Evan - there's chuckling at the boorishness in our spare time, and regarding it .
Hah, he can't spell, his hair looks ridic, he eats shitty food, Bannon wears multiple shirts, covfefe, Diet Coke.
If the #resistance began and ended there, that would be one thing, and it would be pretty weak-ass.
The thing is that most decent people are ALSO horrified about "tax reform," Dreamer shenanigans, travel ban, relaxed environmental regulations, poking North Korea with a stick, and defending Nazis. I mean, I feel like we CAN mostly walk and chew gum.
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Well I'm not actually angry at anyone for wanted to joke about the situation in that way, it's just that it feels so insufficient and easy that I end up having no patience.
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
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
We've had plenty of crude and profane presidents. Both LBJ and Nixon loved crudity. But this was on a different level than mere crudity. There was (and continues to be) an element of shock and incredulity that a man capable of casually bragging about assaulting women was a major party nominee for president. Among the thousand awful or inane things he's said or done in the past 20 months, this still stands out as one of the ugliest of his self-indictments.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
this still stands out as one of the ugliest of his self-indictments
Not just an indictment of him himself, but also of everyone who yawned and said "oh, that's just boastful locker-room banter" and voted for the fucker anyway. Because, y'know, her emails.
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
omg you just said "her emails" on the words, usages and phrases that annoy you thread
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
lol
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
"I moved on her like a bitch" was the sleeper hit of that tape, in that it makes no sense... what does that mean?
Evan I feel the same way about people in the Trump & GWB admin being 'rehabilitated' in the eyes of the public. the most egregious example being Sean Spicer at the Emmy's. larfing about GWB being a clown is not as maddening bc that's just the way time works, people forget easily, but damn, Scaramucci on CNN? Spicer at the Emmy's? totally baffling
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
"Self-reflection."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
third wheel
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 11 January 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
sorry not sorry
― © louis jagger/richards (Pillbox), Thursday, 11 January 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
^otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
"Gravity always wins"
Is this ever more than a meaningless expression where banal poetics are meant to invoke an ostensible poignancy?
'See also ppl thinking "craven" means shameless"
Thank you! I've recently had to look it up to make sure I was using it correctly.
― ed.b, Thursday, 11 January 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
Narrator:
― Mordy, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
Gravity just confuses me
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:24 (six years ago) link
any attempt to spin anything donald trump says into a pun or a joke or a slogan.
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 January 2018 07:01 (six years ago) link
wtev was that a sfa reference because now I'm not sure if clarity or gravity has been confusing me
― kinder, Friday, 12 January 2018 08:56 (six years ago) link
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 13 January 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
maybe some crossover appeal here:
'this is nonsense' vs. 'this is a nonsense'
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
“extra” like “this [cat video/ fashion item] is so extra”i haaaaaate itit makes me feel like i am at a mall food court with a bunch of teenagers
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
i've never heard it used but u are right that is truly v bad
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
i watch a lot of terrible youtube
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 January 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
i like it, but the threat of finding myself on a mall food court with a bunch of teenagers is pretty distant tbh, and even if it wasn't i have no bad memories -- or indeed good ones -- to have set up the association in the first place
tbh my attitude to most stuff in this thread is: go for it! not only don't get OFF my lawn, get ON it! my generation left yours an utterly fucked world, even if most of us don't acknowledge this yet, and i'd rather spend time being charmed by the babble of the invention of new silly habits than aggrieved that it's no longer something i get to do
― mark s, Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
The fuckedness of things might be somewhat overstated donchuthink
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
It's certainly not anywhere near so bad as to negate the irritation caused by teenagers like
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
Do teenagers even go to mall food courts anymore?
I thought they all just tweeped sexies at each other on bint.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
Mark s is on the money slash mark
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
logic compels me to understand that as good not bad
― mark s, Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Either that or he's confused u for a dragon
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
lol @ bint
don't you remember? we met on bint!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
i agree with deemslet me irrationally rail against teens, it’s all i have
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 January 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
teens do a lot of language innovating and some of it is pioneering but a lot of it is lousy. obv posterity will judge which words, usages, and phrases stand the test of time (tho everything ultimately changes) and not us people who are no longer teenagers now and certainly not teenagers in the future. still i think criticism is totes cool bc we still get some say in how the language works now and if it's ugly the dumb teens should be told.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
I'm not a fan of "thirsty" to denote sexual/romantic desperation. Maybe it just hits a nerve for me?
― ed.b, Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
Mark S otm, I fucking love the way the current teens kick and mash language into crazy new shapes. Endlessly entertaining and so so droll.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link
I thought “extra” was kind of a “this is too much” indicator, not really complementary? kind of indicates someone is doing something that’s a little too try-hard
maybe it already passed into that, or from that back into a complement
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
compliment, sheesh
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
yeah Mark S OTM. But I'm less annoyed by teen neologisms than blunt-repetitive guru-eaucratic things of the 'blue sky thinking' vein
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
"Too extra" / "so extra" strikes me as an update of "she's so _very_" or "you're too much."
For some reason, I associate the usage with campy drama / theater / showbiz types rather than food-court teens.
― godzillas in the mist (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
otm^
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
yr all a bunch of teen apologists imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
like, whatever
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
eat some more tide pods and check back in an hour
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Some whisky related words and phrases that are increasingly infuriating me in various FB groups with heavy US memberships... calling whisky "juice", referring to "pours" or "fingers" or "ounces" for a dram, talking about "bottle kills" let alone if combined with "man down" or "lost a brave soldier" type nonsense. Even calling whisky "Scotch" is grating to me.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
I want a glossary of how people refer to bourbon whiskey corresponding UK messageboards in order to make a judgment call, here
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
omg that whisky language is something elseso unnecessarily hypermasculine!
what does man down/lost a brave soldier mean?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
finished a drink/bottle presumably
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
"juice" is horrible, "fingers" is a colloquialism referring to holding two fingers to the side of the glass to know how much to pour, ounces refers to.. what americans measure liquor in
nobody other than a scotch (or scottish, if you prefer) whisky drinker in the US is going to talk about measuring their drink in drams, unless they're in some bar with old-timey trappings
all the death/soldier stuff is horrible
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
Most of those measurements seem fine to me
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
Why is calling it "Scotch" grating? Should people say "Scotch whisky" every time they refer to it? Or should calling it "whisky" without an e be enough for others to know you're referring to Scotch?
Does calling Bourbon whiskey "Bourbon" grate too?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
I understand where the fingers, ounces etc terminology comes from, but the usage simply annoys me. Isn't that the exact point of this thread?
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
true
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link