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

"Pre-" phrases in general bug me bcs the "pre-" is usually redundant. Pre-sliced ham is sliced ham, to pre-heat an oven is to heat it, pre-booking is booking etc etc. Pre-owned is at least an exception to this.

Pre-approved, however, does not mean approved!

pre-heat at least makes some sense because you are heating before putting food in

eliminate unnecessary posts

Aimless trapped in car in home driveway with curdling milk

pre-curdled

Which, tbf, is cottage cheese

I could do with some more pre-posting

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- rob marlboro

I have a peeled banana. Also, an unpeeled banana.

What picture does that conjure up?

Velvets 1st lp innit

I buy my bananas pre-peeled

is it possible to pre-wipe your ass

Let's ask Owl.

People using 'genocide' as a verb....fucking stop

Also coronate / coronated. You can just say crown / crowned.

I thought of this scene from "In the Loop" where someone tells Malcolm Tucker that he hates the phrase "the bottom line" that Malcolm just used (don't stop watching until at least 0:40):
https://www.traileraddict.com/in-the-loop/the-bottom-line

'threading the needle' is having a moment in media-speak, especially in U.S. politics

I don't necessarily mind it, just interesting to hear how these phrases can catch on for awhile

i tried to invite people to my crowning but for some reason nobody wanted to come

how dialated?

"the math ain't mathing"

Karen as a pejorative needs to be retired

Not for any regretful feelings towards those born with the name, but because it's now being used for anytime anyone complains (whether the complaint is right or wrong). Karens are now able to Karen by calling out Karens that aren't actually being Karens, but rather calling out the Karenning of the actual Karens! Infuriating!

it died when white men discovered they could use it against feminists

and white women discovered they could use it to be not like the other white girls

Karen's basically lost all of its utility. I saw someone call a dude a Karen because he objected to pyro at football matches, for example.

According to HP we are reaching Peak Karen, which means to me it has reached the end stage, like a Ponzi scheme when the last sucker buys in.

karen cancelled for no longer being woke

and white women discovered they could use it to be not like the other white girls

It reached end stage when a fast-food franchise with its name popped up in Australia. Investigating may put your love of humanity at risk:
https://www.instagram.com/karensdinerofficial/?hl=en

is this the start of some horrible reclamation?

conquer the boardroom by embracing your inner karen

It's a cash in on meme cultured millennials with no sense of humour.

of course they're using digital blackface in service of their brand while having what looks to be an all white staff

I'd like to blame it all on the aussies but I could imagine someone doing this in a trendy part of london too

Karen's Diner singlehandedly making me wish we had tipping culture here

the humourless millennials would probably tip well for this in the states too though wdik

Boomer is beginning to annoy me for similar reasons, mainly because kids use it to mean anyone over the age of like, 30 which renders the word pointless. No boomer is less than 60-65 at this point! FFS there's millenials with adult kids at this point.

kids are always going to poop on their elders; that they can't even correctly classify us should make it that much easier to ignore

also i know some karens and carins and that whole thing is shitty but tbh at least their names aren't euphemisms for toilets/procurers of prostitutes/front-line soldiers who get dumped by their sweethearts

Boomer is beginning to annoy me for similar reasons, mainly because kids use it to mean anyone over the age of like, 30 which renders the word pointless. No boomer is less than 60-65 at this point! FFS there's millenials with adult kids at this point.

We're having a discussion about this at work lately, because there are real differences between old Boomers and young Boomers in terms of communication, degree of online-ness, etc., and it's really necessary to use two different strategies to market to/communicate with them — a one size fits all approach is doomed to failure.

H.P.: Karenception

by definition the very youngest boomers are now 59yo and the oldest are 77

still too young to be president apparently

We boomers will always have Bill Clinton and Dubya to live down.

My 80+-year-old parents are VERY adamant that they are not Boomers, but war babies. The distinction (if it ever mattered) will stop mattering soon.

Biggest difference for war babies was that they entered adulthood as a much smaller cohort. They tended to have easier career paths (less competition for desirable openings) but much less social/cultural impact or influence. They weren't as flattered or catered to by big business.

I am sure that's true on the macro level, but my parents are weird. My father was born in Los Alamos because his father was a not-insignificant Manhattan Project figure; his career path led him to Vietnam (which was decidedly NOT easy). My mother lost her father early and struggled to get by at all; she worked three jobs for most of my life, yadda cubed.

Now, I know most everybody is dealing with something you don't know about, and privilege is most definitely a thing, and anecdotes are not data. But when I think of my own specific parents' career paths or lives, "easier" is not the first word that springs to mind.

nothing said about a group larger than one person is true of any one person we might all put that into practice now we have had an awakening here today hmmmm?

I'd like to blame it all on the aussies but I could imagine someone doing this in a trendy part of london too

US VC money has enabled franchising of Karen's Dinner, there's a couple in Britain (London and Birmingham), one in Dublin and one in Denver Colorado.

karen's diner particularly egregious because if one profession has to deal with actual karendom a lot surely it's waiters

The one near me went OOB. I assume the others did too.

that is a noise actual karens make and all