49 (six years ago)
Silby dear, let's just talk about this at home
― mick signals, Friday, 29 March 2019 19:56 (six years ago)
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:05 (six years ago)
there's a poorly formed example in the post immediately preceding
― mark s, Friday, 29 March 2019 20:20 (six years ago)
Is it a recent trend to blurb or review a book by calling it "wise"? Have people always done this? Really annoying, usually at the end of a list of compliments like "this was heartwarming, funny, down to earth and wise".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 March 2019 13:12 (six years ago)
probably not that recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Wisdom
― mark s, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:05 (six years ago)
"you deserve better"
― groovemaaan, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:10 (six years ago)
You deserve better than 'you deserve better'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:19 (six years ago)
"funds" instead of "money" (eg "please send funds for my upcoming book project")
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:22 (six years ago)
Prefer dosh.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:23 (six years ago)
Lettuce
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:07 (six years ago)
Filthy lucre
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:13 (six years ago)
Lorne Greene
― Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:15 (six years ago)
spondoolies
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:12 (six years ago)