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

unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development

Would that mean twice as many birthday presents?

I think the downfall of unctuous as a positive word was when it was extended to describe a slick, flattering "oily" personality.

i like it as a culinary term, it has good mouthfeel

Plussed, that great term we all use

Also language evolves

omg...

Where it all went wrong for nonplus was in the verbing. “Reduced to a nonplus” much less likely to be, uh, confused

“happy new years”, unless it’s become 2018 and 2019 and i missed a key development

Now that is lol Americans.

figured it was an apostrophe as in "Happy New Year's..." as in "Happy New Year's Eve"

still shit

nobody says “merry christ”

it's already an elision of Christ's Mass

“merry mass” would make more sense then

"data detox"

oof haven't heard that one yet, my sympathies

all the data ones are bad

"data wrangler"

ffs

big data
big ag
big pharma
big oil
big tobacco

big hair

"normies"

failson

3 days behind

oooo word, well it bears repeating

seems antithetical

lol ok otm

idk

Seems kinda like there could be a hiatus on dudes/bros for a while when used as short

hand for dislike of men

idk tho

phantom submit there dudes btw

a balmy _____ degrees

Glamping.

Nicknames for Donald Trump

45 scoops of cheetos

Truth bomb.

lame trump nicknames should be a given at this point

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

Trump l'Oily

Have u been here a year? Time flies

i am not donald trump

buckle in for 3-7 more years of people saying "pee tape" daily

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

Chinese Pisspers

"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

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, 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.

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.

people are fascinated by sordid revelations about famous people. News at eleven

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.

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

trump broke ilx :(

maybe four years off would do us all some good, we could come back refreshed with bold new zings, a great repository of saved-up petty complaints about life in the end times, and ready to poll everything all over again.

“Veg” (for “vegetables”; “to veg out” is fine)
“Kit” as in “a good piece of kit”

Hate both of these BrEisms.

AAVE-originating slang when deprived of all meaning by white ppl and brands.

“Punch up” is now a thought-terminating cliche and sounds childish.

I remember when it was something you did to scripts