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teh n00b
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
^l337
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 15 December 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
"navigate expectations"
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
There is a complex science to avoiding letting anyone expect anything from you
― jmm, Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
when ppl use modernity to mean modern aka contemporary times as opposed to its term of art use as a particular era in history idk this is prescriptivist but esp in intellectual or political contexts bugs me
― Mordy, Monday, 17 December 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
hmm
https://i.imgur.com/2KjMuOC.png
also lmao me literally clicking from a thread where someone used it (perfectly correctly imo) directly to this one. like... aren't you describing modernism?
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
i'm w Mordy on this one
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
'Whilst'
― estela (estela), Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:38 PM (thirteen years ago)
A terrible, terrible word unjustifiably enjoying a resurgence round here.
― calumerio, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
*Whilst'd've
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
“within” as a substitute for “in” to fancy up pedestrian writing. “The solution was placed within a beaker for stirring,” et alia.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
it's been over two years since 2016-11-08 and I would like all organizations to cease saying "now more than ever"
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
good call
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
there’s never been a better time
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 December 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
"Dispatches from ...."
― jmm, Thursday, 27 December 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
"L'affaire russe"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
the reason i'm rooting against giant strides in human longevity is so i don't have to see the phrase "fin de siècle" again a hundred times a day in 80 years
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
I assumed "I get it" (in the dismissive way people use it nowadays--conceding a point so you can brush it away) would have turned up here, but no--there are three or four posters actually saying "I get it," but not like that. It doesn't annoy me all that much, but you do hear it way too often. Paul Reiser's character says it a couple of times in Season 2 of Stranger Things (set in the mid-'80s, if you don't know). They've got the timeline wrong there, no? I don't remember it being commonplace until 5-10 years ago. There was a movie cliché in place back then--"You just don't get it, do you?"--that may have even been the foundation for "I get it," but not, I don't think, "I get it" itself.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Really annoying guy who uses "I get it" constantly: Chris Cuomo.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
"I get it" as in "I understand" or "Enough already"? feel like the latter has been around a lot longer than the decade
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:30 (five years ago) link
It sort of splits the difference. It's in the tone--I'd have to provide audio.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
“firebrand”
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
"thank you for coming to my ted talk"
― marcos, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
yes
any reference to the bastardin things tbh
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Whataboutism-- this concept seems too obscure to have gained the amount of usage-sans-explanation that it has
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
and like Gaslighting, it has come to mean "you are saying something I disagree with"
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
continually telling someone they're gaslighting you when they're not is the next level move
― ogmor, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
whataboutism is just tu quoque
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
What about whataboutery
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUH4Kgmyk2Y
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png/220px-What_About_Bob_%281991%29.png
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of Richard Dreyfuss
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:57 (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
everything means this post imma say 2012
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
"say the quiet parts out loud" already over.
― Yerac, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
my problem with "gaslighting" is that it's meant to distinguish between "you disagree with me" and "you agree with me but are lying to trick me" which is essentially just an accusation of bad faith. i'm sure there are ppl who "gaslight" as a control +abuse mechanism but 99% of the time i've seen it used [online only] it's really "you are acting like your disagreement with me is in good faith but that's impossible so you must be trying to trick me," which is often fairly delusional and self-serving.
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
overton window yes yes we get it
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
"let me be clear"
― dogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
"rocked up"
"so she turned around to me and said..."
― dogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
Got some more awfulness. Yesterday my students couldn't understand that starting sentences with "because" was fine.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
Because they do not hope to learn again
― Berks & Cow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 January 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
Wait Alfred you object to "very" as an intensifier? You are hard line.
― Tim, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
You'd object to if "very" was stuffed into every sentence.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
― dogs, Friday, January 11, 2019 7:12 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idgi... the redundancy of "to me"?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
"step foot in" it's fucking SET foot fuiud
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
bc of Alfred I am more conscious of overusing intensifiers
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
im fierce aware of it now
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I’m still bad at it though
soveryreallyfuckingsignificantly incredibly too
I use often, sometimes in the same sentence
― marcos, Friday, 11 January 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
rather!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 January 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
I swear Bernie Sanders precedes every utterance with "let me be clear". Let me be clear, honey, I am going to eat the fuck out of your pussy
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
I had a terrible, terrible boss a couple of years ago that I hated. During a one on one meeting where I just didn't want to talk to him anymore about work I brought up how he said "at the end of the day" and "let me ask you a question" so many times during a conversation that it was distracting. For the next six months he was incapable of saying 3 sentences in a row without taking longs pauses or making "ughs". It was so great.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link