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

if you just order “whisky” here you get some sort of well liquor that is brown and probably adheres to a legal definition of the term

tbh cheap bourbon >>> cheap scotch

Oh hell no

there’s some john barr scotch variety for $15/bottle at my local shop that’s probably better than bourbon at that price

I think in general nobody’s exporting anything drinkable at less than export price sooo

hot garbage from deep within fedoraland.

electric miladiland

“architecting”

✓ xp

electric miladiland

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:13 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaaa

golf clap/slow clap

"draw" for "drawer"

most commonly encountered in the phrase "top draw"

Venn this: the people who say ‘draw’ to mean ‘drawer’ and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

PERFECT FUCKING CIRCLE.

dj dingleberry is top draw and a top drawer on the festival circuit

and the people who say ‘brought’ to mean ‘bought’.

australia has a phenomenon of overcorrection in which over-60s who say ‘bought’ mean ‘brought’, usually while complaining about swear words or the internet

In terms of the use of "Scotch"... I think it's just narrow-mindedness and/or superiority on my part that causes the annoyance there, because of course one simply says whisky here in Scotland to refer to Scotch whisky. Maybe the same applies to some of those other terms too, I guess, as I glossed over that they're more commonly used in the USA, so fair enough. I'll try to keep my irritation in check... and leave the offending FB groups, they're probably the real problem.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FWIW in the US bourbon is probably substantially more popular than scotch so you have to specify scotch. For related reasons, just saying "whiskey" sounds sort of old-timey to me, like you're going into some western saloon that would only have one or two kinds of whiskey behind the bar.

"concerning" as a gerund, not a preposition, as in, "Trump's temper is concerning." It's a bureaucrat's way of saying "worrying."

or disturbing!

Saying whisky/whiskey here would just invite the question whether you mean bourbon, Scotch, Irish, Tennessee, rye, moonshine, etc., all of which are different things.

I drink bourbon all the time (usually not caring which), but would need a specific occasion and a knowledgeable guide to navigate Scotch whiskies.

If I were to ask for bourbon and ginger and get served Jack Daniel's (which is Tennessee whiskey, most definitely not bourbon whiskey), I would object with vigor.

tennessee whiskey is bourbon that someone poured through some charcoal before aging

I maintain some sentimental preference for the notion that Bourbon whiskey is made in Kentucky. Which Tennessee is not.

Blah blah California Champagne, vodka martini, yadda yadda, I'm not really up in arms about it.

"Rest in Power" is starting to grate when used in every facebook post about every cool person that dies

oh my god tell me about it

Yep

agree

not heard that. Good.

"Terrified"/"Terrifying" in the political context, typically used by liberals. Stop being so fucking terrified of everything. If you are literally an immigrant forced to hide out from ICE, then I accept "terrified." Otherwise it's ridiculously melodramatic.

ugh, Rest in Power is awful, what is that meant to correct about rest in peace?

How much would you have to hate a deceased person not to wish them peace

It's a political radical thing, maybe originating with Black Panthers? I think the idea is don't "rest in peace" rather your legacy should continue to impact things. But it gets really overused.

No more than moderately xp

I may have mentioned this before: when some rent-a-cop or service person ‘needs’ you to do a thing.

srsly why is it always about their needs

I almost started a thread about 'good faith / bad faith' last night. we'll see how today works out

Taking sides: "Peak ______" vs. "None more ______."

hit me with some examples. leaning toward Peak

i'll take 'peak _____' over 'sneak peak'

None more is worse because it's just lifting a joke from a movie. At least "peak ___" was original the first time some writer used it.

what is None More from

oh you youngins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx6fwfBKCIQ

oh, I mean yeah obviously. is this a new phenomenon?

I saw today a picture of a conflict between a cat and a bald eagle described as "Peak Maine."

A tattoo of a Starbucks cup is described as "Peak Seattle."

A cheesy Old Bay crab biscuit purchased at the Renaissance Faire (sic) has been described as "None More Maryland."

If it can be proven that none more _ came from a movie made in the late seventies or whatever then I'll stop fping ppl for a whole week

it totally did

Ok starting from when i posted that tho

When someone says something didn't "land". Like you didn't get it. This expression is fine for jokes but it's horrible in any other application

ooo cosign on that one

Critics calling things “airless”

I thought there was something particularly awful about this phrase in this context, but also bad in general:

Woman found holding her own eyeballs

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An Upstate community is in shock after a 19-year-old was found holding her eyeball and then gauged the other one out outside a church.
Here's what we know: http://bit.ly/2E9n0W9

gauge away
you can gauge away

ffs some guy in WH press corps referring to just-resigned wife beater as "gentleman"

also increasingly hearing this as cop-speak in press briefing re: some murder or whatever, "the gentleman then fired a second shot"