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

stratford is a kind of france from where i'm sitting

instead of LA MANCHE separating us it is LA MARSH

If anything here sounds like a Frenchism it's "my dude"

easy there mon frere

I'm thinking of taking up 'mon brave'.

a pre-emptive self-congratulatory "you're welcome" when someone does something unexpectedly helpful

yeah, i was gonna thank you, but not i feel like i'm just paying tribute to an asshole

"Let's link"

do Americans say 'fam'? Sounds very British slang to me

I thought it was only disgruntled Arsenal fans who said it.

its the new bruv

I can't fucking stand it!

let it go fam, just leave it

yes i've heard "fam" (or "fams") in the US and it's just as annoying

Jamaican origin maybe? Or West Indian.

definitely been around longer in the UK than the US anyway

i like "fam" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

except when my son calls me that

(xp) I wouldn't have thought the US picked it up from the UK, so I imagine it must have come from the Caribbean community. Unless Arsenal TV is really popular in the US.

I’m fine with ‘fam’ and have been for the past 10 years or so.

I automatically lose interest in anything subtitled "A People's History"

Hypebeast.

some people on the internet seem to think a 'stan' is a celebrity who is the object of a fan's obsession:

[url=https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=%22my%20stan%20is%22]
[url=https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%22love%20my%20stan%22]

I really applaud the way he stood up for @chloebennet and women in general. Proves he is maturing and tackling issues that need to be spoken and the objectification of women by @ksi is one of them. Proud to call him my stan ❤️ pic.twitter.com/cUpBL5okDy

— vic (@logansmeme) July 29, 2018

in another decade this will have become the dominant usage, and anyone who tries to correct it ("have you even heard that Eminem song from 30 years ago?") will be written off as a joyless prescriptivist windbag 😔

(uh sorry for Logan Paul's face)

let me reiterate: "Let's link"

"(drink that is on the menu) as cold as your ex's heart"

Oh that's a thing is it? There's a shop/off licence near me that's had that on a board outside it for (it seems like) decades - I thought they'd thought it up for themselves!

some people on the internet seem to think a 'stan' is a celebrity who is the object of a fan's obsession:

they would then be your eminem.

I haven't searched the internet for it because I know it would dismay me but I'm certain there's a clever business from which you can obtain gently used clever one-liners to display cleverly each day outside your liquor store or bar.

^ ditto for the 'religious humor' posted on message boards outside churches

i feel

fuck your feelings!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss

I have some friends who aren’t voting for Ben Jealous because one of them sat opposite BJ and his much younger girlfriend on a train and had to put up with the pair making out across from him for almost the whole journey.

seems fair

Oh, Christ - wrong thread!

I voted for BJ and that story is endearing imo

pda is for savages

key question: was it the quiet car?

'nagl', empty criticism

I've come to detest hearing all variations of "We'll call you back if interested." Most of the time I'm responding to THEIR ad or inquiry. "Interest" is beside the point, stop making me feel like a beggar/salesman, I am neither. It's a demeaning phrase.

yes - they need to decide if they're interested or not BEFORE replying to you

"big dick energy"

I get it, it's ironic because you're the last person who'd ever seriously equate penis size with power and self-esteem. now stop it.

"self-care"

I didn't think much of "self-care" at first, but I've been growing to like it and am desperately in need of it most of the time.

"big dick energy" sucks big dicks though. "weird dude energy" was a great term and I'm concerned that it will be tainted by this offshoot.

“Self-care” as a term originated in mental health and disability self-advocacy communities and now brands are using it to sell soap

yeah the thing/act of "self-care" itself is obv good & important, but as silby said it's being overused and abused now

"self-introduction"

I thought I had already posted "deep cuts" here--must have been on another thread. Just hate it. And it's out there now, it's infecting the general population. A Facebook friend, a local musician my age (a little older even), had a post this morning asking for Monkees deep cuts. The Monkees didn't have deep cuts. They had singles, and they had filler, and some of the filler was better than the singles, but most of it was worse, and that's why those songs weren't singles. They're not deep--not in the sense of being especially profound, and you don't have to look really hard for them, they're right there on the albums. "Album tracks"--that works too.

doesn't deep cuts literally refer to tracks later on the album?

I don't like 'deep cuts' either, sounds wanky.