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 (four years ago) link
Huh, I had no idea.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
And that nonplussed means perplexed not unimpressed
― Alba, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
it's all very plussing imo
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
'noisome' always confuses me
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Go home, (year), you're drunk.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
"Second of all,"
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
^^^^
makes me nuts
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
'aesthetic' used used to suggest one specific aesthetic
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
"Thanks for coming to my TED talk" was bad enough when it became a meme, but now it seems to get talked on to like any opinion or affirmative statement as a sort of ironical "QED" which is not what I understood the meme to even mean.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
not into the word 'eatery'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
re: 'TED Talk' - maybe it's time to ironically revive 'Rant over' at the end of long social media posts about quotidien bugbears
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
Don't like "good faith/bad faith".
― mirostones, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
many of you would never encounter most of these phrases if you logged out of twitter
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
"trolling"
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:25 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oooh otm, gonna die on this hill
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Folks emphatically saying 'facts!' in reply, so annoying and ironic given the general shitshow we all inhabit at the moment.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
"[...]. That's it. That's the tweet."
This, along with "whomst" and "period" are good signifiers for "unfollow this person"
― Montegays and Capulez (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
The handclap icon between each word in a Tweet is the worst. And mostly morons use it
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
“...and it shows”So petty!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:35 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
We had an argument in my office today that divided the staff, it was regarding the correct past tense of "pet" which some were very, very insistent must be "petted" and could not be the more novel and apparently atrocious "pet" (as in "this my dog Bonito Flakes, he likes to be pet")... I united them against me by saying both usages were equally valid.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
pooted
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
Petterated
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
you could make the case for potten being an option
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
stroked
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
petté
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
"... and it shows"
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
"Passed" for "died" is fairly recent in UK English, I think (although we've had "passing", "passed away" and "passed on" for ages); certainly recent enough for me still to think "passed what?" whenever I hear it in conversation.
― fetter, Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
mandatory terminology for questions of mortality in all settings, including funerals, should be 'carked it'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
"Sorry for your loss" is the worst.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link
on lots of old graves from 18th to 20th centuries in the local old rectory grounds, they use "fell asleep" which seems quite fucking ridiculous to me. Especially if you died screaming in agony getting minced in a threshing machine or some dramatic death like that.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
xp meaningless cant lines in times of most fathomless realities are the most useful words and phrases of all imo
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
Very much agree with that statement. One void calls for another.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
well guess we'll never see her again that fuckin sucks! cheers
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:58 (four years ago) link
rip indeed
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Re: "I'm sorry for your loss", I know that the writer is now awful but this is the sitcom scene that comes to my mind more often than any other:http://www.youtube.com/TKOrr4XRbg8
― Alba, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/TKOrr4XRbg8
― Alba, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
meaningless cant lines in times of most fathomless realities are the most useful words and phrases of all imo
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:36 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thank you yes, you'd have to be a very special kind of bellend to worry about not being cliched ooh la la when faced with consoling somebody's loss
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
i mean obviously the drift of this thread is largely for being a very special kind of bellend but still
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
lol i remember my mum saying almost exactly that to a younger (and more bellendish) me when i was being prima donna-ish abt a condolence letter i was trying to write
― mark s, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
well im defending it but im not up for calling anyone a cunt over it like
― (darraghpc) vs (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
god i'm *so sorry* your beloved child died, what's that you say, car accident? *yawn* so trite
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
It is really difficult writing a message to someone - and I have found it harder doing so for someone I know and love as opposed to someone I’ve been out of touch with for years. I am not quite the age/family age to have experienced loads of deaths in my extended family or among friends, so I don’t do it very often. It’s hard! You’re sitting there looking at this blank space and worrying about what to write. What if you don’t want to write the same lines as everyone else but then accidentally touch something off? What if you do the card equivalent of leaving an awkward voicemail message? Will they even notice the words used?When I was talking about this to my mother a few years back - who had lost both her own parents when she was young - she said that she remembered who had sent the family cards, and less so what they’d said. So since then, I have gone with the words we all use. Tl;dr deems largely otm.
― steer karma (gyac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
(Unrelatedish but yesterday I was telling my mam that I thought our old neighbour had died. Can you not check? she says. Check how, I went, they don’t have an rip.ie over here. Pretty sure she’s still shocked over that, but we think ye have awful funeral customs anyway so).
― steer karma (gyac), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link