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

unpack

bury this word, it just shows a lack of imagination

;_;

when i get home from my vacation i will... remove my clothes and other belongings from my baggage and put them back where they belong or wash or dryclean them as i see fit. whew

"breaking down" when used to talk about artists "breaking down" i.e. saying one PR-approved sentence about each song on a record

that's how I break it down to an extent

(to clarify, this is not subtweeting anything in particular, this has been a pet peeve of mine for at least two years)

what the fuck would “rational anger” even be, that doesn’t make sense

Ive always taken that to mean "justified anger" as opposed to "I am getting het up about this stupid thing not worth getting angry about like the colour of this guys tie".

not even

plenty of anger is perfectly rational

any variation on "she is / he is / they are my favorite human"

ugh, yes^^^

complaint about general phenomenon I'M LOOKING AT YOU specific example

"activations": I guess this is a jargon that marketing people use when talking to other marketing people, but now they've begun using it when they attempt to talk to real people.

Email from the Brooklyn Museum: "a roster of not-to-be-missed exhibitions and artist activations."

Email from the U.S. Open: "a fan experience enhancement available for all U.S. Open patrons. It allows fans streamlined access to various activities and activation points around the grounds."

barf, that's bad. in particular it sounds very video gamey and thus infantilizing, like, you can't just engage with art or whatever, you're going to be activating special locations and unlocking achievements! pokemon go as life.

"reminder that"

"here's your regular reminder that"

"A reminder:"

just say what you want to say goddamn it

otm

"gentle reminder"

"my son"

"who is she"

"mercury is in retrograde"

"Outlier", which means "it's the 21st Century and weak generalizations are what righteous people use to speak eternal truths."

The periodic reminder people are awful and will rarely even commit to their awfulness enough to actually post their reminders on a regular basis 👎

That post was just an outlier.

no i happily use reminder/gentle reminder to point out THEY HAVE NOT RESPONDED. customers need a boot sometimes.

Ugh, the variation I always hear is "friendly reminder". It's probably not that friendly if you have to point out that it is.

Same deal with "I kindly ask" -- how great-minded of you to recognize your own kindness.

Polite notice is part of this family of expressions.

Haha the Facebook “memories” feature just showed me that 2 years ago today I posted a status that started “quick reminder” oops

"you deserve..."
or
"you deserve to be..."

I guess mostly when it's something good, like happiness or love.

"TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE"

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:35 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously, what is going on with the poxy fulishness today?

Setting myself up here, but it really bugs me when you are being argumentative or negative and somebody responds with "I hear you," which is clearly a phrase they have been trained to use to respectfully acknowledge their debate partner without conceding any points while at the same time trying to shut it down.

I like "I hear you" and there is a need for similar expressions bc lots of ppl don't know when they've made their point

"You've made your point" being somehow incomprehensible?

"you deserve..."
or
"you deserve to be..."

Josh, I know what you're saying.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/22/07/donald-trump-florida-listening-session-cheat-sheet.jpg

"you've made your point" is blunt and unsympathetic

I hear you.

sometimes passive aggression is the only tool left in the box :(

what is this?

"my son"

"who is she"

??

"I hear you" is passive-aggressive and fake sympathetic.

what? no. this is extremely context-dependent. most times i've used it and heard it used it is part of trying to communicate in an empathetic and constructive way. versus "you've made your point" which is almost always hostile and precedes "so shut up" or the equivalent.

"I see your point" is better than either of those 2, no?

p sure any formulation of "i entirely understand but i entirely disagree" can be delivered in asshole and non-asshole fashion, and can be misheard one as the other also

it can be "yes but" or "yes and" as well ofc

Agree to disagree
I hate this as well, for reasons previously stated but also because it's redundant. I mean, do we have any other choice?

let's agree to, to, that i am completely right and you are completely wrong

other choice would be to keep on trying to get the other person to agree with you

Let’s agree to disagree: dick move on the part of someone with more power who can’t justify themselves but can have their way regardless.

“Thanking you” bothers me (when said in person), which is bad of me because the people who say it are usually very nice. It just feels like a commentary on an action rather than a thankyou. But given it tends to come up during retail transactions I’m not sure a sincere ‘thankyou’ is called for.

I know this is me vs USA but I cannot abide grown adults using the terms "poop" and "pooping". It's like excusing yourself from a work meeting because you wanna go wee-wee.

"lets agree to disagree" often just a useful reminder that actual engagement in disagreement is 95% sophomoric performance and lunch is pending

sometimes tho it's a weaselly way to sneak out of an argument that isn't going your way