terrible argument. as we discussed already, retail employees are doing customers a huge favor by helping them and not murdering them, so "no worries" or "no problem" is perfectly appropriate.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
ok thank you
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
I'm still processing some related trauma
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
The phrase "best television show of all time" really annoys me, regardless of the show it refers to. At least the 50 million mugs that say "World's Best [Dad/Mom]" exist to express some minimally justified sentimentality, but television isn't your mom or dad, so just say you enjoy a program with some enthusiasm and step away.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
but television isn't your mom or dad
Obviously not a latchkey kid.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link
The Sopranos is my mother and my father.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable, has anyone figured out its etymology?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
for some reason i thought it was a hubie brown phrase, but that doesn’t seem to be the case
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
"you love/hate to see it" already insufferable
i love to see it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
it's a sports commentator sorta phrase, to me
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
it's just everywhere... too much... good phrase in small doses
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
we are all too much in the world
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
you, and i cannot stress this enough, love/hate to see it
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
I very much enjoy subtly mangling phrases and slang that annoy me: "I like to see that!" "We stan a wig!" and so on
― i could chug a keg of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link
"we stan a wig"?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
we all stan wigs so let's goooooooooo
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
lol
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
this doesn't annoy me tbh but i finally realized the semantic purpose of
me: (opinion)also me: (another opinion, usually in contrast to the first)
it's a solution to BUT fatigue!! aka "[opinion], but [contrasting opinion]" which is related to The Era of Disclaimers but not its sole progeny
the me/also me format is just a way to do something very common (express two conflicting opinions) while signaling insider status by using the de rigeur form
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
me is large, me contains multitudes
― well, fuck me with a pumpkin spice lube (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
me needs to express things about me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
I:also I:—Bob Marley
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
"we stan a wig" is what they're singing on that Sigur Rós album, right?
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Bob Marley would be:I and I: (opinion)I and also I: (another opinion)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
nobody:also nobody:
― jmm, Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
that one is for pointless (or petty?) comments
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
watching the various ways people try to obscure the fact that they are sharing pointless information always entertains me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
I really dug that first Afstan Wigs album
― seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
nobody:
me: i don't know who needs to hear this, but you do not, in fact, have to love to see it
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
...and here's why
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
forgot to (check notes)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
well thanks for coming to my ted talk
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
i-
imagine being that salty about overused internet phrases
actually CAN relate sksksk
― chips moomin (unregistered), Friday, 18 October 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
they just pulled cc sabathia out of the astros-yankees game mid-batter due to injury, probably his last appearance on the mound in his (legendary) career, and the stream chat is a fusillade of "you hate to see it"
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 October 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
tbf i do actually dislike seeing that
i mean, he's a yankee, but he (and his family) seem pretty grebt
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 October 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
it is appropriate in this scenario
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 October 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
I've seen this come up a couple times in this thread, so I'm going to be the pedantic asshole who points out that Joanna Newsom's primary instrument is not the harpsichord.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 18 October 2019 04:53 (five years ago) link
Though I guess she does play it in that song, so I'm also a dummy
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 18 October 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 18 October 2019 11:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPDvIIpTbY
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 October 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
Somehow it became acceptable, then ubiquitous, for a software error message to say just "Something went wrong," thereby offering the user utterly no clue about how to proceed. No, sorry, it tells you how to proceed: "Try again later."
E.g. this is what you get at Reverb.com when your credit card on file expires:https://i.imgur.com/Mu8sKrb.png/
― mick signals, Friday, 18 October 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
Until about three months ago I never once heard the phrase 'dog whistling' and since then I have probably heard it twenty times. Dog whistling is the new gaslighting
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 18 October 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
dog whistling has been common for at least a decade
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
it's also a simple way to describe a complex behavior. same with gaslighting. I'm sure people overuse the terms but they are quite helpful in describing a pattern of behavior without getting into details.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
examples:
us 2009:
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/magazine/06texas-t.html
uk 2010:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8227773/David-Cameron-must-face-the-challenge-of-Islamisation.html
australia 2011:
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/89228/enough-is-enough-on-asylum-seeker-politics/
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 October 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
'X for people who don't like X'.
What if instead of gatekeeping the shit out of a given genre you considered the possibility that it might be broader than first meets the eye (or ear)?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
"That will be just..."
immediately before eye-watering price for mundane item
― anvil, Sunday, 20 October 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
"Imagine thinking...."
― anvil, Sunday, 20 October 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
"imagine ..." and how it has generally taken over for "what a maroon"
― maffew12, Sunday, 20 October 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
"Do better"
― anvil, Monday, 21 October 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link