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I like this usage of dope, 1. a varnish applied to the fabric surface of model aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
-a thick liquid used as a lubricant.

JacobSanders, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I think it's probably the fumes from that usage that led to the druggy one!

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link

I mean airplane glue, that's like synonymous with huffing, isn't it?

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha! I never really thought you could get high from glue, just a headache? My grandmother has told me for many years, "As long are you aren't smoking that Dope!" I have no idea if she differentiates between any drugs in her mind, I think it's all just dope.

JacobSanders, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Yes, "dope" has bothered me for years. If nothing else it feel very dated at this point.

(see above post about "dope beats". Also see other usages of "dopeness".)

EDB, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't know about high, but I do love the smell of solvents. I think part of the feeling you're supposed to get from them is simple oxygen deprivation?? Which somehow sounds more stupid and dangerous than all the other really dangerous drugs out there.

go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

story about when they took their friend to a moodymann show and she stayed for about a minute and then turned round with a disgusted look and said "beats" in a contemptuous way and I always hear 'beats' that way now

ha ha im with you on this. there are exceptions but 'beats' is mostly used by the music-as-art types of the dance world and urrgh

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link

many many americaniSations fuck me off, but there's a special place in my gut for broil. such an ugly and part-confusing word, makes me think of boiling an old grey gran bra in a big pot with some overdone brocolli, and you stick your food in that - that's broiling.

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link

"Hey Abe, I've invented a new way of cooking."
"What, is it like submerging a piece of food in boiling water?"
"No no, nothing like that, this involves external heat from above."
"Oh ok, nothing like boiling then?"
"Nope, nothing like that. What shall we call this technique?"
"Hmm, how's about BROIL, that won't be confusing at all."
"WINNER"

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

It's like saying I'm going for a WRALK when I'm actually going hangliding.

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link

@JacobSaunders & Laurel - you can definitely get high off of certain types of strong glue, for example the stuff they use to put rearview mirrors back on cars in auto body shops. It's definitely stupid and dangerous.

kkvgz, Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link

"many many americaniSations fuck me off"

Yeah, man-we're not too happy about your perversions of the language either, i dont care that you invented it. Go stick that lorry up your ass.

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link

^ irony

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

tee hee

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link

FLAVORFUL

Reminds me of this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-tries-indian-food,2472/
but it annoyed me even before that.

Not the real Village People, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link

definitely, that and 'cooked to perfection'. who judges perfection? you? YOUR magical lofty tastebuds? get to fuck

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Etymology of "broil"

From Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”) and Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of Old French bruir (“to burn”), of Germanic origin; and Old French usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulāre (“to scorch”).

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Thursday, 31 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link

"galore"

corey, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

galoshes
panties
smorgasbord
cum

Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost aha so it was our fault after all! yup us guys came up with right shite back then, "ben borenn i þiss middellærd" and all that.. surely only a nation of numbnuts would hear that sort of tat and think 'ooh nice, lets keep this one'!

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link

obvious i know, but any true list of annoying words wouldn't be complete without:

eggplant
zucchini
'erbs

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link

'ERBS

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link

punishable by death imo

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link

what's the reasoning behind dropping that H? i understand herb is a more common guy's name in america but jimmy doesn't seem to have a problem with it, what's herbs big problem

NI, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link

some people like to grow 'erbs indoors.

estela, Friday, 1 April 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link

haw

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9Wcy88Np4

NI, Friday, 1 April 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link

'webinar'

did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Friday, 1 April 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link

'wankinar' morelike

You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2011 10:45 (thirteen years ago) link

christ, I've taken so many webinars in the last two years that it dowsn't even phase me anymore. I need a new job.

kkvgz, Friday, 1 April 2011 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Any corporation that brags about its "core competencies" is always incompetent. If they weren't so boneheadedly incompetent, they'd speak of their "strengths", not something as ingratiating and obfuscating as "core competencies".

Lee626, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

― nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 01:29 (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Wait, what? As in US = "feelay" and UK = "fill it"?

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

filet = fil-LAY

fillet = FILL-it

two different words, ain't they?

tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't bear it when wiseacres pronounce "restaurant" without sounding the "t" on the end.

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh we've done this we've done this!!

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Err nothing was actually decided, I don't think, except that the English hate the French.

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link

SOmeone like Stephen Fry would say "restauran" and it just stinks of pretentiousness: "It's a French word, don't you know?". Yes, I'm aware of this but we've been using this word for a very long time indeed and I think we're at a point where we can start pronouncing it as spelled.

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Gordon Ramsay's seemingly unique pronunciation of the word "restaurant" is seriously one of the most irritating things on British television.

Venga, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link

filet = fil-LAY

fillet = FILL-it

two different words, ain't they?

Not necessarily.

filet (ˈfɪlɪt, ˈfɪleɪ, French filɛ)

— n fillet fillet a variant spelling of fillet

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Anyway, yes, in the U.S. it's fi-LAY mignon and McDonald's serves Fi-LAY O' Fish.

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link

When I was a waiter, the English and Australian guests said "FILL-et" (or FILL-it, not sure which). (And b/c the filet mignon was listed on the menus as only "Filet," they sometimes asked "Filet of what?"

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link

I'd say fi-LAY mignon, but fill-it o'fish.

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

for the same reason i don't go round asking mcdonalds staff for filay au poisson.

ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

oh okay i was thinking of fillet as in:

2. a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.

this usage is always pronounced 'FILL-et' afaik

tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Firefox doesn't thinks it should always be spelled "fillet."

But then again, Firefox alerts me that "women's" is a typo, too.

nobody wants my Diva Cup ;_; (Jesse), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah it hates "women's" and "children's".

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link

what about 'it's a steep learning curve' to describe a task that is hard to pick up? Now, if time is on the Y axis and competence is on the X-axis, as is the convention, then a steep curve indicates a job that is picked up very quickly. It's a _shallow_ curve that indicates difficulty. Perhaps people have the mental picture of a steep curve being hard to climb.

friend of mine had this to say: steep learning curve - nothing to do with time, all about the amount you get better at something (x) compared to the amount of effort required (y).

NI, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link

yes.

dog latin when referring to the large down-filled bed covering do you say "DOO-vett"?

40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

when you catch a fish do you fillet it? (fill it it)

★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link


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