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

Never liked "nosh." Never.

It's a serviceable noun that migrated from yiddish into english and then underwent verbification by the Twee Set. Just try to remember that it once had a dignity that its new owners have robbed from it.

I had no idea it was used in the US tbh.

Only dates from the late 50s too, surely not?

Having consulted The Joys of Yiddish, I see 'to nosh' was an accepted verb form, in addition to using 'a nosh' as a noun, by speakers who mixed yiddish and english. So, the verbification began well back.

can never see it now without thinking of giles coren's massive hissy fit:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

David Mitchell might be a posh twat, but you have to feel a little sorry for him having a brother-in-law who's that much of a cunt. Anyway 'nosh' is a word I associate exclusively with The Beano, not blowjobs.

Yes, it's very much a Leo Baxendale type word.

What I liked best about that letter was that he "wrote that entire paragraph for the sake of that joke" and it was a totally unfunny worthless joke. He happened to be right about the sub editor screwing up by removing "a" from "a nosh", but -oh my!- all that fury for the sake of a crap joke he grossly overestimated the value of.

A much-missed Jewish deli in Minneapolis had an ad campaign in the 1970s with the tag line ‘KIBITZ AND NOSH’.

I’d never encountered ‘nosh’ before opening this thread just now.

I also didn't know it was Yiddish, I thought it might be some word the British Army brought home from India.

Y’all need to meet some Jews

I know plenty (and one of my exes is Jewish), but that word never came up fwiw.

I doubt that English Jews deploy it as in-group jargon so assiduously as American, after so many decades with it gallivanting freely in general discourse.

Anyway 'nosh' is a word I associate exclusively with The Beano, not blowjobs.

"noshing off" is the more common blowjob-related form, rather than "a nosh," afaik

i know it as a word co-opted into Polari

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosh

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)
(slang) Food; a light meal or snack.
(Polari) Fellatio.

the NHL is putting ads/corporate logos on players' helmets this year

and it insists on calling the sponsors 'helmet entitlement partners'

Eyyyy i got ya helmet entitlement right heeeeah

"Into people's arms..."

I mean, I know that's where vaccines go, but I've heard it like 15X today

i know a place, where i can go when i'm alone a vaccine

"Political donors"

These are not fucking donations! They're loans, and expected to be paid back with excess interest in one way or another. Talking about big-money shit here, not someone bunging a tenner over to Sir Keeth. Better to call them "political investors" imo.

i'm really tired of the "shot in the arm" language too. i was thinking it must be really triggering for people in recovery from iv drug use and that is not cool

Vaccinate your arms, everyone.

the cockroach-like persistence of "alternative" as a music genre, already meaningless in its conception as an overreaction to hair metal

that this still shows up in mp3 metadata 30+ years after the fact is so, so dumb

fuck you dexter hoyos

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/813nMv-SScL._AC_US218_..jpg

good book tho?

“across the piece” very common where i work, meaning “affecting many parts of the business”

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, November 28, 2020 6:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I have heard this morphed into 'across the piste'...

Christ

On this board specifically, the use of "shockah!" and "evah!"
Glad it's gone out of favor. I hate it.

if ever there was a way to invite its resurgence!

(don't worry i won't be usin either)

heavens!

Sonned in a beef is the new shockah

oh dearie me! I just used “shocker!” in a post. hope it’s acceptable in regular spelling, if not let me know I could ask a mod to redact it

pj sonned in a grim reapah! shocker

xpost it is preferable to the, uh ilxor spelling?

I also hate the phrase "livin' the dream"

I told a coworker I hated it and yeah real shocker he said it every dang day

TS: livin' the dream vs. keepin' it real

write in for livin’ on a prayer

fifty years late but fuck slade

'mama weer all crazee now' etc is incredibly lame

those who forsake Molesworth-speak must go back to skool agane!

Language is annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kq1JQUhwVQ

let's see where we net out

there's this commercial that mentions "secret stinks" and every time that phrase is uttered I recoil

conjures images of the existence of an Olfactory Freemasonry that has unlocked the hidden truth about malodorous areas of clothing

Very apt for 2021.

you're right about that!

Nobody nose it, but

all very reekondite

every time that phrase is uttered I recoil

the ad copywriter reading that would high five everyone within reach

"my dude" ugh