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

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

similar to that, the youtube speak

"Hey viewers, it's ya boy/ya girl, <name>"

I heard 'smash that like button' for the first time on a Youtube video the other day and I don't think any other word/usage/phrase has pissed me off like that for quite some time.

Y u all h8 twinsthenewtrend

if u smash the button on your keyboard, u won't be able to like more of their videos

"Step down". It's somehow so obsequious a phrase. Just say 'resign' or 'quit' – especially when someone like Bezos is hardly moving down in becoming executive chairman.

I heard 'smash that like button' for the first time on a Youtube video the other day and I don't think any other word/usage/phrase has pissed me off like that for quite some time.

It was for real!
that reminds me though, there is a new series of Pls Like on iplayer or somewhere

iPlayer yes :)

Colour me intrigued/surprised/amused/whatever.

Awful.

gooey

creampie

coomer

Badd

ooh, would you like to buy this wonderful giclée print?
what’s that? you’re not familiar with giclée?

Derived from the French term gicler – meaning ‘to squirt or spray’, the term describes a printing process whereby microscopic dots of pigment-based ink are sprayed onto archival-quality paper to ensure the fidelity of a limited edition print to an original artwork.

if I were to order a giclee print i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon.

'pigment-based ink'

"i would hope it wasn't printed on someone's desktop canon" - I literally have an 8-colour Canon A3 inkjet which uses the same pigment based inks (yes that's a thing, pigments are photostable mineral based colour, as opposed to dyes which fade) sitting on my desk at work. It produces exactly the same quality output as a gallery would sell as "giclée". The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

ok i would hope it wasn't printed on *my* desktop canon.

I'd like to publicly apologise for making a post containing the word "literally" twice, it was a rough night.

mid

The word was literally coined as a way to sell inkjet prints in a fine art context.

at a time when that technology wasn't cheap ... and there's a great variation between types of inkjets and the paper, etc. .... anyway, regardless of the method, you are getting a copy, and not an original, if that means anything re value. the term does bother me when the artwork literally looks like something printed on 8 1/2 x 11 HP photo paper on a desktop Canon.

I'm absolutely fine with buying a pigment-ink archival quality inkjet reproduction (or original, if it's a digital image), it's just the use of a pretentious term as if it were a centuries-old printmaking technique perfected in 19th century Paris, instead of just the French word for "squirted". Which was coined by a Californian in 1990, to be clear.

I actually think it’s very funny

a fly marrying a bumblebee

As with any art that depends on a particular technique for reproducing an image multiple times, the quality of the output varies with the skill of the artist and how compatible the image is with that technique and the materials used. Carved woodblock prints come easily to mind.

things sold as squirto prints are not typically art that has been especially conceived and crafted for the medium of squirto

I was going to suggest a bubbling-under chart for annoying phrases, like Billboard used to have as a supplement to the Top 100, but I guess "whataboutism" has been around longer than I thought--its first appearance on ILX was in 2017 (at least when spelled as one word). It's getting a real workout this week because of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

ailsa wrote this on thread Rangers Have gone into Administration on board I Love Football on 15-Feb-2012

I believe I've also been quite complimentary toward the twitter output of Rangers' Official Media Partner, btw, to give another example to counteract your flailing whataboutery.

bad enough on its own but particularly unbearable when combined with the suggestion that a basic appeal to hypocrisy is some kind of devious russian propaganda trick (the context in which I first came across those words)

it's just the use of a pretentious term as if it were a centuries-old printmaking technique perfected in 19th century Paris, instead of just the French word for "squirted".

oh definitely! In my years of exhibiting art, I would always go with "archival inkjet print" as opposed to using that term

also most of the art that is sold as being a "giclee" was usually horrible. Like, I associated the term with, "bad art digital print"

Sounds hawt tbh.

same kind of thing happened with the term "lithograph", most of those you see for sale aren't

I may have mentioned this before and sorry in advance for sports but it drives me up the wall when people refer to a first round draft pick as a “number one draft pick”

yes, because that is just factually wrong and misleading

'jokingly'

the worst of the adverbs.

My housemate always says "assumedly" instead of "presumably," and I guess it's technically a word but it doesn't feel like a word.

My boss says "irregardless" all the time

irregardless is a real word

if enough people use a word and enough people understand what it means, it's a real word, however awkward or ugly it is, like "crunk".