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

Yeah you gotta dial it in

Sometimes no sign off at all, it all depends

If everyone is henceforth required always to respond to complete strangers or people with whom one has only a brief temporary or tenuous acquaintance in such a way that guarantees they will always respond positively then society as a whole would be better off embracing agoraphobia and never leaving the house.

It irks me how often I see customer reviews of restaurants that use the word "fresh." It's like that's what they think critics would say or something, but it's used just so ... uselessly. "The sushi was so fresh." "The soup was really fresh." "The chicken was fresh." Whatever. How often does anyone go out to eat and find the food *not* fresh? "The lettuce was brown and slimy." "The fish was rotten."

I used to just put "Regards" but someone told me I might just as well sign off with "Go fuck yourself"

You should try that.

xp no i think they mean like it was fly, bro

I wish. "The pad thai was funky fresh."

xxxp

could it mean fresh as opposed to reheated frozen food?

Maybe! But how would a customer know? Like, here's a line from a review of a local Thai place I like. "The food took a bit long to get to the table but tasted really fresh and delicious." I get "delicious" but what does "tasted really fresh" mean? Another review of the same place: "Delicious, tasty and fresh with great portions enough to share." And another: "Food was excellent, fresh and tasty definitely will go back." These were just from the first couple I read. Now, of the same place in a different review: "Shrimp had probably been cooked when it was frozen as it was mushy on the outside and tough on the inside." So: not fresh! That's actually helpful.

Fresh is definitely an adjective you want associated with sushi.

And you can definitely taste fresh vs. not fresh fish.

fresh = doesn't taste froxen

oope frozen

Froxen sounds cooler

might it be that diners who extol 'freshness' have perhaps had experiences with not-so-fresh dishes? I've certainly had a few dodgy plates in my time

my foodie best friend knows instantly when food is 'off'.

could it mean fresh as opposed to reheated frozen food?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, December 5, 2023 4:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe! But how would a customer know?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, December 5, 2023 4:43 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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Oh, I get it. But the number of times I've eaten out and had food I would consider "not fresh" I would maybe count on ... a few (memorable) fingers? Most of the time the food I eat tastes fine, and aside from a salad, maybe, would rarely make me proclaim its freshness. That's why I think it's a lot more useful to a describe a meal or dish as "not fresh," because most of the time it's well within the range of what I would consider "fresh."

Many xps but I prefer think "best" is short for "best wishes." Or "I wish you all the best."

this thread has been some “good medicine”.

“Be Best”
(Slovenian accent)

lol i forgot about that one

"Have the day you deserve"

"Live this day as though it were the last day of your life."

"Did you need help taking this out to your car? No? Then let your light proceed into the world and be a joy to all."

I used to sometimes ride a bus where the driver would get to the last stop and say "this is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."

that bus driver sounds like what we would now call a Total Chad

"i, as we all are, am an agent of the inevitable,"

that would be a good neutral sign off

"You are a part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor,

Neanderthal"

a simple "watch your back" would be effective and to the point

I use "All the best" as a secret reference to a Paul McCartney & Wings greatest hits record I used to own.

Gird your loins

Or, alternatively:

Grid your lions

I use "All the best" as a secret reference to a Paul McCartney & Wings greatest hits record I used to own.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, December 6, 2023 10:17 AM bookmarkflaglink

lmao the first tape my dad ever dubbed me a copy of, because he was trying to make me a Macca/Beatles fan

the fast food version of "fresh" means cooked to order or very recently prepped, as opposed to the off days when mcdonalds would have a half-dozen quarter pounders sitting there in a warming tray for tens of minutes that they'd serve to you as opposed to assembling one on demand

lol yeah "par stocking" they call that, if I recall correctly from my ARby's days.

I worked at the McDonald's drive thru as a kid, and we used to punish people that ordered any variation from stock, like no pickles or no mustard: "Go park over there! It's gonna be a few minutes"

HOWEVER: because of that, they got a fresh burger rather than one that had been sitting under a heat lamp for a half hour

A Waygu beef Big Mac plz

what if sitting under the heat lamp for a half hour makes it taste better?

That's some Flaming Homer magic

the burger van that blessed the back of the nightclub down the island in the mid nineties would keep the cheeseburgers made and wrapped in a bain marie for an hour or more ready to serve us hungry animals at the 3am rush and lads ye can keeo yr wagyu afaic

I am only ordering Waygu to be cool

Dammit sp? AGAIN

"*checks notes*"

It's on the same level as "well, this is awkward", "I did a thing", "umm so that just happened", "did i just say that out loud?". Looking forward to its shelf life finally passing

"...and I'm here for it"

I like “checks notes”, it’s a way of achieving comic timing in text which is otherwise hard. Used out of that context it’s twee, granted.

It might be good for timing but it’s so overdone that it just feels lazy at this point. Someone posted about this itt in 2018 so I’m late to the party in being a hater!

it belongs along with all the rest in the jordan and peele sketch

Both Jordan and Peele? How delightful!

Both Jordan and Peele? How delightful!

dammit i knew that wasnt right and all when i was typing it

"consume media"
fuck off, i'm completing art.