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Ads that say "Pantyliners", "Feminine hygiene", "Intimate feminine area" etc. God drat it, stop being so childish and euphemistic, you can say "periods" and "vagina" on TV. Especially when the products have "vag" somewhere in the name, like Vagisil. Slightly over half the population has a vagina, we can handle hearing about them. My mam hates this even more than I do, she actually goes "AAAARGH" and covers her ears if someone says the word "panties". Completely fine with actual swear words though. 
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Stottie Kyek posted:Ads that say "Pantyliners", "Feminine hygiene", "Intimate feminine area" etc. God drat it, stop being so childish and euphemistic, you can say "periods" and "vagina" on TV. Especially when the products have "vag" somewhere in the name, like Vagisil. Slightly over half the population has a vagina, we can handle hearing about them. But lady parts are icky and mysterious! Nobody actually knows how they work, and saying things like "vagina" gives them power! I know many people who despise hearing "panties", something about it makes a surprising number of people uncomfortable.
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Geokinesis posted:Open Sandwich. I agree but if you called them Tartines or Smorrebrod the customers wouldn't know what they were ordering.
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kannonfodder posted:But lady parts are icky and mysterious! Nobody actually knows how they work, and saying things like "vagina" gives them power! Yes, they find it difficult to say, whereas without batting an eye, a man might refer to his dick, or his rod, or his...'johnson.'
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Stottie Kyek posted:Ads that say "Pantyliners", "Feminine hygiene", "Intimate feminine area" etc. God drat it, stop being so childish and euphemistic, you can say "periods" and "vagina" on TV. Especially when the products have "vag" somewhere in the name, like Vagisil. Slightly over half the population has a vagina, we can handle hearing about them. A pantyliner isn't for the same purposes as a pad though 
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kannonfodder posted:But lady parts are icky and mysterious! Nobody actually knows how they work, and saying things like "vagina" gives them power! I mean, it's not like the ads for male reproductive products are any better. Those dick enhancement placebo pill commercials never say "penis," they always say stuff like "that certain part of the man's body" and other weird-rear end childish euphemisms like that. I think ED ads are the same way, although I haven't seen one in a little while. And condom commercials NEVER say what they're actually for, you might as well be watching a body-wash commercial the way they tiptoe around what the product actually does. I think it's less to do with sexism and more to do with a general embarrassment about sex that pervades American culture. I can't speak for overseas ads, but I don't think it's a "keep women in their place" thing.
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Ooh, on a related note: "Ask your doctor if ______ is right for you!" In other words, be sure to frustrate and undermine the judgment of your physician by leaping to conclusions about your health that you can't begin to understand, because a smiling granny on rollerblades commanded it over a background of uplifting piano music. And remember a few years ago when all those medication ads warned of hilarious side effects like "oily discharge?" I guess I could do with never hearing that phrase again, too.
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Eeeeeeeeeew. I'm tired of the loving side effect lists in drug commercials. I don't want them to go away, because they're legally required for a reason, but they freak my dad out and it's annoying how goddamn worried he gets about a rare side effect that happened like twice in a clinical trial and has to be mentioned. No, dad, Claritin is probably not going to prolapse your sinuses.
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I heard this in one of those ads the other day "Consult your doctor immediately if you have thoughts of suicide." Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near that.
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sweeperbravo posted:I'll second the loathing for obnoxious and overwhelming hashtag use. Your mundane commentary doesn't need to forever be linked to everything tenuously relevant to the topic. "Witty" hashtag names are even worse. The thing is, I quoted people using hashtags on Facebook. I don't have a Twitter account but I'm pretty sure that hashtags don't work on Facebook the way they work on Twitter  Does Instagram implement hashtags? One of those posts was an Instagram picture, if hashtags are on that service then it makes a little more sense (but it's still just as annoying)
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I would just like to say that while there is indeed no I in "team", there is a U in  .
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C-Euro posted:The thing is, I quoted people using hashtags on Facebook. I don't have a Twitter account but I'm pretty sure that hashtags don't work on Facebook the way they work on Twitter I think some people use something that posts to twitter and facebook at the same time. I had one friend who would always post his tweets, complete with hashtags, to his facebook status.
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"The gay agenda." If someone says this to me, I pretty much instantly tune out. And "political correctness" or "PC," which is almost always from people complaining about it.
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More than one person has posted about misuse of "epic" in this thread, but I think this may have reached a new nadir. My newspaper described a murder victim as having "epic" skull fractures. In fact, they put the word in quotes themselves, so to be completely accurate someone at the trial they were reporting must have said the skull fractures were epic. 
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The BBC got close last year, though. 
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Coffee And Pie posted:"The gay agenda." If someone says this to me, I pretty much instantly tune out. Brb changing my steam name to "The Gay Agenda".
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"Common Sense" Whenever I see or hear that, I know it will be something: 1) Racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted 2) Difficult or impossible to implement 3) Would require banging a square peg into a round hole 4) Incorrect if not downright counterfactual information 5) A combination or, usually, all of the above 3)
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Coffee And Pie posted:"The gay agenda." If someone says this to me, I pretty much instantly tune out. What is the gay agenda anyway? Every time I hear the phrase I imagine this: GAY AGENDA 1. Minutes of the last meeting to be agreed and signed. 2. Discuss replacement of coffee vending machine. 3. Current financial status of the Roof Repair Fund. 4. Collection for secretary's retirement gift. 5. Any Other Committee Business.
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Sunshine89 posted:"Common Sense" When "common sense" is used in any kind of political context, it basically just means "my opinion, which I want you to think is self-evidently true, even if it's batshit crazy." That even applies to Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet "Common Sense" - not that I think American independence and democracy are batshit crazy, but they aren't "common sense" in the same way that "wearing a raincoat when it's wet" is common sense. They're open to debate.
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General Panic posted:More than one person has posted about misuse of "epic" in this thread, but I think this may have reached a new nadir. You reminded me. I saw a billboard for this on my ride home today. It made me drive aggressively.
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Sunshine89 posted:"Common Sense" This applies exactly to "Straight talking" and "Telling it like it is" as well.
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Stottie Kyek posted:This applies exactly to "Straight talking" and "Telling it like it is" as well. Where does "real talk" fall?
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I think that's okay because usually I hear it in a different context. People tend to say it to mean "seriously" or "pay attention to this bit" or "believe me on this one", rather than "I'm about to say something offensive".
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Stottie Kyek posted:This applies exactly to "Straight talking" and "Telling it like it is" as well. Don't forget bringing up "Society," which coincidentally has the same backwards - assed views as the teller. Baofu fucked around with this message at May 9, 2013 around 23:58 |
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Related, there's a whole slew of girls on Tumblr who run blogs dedicated to extremely thin models and swimsuit pictures and brand worship, and they like to reblog pictures that talk about body image and how everyone is beautiful and "gently caress SOCIETY"  I like looking pretty and looking at nice pictures too but I can't believe the hypocrisy in doing this.
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Stottie Kyek posted:I think that's okay because usually I hear it in a different context. People tend to say it to mean "seriously" or "pay attention to this bit" or "believe me on this one", rather than "I'm about to say something offensive". Pretty much this. Whenever someone says "real talk", I've always heard it as used during a joking conversation that suddenly turns serious. Like: "And then he jumps off the cliff and the pig just watches him do it." "Hahahaha, that's hilarious. Hey, listen, real talk for a second, I'm thinking of asking MYGIRLFRIEND to marry me." So it doesn't grate as much. That said, I hate people using "seriously" now. It's used in the same vein as "awesome", I've found. So you get people going on about how SERIOUSLY AWESOME this club is. No. Stop that.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I mean, it's not like the ads for male reproductive products are any better. Those dick enhancement placebo pill commercials never say "penis," they always say stuff like "that certain part of the man's body" and other weird-rear end childish euphemisms like that. I think ED ads are the same way, although I haven't seen one in a little while. And condom commercials NEVER say what they're actually for, you might as well be watching a body-wash commercial the way they tiptoe around what the product actually does. I think it's less to do with sexism and more to do with a general embarrassment about sex that pervades American culture. I can't speak for overseas ads, but I don't think it's a "keep women in their place" thing. At least for sex stuff it might be a US thing as I remember some Durex adverts being a lot more obvious as to what was going on. Fake edit: Found one might be NSFW I guess. Durex lube advert which interestingly focusses on how the lube makes sex better for women. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDxCjCi5Cg
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"Mr. Obama", instead of President Obama. Yes, we get it, Fox News / Wall Street Journal. Very subversive. 
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Skeleton Ape posted:"Mr. Obama", instead of President Obama. Yes, we get it, Fox News / Wall Street Journal. Very subversive. That's just the style guide for some news organizations. NPR does it too
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I've never liked "Mr. President", even though it's not considered disrespectful or anything. It just sounds wrong, like Mr. Manager.
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It seemed to me that news outlets were using "Mr." a lot more than with other presidents, and a while back I heard (on NPR, actually) about a study that analyzed how the president was referred to in the media during last few decades. The conclusion was that yes, for whatever reason, Obama is getting called "Mr." significantly more than his predecessors. Funny, though, I didn't know that was NPR's official style. I missed that part if they mentioned it.
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"Whatever, Trevor", "Relax, Max" " and any of those that use a person's name to rhyme with something. "Yeah, nah..." is pretty bad too. "It's always in the last place you look!" ... no loving poo poo, I'm not going to keep looking for it after I've found it. "dynamic workplace/environment" .. it's about enough to make me close a job ad as soon as I encounter that.
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For what it's worth, I think the BBC and other British media will refer to either "President [whoever]" or (after they've made clear they're talking about the US President) "Mr [whoever]", and they've done that as long as I can remember. Over here the Prime Minister is always "the Prime Minister" or "Mr/Mrs [whoever]", but I've only ever heard Americans refer to "Prime Minister [whoever]", probably because it's what they're used to.
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TinTower posted:The BBC got close last year, though. To be fair, anything with Alexander Armstrong in it is epic.
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Florida Betty posted:That's just the style guide for some news organizations. NPR does it too
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