"you are a fucking amazing group of product managers, i just want to say that"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
"You have the day you deserve".
not because it wasn't an effective 'fuck off' used against people who were abusive or awful people, but now it's once again been co-opted and seems to be used in situations that don't even remotely warrant such a level of aggression, like someone getting your order wrong at Wendy's or arguing whether someone was offside or not.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
You know what I hate?I hate "as [so-and-so] might put it" ...when the phrase that so-and-so "might" use is something the person wrote/said/sang ONCE (even if it was very famous).My long-time annoyance at this was re-triggered by this sentence, in reference to the summer of 1974 in American politics: "It was, as Charles Dickens might put it, the best of times and the worst of times." Really? As though that weren't just a sentence in one of his books, but the dude's fucking catchphrase or something.― jaymc, Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:48 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
OTM
― kinder, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
What's funny about that Gopnik excerpt is that he's quoting himself. Like hey, this phrase I just came up with reminds me of Sergio Leone.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
xps not otm imo!
you're just complaining about a careless use of the word "might" really?
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
As Jon Anderson might say, "yes"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
fair
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
well, Adam Gopnick is a total hack
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/X9PsTeG.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
I've been getting inundated with cold-call sales emails and they all talk like this
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
why do you answer them?
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
oh oops, missed the "emails" part ... n/m
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
"lovely jubbly"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
in correspondence from my mobile phone provider no less
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
"The blob"
I mean "the deep state" is a stupid expression but it least it sounds dramatic. "The blob" is the kind of Eton-level schoolboy joke phrase you could imagine a bunch of Tory tossers chortling about because they mistakenly think it's funny. In fact you don't have to imagine it, it's what they publicly do.
― there's no such thing as a winnable volume war (Matt #2), Monday, 21 August 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
"Brits"
Fair enough if an American uses it but I've just heard a Sky reporter use it. It would be a bit like if a US reporter referred to Americans as Yanks in a serious news report.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I think that battle is lost. There's a new generation that doesn't think it makes us sound like cunts.
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
Rather that than Britishers
― fucking beanie hat music (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
It would be funny if a Sky reporter said "Britishers" though. And "Englanders".
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
Whereas if they say Britishes, we know they lurk here.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
I'd like to not read or hear "The British People" ever again.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
What's wrong with Britons? No, don't answer that.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
"I'm keeping a list of who is silent"
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:40 (eleven months ago) link
'that's my happy place'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 October 2023 19:42 (eleven months ago) link
Surely it’s been mentioned in this thread before, but I crawl within myself and die when I see “so I did a thing” on social media.
Poms is the correct way to refer to the brits fwiw
― Peach’s burner account (H.P), Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:25 (eleven months ago) link
+1 on 'so I did a thing', major barf
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 October 2023 22:35 (eleven months ago) link
I am fine with it depending on the thing… if it is related to the Carpenter movie I will generally lol
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 06:31 (eleven months ago) link
"the conversation around (x)"
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 06:40 (eleven months ago) link
"Do better"
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 07:14 (eleven months ago) link
English, ersatz English, Anglos, exbrits.Disolvers of the holy bond that United the kingdom.
As the nation dissolves into smaller city states one will be known by the area one comes from. Bound to happen.Or become more evolved and become Europeans again innit
― Stevo, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 07:42 (eleven months ago) link
"my guy"
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:06 (eleven months ago) link
social media posts that start "i don't know who needs to hear this but"
or sometimes "i don't know how many of y'all need to hear this", these type of people always call you "y'all" even if they come from fucking dunedin or somewhere
― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:29 (eleven months ago) link
"Louder for the people in the back"
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:30 (eleven months ago) link
doo rag!!!!!amazing to see you herei agree completely btw
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:57 (eleven months ago) link
All of these are terrible but "do better" might be the worst. If someone says that you can be guaranteed they're a self-righteous asshole.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 26 October 2023 09:22 (eleven months ago) link
"y'all" seems to be everywhere.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 09:56 (eleven months ago) link
It’s fucking abysmal, that, but I guess not everyone speaks a prestige dialect that has a native second person plural. 😎
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 10:11 (eleven months ago) link
Tell me about it
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 10:14 (eleven months ago) link
I keep seeing “having a moment”, eg:”Belfast is having quite a moment, it really is,” says hotelier Melanie Harrison with an infectious laugh”
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Thursday, 26 October 2023 10:55 (eleven months ago) link
Is there an Irish equivalent? Best I can guess is "ye"??
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:08 (eleven months ago) link
"(x) is...... different"
maybe acceptable if you literally came up with it yourself as an offhand comment, but as a meme comment to repeat after any instance of remarkable ability or behaviour, welll..... DO BETTER
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:10 (eleven months ago) link
I think ‘x is….different’ is similar to the studied inarticulateness of “ Is x a thing now?”
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:05 (eleven months ago) link
"Because … thing"
― Alba, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:15 (eleven months ago) link
^i don’t know the origin of this but it always seemed sub-Whedon to me, and that’s not a compliment to Joss Whedon at all
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
internet speak was basically sub-whedon for a couple of decades there
― Left, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:19 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, the rot has been in place for a while
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:21 (eleven months ago) link
"studied inarticulateness" no doubt, but interestingly the terms for long-form journalistic writing already in use pre-thing are generally examples of a similar affect
i: an article (from 1700s; means "a thing") ii: a piece (from 1500s; means "a bit of a thing")iii: a feature (from 1850s; short for featured article, means "a thing we are publicly excited about") iv: an essay (from 1500s; means "i tried to write a thing")
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:27 (eleven months ago) link
v: wedding announcement/new job: some personal news 😏
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:37 (eleven months ago) link
It's this thing
― Alba, Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:37 (eleven months ago) link