― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― barbara wintergreen, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ermes marana, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, huh? Fridge is the thing you put food in, whats wrong with it?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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?"
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
As used to describe a footballer running into a streak of good form
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelf)xxx, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
When used in phrases like "a raft of policies" or "a raft of new measures" - why?!?!??!!?
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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?"
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
"hating on"
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
"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.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
'Whilst'
― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
"AARRGGHHH!!! I certainly hope it will be taking off longer than that - we're flying to London!"
― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
"No can do"
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― estela (estela), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
'If I can just ask you to power off your machine'.
What's wrong with switch off?
― Rumpie, Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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").
― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Add that to my list, please.
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I hate that, too. I usually tend to say "colloquial" instead, if it fits.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
What sends me apoplectic is THEY'RE NOT SAYING 1999 WHAT!!?!?!!
"This beautiful sofa, only eight four nine."
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
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".
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:21 (one week ago) link
It's just nice to see that the singer for Kajagoogoo is still the talk of the town.
the neverending usaaaaage
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:16 (one week ago) link
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?"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:43 (one week ago) link
This post resonates with me (I do not resonate with it): https://annehelen.substack.com/p/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:44 (one week ago) link
"Do you like this post? Are you already thinking of all the people you want to forward it to and debate it with? Consider Subscribing! Support the things THAT RESONATE WITH YOU"
Heh
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:18 (one week ago) link
speaking of xennials...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/magazine/singles-rom-com.html
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:52 (one week ago) link
Steward / stewardship … it alternately makes me think of the Dickies song “if stewart could talk” or flight attendants…or the Love Boat … I don’t hate it, it is just annoying because the meanings in my head are so unrelated to the intended meaning
― sarahell, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:29 (six days ago) link
Since I read that thing about resonating I have heard three separate people (in two different states/time zones) say they resonate with xyz
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:24 (six days ago) link
tbf I know he can be a bit abrasive at times but he's often otm
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:28 (six days ago) link
just after seeing thread i was walking near my teen’s blaring blabbering phone i immed noticed a woman saying “…MADE SO THAT IT RESONATES WITH U AND…” so yeahtoday’s vibes
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 April 2024 15:05 (six days ago) link
"source of truth"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 April 2024 17:14 (six days ago) link
Got a "welcome in" from a doctor the other day.
― jaymc, Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:11 (six days ago) link
I’m even a fan of “I appreciate you” because it’s not a referendum am I good y/n it’s an appreciation.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglinkI have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 6:20 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I love “I appreciate you.” This is the worst fucking thread. :-(
― brimstead, Monday, October 30, 2023 6:54 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think I have ever heard "I appreciate you" outside the southern U.S., but I am a fan.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:03 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have, and it’s a perfectly nice thing to say.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, October 30, 2023 7:09 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I appreciate you has begun to make inroads at my workplace in the past few months. I enjoy seeing it written to me in an email, but it feels so intimate that I'm uncomfortable writing or saying it myself. I've definitely told colleagues, "I appreciate it," or the more casual "Much appreciated." I hadn't thought too deeply about those before now, but in the light of I appreciate you, they do seem to put a little distance between the speaker and the receiver. So, I'm a fan, but it doesn't feel natural enough for me to say yet.
― peace, man, Monday, 22 April 2024 11:46 (four days ago) link
its stilted to my ears, i couldnt see where id ever hear it or use it where it wouldnt come out as a bit....much
but its a game of opinions and we are all using these phrases in very different contexts
people who take issue with the less formal versions of any such sentiment are a little weird tho i think
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 April 2024 11:51 (four days ago) link