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
I don't know--maybe you just roll your eyes at the way a word/phrase gets into circulation and then everyone starts repeating it.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
I don't think I've ever posted about anything anyone's ever said to me at the grocery store or coffee shop. I mostly limit myself to things that make their way into reviews, Facebook, and the chatter on TV (or when such things are repeated by Joe Biden or my sister). And mostly things that crawl out of the internet.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
you can roll your eyes without posting to this thread -- the outward expression of peevishness by its nature says more about the peeved than the peever
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
have a great daythanks for coming inyou got it
These are all unacceptable in the UK, probably fine in the US. "Ya wot?" is more commonly used over here by service operatives.
― The White Hot Stamper With Issues (Matt #2), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
The thread's here, I post--it's a useful outlet! This is the second time this week I've been chastised for posting about x in threads about x.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
I guess I'd say the same thing to you that I said in the other thread, LL; what does it say about someone who's annoyed by x and opens up threads about x to see what people are saying so they can post about how annoying they find that?
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
i am a glutton for punishment! always have been :)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
seeking out bad news to confirm that it's still there is a hard habit to break
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
I'm not averse to that myself: I've been hate-reading and hate-watching lots of people for years. (I even have a couple of FB friends who qualify.) So at least we agree that's a normal human thing.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
Be forewarned: I will continue to post in this thread.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
i have almost entirely sworn off hate-anything except when it comes to language -- somehow i remain in in thrall to cataloging what people find annoying
can't really explain it aside from now i am here just to annoy people more which is -- admittedly -- not very mature but also not self-destructive
keep at it clemenza and have a great day! :)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
Thanks for coming in!
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
You got it!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
sorry i am actually loling rn
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
"keep it merry, dingleberry" is a weird greeting I got in public recently
mostly because nobody said it and I was in fact asleep
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I remember when Geri Halliwell had a song with the lyric, “Have a nice day, as Americans say” and I felt slightly shamed by it.
It’s good to think about the words we use though, and their implications.
― Josefa, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
I'm sure Geri meant it affectionately, like when we tease the English for saying, "Gor blimey, 'ows yer father?" all the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
ftr I'm not chiding anyone in particular, this is something that has come up itt for years and tbh it's imo a surprising blind spot- lads, when it's me raising whether something doesn't pass the eesh test then a lot of ye are ime exhibiting surprising blind spots
― clemenza, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:21 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I mean, we're all just finding things annoying itt so, it's not a big problem
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:35 (two years ago) link
"mommy milkers" is maybe the most horrendous term I hear regularly on Twitch
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
wtf
― beard papa, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
yes exactly
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 February 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
guess I should be thankful I don't go on twitch regularly (or at all)
tbf I run into 'tiddies' (as in 'big titty goth gf') on reddit way more often than I'd prefer. it's a good/creepy word to use on the internet if you'd like to come across as horny and infantile at the same time, and it seems to be popular with weeb/anime guys. pretty sure it's never been used by an actual woman
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
"All options are on the table"
It seems to mean that all options are options.
― jmm, Friday, 25 February 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah but they're on the table
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 25 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
think we need table is the table to weigh in
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
Heh, was wondering when someone would say that. Also,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGj4cfSgP8
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
aiui, the reason for invoking the table is to indicate that the options which previously have been trampled underfoot have been raised to a more secure spot where they might even be noticed, but probably will not be seriously considered.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
WORLD WAR THREEEEEEE
― Maresn3st, Friday, 25 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
otm
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
Don't put your options on me.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 27 February 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link
Oooh, in the name of love
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Ending a sentence with a stray "...so..."
I keep waiting for the speaker to provide more detail
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
"lethal aid". just say "weapons", that's what you mean.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52 (two years ago) link
"Local bar."
People in song lyrics are always going into local bars. What other kind of bar would they go into? Aren't most bars local to somewhere?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8s0vaj1G4i0/TE7GgN759II/AAAAAAAAAHg/Ty5AU7-Z3Vw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/UniversalBar.jpg
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:46 (two years ago) link
I was going to post "lethal aid" here the other day, but 'annoy the shit out of...' doesn't quite cover my feelings in this instance, to say the least. Horrific.
"lethal aid". just say "weapons", that's what you mean.― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 04:52
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link
team meeting just now instead of saying "the elephant in the room" they said "we need to talk about the stinky fish"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
Ugh.
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
seriously ugh ... i regret the time and energy i spent arguing about microwaving fish on ilx, definitely not a hill worth dying on
― sarahell, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
thirded
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link