Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

which tbh is the custom way to say "I am finished eating now" at Denny's

Parental names are really personal and, in my opinion, that's as it should be.

I don't think I've ever called my mother "mom" or "mommy." For some reason (lost to history) I've always called her "mother."

My biological father has the completely inexplicable nickname "Muggin," given to him by an older sibling, and I don't think I've ever called him anything else.

My children have called me Daddy and Dad and I've become fine with it (though I would also be okay with something unconventional).

What I absolutely DO NOT LOVE is when a teacher or child-care worker or speech therapist or doctor or nurse calls me "Dad." As in, "are you okay with these IEP changes, Dad?" Or, "Dad, can you hold his arm while I give him this shot?" Or, "any questions, Mom and Dad?"

Like, it's literally been 15 years. We have been in hundreds of these meetings and appointments. You could take a half a second to look at the paperwork that is right in front of you on your screen and address me as Puff, or Mr. Puffin, or just use context to indicate that you're speaking to me instead of my wife or child.

Specifically it’s calling oneself a mama to others, as in “activist. dog lover. mama.” kind of shit as a Twitter bio.
A kid calling their parent “mama” is sweet and totally cool with me. And a mother using it when talking to her kid.

I thought it meant a lady who liked to hang around with members of a motorbike club.

I grew up calling my great grandmother “Pete’s grandma” and honestly never really thought much about it and didn’t even realize it was the possessive version of the name and not just a random sound or Finnish word until I was ten.

When my wife and I started dating she was like “who the fuck is Pete?” so we had to explain that when my mom was a kid in the 1950s one of her grandmothers had a pet bird named Pete and the other didn’t.

My kid called his great grandfather “big boppa” and knows my cousin as “uncle butt-o” and I love all this shit.

I knew my grandmother as Boze, a family nickname because her dad was Beau and she was his favourite. And my mum is Tommi to her grandkids, another nickname unrelated to her actual name.

re Moons Over My Hammy. At the risk of stating the obvious, the worst part about this menu item is that both "moon" and "ham" are euphemisms for the human butt.

Eatin ass at Denny's

Lol

Eatin ass at Denny's

― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal)

It's been done.

https://i.ibb.co/d05S3Fx/2022-05-09-10-51-47.jpg

the worst part about this menu item is that both "moon" and "ham" are euphemisms for the human butt.

I feel like you have more euphemisms for the human butt than a lot of people ...

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie
that's-a pink eye

i don't associate "moon" or "ham" with the human butt ... however, I do admit, that in the emoji age, the line from Prufrock, "do I dare to eat a peach" can be read differently

so does "going ham" mean 'farting' then

(d33j?)

Ouster.

I know it is a real word, a noun, but it seems like it should be a different part of speech. Why not "ousting"?

I just irrationally hate this word every time I see it.

BrE still uses ousting

I'm not sure I've ever seen ouster before, whereas ousting and ousted are used all the time. Ah, right, it's American.

OK, having googled it I have definitely never seen ouster before! It's weird!

The word is your ouster

https://i.imgur.com/365chxD.jpg

i don't associate "moon" or "ham" with the human butt

uh, dude, I know that definition of mooning, but it is a polysemous word, hoss.

a "hammy" is a hamstring so moons over my hammy is actually anatomically on point

which makes it worse obviously

honks over my bobo

hossed in a hammy beef

I’m so sorry, sarahell, I didn’t know we were playing non-polysemous words only. I should have known better, my butt-felt apologies.

Butt Felt was deep throat right

Remember that time a Northern Irish politician was removed from power because they contracted a stomach ailment from eating shellfish?

It was the Ulster oyster ulcer ouster.

a saying that sometimes gets said in curtain speeches for local theatre:

"if you like the show, tell your friends. if you don't, tell your enemies".

like what sense does that make? I can think of two interpretations

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"You vile piece of shit. I'm going to rip the mustache off of your fuckin' face if you don't shut up. btw, I saw a really terrible show the other night. like, AWFUL. almost like YOU wrote it. yeah, you should avoid at all costs."

OR

"Hey shithead! yeah, fuck you too. anyway there's this great musical downtown, you should go. (to self) Oh man is he gonna be mad when he realizes what a turkey this is!"

Presumably it means: Inflict something that you think is bad on someone you don't like. In the process, we, the theatre, will still gain.

I mean that's what they're obviously trying to suggest but why would your enemy listen to you?

"gonna go check out this show, this guy I hate and want to kill suggested it to me"

you arent friendly with some of your enemies? never been passive aggressive before? your definition of enemy feels extremely narrow. which is good i guess!

that was meant to read as silly btw looking back it seems mean. i just mean like. you know, if you have a pretentious colleague or something tell them to waste their evening on it idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYOrR7rs4k

Maybe you're enemies with this person because of your diametrically opposed tastes in theatre, and so anything you hate is a solid recommendation for them.

Hmm maybe!!!!

I don't have enemies, I have hataz!!!!

What I absolutely DO NOT LOVE is when a teacher or child-care worker or speech therapist or doctor or nurse calls me "Dad." As in, "are you okay with these IEP changes, Dad?" Or, "Dad, can you hold his arm while I give him this shot?" Or, "any questions, Mom and Dad?"

Like, it's literally been 15 years. We have been in hundreds of these meetings and appointments. You could take a half a second to look at the paperwork that is right in front of you on your screen and address me as Puff, or Mr. Puffin, or just use context to indicate that you're speaking to me instead of my wife or child.

runs in, gasping PUFF DADDY

like what sense does that make?

how am i supposed to perform with only one working leg?

you do know it's actually an english play, right?

what? but we just finished assigning all the movement-- the scene's flowing fine!

sure it's a lil awkward but i don't see what's ~against the rules~ about turning slightly downstage

who the fuck is "five"? thank me; i'm the one who just gave you an update

no thanks, i prefer to put paying customers in seats

nobody is boiling you in oil so just call it "tech week" you divas (this one is real)

Good job, sic. Moderate lol

https://i.ibb.co/gtBXHP3/IMG-20220516-005517-297.webp

Wait this was not for this thread

pretty sick of ppl using honkin' on bobo tbh

It's gonna be the new 'touching base' in no time.

"sorry if I missed an email, but..." as a way of passively aggressively pointing out you haven't replied to something.

Just ask "following up on this, any updates?" directly, ffs. obviously you know you didn't 'miss an email'.

"rude not to..."

"glow up"

^^^^

some of my annoyance is related to not entirely knowing what it is or where it came from, but it is omnipresent in my Insta feed