And yea apologies I just realized I’m definitely the one that brought up “nonplussed” itt p recently
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Seems to me that “happy new years” incorporates the elision so well-beloved by North Americans with the confusion and imprecision so well-beloved by humans everywhere, where the "day" in "happy New Year's Day" gets chopped off and the stump, "happy New Year's" is conflated with the more general greeting, "happy New Year" often used on days that are near to, but not, January 1st.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
"unctuous" is unusual in that it's the reanimation of a medieval sense otherwise lost to cynicism: it was once a positive word, in culinary and in religious terms. in the ritual or religious sense, "unction" still maintains some of sense of the approval -- the anointment of the monarch or of the dying -- tho (this is where the cynicism comes in) the adjective seems to have become more associated with fake piety a loooong time ago
basically the problem for chefs is that they very much need a word for the approving quality, but all the ones to hand have gone negative on them: "it's really oily! but in a good way!"
― mark s, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development
Would that mean twice as many birthday presents?
― jmm, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
I think the downfall of unctuous as a positive word was when it was extended to describe a slick, flattering "oily" personality.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
i like it as a culinary term, it has good mouthfeel
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Plussed, that great term we all use
Also language evolves
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
omg...
― flappy bird, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Where it all went wrong for nonplus was in the verbing. “Reduced to a nonplus” much less likely to be, uh, confused
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
“happy new years”, unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development
Now that is lol Americans.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
figured it was an apostrophe as in "Happy New Year's..." as in "Happy New Year's Eve"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
still shit
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
nobody says “merry christ”
it's already an elision of Christ's Mass
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
“merry mass” would make more sense then
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
"data detox"
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
oof haven't heard that one yet, my sympathies
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
all the data ones are bad
― marcos, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
"data wrangler"
ffs
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
big databig agbig pharmabig oilbig tobacco
― marcos, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
big hair
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
"normies"
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
failson
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
3 days behind
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
oooo word, well it bears repeating
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
seems antithetical
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
lol ok otm
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
idk
Seems kinda like there could be a hiatus on dudes/bros for a while when used as short
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
hand for dislike of men
idk tho
phantom submit there dudes btw
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
a balmy _____ degrees
― marcos, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Glamping.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 8 January 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Nicknames for Donald Trump
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
45 scoops of cheetos
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Truth bomb.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
lame trump nicknames should be a given at this point
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
1/2 term, two scoops, Drumpf, 45, Tr*mp, Cheetos and variations... grow the fuck up. is it really that hard to deal with? it's been a year
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
Trump l'Oily
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
Have u been here a year? Time flies
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
i am not donald trump
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
buckle in for 3-7 more years of people saying "pee tape" daily
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
oh hell yeah
that one really confuses me because the dossier does not say that trump got peed on or wanted to get peed on. he wanted the prostitutes to pee on the bed that obama slept in. yet everyone that says pee tape, they think it's a tape of trump being peed on or even peeing on the bed himself? no. wtf? how did this happen
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Chinese Pisspers
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
"pedagogy" where "teaching" would be simpler and clearer. pedagogy has a use obv but i feel like it's used too often to add unneeded weight
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah and when you step back from this for a moment, it's like DEEPLY insignificant other than just being Exh. 82036691 in the case that Trump is kind of a dick. Yet people are like "OOOOH PLEASE LET THIS NEW REVELATION BE CONFIRMATION OF THE PEE TAPE THAT WOULD BE THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT!" Supports my theory that a lot of Russiagaters are just the "oooh he said a bad word!" kid grown up.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
Similarly, I always felt that the extreme obsession with the "grab her by the pussy" quote was about more than just sexual assault and betrayed a fascination with the sordid and juvenile, even though it's certainly also about sexual assault.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
people are fascinated by sordid revelations about famous people. News at eleven
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
a lot of Russiagaters are just the "oooh he said a bad word!" kid grown up
I don't disagree. And clearly the pro-Trump contingent is all like, "I lofe that Trump drives the pearl-clutching libs and the 'civilized' political profession crazy." So every time we appear to be merely clutching pearls, we do play into those people's hands to an extent. "Yeah! He's upsetting the swamp dwellers, and that's exactly why we voted for him! NO, it's 'not normal,' he's shaking up the conventional orthodoxies that have gotten us nowhere." Etc.
BUT, I'm also so opposed to him that I don't care what it is that gums up the works and/or takes him down. Russia, Rwanda, Rhode Island, whatever. Any and all ammunition to hand.
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
I'm immediately exhausted and awkward whenever anyone wants to talk about how amazing the Baldwin impressions are, or some other late night talk show joke about him- to the point I worry people might think I'm a Trump supporter. It's more that the those things make too much light of the whole situation and it feels as shallow as anything his supporters/GOP latch onto that's aimed in the opposite direction. Both too petty and too lighthearted. Only Vic Berger can effectively capture the horror show in the way I see it, by pinpointing the idiocy/ridiculousness and amplifying it. And Tim Heidecker's character in On Cinema & Decker is mostly a perfect portrayal of that exact kind of delusional asshole but in a setting that is more believable than the real life one Trump somehow occupies, without being the typical OMG Trump Impression LOL get rekt 800 million views
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
trump broke ilx :(
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link