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

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?”

"so I did a thing much?"

xp has a loaded history on ilx iirc

when did people stop saying

as if!

and

not even!

?

it used to be the coolest thing ever and then it just sort of faded away - do any gen Xers still talk like this?

that's so random

"Fur baby"

This is cool though when used to describe incredible hirsute human infants

Listen I am childless but have two dogs. Furbabies is AWFUL.

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.

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"

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".

Sketchy in the sense of 'dodgy' or 'highly questionable' has been around longer than I have and I'm 68.

Yes - that's how I use it. Dodgy is exactly what it means.

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

respectuflly i cannot tell if this is a serious post or some kind of parody

This is cool though when used to describe incredible hirsute human infants

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.

Galapagos is, I think, an underappreciated book.

One of my favorites of his

but as an owner of black cats, I'm not a fan of the term "voids".

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

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.

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,”

I just realised what Aussies use instead of ya'll! ya's! I.e. Whaddaya's doin? whaddayasreckon? canya's come over here?

Yeah our accent is close to Irish, cf “yiz”

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.

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British professional sportspeople have two emotional states: gutted or chuffed.

"oh, and by the way"

or just by the way in general

the british and hyperbole

One of my favorite examples of this is people using "You're a star" at work. Uh, really? I just did my job and answered your q. Not sure that really makes me a star lol.

“It is what it is” is not a term I hate, but it is very very silly. You’ll find it in nearly every baseball interview ever, and I chuckle to myself whenever I hear/read it. It’s part of my regular lexicon, but usual said with a smirk to a friend just to be a pest

Also, chuffed and gutted are the only two descriptive words one needs and I need to use them more (particular chuffed, what a banger (do we hate “banger” in here?))

Hyperbole in the workplace in a positive matter? Absolutely classic. Would love to be called a star for my regular work tbh

Reading the top of this thread thoughts:

1. Didn’t know other countries said “veggies”
2. I didn’t know Ben Shapiro wasn’t the first person to say “p-word”
3. Bring back “touch base” (and you know what? Let’s say p-word more, it’s so silly and fun)

I'm guessing/hoping the p-word is not what it means in the UK

Oh okay I didn’t know that was a thing. Definitely not silly or fun

I don't know what the p-word means on either side of the Atlantic tbh.