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― 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
"We may be finished with/tired of the virus, but the virus isn't finished with/tired of us." Makes an important point, but kind of loses something the nine millionth time you've heard it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
"not a problem" seems to be a new favourite of call centre staff, used in place of "ok", "right", "good", "thanks" and "you're welcome".
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 11:02 (two years ago) link
We teach ours not to say that, lol.
Mostly because yes, everyone wants to say it reflexively
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
It always bugs me when waiters say "No worries" or "Not a problem" when I decline their efforts to upsell me something I don't want.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
I say "my pleasure" even if the task is not, in fact, pleasurable.
Sometimes if I'm feeling extra I will say "glad to be of service."
― imam and apple pie (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
Lol "my pleasure" is mine. It's helpful too because if someone was really annoying and thanks me for their help, I can go to these two words fast and hide my disdain.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
I'm gonna start saying 'fair enough' at everyone
― jmm, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link
call center employees can't win, they aren't allowed to use slang and then get dinged by customers for sounding like they're reading off a script or being robotic.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link
we allow ours to be a bit more 'human', just as long as they don't spend 10 minutes talking about , like, Seinfeld or something.
the reason I was told not to use "no problem" is it seemed too informal and the word "problem" had a 'negative connotation', and then we were adding another negative word 'no' in front of it (yeah, dumb logic, but....it's what it is)
I once listened to a call where the rep tried to help the customer name her new baby and was giving the worst, most stupid suggestions.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
f. hazel otm
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
the reason I was told not to use "no problem" is it seemed too informal and the word "problem" had a 'negative connotation', and then we were adding another negative word 'no' in front of it
Yeah, sounds about right... a bunch of suits who are into NLP suggesting the dumbest bullshit imaginable. Some poor customer just wants to know why their laptop screen has a bright red vertical line down one side and the managers are telling us not to use any negative words like "can't" or "broken" while refusing to replace the LCD panel.
When I was a QA manager at a call center (I listened in on techs to see if they were doing OK) one guy used to just call his online girlfriend and chat with her for hours and hours at a time. I was so impressed with his gall I just told him not to do it anymore instead of formally busting him.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
"Between you and I"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_Avdsdd-o
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
I once listened to a call where the rep tried to help the customer name her new baby and was giving the worst, most stupid suggestions.― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, February 8, 2022 6:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, February 8, 2022 6:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
AMAB:WinslowTheloniusMarcin
AFAB:BernadetteMaxineJosefa
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
Those are my actual suggestions whenever people I know are about to have babies lol.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
those would have been preferable to what was suggested (though admittedly I don't recall what they were).
probably Jethro
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
"Cocaine is a helluva drug"Cocaine explains nothing, least of all artistic choices. This construction is lazy and preposterous.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)
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic)
I didn't even know the origin of this (a Dave Chappelle/Rick James incident), so of course you're right about the original intent. But since then I've often heard it used to explain how a ridiculous movie got made or why a song has a bombastic arrangement or something similar.
Also: there's nothing wrong with the name Josefa, wtf
― Josefa, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
Josefa, I wasn't clear in my post: those are names that I would suggest, and which I do suggest, because I love them.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Oh, then thank you!
The nickname Pepa goes with the name Josefa, so that's another plus.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
“no sweat”
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
I see something described as "staggering" like multiple times a day.
― Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
That's me, I drink a lot
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
lol
xps: Some other other go-to phrases: the retrospective "happy to help" and the speculative "hope this helps."
These are less prissy than the "my pleasure" / "glad to be of service" continuum.
― imam and apple pie (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
“you got it, big man”
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:34 (two years ago) link
"black bodies" is egregious
― marcos, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
i feel like this was already litigated at length a long time ago here but in 2022 to see how most people use it is horrifying
― marcos, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
just say black people
This was said to me at a car rental place when I declined their additional insurance coverage
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
"big lie"
coined by hitler to describe the idea that jews weren't responsible for germany losing world war 1. this "big lie" is itself a big lie. i don't like the phrase being used earnestly.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
Jesus, Biden's saying "deep dive" now--pretty soon he'll be talking about his favourite deep cuts.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/biden-four-supreme-court-candidates/index.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
A deep state conspiracy if there ever was one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 11 February 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
not to any specific post but
this thread is ugly when it ventures into "the language that I prefer to hear out of the mouths of the service industry ppl I have to deal with"
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
now it's not much better when it's "the way I word police my colleagues despite their meaning being perfectly clear"
but it's a little better
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
98% of the words/phrases in this thread are absolutely benign
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
That's implied in the title, isn't it--"annoy"? Annoyances aren't evil; they annoy you.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
God forefend that any ilxor is ever in the sort of irritable mood where such an inference might ever arise but, if you open this thread and encounter a word, usage or phrase you employ in real life, isn't one possible inference that you are being called an annoying person?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
When you use that phrase, yes. A couple of weeks ago, when my sister got a new dog, she messaged me and framed the news in internet vernacular: "So we did a thing today." I was annoyed.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
being constantly annoyed and irritable says more about the annoyed than the thing that annoys them
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
i agree with dmac in that service employees are just doing their best have a great daythanks for coming inyou got it
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
^^ things i say literally all the time at my service jobif it annoys someone, i know it's them and not me
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link