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

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

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👏 !

https://i.imgflip.com/6j8gne.jpg

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'

When I was doing advertising and marketing work, it was customary to present clients with three options.

It was usually pretty easy to generate one safe idea and one slightly edgy idea. To round out the choices, we would sometimes include a comically bad idea, on the theory that its badness would force the client away from it and toward the one we actually wanted to run.

Had to stop doing that when clients kept choosing the terrible idea.

https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9781250620972.jpg?w=900

"Big beast", to describe influential figures in political parties.

Interesting about the meme phrases.

I have never heard 'no notes' or 'got milk'.

Poster Alba's satire of meme phrases above was very good.

Has no-one mentioned '(checks notes)'? The thing about this is - it's another dumb meme phrase, but it has a kind of use, and people who are good and sensible sometimes use it.

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/_kNj8h1DOIsNoGEejE44pzv2NIU=/800x1077/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IAKHBZHVVM3VQQKY3HCTVPHQQ4.jpg

"got milk?" was an american ad campaign (for milk, obv) full of pictures of (american) celebs and sports stars like the above

I was aware of that but never quite understood it. Is 'got milk?' meant to mean 'have you got any milk?' Like if someone asks what you want to drink?

The intial Got Milk? phrase was created by the American advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. In an interview in Art & Copy, a 2009 documentary that focused on the origins of famous advertising slogans, Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein said that the phrase almost didn't turn into an advertising campaign. According to The New York Times, people at Goodby, Silverstein "thought it was lazy, not to mention grammatically incorrect".[5]

The advertisements would typically feature people in various situations involving dry or sticky foods and treats such as cakes and cookies. The people then would find themselves in an uncomfortable situation due to a full mouth and no milk to wash it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss

It’s probably been visited before, but “stepped foot into” instead of “set foot into” or “stepped into”. You don’t “step” your feet, jeez.

Also “milk to wash it down” there makes me want to heave, but that’s just me.

Me too. Is drinking glasses of milk solely the province of the very young and very old? I enjoy a variety of dairy products, but I can't remember the last time I drank milk. Probably when I was a teenager or younger. Meanwhile my 8-year-old child drinks it all the time and my septuagenarian father has either milk or red wine with just about every meal. Sometimes both, one after the other, in the same glass!

When I was a kid there was an ad campaign from the Canadian Milk Board (or whatever the body may be called) attempting to sell milk as a refreshing beverage. The ads simply said

"MILK ON... ICE".

I always thought "MILK... ON ICE" would make more sense, but I'm not in marketing.

Here's a promotional button that I have saved for about 35 years for just such an occasion as this.

https://i.imgur.com/IUGi9AC.jpg

I regret to inform you that this was the British equivalent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1r5vTznAs

i thought that was going to be this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvumt4BJpfk

(there's a Humphrey about...)

the milk marketing board also used to sponsor a round-Britain bike event, the Milk Race

Is drinking glasses of milk solely the province of the very young and very old? I enjoy a variety of dairy products, but I can't remember the last time I drank milk.

I feel like it definitely was by the 1980s ... hence the US advertising campaign to encourage more people to drink milk

Milk
It does a body good

i drink milk quite a lot, it's good for acid stomach and also i like how it tastes (like milk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJMw9UAFdE

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinka_pinta_milka_day

has been described as one of the most successful advertising slogans of all time, though the consumption of milk per person generally decreased over the period it was used.

I didn't know that slogan before the 'Drink-a Jar-a Wine-a-day' riff on it in Asterix...The Gladiator?

In American novels of the early 20th-c I’m regularly coming across characters enjoying an ice-cold glass of buttermilk on a hot summer day. Now I grew up drinking milk at lunch and dinner and I still like it fine, but I just can’t imagine grabbing a frothy glass of buttermilk to cool off.