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

i miss having great aunts who would call me "ducks". who calls you ducks anymore?

Try watching Coronation Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BOBK8iBQU

Yeah anywhere in Derbyshire gives you a solid chance of being called duck

Not “ducks” though, tbf

it might have been duck. i just remember it as ducks.

it must have been duck, but it's over now

The only person who ever called me ducks was a former/erstwhile ilxor and I had no idea what she was talking about at the time and wondered why she was calling me ducks. It did not annoy me I just didn’t get it.

I have definitely come across old English ladies calling people "ducks" in books or movies.

i had an aunt with a shanghai china british private school accent from the early 20th century. she looked like douglas macarthur. she was friggin' awesome.

dougs

I don't know if there's a thread for "words that people don't use much any more" but the proliferation of the word "foodie" seems to have died considerably since the pandemic

RIP

bullshit word. everyone likes food. we don't need a word for people who claim to enjoy it on a higher level because they have (or pretend to have) enough disposable income to throw at every new food fad

i kinda hated when every american on social media got gutted when there fave rock star died. nobody here ever got gutted before the internet. i blame ilx. also it just makes me think of fish. and freddie kreuger.

I just call food, fuel. I’m a fuelie.

"Cringe" is not a goddamn adjective! It's a verb! Use it right!

I hate when people say "there are no words." Of course there are! You just said them!

yeah "gutted" is annoying and I associate it with the british and hyperbole, personally; it's akin to calling everything "brilliant". why go to these extremes.

"Incredible" is also incredibly overused, to the point of meaninglessness.

gutted is fucking brilliant in the right context nothing else works

the more recent use cringe as adjective or noun is fascist and I hate it so much. it's based on a contempt for "weakness" and any hint of nonconformity and all the usual right wingntargets. leftists adopting it is a total capitalulation to fascism

*right wing targets

cringe

i had no idea that "sketch" went back to the 70s! i thought it was a millennial invention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html

right wing people don't own "cringe" it's just a term that is commonly used to bully and lots of bullies are right wing, simple as that

the more recent use cringe as adjective or noun is fascist and I hate it so much. it's based on a contempt for "weakness" and any hint of nonconformity and all the usual right wingntargets. leftists adopting it is a total capitalulation to fascism

It’s more about a lack of self-awareness, which I can see being weaponized by assholes but I also see in a “punching up” context

i had no idea that "sketch" went back to the 70s! i thought it was a millennial invention.

I' m familiar with any modern usage. When I was younger people said "What's the sketch" to mean "What's going on".

.. unfamiliar, that is.

sarahell otm

'hella sketch' is something I'll occasionally utter

my niece and nephew use cringe and they're woke as hell

do they say 'Cheugy' as well?

We said "sketchy," not "sketch."

creepazoid should make a comeback.

"spooky season"

like i know you have a marketing calendar to fill but it's not real, it's not a thing, halloween exists and then it doesn't, that's it

I actually like that one. I am generally fond of the word "spooky."

i do like silly season.

the whole endless halloween thing though...i'm sure there's a thread about it. my theory about endless holidays is that nobody goes to church anymore. same with disney worship and marvel worship. people gotta pray to something. they are a prayerful species.

star wars more fun than jeebus anyway. (my friend's professor father driving us back from empire strikes back going on about the parallels to the holy trinity and zzzzzzzz....we were like omg light sabers.)

either that or it's just about selling shit to the rubes

I hope you threw him out of the car.

i kind of want to do a Star Wars vs Jesus poll but i kinda don't

"creepazoid should make a comeback."

I never stopped using that one

"either that or it's just about selling shit to the rubes"

same thing! tithing vs. limited-edition wolverine doll

i went to yankee candle flagship store here in deerfield once. holy crap. it was nuts. they make so much money. tons of christmas stuff but also dragons. i can't imagine spending lots of money on xmas stuff or halloween stuff.

lol we went there right after visiting your shop. It was extremely intense.

Also, I use sketchy/sketch all the time and have since I was a teen. I thought that was universal!

I have no explanation for why I hate it so much but “turnabout is fair play” just annoys me. It’s not about the meaning, either.

Also “______ much?”