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

oh oops, missed the "emails" part ... n/m

"lovely jubbly"

in correspondence from my mobile phone provider no less

"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.

"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.

I think that battle is lost. There's a new generation that doesn't think it makes us sound like cunts.

Rather that than Britishers

It would be funny if a Sky reporter said "Britishers" though. And "Englanders".

Whereas if they say Britishes, we know they lurk here.

I'd like to not read or hear "The British People" ever again.

What's wrong with Britons? No, don't answer that.

"I'm keeping a list of who is silent"

'that's my happy place'

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

+1 on 'so I did a thing', major barf

I am fine with it depending on the thing… if it is related to the Carpenter movie I will generally lol

"the conversation around (x)"

"Do better"

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

"my guy"

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

"Louder for the people in the back"

doo rag!!!!!

amazing to see you here

i agree completely btw

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.

"y'all" seems to be everywhere.

It’s fucking abysmal, that, but I guess not everyone speaks a prestige dialect that has a native second person plural. 😎

Tell me about it

I keep seeing “having a moment”, eg:

”Belfast is having quite a moment, it really is,” says hotelier Melanie Harrison with an infectious laugh”

Is there an Irish equivalent? Best I can guess is "ye"??

"(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

I think ‘x is….different’ is similar to the studied inarticulateness of “ Is x a thing now?”

"Because … thing"

^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

internet speak was basically sub-whedon for a couple of decades there

Yeah, the rot has been in place for a while

"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")

v: wedding announcement/new job: some personal news 😏

It's this thing

that's not a thing. this is a thing:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/03/5d/92/035d925f690d6cc0dc620421b88b86d3.jpg

Left is right (heh), this is a thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

‘Some personal news’ has the same intonation as ‘a very special episode’.

"y'all" seems to be everywhere.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:56 AM bookmarkflaglink

well, I'm actually from the south, so it's part of our vernacular here

about to drop a lengthy rant? best to preface it with a

*deep inhale*

Preaching to the choir requires a lot of hot air

It’s fucking abysmal, that

your fragile ears would probably melt the first time you heard someone point to a bunch of half-full glasses on a bar table and ask "are these y'all'ses?"

Yourns

xp not if it was in the American south where it makes sense! Tom D I believe is speaking of people here(in the UK) who use it, in which case it’s kind of like

https://i.postimg.cc/bwFHhxRY/IMG-1265.jpg

Y'all should be used everywhere by everyone, it's versatile and sonorous

that "look" thing on cable news. every talking head has to start their rant with "LOOK, here's the thing about trump..." and sometimes they have 4 talking heads and they ALL do it. i mean, we are looking. we are watching you speak. make your point. no need to preface. it must be in some How To Get Your Point Across On Cable News For Dummies book. but like i sad on another thread, it would make a sick drinking game. they do it 20 times an hour.

not in every accent and certainly not mine