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

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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

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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

Here's a tweet combining TWO of my least favorite memes in an incomprehensible way

No one: build the most ugly looking car ever.
Tesla: hold my beer.....

— Fisher305 (@Fisher3051) June 7, 2022

Not literally incomprehensible just nonsensical to the meaning of each meme

wow, I was like today years old when I learned what that meant

‘no notes’

years ago, I was working for a design/marketing company, and one of our clients was a San Francisco based boutique hotel chain. One of the properties was doing a promo where you got a free gasoline card with your reservation, which could be used with either a rental or your own car

I can't remember the tagline we came up with, but whatever it was, it was overruled by the property manager. Instead, she opted for:

GOT GAS?

And this was like 25 year after the Got Milk? thing came out.. we tried talking her down, but that's what made the final print version

The iconic 'gasoline moustache'

I still constantly see ripoff variations of the "Got____?"

A couple days ago I passed a gas station with a picture of a muffin & coffee and "GOT BREAKFAST?" on it.. it won't ever die

I actually like 'no notes' as a super-droll throwaway when calling out some bullshit

it's not bad, just overused

xp Andy -- your story reminds me of this running joke I have with a friend who is a copywriter -- there was this christmas ad campaign for Pringles one year, where the image was a trio of Pringles cans next to a santa hat and tinsel, and instead of what we thought would be a clever tagline -- "Pringles All the Way" or even "Jingle Pringles" they went with "Merry Pringles!" -- and "Merry Pringles!" is basically our years-long running joke for lazy and shitty taglines

tl;dr - Got Gas? = Merry Pringles

🐦[No one: build the most ugly looking car ever.
Tesla: hold my beer.....
— Fisher305 (@Fisher3051) June 7, 2022🕸]🐦

No one:
Alba: Me: I read this as a parody of awful Twitter templates
Also me: Keep this shit off my timeline

Let that sink in

Louder for the people in the back.

No lies detected

HOLD 👏 MY 👏 BEER👏 !

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I mostly hate "louder for the people in the back" because it's often used as a reply to really insipid, nonsensical shit.

@sarahell - even "Pringle Bells!" or something.. wow, they blew it, so much potential

Merry Pringles LOL

Reminds me of Brian Regan's bit about "Fiedler Roofing Company."

yes!!! thank you both!

Also Arrested Development 'Mock Trial with J. Reinhold'