"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
Wow "smart sads" is insidious in the extreme. Most people think they're smarter than average. Most people are sad at least some of the time. Patting yourself on the back for those or making it your identity is cringe af
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
everyone otm
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
You don't get to call yourself a "smart sad" unless you've got a gun to your head.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
(Halfway saying the quiet part out loud.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
Not funny Find another way of making your joke unless you really enjoy making people feel terrible. In that case nothing I say will matter.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
there are a lot of violent, domineering figures of speech we should really be more conscious about before tossing them off. i was thinking the other day about the corporate word "spearhead." like, imagine using that in a meeting with a native american attending. awful.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
just use a direct word or phrase instead of opting for the war or sports metaphor every time imo
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Thank you! I agree 100%It’s the least people can do to try to remove violent imagery from casual conversation
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, January 9, 2022 7:00 AM (three hours ago)
as in they are secretly creative? Or they seem creative but you can't quite figure out how? .... or, as in they specialize in making NFTs?
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
xpyes was reminded of this when during the Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal cup game earlier the commentator said when the lower league Forest were on the verge of defeating Arsenal that this would be "another famous scalp for them".
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 9 January 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
wow that's truly awful. I'd like to think you'd be unlikely to hear that in N. America but idk
The only good thing about crypto enthusiasts is that the word cryptofascist was already at hand
― rob, Monday, 10 January 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJkgJFiXoAAb0Q7?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
haha it me
― kinder, Friday, 21 January 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
When people say that someone's career (for example) "spanned three decades" if it lasted from, like, 1989 to 2000. OK, it spanned three decades - who cares? Just say it lasted twelve years. Or "over a decade". Spanning three decades could mean anything from 12 to 30 years and thus is a useless phrase.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 22 January 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
That's journalese for 'please admire this person who agreed to let me interview them'.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 22 January 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
Assume the decade-spanning person in question is Mr. Loaf?
― clemenza, Saturday, 22 January 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
"hopium"
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 January 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
30 years you'd span 4 decades
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 22 January 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
Well, it's true that 30 years can span four decades (e.g. 1965-1994) but what I meant was that the maximum amount of time that the phrase "spanning three decades" can describe is 30 years (e.g. 1970-1999).
And yes, this irritation was inspired by a CBC radio news report of Mr. Loaf's passing.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 22 January 2022 05:06 (two years ago) link
at the end of a meeting saying "thanks that's really helpful"
nothing particularly offensive about this it's just become a placeholder meaningless thing to say
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 January 2022 09:40 (two years ago) link
"i appreciate you" is a total platitude at this point ... kinda wish we could all just go back to "thanks" as it has fewer syllables and takes less time to say
― sarahell, Friday, 28 January 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
The latest, and possibly all-time worst, new word from the SF writing world - Squeecore. Hopefully its shelf-life will be mercifully brief.
― a salt attack (Matt #2), Friday, 28 January 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I have recently heard people use "solve for" in non-math contexts, where the more appropriate word would be "solve" or "address" or even just simply "write."
Like, what we're doing is technical writing, not algebra. Someone points to a bit of content that hasn't been written yet and says "hey, Jane, do you think you can solve for this?"
Um, can I just write it instead?
Don't get me started on "solution" as a verb
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 29 January 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw40yqSZP6g
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:20 (two years ago) link
things I wish I were even older when I realized they existed
― sarahell, Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
xp - I can totally imagine all these technocratic biz coinages being used in the service of Hitlering
― sarahell, Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
'anniversary' includes 'year'
stop saying things are a ten-year anniversary when they're a tenth anniversary
feel like this goes back to junior high when couples had 'two-month anniversaries'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 January 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
"rest in power"
― DT, Sunday, 30 January 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
i’ve never heard “solution” as a verb. however i HAVE heard “solutionize”…… which is actually a more useful word than it think!! it means “frame the problem in such a way that you’ve already suggested the solution” and let me tell you computer programmers and digital product people HATE this
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
it = you
fp
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
fair
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 30 January 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
"Off-ramp," as in looking for one. Heard it applied to both the Ukraine (numerous times) and Kamala Harris the past couple of days--been around for a while, I know, but its moment may have arrived.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 February 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
"Cocaine is a helluva drug"
Cocaine explains nothing, least of all artistic choices. This construction is lazy and preposterous.
― Josefa, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
<i>stop saying things are a ten-year anniversary when they're a tenth anniversary</i>
you want to come to me and my GF's sixth monthiversary party?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 4 February 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
or to put it another way, your first demianniversary
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 4 February 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
it's been a decade and a half but iirc the speaker is describing behavioural choices rather than considered artistic expressions
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Friday, 4 February 2022 06:16 (two years ago) link
also the editing means that the text is describing the speaker's mindset, rather than endorsing his statement?
ready for the sarcastic use of "totally normal stuff here" to meet its maker
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
"He's won three Grand Slams"...no, he's won three of the competitions that constitute part of a single Grand Slam, I THINK YOU'LL FIND.
― fetter, Sunday, 6 February 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link