And then there is “service the members” …
― sarahell, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:12 (five months ago) link
"Why isn't there a thread about (_________)?" thread titles
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Monday, 8 April 2024 23:36 (five months ago) link
Lol what
Someone sent me a cold email proposing a novel project. Then I noticed it used the word "delve."— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 7, 2024
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:08 (five months ago) link
"Can't wait" has started to annoy the shit out of me. Especially in its first person plural form."We can't wait to see all you lovely people for what promises to be a very special night." "Guess what, it's nearly Easter and we can't wait to show you our special Easter menu!"
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:32 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xICOc13wk
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:42 (five months ago) link
In the speciality corner "Abbreviations that annoy the shit out of you", I've just realised that a common denominator for me might be abbreviating a word to end on an "O". Don't like "mayo", don't like "Glasto".
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:53 (five months ago) link
Avo
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:54 (five months ago) link
I blame Australians.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 April 2024 21:58 (five months ago) link
Yeah, but I don't mind it if it's added to a word that didn't have an o in the first place. Arvo? Smoko? Go for it.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:09 (five months ago) link
I know afternoon has is in it but I mean it hasn't been truncated at one of them. Afterno.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:10 (five months ago) link
'sunnies' for sunglasses
Pretty sure 'selfie' originated in Australia
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:16 (five months ago) link
i also find these cutesy truncations annoying, except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 April 2024 19:05 (five months ago) link
I can't go a day without encountering the word "liminal" and it drives me nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 15:13 (five months ago) link
That's a great word!
― beard papa, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:37 (five months ago) link
I like it, aesthetically, but I'm pretty tired of encountering it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:39 (five months ago) link
Yeah "liminal" is a word that all of a sudden i started seeing every day.
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (five months ago) link
i just played superliminal last week for the first time and i loved it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:41 (five months ago) link
i wonder if it's related to everybody being a "switch" nowadays ;)
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:44 (five months ago) link
Liminal became an aesthetic identity. It always happens to the best words.
― Jeff, Sunday, 14 April 2024 16:45 (five months ago) link
It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:38 (five months ago) link
Umm, he was actually the bass player
― Andy the Grasshopper, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:40 (five months ago) link
Ha i was thinking earlier this week how liminal has been ruined
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:23 (five months ago) link
and 'liminal space' in particular. which doesn't have any good synonyms but now means the creepypasta thing where everything looks like the video to one of moby's ambient tunes
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:25 (five months ago) link
except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little funIt kills me when people say this, as I stare out the window after a week of miserable pissy drizzle and 14C days, th weak watery autumn sun trying its best on grey Melbourne cobbles.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:52 (five months ago) link
i was purely joking, sounds like you do deserve a little fun though!
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:02 (five months ago) link
“liminal space” synonym is “the backrooms” according to the kids iirc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:38 (five months ago) link
^ yes
I kept getting backrooms stuff on Tik Tok and had to figure out wtf it was supposed to be.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:46 (five months ago) link
The what? What’s the back rooms?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:55 (five months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 15 April 2024 12:57 (five months ago) link
John cale to thread
― subpost master (wins), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:00 (five months ago) link
Ah OK like Severance
― kinder, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:42 (five months ago) link
Doesn't annoy me that much except when watching US State Department press conferences (like right now) where absolutely everybody says it every minute or so: "speaks to" instead of "speaks about" or "speaks of".
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:21 (five months ago) link
the neverending usaaaaage
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:16 (five months ago) link
based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:43 (five months ago) link
This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:44 (five months ago) link
"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"
Heh
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:18 (five months ago) link
speaking of xennials...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:52 (five months ago) link
Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:29 (five months ago) link
Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:24 (five months ago) link
tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:28 (five months ago) link
just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeahtoday’s vibes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 April 2024 15:05 (five months ago) link
"source of truth"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 April 2024 17:14 (five months ago) link
Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(
― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.
― peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 11:46 (five months ago) link
its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much
but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts
people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 11:51 (five months ago) link
"sando" for sandwich
― pj, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:28 (four months ago) link
is that an australianism?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:31 (four months ago) link
Japanese-ism
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:33 (four months ago) link
Yeah, and it's a term I only recently came across — an Asian fusion food cart that I buy from sells three different "sandos" (pork, chicken, and fish), and they're all good but that term is very annoying.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:46 (four months ago) link
TBF "sando" the word is Japanese so kinda doesnt count here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:49 (four months ago) link