I don't like thinking of animals being beaten to death at all, let alone for 10 straight years ... though that reminds me of the dead baby jokes where there are parts of one dead baby in 10 trash cans.
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
where on earth are you encountering such concepts, and why
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:29 (one year ago) link
if you say 'semiotics' i promise to believe you : /
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:31 (one year ago) link
the dead baby jokes that were popular when we were kids?
Q: What's grosser than gross?A: A dead baby in a trash can
Q: What's grosser than that?A: 10 dead babies in a trash can
Q: What's grosser than that?A: One dead baby in 10 trash cans
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:35 (one year ago) link
sometimes it's a blender and not a trash can
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:36 (one year ago) link
how do you make a dead baby float
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:54 (one year ago) link
what's grosser than gross and can't turn corners?
dead baby with a spear through it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 February 2023 06:14 (one year ago) link
kinda worried that i will now associate this joek with sarahell forever
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 February 2023 06:17 (one year ago) link
Xpost
Similarly,
Q. What's black, white and red and can't get through a revolving door?A. A nun with a spear through her head.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 11 February 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
this might be a sports-centric one, but i've been noticing a rising usage of "throws up" and a synonym for "produces". it's getting to be common in baseball writing, for example, "the first basemen was highly successful in 2022, throwing up a .289/.342/.472 line on the year"
but i also have seen it used, increasingly, in non-sports contexts. i know i should throw up some examples but it's hard to google
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 February 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
throw up watch 2023
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 February 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY
― i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Monday, 13 February 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
maybe it sometimes happens during art lectures? "here, let me just throw up an image by van gogh on the screen here..."
it's definitely an informal thing but every single time i think of vomit
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 February 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
I've heard it in meetings where someone (generally a consultant type) is sharing something of value on their screen ... and at least once the screenshare content also made me think of vomit, along with the phrase "throw up" on the screen
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:34 (one year ago) link
throw up watch! "let me throw up something new you've probably never seen before"
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
i just ate taco bell so i will comply in 20 mins
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
I have spent approximately 40 years of my life deeply involved in publishing, print production, and typography. Including a time when typesetting was done mostly by hand and by humans. One of my private joys is seeing a line break or page break that introduces a delightful temporary ambiguity of meaning.
Military history is weirdly full of these moments, partly because military language is very evocative and rife with double entendre. So let us explore some sentences with a delightfully ambiguous line break.
For example, in nonfiction about the Civil War you might have a sentence that goes
The 14th Brigade ascended the heights and immediately began throwing up
Which is a bit odd until you turn the page and the next word is
breastworks.
Then a few pages later you might have something equally hilarious, or even more hilarious, like
The Fifth Alabama Regiment succeeded in beating off
Which is funny until you turn the page and the next word is
the attack of the Seventh Maine.
― tajmahalia jackson (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 February 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Thursday, February 16, 2023 10:42 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, February 16, 2023 10:47 AM (yesterday)
I have definitely seen taco bell vomit before ... the one near me has drivethru open til 3am ... so y'know
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 February 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
tool kit used to refer to things that aren't really tools ... like a powerpoint slide deck or clickbait quality "how to do x" web pages.
― sarahell, Saturday, 18 February 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
yeah we have an orientation one which is basically a module of awkwardly stitched together info dumps of what to expect in your first 30 days. there are no tools in the damn thing.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
i have the worst Baader-Meinhof over 'use case' lately. i must have seen it in texts/articles around 10 times in the past week, and i just HATE it! why not just say 'application' or 'purpose' or something?! oh my god. isn't it derived from software engineering or something? ugh.
― maelin, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
Maybe programmers like it cause application makes them think of something else.
― Alba, Saturday, 4 March 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
"culture bearers" -- i only started hearing/seeing this in the past year, so maybe it's something that i will find less annoying in time, but, atm it is annoying because:
1.when spoken it sounds like "culture bears" and it sounds absurd because it is spoken very reverentially, and in my mind i am thinking about cartoon bears2.every person comes from a culture and is a "bearer" of that culture; this term posits than only certain people are considered to be this3.it's part of the instrumentalization of the arts to solve social problems -- white supremacy and all of the things that are tied up in that -- as opposed to funding/supporting the arts for their own sake AND funding/supporting work to solve social problems through other mechanisms, which could include the arts
― sarahell, Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
culture bears sound good tho
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
obv your other points are solid
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
xp i guess it's a scarcity mentality ... like, instead of giving funding to artists, the funding can also go to cartoon bears.
― sarahell, Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
cartoon bears as the cultural gatekeepers of our era
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
it is less annoying than "creatives" tbh ... now that i think about one in the context of the other ... "culture bearers" is coming from a well-intentioned place, in that it is trying to serve as a way to support historically oppressed people. "Creatives" just makes me think about hell is other people.
― sarahell, Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
Fear not, I bear you no culture
― Alba, Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
i'm generally a hater of this thread for a bunch of reasons but it's a useful distinction to draw maybe, language that feels awkward because it's (badly) trying to illuminate the marginalised vs language that sucks because it's trying to justify the downpressors
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
There are all sorts of valid use cases for this thread in theory but it’s still entirely bad
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
Tell you what I don’t like tho, when ppl change the cromulent phrase “shit sandwich” to “compliment sandwich” but they are referring to the same thing where the negative feedback is in the middle — nobody calls a ham sandwich a bread sandwich you dorks! Eat shit!! This concludes your annual review!
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
too close to home at the moment, that.
three slices of shit tho
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
Hey hey boo boo
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
normally this whole thread is Ranger Smith but yeah
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
just heard 'pre-mortem' as a form of pre-product launch analysis to identify possible failures
i guess it makes sense. i haven't been in that world in several years, not sure common it is, but it immediately made my chest tighten up
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
lol it sounds as if they are expecting the product to fail
― sarahell, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
"Makers"
Something kind of snooty about it, IDK
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
One of our departments is planning on having "a convening". Meetings are not good enough, I guess.
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
that sounds like something witches do on the sabbath
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
having "a convening". Meetings are not good enough, I guess.
they're just throwing it against the wall to see if it sticks
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
I recently started a job that uses Slack instead of Teams or Skype or whatever, and I am finding that I can't quite abide the term "Huddle."
Like, (a) we are not actually on a football team, and (b) it is uncomfortably close to "cuddle," which... ew.
Commerce somehow existed for thousands of years before everything became either a war metaphor or a sports metaphor.
Like, hi, I am a businessperson wearing a polo shirt and pressing buttons to make different patterns of light appear on a glowing rectangle. I don't need to do an "after-action report" or a "hotwash" or a "postmortem" when I can just say "lessons learned."
I am either in a climate-controlled office or my climate-controlled house. I don't need to talk about "the long pole in the tent" or "the wolf that's closest to the wagon" or "the shark in the water."
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
at my work they're always doing 'scrums' but I can guarantee nobody knows anything about rugby
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
They should call ideas "farts"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
....hotwash?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
A military term, analagous to "after-action" or "postmortem" or "lessons learned."
Like, I guess you are supposed to wash your guns or planes or tanks or whatever after a battle? I dunno, I just move pieces of paper around while wearing a tie.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Hotwash
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
arms too short to hotwash with god
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
sounds more like hogwash to me
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:33 AM (three days ago)
I've seen "convening" used in place of "conference" for awhile ... not sure what differentiates a convening from a conference, or if the people that started using it just got bored of calling conferences "conferences" so they decided to use another word to mean the same thing ... but it generally doesn't refer to the getting together of people who all work together already.
― sarahell, Saturday, 1 April 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link