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Elephantgun posted:Also, "getting ham" or "let's get ham tonight!". What does that even mean. What ever happened to going hog wild. Bring back hog wild. I'm assuming this means loving fat people. Confirm/deny? edit: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh probably short for "hammered." Still stupid.
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Eggplant Wizard posted:I'm assuming this means loving fat people. Confirm/deny? I honestly don't know. People say it when they want to get wild and crazy moreso than hammered, but maybe that's right. quote:Stop adding dipshits to your facebook page. "Females and men" They're removed, but I'm in the fighting game community and a lot of people in the community use the term. It gets tiring correcting them, but I make an effort and if they get terrible with it I just stop being friends with that person. But my god, do I hate that word. Elephantgun fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 00:24 |
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Unborn child. I know it's just me, but do they say undead child once they are born? I'm not trying to troll, it really does irritate me, probably because most of them are anti-choice.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:30 |
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"Double down"; "under the bus"; " " -core" to try to describe a type of music; and " -gate" to denote a scandal of some kind.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:30 |
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I've really grown to dislike the word "whilst" because of weird nerds who think it makes them sound smarter. I also really dislike "classy" as a compliment, but I can't figure out why. I just don't like the way it sounds.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:41 |
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a kitten posted:"Double down"; "under the bus"; " " -core" to try to describe a type of music; and " -gate" to denote a scandal of some kind. The thing that pisses me off about using "-gate" to denote a scandal is that people apparently forgot the reason it's called "Watergate" is because it's the name of the building where it happened (The Watergate Complex).
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:42 |
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dancehall posted:Along these lines, "X lost his battle with cancer..." It's bad enough he's dead, you have to call him a loser too? Just say he died of cancer. My mom died of cancer a few months ago, and she told us months in advance that the one phrase she didn't want appearing in her obituary was "a long battle with cancer." At the end of her life she had had a resurgence of her hippy leanings, and she hated the warlike imagery. Fortunately, she wasn't around to see that the obituary that appeared in her church bulletin literally began, "After her long battle with cancer...." Ditto "females." But I have to thank everyone who uses it for unwittingly outing themselves as someone with problems with women. Saves me a lot of trouble later on. I hate "it's a no-brainer." E: Also "hubby"
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:44 |
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Dabbo posted:I also really dislike "classy" as a compliment, but I can't figure out why. I just don't like the way it sounds. I think there's a bit of implied condescension in it, since it implies that the person is not only classy, but indeed an arbiter of class. George Carlin did a bit on it in Brain Droppings IIRC
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:49 |
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"Nuff said" most of the time it's following a single phrase subject. What's the best car in the world? Ford gremlin Nuff said. No it's not you did not say a drat thing. That phrases just pisses me off to no end.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 00:57 |
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Oh they dropped their latest album? That's a pitty. I hope they didn't break it.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 01:08 |
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"Real America." What does the "real America" entail, anyway?
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 01:12 |
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"Snarky" needs to be banned from the American lexicon. It's responsible for so many terrible things, and the worst is when I'm told that I'm snarky or that I'll like something because it's snarky. gently caress snarky. "Pussy" is a word that will get you called a misogynist if you use it as an insult, but it honestly sounds better as a derogatory term than it does as slang for vagina. It just sounds awkward to refer to a woman's pussy or talk about getting pussy, and I've never heard a woman say it outside of porn. This goes double for "puss," which isn't used that often, but I've spent a lot of time listening to and laughing at the horrible rapper Plies, who uses it a million times per song. "Politically correct/incorrect" doesn't even make sense and is always used to talk about something idiotic. The only people worse than those that argue for the exact right all-inclusive term for everything are the people that get upset about them. Who cares if somebody put up a "holiday tree"? Yeah it sounds dumb, but it's not a war on Christmas or a sign that America is going to the dogs or whatever. Also if you use the term "PC police" you should be punched in the throat. On a similar note, it's not really an expression but the argument that liberals claim to tolerate everything, but they can't tolerate intolerance  is the worst. No poo poo we don't tolerate your intolerance. Your intolerance of other races/cultures/sexualities/religions is loving stupid and you're a detriment to our society. People can't help the way that they're born. But you can stop yourself from having dumb loving opinions.
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"I have the best hubby ever! He even brings his preggers wife breakfast in bed!" "I'm looking for a home for some itty bitty pretty itties mollyfish!" "Nymphobortionmania." I read this on some loving insane site where the guy insisted women who get abortions were nymphomaniacs who got off on getting the abortions, and only that. Lieberal. Litard. Obummer. Barack Osama Bin Laden Hussein (really? do I need this on loving Facebook?) Sheeple. As in 'wake up sheeple!"
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 01:15 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:"Snarky" needs to be banned from the American lexicon. It's responsible for so many terrible things, and the worst is when I'm told that I'm snarky or that I'll like something because it's snarky. gently caress snarky. I'm convinced that "snark" as a concept has been eradicated and replaced with "being an annoying little poo poo." Any and all Tumblr talk annoys the hell out of me. I have a Tumblr account to make it easier to follow political and artists' blogs, but even then they occasionally reblog this "gpoy" "i can't" "this" poo poo. What does any of that even mean?
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 01:23 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:"Pussy" is a word that will get you called a misogynist if you use it as an insult, but it honestly sounds better as a derogatory term than it does as slang for vagina. It just sounds awkward to refer to a woman's pussy or talk about getting pussy, and I've never heard a woman say it outside of porn. This goes double for "puss," which isn't used that often, but I've spent a lot of time listening to and laughing at the horrible rapper Plies, who uses it a million times per song. Yeeeech...."pussy" sounds so skeevy. I can't say it with a straight face. I feel gross when I say it. It sounds somehow patronizing, demeaning, pervy, and completely unappealing (like something a pedophile stereotype would say). Unfortunately, there aren't really any good words for those lady parts.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 01:41 |
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"Healthful" makes me cringe. Just use "healthy", please.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:11 |
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a kitten posted:" -gate" to denote a scandal of some kind. Good loving god, this, it just reeks of unoriginality and you just know reporters and producers think they are being loving cute using it. It's just so melodramatic. Unless the loving President resigns over it NOTHING is the next "Watergate".
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:38 |
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Assoonasitits posted:Also, mispronouncing "February" because there's an 'r' in there. And using "they" or "their" as singular, because both words are plural.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:42 |
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Obamacare, socialist/ism, Tea Party/ier, Birther, brony, "Can I just [say]/Can we just appreciate [x]" "THIS", "My feels/I know that feel", "bro" and anything where "bro" can possibly be inserted no matter how hamfisted the association.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:51 |
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xcheopis posted:I will never understand why people think that 'r' is supposed to be silent. 'Feb-ru-airy' is actually the standard pronunciation. That's nothing. Around here, I've heard people say "lie-berry." As in,"gently caress Redbox, I'm gon' the lie-berry and check out some movies." Our library's DVD section is getting so large, we joke that they'll be dumping books soon to make more room for the video rentals. 
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:54 |
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Any time "caring about something" is used as an insult. Like "Nice careposting" or "wow you sure care a lot about ______." If someone's sperging out over anime guns or something I can sort of understand, but I see people pulling out the "lol look at how much you care about this" when someone writes more than two sentences about a subject.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 02:56 |
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Karma Monkey posted:That's nothing. Around here, I've heard people say "lie-berry." As in,"gently caress Redbox, I'm gon' the lie-berry and check out some movies." Our library's DVD section is getting so large, we joke that they'll be dumping books soon to make more room for the video rentals.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:06 |
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"Sounds tasty!" (said like "tay-steee") "That's yummy!" "It's time for din-dins!" (dinner.) "I'm going to feed the kitties some stinkyfoods!" (said in a kiddie-voice.) All said by my best friend. Drives me insane.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:12 |
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"Jelly" for jealous and "cray" for crazy. Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky but these terms just sound so stupid. They've been popping up a bunch on my Facebook newsfeed a lot and I dunno, they just rub me the wrong way.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:14 |
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scorpiobean posted:"Jelly" for jealous and "cray" for crazy. Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky but these terms just sound so stupid. They've been popping up a bunch on my Facebook newsfeed a lot and I dunno, they just rub me the wrong way.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:20 |
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"Lifehack", "Foodhack", "Timehack" or any other tacking-on of the word "hack" to the end of a word to describe a do-it-yourself tip. You're not "hacking" poo poo, you're just doing a dumb thing you should've thought up yourself instead of learning all your life skills from blogs.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:22 |
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Going off of this thread apparently 3/4s of all goons are friends with Tom Haverford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OhJJR8nBl4
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:23 |
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Hay Belly posted:Unborn child. I know it's just me, but do they say undead child once they are born? I'm not trying to troll, it really does irritate me, probably because most of them are anti-choice. It's pretty much an entirely anti-choice figure of speech. The same way "anti-choice" is an anti-pro-life figure of speech. The idea is that, if you call it a child, it must be a child. I could call my jacket a chair if I wanted to. But yeah, it's loving infuriating to hear it. The problem with all those politically-charged turns of phrase is that they're completely idiotic to the offended party. Politics is stupid.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:57 |
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I hate when people refer to their significant other as "my honey". It seems like something a child would do.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 04:07 |
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Literally, even when used correctly. It really adds nothing to what's been said, but people overuse it for emphasis on nothing. "I literally sat down at my desk and literally started reading Something Awful where I literally read this thread and literally posted in it." Shut the gently caress up, for gently caress's sake. I think [technically] correct, but moronically overused usage of it pisses me off more than incorrect usage, because at least with incorrect usage you can mock the gently caress out of someone for being so stupid. Oh, your mouth was literally on fire after eating spicy food, huh? Did you go to the burn ward to treat your third-degree burned mouth? "Also, awkward. Any minor inconvenience today becomes awkwaaaard... for today's youth. "Woops, dropped my pen! Awkwaaaaard..." 
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 04:14 |
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"The exception that proves the rule." It's almost never used correctly. It's usually just used as a response whenever someone makes an overly broad generalization, and someone gives a specific example of how they are wrong. Edit: Business speak phrases like "Thinking outside of the box." I thought those were relegated to comedies like Futurama. Then I got a new department head that could unironically used that phrase. That was the point when everybody in the department thought inside the box, and updated their resumes. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 05:35 |
| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:04 |
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Elephantgun posted:They're removed, but I'm in the fighting game community... I think I might see the source of your problem.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:24 |
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"Cis" I mean I understand why such a word may be warranted but cis just looks and sounds so lovely. This is completely irrational but it just looks wrong, like a halfword, something that was never meant to be. I am okay with the meaning, not the word. Maybe change it to something that sounds like a word but isn't. Bork or something.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:37 |
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"I know what I'm doing." You don't know what you're doing: you're just saying that to shut me up. "I hate to speculate..." You love to make baseless and stupid predictions so stop trying to make yourself into the good guy.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:38 |
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The word "epic" has become a powerless marketing buzzword that people trot out in the mistaken belief that referring to something as "epic" will instantly make it exciting or interesting, when really they are using it as a synonym for "boring trash". Homer's Iliad is an epic. A decade-long war involving both profane and divine intrigue, an astounding amount of carnage, and the exploits of mythological heroes is epic. I feel like I am somehow doing a disservice to such works when I use the same word to refer to them that lazy, fedora-wearing game reviewers and PR men use to refer to dull cover-shooters. Thankfully I haven't heard it in a while, so maybe it's fallen out of fashion. I know it's petty, but I don't like it when people say "on accident" instead of "by accident". It doesn't really matter which preposition you use, but it throws me off a bit when someone says "on". On a side note, I felt like such an idiot when I realised that when you call someone a pussy, you are not likening them to a scared kitten.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:40 |
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Anchorbaby. It's a derogatory name used against individuals (predominantly Latinos and especially Mexicans) that basically accuses your parents of having you in order to take advantage of welfare. It's an incredibly venomous phrase: a person who says it is really saying "If I had it my way, I'd have the 14th ammendment repealed and all you parasite wetbacks and borderhoppers rounded up and put into camps to be shipped off back to Mexico  " I'm a Chicano (first-generation citizen). My Dad's immigration status is vauge and my Mom wants to become naturalized. I'm not going to deny the fact that there are in fact illegal immigrant families that do cross the border to take advantage of services here in the US. But the context just makes me so angry that I'm willing to start a fistfight with the rear end in a top hat who uses it.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:52 |
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I work in a corporate marketing department, so my audio landscape is rife with gems like, "thought leader", "efficacy of...", and loving "from soup to nuts". 1.) A thought leader is not a thing; it just means, 'this person carved a niche talking about this boring thing that nobody else is talking about'. 2.) 'Efficacy' just means 'it works' in a way that makes you sound like a community college english professor with a chip on their shoulder. 3.) If the phrase, "from soup to nuts", was a human being, I would force it at gunpoint to poo poo in its own grandmother's mouth. I won't elaborate on it because it's as dumb as it sounds.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:57 |
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Here are a couple that turn up with distressing regularity in journalism. ...in as many days. As in, "It was the third such incident in as many days." Okay, so three incidents in three days. You can just say that, you don't need to use the silly clichéd phrasing. Scientists baffled. Somehow scientists are never stymied, or puzzled, or still working out the details, or waiting to see where the data leads them. Nope. Baffled. Always baffled.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 06:05 |
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If another person tells me to Quit horsin' around with my nipple! I'm going to loving scream.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 06:25 |
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:If another person tells me to Quit horsin' around with my nipple! I'm going to loving scream. Is that whole thing the expression, or are you going around molesting strangers' nipples?
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