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

'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.

'Whilst'

"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"

"No can do"

'If I can just ask you to power off your machine'.

What's wrong with switch off?

The word "proverbial" when overused or when not referencing a proverb but an idiom or cliche. (Correct: "Let's not count our proverbial chickens just yet." Incorrect: "I'm having a proverbial bad hair day.")

Redundancy in general.

Word inflation (i.e. "efficacious" for "effective" or "efficient").

Add that to my list, please.

Ha i was thinking earlier this week how liminal has been ruined

and 'liminal space' in particular. which doesn't have any good synonyms but now means the creepypasta thing where everything looks like the video to one of moby's ambient tunes

except when australians do it! idk why. it just seems so hot and dusty over there they deserve a little fun
It kills me when people say this, as I stare out the window after a week of miserable pissy drizzle and 14C days, th weak watery autumn sun trying its best on grey Melbourne cobbles.

i was purely joking, sounds like you do deserve a little fun though!

“liminal space” synonym is “the backrooms” according to the kids iirc

^ yes

I kept getting backrooms stuff on Tik Tok and had to figure out wtf it was supposed to be.

The what? What’s the back rooms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

John cale to thread

Ah OK like Severance

Doesn't annoy me that much except when watching US State Department press conferences (like right now) where absolutely everybody says it every minute or so: "speaks to" instead of "speaks about" or "speaks of".

It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.

the neverending usaaaaage

based on that wikipedia article, I'd identify that backrooms stuff as just yer basic "objective correlative" for a particular kind of dread that has been showing up in post-armageddon films and stories for half a century at least. otherwise known as "here's the church and here's the steeple, open the doors, where are all the people?"

This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard

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Heh

speaking of xennials...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html