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

"Thanks, PM!"

Clitorides

was 'stay safe' a thing pre-pandemic? something about it feels so insincere and useless.

I liked how in the movie "The English Patient," the posh European desert explorers said "safe journey" to one another instead of "goodbye."

Oh, you're about to fly across a forbidding desert in an airplane made of cloth, during wartime, without maps or navigation equipment. Best of luck, old chap. Safe journey.

'farewell' originally meant pretty much the same thing as 'safe journey'

xxp I don't know, I've been sincere in saying this to people in recent months that I don't stay in regular touch with. Feels right considering the circumstances.

"stay safe" means to me "I care about you and hope you will be well" - seems pretty appropriate to say?

I know if I"m on the receiving end, it's fine by me

At the end of a night my mate will say “safe home” for goodbye which I think is an Irish thing. It is good not bad, like everything mentioned in this bad not good thread

stay frosty

“world bulding”

*building

let’s lean in on that

when you're not strong

I liked how in the movie "The English Patient," the posh European desert explorers said "safe journey" to one another instead of "goodbye."

a former colleague once claimed the use of 'safe journey' was an indicator of freemasonry

If you are white (and you are not, like, a tatted up guy with a shaved head and a couple prominent scars) please do not say "fuck around and find out"

ok bro

man alive what would you say would happen if I did use that phrase

cash me outside then

when did this thread become a Dr Phil episode

referring to marketing campaigns or advertisements as 'activations'

hmm i work for a service that has an app and we refer to new users as 'activations' which i also detest but does make a nominal bit of sense

does this thread have a counterpart of words, usages and phrases that rock your world/float your boat/tickle your fancy/insert your phrase of choice?

the last post was 16 years ago, but yes!

The Best Words In the English Language

16 years of words annoying the shit out of us without one good one! That's so us with our loving of everything.

Words is quite limited in scope but thank you TH. I was thinking more of literary tropes/devices/idioms I like.

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

ledge you're a ledge

GARU G bringing the content VMIC on the words thread (albeit with a disappointing lack of FLANGE)

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc🕸

the single good use of this thread is to encourage a more intense and felt deployment of any word, usage or phrase brought to it

can't believe everything mentioned on this thread is actually good

what about my post about the phrase, "he turned around to me and said"?

Then he turned to me and said...
"Baby boy, put down your iPhone 3. Because I think that there's a chance you wanna get with me

turned around to me

bright eyes

"Toenail polish"...always said by a man. There is no such thing as "toenail polish" THERE IS ONE KIND OF POLISH AND IT IS FOR BOTH KINDS OF NAILS. Or maybe I just hate the word "toenail".

'Self-isolate' is weird, right?

It's the difference between entering, eg, WA USA and entering, eg, NSW, Australia. One of them asks you to put yourself on the honour system and quarantine for 14 days (or seven with a negative test), the other requires you to pay $5000 for a hotel room and a security guard to stop you leaving.

(Many cases of community transmission in .au have come from the guards fucking the quarantinees, then going to their second jobs as security guards or app-based food delivery drivers.)

‘yeet’

"presser"

Or, perhaps worse, "a press avail."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc

the can is this thread

‘yeet’

You are what you yeet.

Yeets don't fail me now

Yeet the rich.

God made Yeet and man's gotta eat

Yeet your heart out.

Phew nobody's done the obvious yet

if this gonna be that kinda party ima stick my yeet in the mashed potatoes

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, where to the climber upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. Yeet.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not yeet of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.