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

that person should be set on fire

well you don't need to get so huffy about it

Gettin huffy on my Huffy

The Amador Club, formerly Wingtip, a haberdashery with a barber shop and wine cave that was geared toward wealthy Silicon Valley and FiDi finance workers, plans to offer seasonal oysters and caviar bumps alongside craft cocktails...

what's the consensus on 'caviar bumps'?

Oh, and this new spot is members only

i think it's shoving fish eggs up your nose

using a key that only members have

I've had caviar a couple times and just don't see the appeal

well you obviously weren't pushing it up into your nose, the way the rich and connected do

aiui a 'caviar bump' refers to a serving of caviar washed down with well-iced champagne. the existence of such a thing is outside my personal experience, but the rumors of it have reached me.

I did somehow go to a party in a big house where they had caviar, which I (accidentally) dropped on the floor and rubbed it into the carpet. I then got another and nobody noticed. I remember that but no idea where it was or how I got there. anyway it was shit

British people pronouncing Gen Z as Gen Zee.

I’ve never once heard Gen Zed uttered by anyone

That's because they don't want to confuse it with General Zod.

gen zee is correct because all of this stuff only really applies to yanks tbh

"appearances can be deceiving"
&
"beloved" 2 syllables with a swallowed e

so do you say striped or stri-ped

different word, false equivalency.

see: adjective vs past forms of "to learn"

I don't think it's the fact that people are welcoming people that is the issue. I welcome people all the time at work and it would be weird not to. It's the weird phrase "welcome in". I have never heard nor used that in my life.

So I was in the US last week and I have to report that I heard this phrase no less than 3 times. I heard it both used both in Florida and in Mass. Still don't like it but at least I know you all weren't pulling my leg.

the only rule with stuff like belov'd vs belovèd is to use the one you need for the meter

People need to stop calling things "Love Lies Bleeding." It only makes me think of Hemorrhage in My Hands by Fuel. This can be applied retroactively to Elton John and Victorian botany and anything else, as well.

It's a good Thompson Twins song

No, ONLY the Elton song should be allowed to keep it

The Nik Kershaw I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me is also superior

but not to the george michael duet obv

gen zee is correct because all of this stuff only really applies to yanks tbh

Is there a generations timeline, maybe a flowchart available online somewhere? I can never remember the difference between gen Z(ed) and millennials. If I was born in 1968 (which I was) am I gen X? And what would someone born in the early 1960s be? Also, there wasn't a post-war baby boom in the UK I don't think, so 'boomers' hardly works. Maybe 'rationers'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Generation_timeline.svg/1920px-Generation_timeline.svg.png

not sure why Alpha isn't 2013-28, but if that's a sign we're giving up on some of the more obtuse aspects of this bs then I applaud it

Good to find out that Gen Y and Millennials are the same thing

Alpha? ugh

aniston

Greatest Generation ugh. You're right it's for Yanks.

No one gives a shit about these now. Anyone over 30 = "boomer" and anyone under 30 = "millenial" as far as half the media/internet's concerned.

I don’t get most of the hyper specific cultural generational stuff - afaict generation names only really apply to very broad socioeconomic effects on a demographic. Like I was born in 1979 but I don’t relate to most of the gen x OR millennial memes I see all over the internet. Most of these memes seem to only really cover like a 5 year range of ages.

I was born in 65 and very strongly identify with Gen X. My folks were born just before the start of the baby boom, I just missed it but those people are definitely a different cohort.

yeah i’m born 67 and gen x is quite accurate as to norms imo.

Born in 1970, pretty much horrified by how most of the rest of early GenX acts.

Those are residual Boomers.

That's right.

I'm a '69 Gen Xer and I was in denial about most of my cohort for a long time because of observation bias — the Gen Xers I hung out with weren't listening to Rush Limbaugh every day. But white American males in particular who were in their 20s in the '90s just inhaled all of that "politically incorrect" shit, and that's who they still are.

I dunno, I managed to inhale enough of the 60s and early 70s that I somehow escaped turning into a Reaganite asshole in the 80s (I think). I was still proud to show my kid where we built the shantytown to protest our school's investment in South Africa.

I am very much an elder millennial— I remember payphones, smoking indoors, VHS rewinding machines, waiting for pornography to load on early internet connections, etc. Basically elder millennials are the youngest cohort to really experience and remember the world before widespread internet, is the way I put it.

Pals who were born 92 or later don’t have that experience at all, but they’re still “millennials.”

born in 71 and, along with ned and trayce and unperson and daddino, we are *perfect*

- remember imminent nuclear war being possible*
- was vaguely aware of 70s ~runaway inflation~ but not enough to be endlessly haunted by it like biden/pelosi's cohort
- remember the soviet union/communism in general being an insidious and implacable enemy until it suddenly all fell apart . . . hmm, i wonder about the *other* insidious and implacable enemies
- remember reagan/thatcher
- remember pre-internet and pre-phone
etc.

apologies for star wars tho

(*tbf this is nothing compared to the climate holocaust that awaits today's youth)

also

- remember AIDS

- remember NYC being "fun dangerous" (my life was definitely at risk on at least a few occasions that at the time seemed like easily defused misunderstandings)

this has always struck me as a deeply Gen X board. not sure if things are skewed because i'm a millennial, but i definitely don't have overwhelmingly negative views of Gen X. they seemed like the cool older kids on MTV and Comedy Central when i was growing up. like Jeneane Garofalo and Ween and stuff like that

ilgenxor

The ever-more-heavily populated 50-something thread certainly argues for that. Starting next year, if you go by the 1965 start date, everyone in their 50s will be Gen X. (And the oldest Gen Xers — hello jimbeaux! — will be 60.)

born in 71 and, along with ned and trayce and unperson and daddino, we are *perfect*

for one reason or another, i don’t think any of us have kids. (not that having kids is bad or wrong; just that i’m not sure how common that would be for the ilx0rs of 100 years ago)