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
"questionable"
come back problematic, all is forgiven
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 21 October 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
"You do you"
― anvil, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
One cup of coffee please.
That will be just £4.25
Imagine thinking thats a suitable price. Listen *clap emoji* to *clap emoji* customers. Do better
Fine, you do you
― anvil, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
no worries, I will
― maffew12, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
i couldn't stand to hear 'you do you' but now i use it all the time. brevity wins.
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 05:59 (four years ago) link
always think that one is quite handy and supportive.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
sounds extremely pass agg to me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
Go do yourself
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
One does one.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
Kinky.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 09:58 (four years ago) link
impossible to escape the word "dogwhistle" during the 2008 election
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
'Pre-Prep'.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
"I am absolutely shocked that _________ who does _______ is also doing_______"
"It's almost as if ________ who does ________ doesn't know/understand/care about_________"
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 1 November 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
i regret to inform that this thread is back on its bullshit
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 November 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
sorry trace this construction annoys me
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 1 November 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
but like most of these it's a lot to do with the ubiquity
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 1 November 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
lol sorry hadrian i wasn't clear - i was demonstrating a phrase whose ubiquity has become unavoidable and rather grandly irritating rather than replying to you :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
ah, ok!“no worries”
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
“It’s not you. It’s me.” Ok, so you’re just an asshole throwing out cliches.
― nathom, Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
“latest and greatest”
― brimstead, Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
Thanks to duolingo i can now say walk with me in french.
― nathom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 05:49 (four years ago) link
Deep dive
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
ok boomer is everywhere and 99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative
― Mordy, Monday, 4 November 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
Ok boomer
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
punching old
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
99% of the time doesn't make particular sense in the context just like some compulsive content-free pejorative
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
language must be liberated from notions of content asap
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
"Doggo"
Also "very good boy"
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
14/10 heckin' good post
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
my puppo just done a bork
― maffew12, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
this is precisely the point of it― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:27 AM (one hour ago)
how so? the point appears to be "acting like a self-satisfied older neoliberal is obnoxious and due for many of our current problems" not "let's call anyone annoying us a boomer" - it's like an even dumber bye felicia.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
and responsible for* etc u get the pt
"give your head a wobble"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
customer reps reassuring me with gentle words not to worry, as though I had called them in panic rather than exasperation.
https://i.imgur.com/N9PJi9a.png
― mick signals, Thursday, 7 November 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
I think that "don't worry" in that context is code for "please do not yell at me like everyone else does".
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Shoot, is it? Too late.
― mick signals, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Not sure I hate it, but lately the thing where people reply 'That's okay' to 'Thank you' is really tickling me:
CASHIER: 'That's £5.95, and here's your change'CUSTOMER: 'Thank you'CASHIER: 'That's okay'
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
FRIEND 1: I just got accepted for an amazing dream job!!FRIEND 2: Wow, congratulations, that's brilliantFRIEND 1: Thank youFRIEND 2: That's okay
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
SUPERMAN: 'Here are the baddies to put in prison'MAYOR: 'The city is safe again! Thanks Superman'SUPERMAN: 'That's okay'
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
...and here's why
― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link