Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

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How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?

Alba, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:12 (five years ago)

maybe 2020 will be the year the (correctly) hated apostrophe is omitted everywhere else also: let freedom reign (rain)!

mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:12 (five years ago)

How can you hear the omission? Is it in their eyes?

typing

times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 11:19 (five years ago)

TS: Happy New Years vs Daylight Savings

kinder, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:14 (five years ago)

Apologies in advance and, in way of explanation, I'm Scottish. It's that time of the year where I get annoyed at people saying Happy New Year before it's January 1st and, this will never stop being intensely annoying, pronouncing Auld Lang Syne as Auld Lang Zyne.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:20 (five years ago)

s/b daylights saving, like attorneys general

mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:33 (five years ago)

Passer bys

Alba, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:47 (five years ago)

^^^wanna destroy tbh

mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:59 (five years ago)

number of daylights saved: 182

times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 18:58 (five years ago)

Next motherfucker with a corny-ass "2020 vision" pun will face sheer wrath

Thxbye

Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 January 2020 22:08 (five years ago)

"cringe"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 9:34 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

fuckin happened again

if you describe anything as "so cringe" log out and cut off your hands imo

american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:28 (five years ago)

TS: cringey or cringeworthy or cringe-inducing.

pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:36 (five years ago)

the latter two are fine, "cringey" suspect, "so cringe" from the depths of hell

american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:52 (five years ago)

"It's so concerning" = ugh ugh

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:54 (five years ago)

^^^ "Concerning" is the fucking worst.

I'm currently reading a book (academic study of pop music) that uses "problematic" as a fucking noun.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:06 (five years ago)

'Problematic' qua academic noun has been around for ages and is unrelated to wokeness.

pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:13 (five years ago)

i think the pinefox started a thread about it

(or anyway a discussion in a thread, he was amused by what exactly academics think they're asking when they used it -- it's usually plural in the academic sense tho, maybe)

mark s, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:37 (five years ago)

It's so concerning

will they cancel the parade?

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:59 (five years ago)

"my dude"

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:25 (five years ago)

anthropocene

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:18 (five years ago)

"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:14 AM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know both usages have been around a long time but one is correct and the other makes me want to twist someone's foot off

Brad C., Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:27 (five years ago)

"nothing burger"

― Number None, Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:08 AM (two years ago)

― pomenitul, Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:04 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:36 (five years ago)

"cringe"

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:34 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

‘we need to talk about _______’

― mookieproof, Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:33 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

any reference to Twitter as "this website"

― Number None, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 6:52 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:36 (five years ago)

any reference to Twitter as "this bird app"

― groovemaaan, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 7:05 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't seen this but I like it :)

flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:37 (five years ago)

"DEEP DIVE" is becoming toxic. I didn't mind it at first (3 years ago), kinda liked it, now a contagion.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:37 (five years ago)

like genital warts

papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:38 (five years ago)

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

kinder, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:41 (five years ago)

"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."

Sam Weller, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:14 (five years ago)

I've noticed this for a few years now, but lots of people don't seem to understand what 'opaque' means. I just saw it used to describe a transparent piece of perspex.

I'm afraid the situation is even worse with "transparent," because it has acquired two functionally opposite meanings: the quality of not being hidden, and the quality of being invisible.

You can say that a government process is "transparent," meaning that everyone can ostensibly see what is going on.

You can also say that e.g. a cloud migration is "transparent to the user," meaning that you don't notice it happening and don't have to do anything.

It's like "oversight" meaning either carelessness or close attention.

Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 11:26 (five years ago)

heartlands

nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:30 (five years ago)

all power to the overlooked organs

mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:33 (five years ago)

spleenlands

mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:33 (five years ago)

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:50 (five years ago)

maybe liverlands should be the actual name for merseyside and thus labour's truest turf

nashwan, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:11 (five years ago)

2020 "stop saying tonnes in metaphors when tons works fine" challenge

tuns 🛢️🛢🛢️🛢

(why no beer barrel emoji, only oil barrels)

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:18 (five years ago)

my analogy don't want none unless you got tonnes hun

i've seen no good people (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (five years ago)

otm re opaque and transparent, I have now given up on working out what these actually mean except when used 100% literally about the see-through-ness of a material I can actually see (through, or not) there and then

further evidence that words mean anything which means they don't mean anything, also metaphors are bad

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 23 January 2020 15:21 (five years ago)

also metaphors are bad

also similes are like a thing that is bad

Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:38 (five years ago)

no matter how many times I look it up, my brain cannot hold onto the meaning of "ornate"... it always reads as "featureless" or "plain" to me, even though I know that's wrong

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:46 (five years ago)

Nothing featureless or plain about The Shape Of Jazz To Come or Dancing In Your Head.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:50 (five years ago)

I always have to struggle to remind myself that "enervated" means drained of energy.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:18 (five years ago)

Huh, I had no idea.

pomenitul, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:25 (five years ago)

And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed

Alba, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:56 (five years ago)

it's all very plussing imo

mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:58 (five years ago)

'noisome' always confuses me

koogs, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:35 (five years ago)

I think the meaning of nonplussed is changing bcs so many people use it to mean unimpressed, esp. in the US(?)

fetter, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:29 (five years ago)

Restive another one like enervated

The way ppl misuse nonplussed is so random and leaves me nonplussed - I have a crackpot theory I’ve mentioned before that it’s because it sounds a bit like “not fussed” maybe? Similar to how ppl think craven means shameless instead of cowardly cause it sounds a bit like brazen. Neither is probably true but it’s what my dumb brain came up with to explain everyone else’s dumb brains

Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 24 January 2020 09:22 (five years ago)

Been reading up on kombucha brewing and every time I see Scoby I get angry.

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:50 (five years ago)

and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids

Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:08 (five years ago)

Speaking to a calendar year as if it's a person, eg "2020 you SUCK!"

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:07 (five years ago)


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