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

-- caitlin (wpsal...) (webmail), December 23rd, 2003. (caitlin)

Oh yes, yes yes. I second that one. And the people who say it, say it over and over.

I also have a horror of people who write prolifically in all caps.

This is true.

But, this is a topic that should be dealt with routinely and harshly... the only way we can correct the language and suppress it's organic growth is by exposing and banning every new usage as it occurs... Isn't that what the French do?

Also: 'fridge,' girls who refer to each other as 'girl,' proactive...i'll be back when i think of more....

'poetic justice'. Used by the lazy to describe all 'justice' the speaker approves of, instead of a particular type. The adjective is rendered meaningless.

Agree re 'bird' for woman/girl, and lament its threatened return. Stinks of 'I'm being un-PC, where's my medal?'. Also the C-person uses it, which kinda ends the argument.

Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?

I'm picturing him saying things such as "Would you like me to remove another beverage from the refrigerator for you, whilst we watch some association football?"

As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form

When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?

Or a colon.

COINKY-DINK, "guestimate," and any time someone ends an interrogative sentence with "at," as in "Where's my keys at?" or "Where's your head at?"

"hating on"

"Action" used as a verb. (Especially with regards to some annoying little thing I had already been doing.) "Can you please action this?" Actually, no I can't. Action is a noun. If you would like me to DO it, then just ask. Argh.

Especially when coming from the same irritating marketing bods who last week asked me to "manage the relationship" with one of our suppliers. Fuck. Right. Off.

A term of address directed at Turkish shopkeepers by 13 year old boys and directed by Turkish shopkeepers at everyone else. The most annoying ever.

DON'T MADAM ME, YOU LITTLE...!!! OK, according to Watching The English, this means that they have socio-status assessed me as middle class or higher. But it irritates me because it makes me feel old.

I used to really hate the term “apps” to refer to appetizers, but I have come to accept it. I still reflexively think of the scene in “The Thick of It” where the Tory minister has to say “I call app Britain” and his obvious annoyance at it

https://y.yarn.co/8278afd4-3549-4980-8d55-4f30bd4b82db_text.gif

imo, the creation and use of diminutives should remain in the exclusive domain of Australians. Doesn’t feel right any other way. Get your own culture, ya know?

Liverpool might say the Australians are the thieves here.

xps gif notwithstanding, no Aussie would call them fckn “sandos” unless trying to pretend their cafe is a konbini. For starters it would cause massive confusion with the Sandringham Hotel in Melbourne. Which IS the Sando.

Sarnies are ok in the bacon usage. Doesn’t work with cheese, peanut butter or other fillings, but bacon sarnies are ok.

Where I come from, they call big sandwiches "grinders", so it can always be worse.

Grinders are fine …

Grinders
Hungry for meat

I guess if we really want to be technical, they're "grindahs"

What's up with the "fish" in "tuna fish sandwich"?

possibly related: beef brain instead of cow brain

xposts - when I was in HS I worked at a clothing shop with an older girl who liked to tell me about her hookups. She was from somewhere in New England where subs are called grinders but I had never heard that before so was v v confused when she described someone as having a d like a grindah. Only figured it out years later when I moved to Boston.

Lol when Grinder the app came out, my first thought was grindah size d

Ahhh please drown me right this minute

But her rant backfired when she was deluged with criticism. She has now turned the comments off underneath the Instagram video.

'When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening,' Ms May said.

'creators' is bad enough, but 'non-creators'?? KILL ME PLEASE

The GOAT

So sick of this one

baahhh

one of my writer friends lamented that he had to add an explainer to a sports-theme comic she had written because nobody remembered the original meaning of "goat" in sports, meaning the person who fucked up and is ostracized for their mistake, so people who read it kept asking why Garo Yepremian was the greatest of all time for throwing an interception that lead to another team's touchdown.

Garo kind of exemplifies both meanings of goat. One kind when he “threw” (being generous) that interception but on the positive side he was a crucial piece of a GOAT team, and markedly ahead of his time as an early soccer-style kicker.

Having said that, I don’t like the new meaning of GOAT either, it’s just obnoxious. I think Muhammad Ali popularized the phrase in the ‘70s but it was more humorous the way he utilized it.

https://preview.redd.it/invest-in-professor-calculus-who-is-acting-the-goat-v0-5opcp92zobja1.jpg

It sucks because it’s often used by people with pretty basic taste about obvious middlebrow exemplars.

goat talk is the worst

meh

The GOATSE

(Greatest Of All Time Says Everyone)

the worst though is calling someone "a" goat; similar to how the word unique can't be modified, you can only be "the" goat in a particular field, by definition. but does that stop these basic motherfuckers no

Words, usages, and phrases that really get your goat

it's baaaaa-ad

I'm glad this was brought up since I too remember "goat" being a bad thing in sports, or at least seeing something where it was used that way

No point bleating about it though.

Reminder of the level of competition for GOAT:

Goat on roof 'only respects one man'

So, "goat" means he's "bad"..

the other thing is that sports GOAT arguments are really boring especially since you're often comparing guys who played in totally different eras since a totally different set of players. you can just say whatever you want.

yeah during football season FB kept suggesting these groups where people were basically taking two players, posting their stat sheet from this stat app that allows side by side comparisons, and writing SEE, XXX IS BETTER...

and one guy would be a QB from the 80s and the other would be like, Josh Allen.

I really don’t like seeing the word “re-sent” when the dash is left out, it causes undue alarm initially

“no problem, I just resent it”

Maybe I've lowkey had it with lowkey now

Why does it lowkey feel like nobody has a Dalmatian anymore

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