never could get the hang of Tuesdays. We should scrap them really.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
that Morrie fella is passed by now right
Yep, in my experience, once the day in question has passed in that week, there is no room for confusion. After Thursday, “next Thursday” always means Thursday of the following week. On Mon-Wed (or Sun-Wed if you’re in one off those weird places where the week starts on Sunday) then “next Thursday” can be ambiguous. Actually not even a Wednesday, as if you meant the next day you’d just say tomorrow. As for Tuesdays, there is no way today that “next Tuesday” means anything other than the 23rd.The later the day in the week, basically, the bigger the window of ambiguity. It comes up most for Saturdays and Sundays. In theory “next Sunday” could be a whole 13 days away, but you’d be weird not to just to say “Sunday week” or “a week on Sunday” on that Monday instead.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
I offer sincere apologies for implying that this obvious and logical grammatical rule ever strays from the path of efficient self-policing, and agree I should have chosen my words more carefully.(#kwasilwarteng)
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Tuesday is tuesday
Next tuesday is tuesday
Tuesday coming is Tuesday
Tuesday week is tuesday after tuesday
Tuesday two weeks is the one after, and so on
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNbTdLfBwQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
People say 'new jack', what jack?You wanna get slapped, JackOr get flipped like a flapjack?I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin micsEver since you was on BMX bikesYou was busy braggin bout the mags on your honeyI was in Flatbush tryin to get moneyBrooklyn, crookin up the whole damn placeWant to truck jewelry, don't turn your faceBut I don't resort to those sort of thingsI don't wear big chains or big ringsGold was stole from caves full of slavesNow black-on-black, and you're free as wavesIn the ocean, without a notionAm I surfin fast over your head?Maybe you need glasses or classes in Special EdLet me see -I can fit you in on Monday at 3Tuesdays is use daysAnd Wednesdays is friends daysAnd Thursdays is her's daysAnd Fridays is my daysAnd Saturdays is fun daysAnd Sunday's the one dayI rest, give thanks and blessAgain on Monday I will be backYo Ak - get ready to attack
Special Ed
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
'artsy'
tell me more about how you have absolutely no imagination or whimsy in your soul
― maelin, Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Everybody needs to stop using "netizens"
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
'once more for those in the back'
― Sam Weller, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link
"I just wanted to flag......"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
FPed
― mark s, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
"They understood the assignment"
― jmm, Monday, 29 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
Never use ‘just’ in professional correspondence.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 29 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
'for your consideration' as shorthand for 'this movie/tv show deserves an award'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 December 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
Lots of discussion of it on the thread already but the term "creatives" makes me want to jump off a building.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
i'm a knowledge worker
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
i'm a memory worker
barf
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Im a shoddy worker
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
i'm really fucking good at not working
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
Recently someone who is a DJ and visual artist used the term in something they put out on social media, and I was like, "now i think you are a CIA plant"
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
earlier today I was thinking about some of the words that I remember being discussed on this thread, namely "bonkers" and "kiddo" ... but in my morning mushy brain, the two words became the phrase "bonko kidders" and now I think about the people I see using the annoying words and phrases as "bonko kidders people"
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 December 2021 06:01 (two years ago) link
an ilxor used the term "amazeballs" in another thread and I forgive them but jfc
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
People referring to kids as "littles" really bugs me for some reason.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
"amazeballs"
My boss briefly used 'awesome sauce' in a zoom meeting last week and I almost barfed in my mouth
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
The reason being it's horrible also wtf?
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
Amazeballs was like a joke flash word c2007. Does anyone actually use it without a bit of irony these days?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
This weather is so amazeballs I should go take the little and the puppers out for a walk.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
had a co-worker who used to say "awesomesauce" 30 times a day in each class she taught
she's not with us anymore
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
oh oh, no, she's not dead, and no we didn't fire her for it, she got another job
Reminding me of my nephew circa age 3 referring to his family situation as "two bigs against one little".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
I prefer that to "hatchlings"
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
Incidentally, this thread turns 18 today
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
the thread is a big today
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
nearly 8000 posts. so much annoyance prompted by so many words, usages and phrases. well done, ilx!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, December 23, 2021 8:41 AM (four hours ago)
related to testicles y or n?
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
Brits
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 December 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Brit vs. Yank: The Face Off
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Yes, I don't like either of them tbh.
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
"that's sooo aesthetic". NO.
― maelin, Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
keep it copacetic
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 January 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link
I won't even try to open the whole thread, so I'm sure people have posted about this one before, but "saying the quiet part out loud" is reaching epidemic proportions; I've heard it four or five times on TV the last couple of days.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
It's the new elephant in the room.
― Alba, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
butt-hurt
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
i prefer butthurt
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
happy one year anniversary to that thing
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 January 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
A friend of mine used the term "crypto creatives" to describe two friends of hers and I will not let her hear the end of it.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 9 January 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
Even fans of Yanigahara admitted that her story, which focused on a group of gay male trauma survivors, created a state of prolonged emotional agony. Well! There’s more where that came from, starting in January. The Smart Sads in your life will be carrying this one around before you know it.
― jmm, Sunday, 9 January 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
ok i have seen it enough in the last week to need to vent about this: could we stop using the phrase "gun to the head" to imply "if i were forced"? please? it's not necessary.
unless you or someone you love has had a gun to their head, you might not feel this way. i get it. still, it's a very grim situation and i would prefer not to be reminded of guns near heads unless the situation is indeed quite dire.
i understand it's hyperbole; it's too evocative for most situations it's used in and it can be triggering for people whose loved ones have had guns to their heads and i know that is not the intention :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link