"well, here's where we netted out with that"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
What does that mean?
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
i don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re not ____________, you’re doing it wrong
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
"I don't know who needs to hear this"
well, probably someone who doesn't actually follow your posts
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
Patriot
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
kind of like "after taking everything into consideration"... "net" in the sense of "what's left over after costs". "where did you guys net out on that?" like.. when all's said and done, what did you end up deciding?
it's totally horrific obv
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
TH owns this thread btw.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
an extremely dubious distinction but i'll take it!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Or rather, your workplace owns this thread. You are merely the whistleblower.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
twinkle fingers
― sarahell, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Also not a fan of those standard form funny phrases people add to their tweet, like "thanks for coming to my ted talk" after the message or something like that. If you don't have the confidence to let your thing stand on its own then it's probably no worth tweeting.
― ninthyoung, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 7:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
This also applies to "I don't know who needs to hear this"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
"(x) is good people"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
ilx is good people
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
GAH
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
Love it when I hear terrible phrases for the first time on this thread (usually from Tracer)
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
smarmy folksiness like that does grate, but I have to say that phrase pales in comparison to virtually everything Tracer has ever posted here
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
It grates for me much more than any corporate guff, which I'm mostly past caring about.
"(x) is good people", as well as the cutesy 'because reasons'-like toying with grammar, also hits a nerve because the whole idea of good people is such pernicious bullshit.
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
"One of the good guys" can fuck off too.
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
It's not even new! I've heard that one since the 90s at least. Always a bit vague as to what it's supposed to imply.
xpost, yeah I guess that's it, basically.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
As much as I try to please everyone all the time it would be incredibly satisfying to hear myself referred to as "one of the bad guys"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
Ha ha - make it your screenname!
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
Tracer would you settle for bad'un?
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
If I did, it would be a sign of weaknessDon’t forget, I’m one of the bad guys
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
got it: Tracer Hand is bad people
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
Now you know
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
I would add “That’s it. That’s the tweet” to “I don’t know who needs to hear this” and “thanks for coming to my TED talk”.
Maybe not a word or phrase but I hate the way that one emoji is used to denote drug use and have also grown to hate the way people use the “monkey see-no-evil” emoji.
― MrDasher, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
in the same vein, talking about a person in general: "XX is a GIVER."
― Bnad, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
oh no
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Dumont-The-Giver-Remixes/master/516358
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
The way all of those witty tweet cliches are deployed makes me think of the techniques to get the best youtube SEO with particular thumbnail image recipes. Things are just done a certain way to maximize views and shares.
xposts
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
one emoji is used to denote drug use
Which? Googling didn't help narrow it down …
https://www.drugaddictionnow.com/2018/10/03/emojis-give-youth-a-new-way-to-communicate-about-substance-abuse
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
oh the newish world of emojis and reaction gifs ... fuck, there is so much annoyance there. I am really glad that digital blackface article got circulated relatively widely, because I definitely see a lot less of the "I don't feel comfortable expressing my actual self using actual words, so I am going to let a black person with funny facial expressions 'speak for me'" bullshit now, and damn, did that annoy the fuck out of me. ... Like, I'm white, you're white, just ... don't.
― sarahell, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
I'm so glad I have no idea what you're talking about
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, that's shit. The weird preference among white people for reaction gifs that feature black people. I don't know if those gifs started out being used by black people and it's just appropriation or if it's some specific fetishization.
― Alba, Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
pretty sure it's both
― rob, Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
"Protect [person] at all costs"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
yeah but what about when it's a small animal
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
"Failure is not an option."
Of course it is, it always is.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
"get belated fucked" just fucking ended me, lmfao
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 29 April 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
i know that people on this bulletin board are very attached to it, but for me the word "clusterfuck" is unpleasant to read or hear and the mental images it conjures are unappealing to me
i was surprised to learn that it was coined by ed sanders, apparently in an advert in fuck you magazine
― dogs, Saturday, 1 May 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
"Perhaps her greatest role was playing herself."
― punning display, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
"New York City is as much a character in the film as any of the actors."
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 3 May 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
guys i'm in a zoom launching a new division at my work, are you ready? i'm going to document the phrases IN REAL TIME
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
we're all aware of the challenges of delivering at speed across the business
'i've started a yammer group'
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
i'd say approx 80% of this division is on slack
this meeting is unfortunately disappointingly plain-spoken, sorry to raise hopes
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
ah just copped a 'drive a successful vision going forward' at the end, nice one
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
lol fuck Yammer
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
ime yammer is a minefield of misplaced HR questions, IT complaints, and a few dudes' photobucket
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link