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
"Sanga" is the Australianism.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:03 (four months ago) link
― reggae mike love (polyphonic)
Useful jargon with a specific meaning sorry
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:24 (four months ago) link
sanger wokkas mate
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:52 (four months ago) link
yeah nah
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:28 (four months ago) link
What about "sarnie"?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 08:56 (four months ago) link
also bad
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:07 (four months ago) link
V bad.
Just call it a damn sandwhich. Cutesy nicknames that aren't any shorter drive me nuts. Brekkie, Crimbo, sunnies etc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:19 (four months ago) link
we had a place here that went the other way and it was worse - 'wiches
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:30 (four months ago) link
Americans often use the vile ‘sammiches’, so nobody is covering themselves in glory here.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 2 May 2024 09:49 (four months ago) link
Never heard either of those thankfully.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:05 (four months ago) link
I don't mind "resonates".
It's a shorthand way of saying "that thing you've just described is really meaningful to me, but it would probably be too boring and unrelatable to explain, so I'm just going to say 'resonates'"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:22 (four months ago) link
The word "resonate" itself isn't the issue, it's saying "I resonate with x" instead of "x resonates with me."
― jaymc, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:51 (four months ago) link
'i resonate with x' makes more logical sense to me. i'm the one reacting, the x isn't doing anything.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:14 (four months ago) link
following the logic of the analogy it does make more sense for the object to resonate than the subject
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:24 (four months ago) link
Agree with J - "i resonate with x" sounds very strange to me the same way that it sounds weird to me when people here say "you suit green" rather than "green suits you".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:26 (four months ago) link
I resonate with sarnies.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:37 (four months ago) link
._.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:40 (four months ago) link
I have gotten used to it but I still will sometimes think of it literally… like sandwiches causing the speaker’s voice to become an operatic vibrato
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:43 (four months ago) link
I definitely don’t say it… it also sometimes makes me think of vibrators and like the person getting off sexually on the inspirational meme about collective farming
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:47 (four months ago) link