"Incredible" is also incredibly overused, to the point of meaninglessness.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:47 (eleven months ago) link
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
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:49 (eleven months ago) link
*right wing targets
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:50 (eleven months ago) link
cringe
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 15:51 (eleven months ago) link
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
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:55 (eleven months ago) link
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
― Evan, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:57 (eleven months ago) link
― sarahell, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:35 (eleven months ago) link
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
― sarahell, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
I' m familiar with any modern usage. When I was younger people said "What's the sketch" to mean "What's going on".
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:55 (eleven months ago) link
.. unfamiliar, that is.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link
sarahell otm
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:59 (eleven months ago) link
'hella sketch' is something I'll occasionally utter
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:03 (eleven months ago) link
my niece and nephew use cringe and they're woke as hell
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 27 October 2023 17:07 (eleven months ago) link
do they say 'Cheugy' as well?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
We said "sketchy," not "sketch."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 17:24 (eleven months ago) link
creepazoid should make a comeback.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:27 (eleven months ago) link
"spooky season"
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:58 (eleven months ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:59 (eleven months ago) link
I actually like that one. I am generally fond of the word "spooky."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 17:59 (eleven months ago) link
i do like silly season.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
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.)
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
either that or it's just about selling shit to the rubes
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:28 (eleven months ago) link
I hope you threw him out of the car.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 18:29 (eleven months ago) link
i kind of want to do a Star Wars vs Jesus poll but i kinda don't
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 October 2023 18:34 (eleven months ago) link
"creepazoid should make a comeback."
I never stopped using that one
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 27 October 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
"either that or it's just about selling shit to the rubes"
same thing! tithing vs. limited-edition wolverine doll
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:41 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:45 (eleven months ago) link
lol we went there right after visiting your shop. It was extremely intense.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:02 (eleven months ago) link
Also, I use sketchy/sketch all the time and have since I was a teen. I thought that was universal!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:03 (eleven months ago) link
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?”
― just1n3, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:35 (eleven months ago) link
"so I did a thing much?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:40 (eleven months ago) link
xp has a loaded history on ilx iirc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:58 (eleven months ago) link
when did people stop saying
as if!
and
not even!
?
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 20:40 (eleven months ago) link
it used to be the coolest thing ever and then it just sort of faded away - do any gen Xers still talk like this?
― Left, Friday, 27 October 2023 20:42 (eleven months ago) link
that's so random
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 20:44 (eleven months ago) link
"Fur baby"
This is cool though when used to describe incredible hirsute human infants
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:51 (eleven months ago) link
Listen I am childless but have two dogs. Furbabies is AWFUL.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 23:05 (eleven months ago) link
Most newborns are actually hairy. It's to keep them warm and they shed the hair soon after birth. That should be what "fur babies' is used for lol.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 27 October 2023 23:06 (eleven months ago) link
Sketchy in that sense is definitely American, I'd never heard it used like that before I met my late wife and we figured out it meant the same as "dodgy"
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 October 2023 23:27 (eleven months ago) link
I don't think I ever heard sketchy until maybe 1996.
On the topic of fur babies, this is kind of a niche one, but as an owner of black cats, I'm not a fan of the term "voids".
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 28 October 2023 00:02 (eleven months ago) link
Sketchy in the sense of 'dodgy' or 'highly questionable' has been around longer than I have and I'm 68.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 28 October 2023 03:49 (eleven months ago) link
Yes - that's how I use it. Dodgy is exactly what it means.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:54 (eleven months ago) link
respectuflly i cannot tell if this is a serious post or some kind of parody
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:56 (eleven months ago) link
this gives me Galapagos (Vonnegut) flashbacks. I should re-read that one. I never feel like re-reading Vonnegut; I loved each book the first time and don't really want to go back.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 28 October 2023 05:01 (eleven months ago) link
Galapagos is, I think, an underappreciated book.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
One of my favorites of his
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:11 (eleven months ago) link
but as an owner of black cats, I'm not a fan of the term "voids".
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:18 (eleven months ago) link
We used to use "sketch" in Ireland to mean keeping a lookout for authority. If you were keeping sketch and you saw the teacher coming, you'd hiss "SKETCH!" at everyone and they would stop messing.
I hate it when people are doing old-timey Shakespeare talk and they put "eth" on the end of the wrong words. "I was shooketh." No.
― trishyb, Saturday, 28 October 2023 15:22 (eleven months ago) link
I just saw this in the Guardian and wondered if they'd just made it up...
“LFI’s strategy of conflictualising and systematically obstructing everything in parliament has also really angered its partners,”
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 October 2023 08:12 (eleven months ago) link