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

"I think starting from a starting by asking "why do you all hate service workers?" rather than merely asking "hey uh, what's wrong with these sayings? they're innocuous and btw, things I have to say daily" is what kind of enflamed things. I'm sure that'll be called 'tone policing', but I just don't see why the least charitable interpretation is often the one gravitated to the fastest here."

Some of the ppl that do this stuff feel differently. I've seen people doing service jobs being treated badly or looked at with contempt. This kind of thing just adds to the atmosphere. I'd rather not say anything about it.

Similarly, seen people on the Web complain about interactions with call centre ppl, just being disrespectful and doing performative anger when the shitty service they are paying a shit wage to manage isn't their fault.

What I was trying to get at was … the majority of us have been service workers treated badly and contemptuously. … the only person who seemed to “hate” service workers was the dude Omar went to get pizza with in a post from two days ago?

Maybe omar can help him to sign up si we can finally have our sacrificial lamb

My most deranged Instagram friend returned from social media hiatus and just posted a story ranting about a dude on a work call using the phrase “massage it out” several times when discussing their strategic plan.

sorry for fanning any flames, I had to clean up a bunch of dog shit and piss today and wasn’t in a great mood

there’s a guy i work with who when he wants to talk about really getting into the heart of a problem and coming up with a solution he says we need to “nut it out” and i almost spit out my tea every time he does

well

its either that or swallow

I got fired from an ad agency admin job once because I had strong objections to one of the directors saying ‘okay, it’s cocks-on-blocks time’ whenever a big decision loomed.

Eeuurrghh

Obviously this was the point at which I had a feminist book out and was going to sit on panels discussing feminism and culture, the directors of this part time job knew that, and were still flabbergasted that anyone working for them might have reasons to object to their language. Bunch of zero fucks given boarding-school trash.

I can't with the nut it out. Omg

Someone said they would just rub it out the other day obv talking about wearing something and I still giggled.

To myself.

The interim CEO where I work uses the phrase “many ways to skin a cat” and it did not go over well. He already kinda sucks.

used not uses

I got fired from an ad agency admin job once because I had strong objections to one of the directors saying ‘okay, it’s cocks-on-blocks time’ whenever a big decision loomed.

lol, someone working in advertising once told me about a senior figure at their work who would constantly say things like 'I like it, but does it get me HARD?' Ad men still out here living their lives like a one-note Fast Show sketch.

holy shit

what a thread for ilxor comebacks

altho tbf

fast show concept was actually one note sketch characters

CEOs, execs, well paid ppl churning out that bollocks = laugh away

Lower paid people doing it = show some awareness.

I dare say that all of us have had lower paying jobs in our lives, if not now.

Speak for yourself I make eight figures

The first three are zero but what are details

xp - dammit man! you plant a straight line and then hog it for yourself! I was all set to post: how many of those are zeroes placed at the beginning?

Lol

ha I almost searched for this thread earlier so I could add "cool beans" but then I didn't.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, August 31, 2012 5:49 AM (eleven years ago)

"A girl I had a huge crush on used to say "Cool beans!" I momentarily fell out of love with her each time.
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:33 PM (6 years ago)"

HA!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, August 31, 2012 5:50 AM (eleven years ago)

I don't like the way "skinny" means "with skimmed milk" now. Makes my skin crawl to hear it.

This may just be me turning into an "old man yells at cloud" prescriptivist, but quirk used as a verb synonymous with smirk really irritates me, because I think half of the fantasy books I've been reading over the past few years seem to be running that usage into the ground.

Can you post an example? I’m having a hard time imagining that

I don't like the way "skinny" means "with skimmed milk" now. Makes my skin crawl to hear it.

I worked at a Starbucks briefly after college and during that time corporate told employees to say 'skinny' instead of 'skim'. Hated it.

Viv squinted hard at him and thought he’d outlast her, but then his mouth quirked at the corner.

Nothing tastes as good as skimmy feels

I dunno but I don’t feel I often read the word “sadly,” deployed in good faith. I feel like “sadly,” is usually written with a vindictive tone. You’re not sad.

That use of 'quirk' is the author saying "gee, I'm such a cutie, aren't I?" Your annoyance is understandable, because it's not really cute enough to outlast the third date.

Sadly, Donald Trump is still alive today.

I can't recall ever encountering "quirk" used like that before, but Merriam-Webster includes it as a standard definition and dates its back to the 19th century.

Lol I was just begging to be proven wrong etymologically! I’ve been seeing it a lot more in fantasy books published maybe after 2010 or so, I wonder if there’s an identifiable patient zero I can blame.

yeah it seems rare enough (afaict) that I wouldn't be surprised if there was a single popularizer!

It was one of the handful of phrases that notoriously recurred dozens of times in 50 shades

ah ha / oh no

That usage of quirk is so annoying. But etymologically it makes sense, "quirky" is the not-straight, the slightly off, the irregular.

Tell all the truth but tell it quirk

i'm pretending that this talk about quirk being a synonym for smirk never happened

genderquirk

"You just proved these signs work."

No I didn't, leave me alone.

i'm pretending that this talk about quirk being a synonym for smirk never happened

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 26, 2024 2:09 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

oh I should have said that that's not quite right. It's that "quirk" as a verb means "to curve or twist" (so you can quirk your mouth into a smirk)

It's really annoying when somebody uses "quirk" as a name.

https://i.postimg.cc/br04vMZC/quirk.jpg

Hilariously, one of the bibles of descriptive English grammar (A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language) is referred to by many as "the quirk book" because one of the authors is Randolph Quirk!

Fine for eyebrows, pushing it for mouths, hesitate to even imagine for anything else

Man, my dick sure is quirking today

Lol

His mouth twerked at the corner