Things you started saying ironically but which you've found over time that you now, somewhat dismayingly, actually just plain say

"Howdy"

"Holy crow!"

"Now that I'm old..."

i will affect a mormon accent ironically but lately i've noticed it creeps in sincerely.

how yall doin

almost everything

almost everything

― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Saturday, March 14, 2015 6:01 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it helps that these days I don't speak English outside the house, o/w it would be worse

otoh I think one reason I like speaking other languages so much is that it's all affect & I can be upfront with myself about that. like I get to wear a mask for free.

lol. otm.

"I'm sorry"

Goodness gracious.

And rly any other fake swears I say in front of children

"before i die"

"anyways"

I've fallen and I can't get up

"You wouldn't let it lie!"

Too many lolcatisms e.g. random pluralisation and "halp"

I iz terrible person and it's a good job I'm unlikely to have kids because how would I ever learn 'em to speak proper

I can mostly keep a lid on that at work though tbf (though I did say "help" for barely any reason at work on Friday and then felt self-conscious) whereas I have other spoken tics which are harder to suppress

i think when i started talking out loud to myself it was ironic

"kids these days"

Friggin

"Howdy"

― Guayaquil (eephus!)

Never be ashamed of a "howdy". It's perfect as it stands. Its the greeting we all hope someday to be strong enough to say without a blush or a hint of awkwardness. Just stay away from "howdy, pardner" unless it is your spouse of decades or best friend in the world.

yall

"for the lols", to my shame

this gesture/expression:

http://i.imgur.com/FvvcAAt.jpg

(I don't actually say 'my brain is full of fuck' out loud, but I think it)

"wtf"

saying "bee arr bee" out loud.

I thought I understood this thread at first but then I realized that though I've always had my share of ironic expressions, and though some of them I had started to use in an un-ironic way, I was never dismayed even slightly to do so. I always had a good reason to use them, or the times had changed so much that the expresssion was now neutral. Deliberately low-level expletives such as those that have been listed above, "jeepers creepers" or whatever, have their appropriate places. "Dude", now not so trendy, has places where it fits better than "man", which it has in any case replaced. What's to dismay? You've simply adapted to changing language.

Affectations that have since been awkwardly subsumed into my everyday vocabulary:

g'day mate
y'all
bummer
outrageous (to describe things that are worst mildly disconcerting)
aight (this is particularly concerning)

Listing them like this really makes me sound like a horrible person to be around :( I'm sure there's more too.

Stop it with the false modesty. Using corny expressions is a deliberately sociable thing.

gear

like

i've somehow picked up saying 'jings' in response to surprising information sometimes. i am not a character from the broons btw

A guy at work says "hashtag (relevant word here)" out loud regularly.

"Hashtag boring" etc

If he ever says "hashtag oh em gee" he's dead.

'hashtag gamergate' also grounds for termination

My old driving instructor had a particular way of saying ''Bye', in a wavering nasal Cockney accent which haunts me each time I say it now.

Why does it haunt you

No serious question, again in case y'all missed it or y'all aren't reading the thread before you post: why are you haunted, or, to use the OP's phrase, dismayed, to use these phrases? Because they're OLD? Really? Think it through.

"i love you, son"

"you can place those electrodes on my testicles all you want, i won't say a word"

No serious question, again in case y'all missed it or y'all aren't reading the thread before you post: why are you haunted, or, to use the OP's phrase, dismayed, to use these phrases? Because they're OLD? Really? Think it through.

― Guy on the internet (B'wana Beast), Monday, March 16, 2015 11:23 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because it sounded hilarious and disingenuous, inflected on the uptone rather than going down as if the speaker was surprised that he was having to say it: 'BYE!'. And now when I say it, on the phone or however, I hear it echoed back in my head in the same way, so I wonder if I've accidentally said it in the same tone.

"Baah" as in "Bye" off Dallas used to be a thing, not one of mine though but it was so ingrained with certain people, I often wonder if they still do that.

It's almost as if it's not entirely rational and is primarily a manifestation of one's insecurities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I find myself doing non-ironic air quotes sometimes.

the patron saint of this has to be tommy saxondale

"24/7"

linguistic assimilation itt

"ayo"

unfortunately, "namaste"

"I'm too old for this shit"

"he peaced out of there"

"Baah" as in "Bye" off Dallas used to be a thing, not one of mine though but it was so ingrained with certain people, I often wonder if they still do that.

― Mark G, Monday, March 16, 2015 6:41 AM (14 hours ago)

oh maybe THAT'S why my dad says it like that

oh my god, i forgot, i now say "cheers" to people sometimes upon my departure, when did i start saying that not-kidding?

i think when i started talking out loud to myself it was ironic

― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2015 21:24 (3 days ago) Permalink

the first time I used the word "unironic" I was probably being ironic but these days I don't even know dude

A guy at work says "hashtag (relevant word here)" out loud regularly.

"Hashtag boring" etc

― StanM, Monday, March 16, 2015 10:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"he peaced out of there"

― mh, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I could see myself saying it again these days--it's not a bad phrase, just one I overdid for a while

*: I'm not 100% sure, but I think this self-consciousness was tied to an observation or perception that I was making disproportionate use of slang expressions, "peace out" among them, when addressing PoC.

are you a surfer bro

"Dude"

calling people jerks

xxp no im a chill stoner bro. also used to say "tryna" a lot (as in "you tryna go to the show tonight?")

B)

lately I've been really into calling ppl "twerps" in my internal monologue, though i don't think I've dared to speak it aloud yet

*annoying ppl, I should specify

Goodness gracious.

― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, March 14, 2015 3:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a girl at work was overheard muttering 'oh... balls' to herself in a strong estuary accent while on the computer. this turned into a bit of an in-joke/office meme, but now i find myself saying it automatically any time something a bit crap happens.

internet abbreviations iirc

and also statements of personal preference with the personal pronoun omitted ("feel like we're overdue for another Grizzly Bear album" "not really liking the latest Knausgaard"). I complained about it on ilx and now I can't stop doing it.

(haven't even read Knausgaard and not sure if I want to tbph)

"I hope you die"