My actual answer for this thread, and I can’t be fucked scrolling back up, is “let me pick your brain”. Disgusting turn of phrase.
Ugh OTM
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
I still the worst was ....can't remember whom of you posted it in the other Apolitical COVID thread, but calling a 20% salary decrease a "haircut".
I still get mad when I think about it and it DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN TO ME!!!
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
Whenever I hear 'let me pick your brain' I imagine chimpanzees delousing synapses.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I think of Trotsky. But then I often do.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
in modern parlance you ask "what's on your mind-grapes?"
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
I do, yes
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
'mind if i stir your brain-slurry for a minute?'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
let me pick yr nose for a minute
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
my parents refer to each other as "your dad" and "your mom" but they've been divorced nearly 40 years
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
"what I would say is..."or worse "what I would say to you is..."
favourites of vacuous public figures who like to sound smart and considered
see also "I put it to you that..."
― オニモ (onimo), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link
"I put it to you" is well forensic
― no ifs, no buts, no scampo nation (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
"straw-man question that i answer myself, to make the reality sound more reasonable?
of course not.
but what i can say is..."
let's see this in practice.
"am i saying that we did everything absolutely perfectly?
but we did probably save the lives as 100,000 american troops when we dropped that bomb on hiroshima"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
" that's a good question.." (meaning the opposite and I'm going to condescendingly talk over you like you are a child and not answer it).
would have thought this would have been considered a little bit hackneyed amongst merchants of practised lying by now, but have heard it a few times recently.
back in the early 90's I recall Walden using "I put it to you" when accusing pols of lying or being evasive during the interview
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
sexcapades
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
it's worse than walkathon. the first marathon wasn't a runathon! an escapade isn't a type of capade!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
"global pandemic"
― davey, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
(as opposed to a local pandemic)
I said that to someone at work but then, annoyingly, I found that dictionaries allow for a pandemic that's not global. Eg, this from Collins:
A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area.
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I'm not over "learning" yet
Can they not just say "lesson"?
It's a good quick way of letting me know that you're a knob tho
― etched upon my eardrums like a hot pie or a pasty (qiqing), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
― davey, Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:25 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
The redundancy had never occurred to me but now it will irk me every time I hear it :(
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
― agent brodie canks (wins), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
still annoyed
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
stannoyed!
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
gonna have a danceathon to raise awareness
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
I thought 'harbl' was a garbled portmanteau of 'hairy balls'?
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
it's how cats used to talk in 2006 or so when i made this stusername (that means "stupid username")
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
'terribad' is terribad.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
nobody better complain about amazeballs
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
'amazeballs' is amazeballs.
I'm also vaguely ok with 'automagically'.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
AWESOMESAUCE!!!!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
they have a nice, Nickelodeon after-school vibe
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
my pupper is amazeballs 10/10 would recommend
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
idk, is Ice Capade a portmanteau? Sounds like a type of capade to me.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
it's just a bad pun
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
although I think Ford called the Escape they produced in South America in the 90s a Capade because the Ice Capades threatened them with trademark infringement due to how Spanish speakers pronounced Escape
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
a shitmanteau
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
capade is what they call an unmanteau
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
a suckformation, to use the linguistic term
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
a shitmanteau should be the poop shelves they allegedly have in german toilets
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
Is 'portmanteau' a timid portmanteau of 'porte-manteau' or a coat you wear when drinking port in a port?
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
Lewis Carroll coined the English usage
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
A poormanteau is a two-word graft that doesn’t quite work.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
Should've gone with bearmantle. Clearly a missed opportunity.
xp
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Good morning everyone except people that ask "how are we?"
― etched upon my eardrums like a hot pie or a pasty (qiqing), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
maybe they are avid fans of Ayn Rand's Anthem
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
*checks notes*
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
So what did they say?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
"sir, this is a wendy's"
― contorted filbert (harbl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
twitter memes are a lot like those terrible summer camp "inside jokes" that circulate, where you can be "funny" by just repeating a reference to something without actually making a joke. At least those are among friends with shared experiences though. Twitter memes enable completely unfunny people to be "funny" all the time, and also enable those same people to completely choke the life out of any tweet that actually is funny or incisive.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
the rhetorical "right?" at the end of a sentence. you get this a lot in TED talks, podcast interviews with an "expert"
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link