Yeah, have you read fmylife.com? All the new ones are like "man, i chipped a nail, fml". THe older ones are like "Today my family died in a horrific car crash and left me with all their debt so I had to drop out of college to pay it off but I couldn't gt a job. fml"SweetLiquidSnake said:
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"Are we there yet?"
If we were there yet, I would have told you that. Gosh, my friends can be annoying while I drive...
If we were there yet, I would have told you that. Gosh, my friends can be annoying while I drive...
It's not really a phrase, but I dislike when people say "meow" instead of "now". It's not cute, it's now amusing, in general it's pointless and annoying.
"Anyway, I know what I mean."
Considering that phrases that have this following them are an attempt to explain something to you, just don't help at making sense of the gibberish. Understanding what you're trying to explain is a good start, but still didn't clear things up for me.
"What is going on?"
"Nothing!"
Previously gone in rage and demolish dishes to disappear in his/her bedroom. I have some arguement with my girlfriend, and sometimes I just can't understand what has been wrong in what I said and expecting an explanation is impossible.
Considering that phrases that have this following them are an attempt to explain something to you, just don't help at making sense of the gibberish. Understanding what you're trying to explain is a good start, but still didn't clear things up for me.
"What is going on?"
"Nothing!"
Previously gone in rage and demolish dishes to disappear in his/her bedroom. I have some arguement with my girlfriend, and sometimes I just can't understand what has been wrong in what I said and expecting an explanation is impossible.
He suicided.
Damn it, people, suicide is not a verb! You cannot suicide yourself! The correct sentence is, "He committed suicide."
Damn it, people, suicide is not a verb! You cannot suicide yourself! The correct sentence is, "He committed suicide."
It is not a phrase but i hate when people use mkay instead of Okay
I also hate people who type in all caps
I also hate people who type in all caps
This, this, this, oh god this. Epic is (or was) a really good word to describe something, well, epic. Now it has really lost all meaning. "OH LOL HE TRIPPED UP AND STUMBLED SLIGHTLY. EPIC FAIL" No, thats not an epic fail, thats barely a fail.Ordinaryundone said:
It's not so much a "phrase" as it is a word I simply refuse to countenance as a verb: Friend. If you ever say that out loud as anything other than a noun, we can never be friends because I'm morally obligated to hate you forever (no exceptions).
Lately I've been cringing and reflexively ranting when various television programs (The Cape, Bones) commit that most unforgivable of offenses - "friend" is not a verb damn it, you cannot "friend someone" because that is nonsense; the word is "befriend".
Lately I've been cringing and reflexively ranting when various television programs (The Cape, Bones) commit that most unforgivable of offenses - "friend" is not a verb damn it, you cannot "friend someone" because that is nonsense; the word is "befriend".
Yeah, now I think about it, the phrase itself makes sence - Hell, I've found myself questioning why I went on reading the Twilight novels long after I grew to hate them.zehydra said:
I suppose it's not so much the phrase as the unspoken idea under it - that you shouldn't have even started watching the thing. That Idea bothers me - how exacaly can you tell if you like something or not without, you know, watching/reading/playing it, really?
oh boy there are loads of phrases i hate.
1) "I can has?" (e.g "I can has french fries?") someone actually said something similar to me IRL once and i replied "You mean can you have?" I dunno where this one comes from but it's really irritating.
2) This tv show/movie is destroying my childhood. Most of the people i've come across that say this irritate me because (a) Most are over 18 and the programme/film they are claiming is destroying their childhood is one intended for children aged 7 to 12 (b) The programmes/films that they're saying are destroying their childhood are all recent releases so unless they've somehow reverted back into a child their childhood ended when they turned 18. makes no sense
3) Win, Fail, Epic, owned, pwned, teh win etc I've never liked any of these phrases and probably never will
1) "I can has?" (e.g "I can has french fries?") someone actually said something similar to me IRL once and i replied "You mean can you have?" I dunno where this one comes from but it's really irritating.
2) This tv show/movie is destroying my childhood. Most of the people i've come across that say this irritate me because (a) Most are over 18 and the programme/film they are claiming is destroying their childhood is one intended for children aged 7 to 12 (b) The programmes/films that they're saying are destroying their childhood are all recent releases so unless they've somehow reverted back into a child their childhood ended when they turned 18. makes no sense
3) Win, Fail, Epic, owned, pwned, teh win etc I've never liked any of these phrases and probably never will
Sheeple. I HATE when people use the term Sheeple. 99% of the time, Sheeple is used by people who are following some ideology just as mindlessly as the people they are criticizing, they just want the opportunity to be a pretentious asshole about it. The other 1%, it's ironic. If you are the kind of person who is well informed, and capable of offering intelligent criticism of a position, you are not the kind of person who uses the term, "Sheeple" seriously.
Also, the word literally, when used wrong. Literally has a very definite, set meaning. Using alternative definitions makes what you are saying ripe for misinterpretation, confusion, and annoyance. Sure, you may say that in context, you should be able to figure out that when an individual says literally, they don't actually mean literally. In this case, the word is not only meaningless, but completely negates the ability to use Literally to clarify unusual scenarios. For example, it is possible to legitimately say "It is literally raining Cats and Dogs", assuming that the highly stacked cages in a pet store tipped and fell on you. If it is just raining water really hard, then you just wasted my goddamn time, and actually managed to communicate a negative amount of meaningful information.
Also, lately, though I'm kind of reaching here and Im mainly just in rant mode, people arguing that someone used "Irony" wrong has started to annoy me. Irony is a nebulous concept, and almost every situation imaginable could be said to contain irony. For example, everyone goes to the Alanis Morresette song to feel like a language genius by saying it has no irony. First off, the fact that the song contains examples that aren't very representative of irony is hugely ironic, and actually quite a genius use of a title. Second, every example given in the song, while not wonderful examples of irony, could very well be seen as ironic. If you have 10,000 spoons, you would naturally expect that any reasonable kitchen set would contain a knife. If you get a, "Smoking break", and one day they put up a no smoking sign, that is rather surprising and ironic. And if you have the natural, human belief that things are going to end up okay for you, anything unfortunate could be seen as contrary to what you expected. If someone seems to be misusing Irony, give them the benifit of the doubt. Don't dismiss them with a pretentious, "That's not Irony" comment. Ask them, "How is that Ironic?". Then have a real discussion. Like adults.
Also, the word literally, when used wrong. Literally has a very definite, set meaning. Using alternative definitions makes what you are saying ripe for misinterpretation, confusion, and annoyance. Sure, you may say that in context, you should be able to figure out that when an individual says literally, they don't actually mean literally. In this case, the word is not only meaningless, but completely negates the ability to use Literally to clarify unusual scenarios. For example, it is possible to legitimately say "It is literally raining Cats and Dogs", assuming that the highly stacked cages in a pet store tipped and fell on you. If it is just raining water really hard, then you just wasted my goddamn time, and actually managed to communicate a negative amount of meaningful information.
Also, lately, though I'm kind of reaching here and Im mainly just in rant mode, people arguing that someone used "Irony" wrong has started to annoy me. Irony is a nebulous concept, and almost every situation imaginable could be said to contain irony. For example, everyone goes to the Alanis Morresette song to feel like a language genius by saying it has no irony. First off, the fact that the song contains examples that aren't very representative of irony is hugely ironic, and actually quite a genius use of a title. Second, every example given in the song, while not wonderful examples of irony, could very well be seen as ironic. If you have 10,000 spoons, you would naturally expect that any reasonable kitchen set would contain a knife. If you get a, "Smoking break", and one day they put up a no smoking sign, that is rather surprising and ironic. And if you have the natural, human belief that things are going to end up okay for you, anything unfortunate could be seen as contrary to what you expected. If someone seems to be misusing Irony, give them the benifit of the doubt. Don't dismiss them with a pretentious, "That's not Irony" comment. Ask them, "How is that Ironic?". Then have a real discussion. Like adults.
Shit happens....
A people that say this when its not effecting them.
B people saying that when they are the ones that made that shit happen...
A people that say this when its not effecting them.
B people saying that when they are the ones that made that shit happen...
"Well that's just a theory anyway"
And you sir/madam have just proven that you don't understand scientific method in the slightest.
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I do want to point out that a lot of the complaints here are petty as hell and if anything REALLY irks me it's people hating words/phrases and getting smug about it (though I guess that's just the way personal preference works out).
If I don't have anything to say, and you keep pushing me for answers, I'm going to say "I'm sorry, but I don't know what to tell you" and no I'm not being insensitive, I have nothing to say about the situation. If you really want I can be insensitive to you, after all, it's not like your problems even matter or anything. (see what I did there?)
Another irk-against-irks of mine is people that hate the word "epic" even in proper context. It seems we have a group that has thrived on hating what people do for so long that they hate the term even though THEY don't know what it means. When I say "x game is epic" I usually mean that it is of a very large scope that will likely take hundreds of hours to fully experience with lots of depth. When someone yells at me and says I'm using the word wrong I hit them with a shovel.
Then there's the word irony. A brilliant word with multiple definitions, that people hate just to hate. It's irony when I say: an evil monkey is terrorizing a city, but then gets eaten by a giant banana. Anybody going to argue? It's irony when I say: a man and a woman plan their wedding on a good summer day, because it doesn't usually rain in the summer (in the region in which they live), and they want an outdoor wedding; it rains on that specific day. How many people on youtube have argued with that definition? If so then they should argue with Shakespeare because he used irony in the very same way quite often.
The word "like" is just one of those words. "Like" is the new "um". People just use it while pausing. Ever think that they're pausing to THINK before the SPEAK? Maybe you should try doing that too? I'm sorry but there isn't a script to my life and I can't memorize what I'm going to say beforehand, so if I'm coming up with something on the spot you better give me some leeway to think about the opinion I present. It's funny because if you think about it people rage about this word when it's used correctly as well. I hate it when someone does something violent, like hits me in the face. I have taken flak for using the word in this way before. If you're going to freak out about a word being overused pay attention to whether or not it belongs there in the first place.
tl;dr: Stop complaining about certain words/phrases when they're used correctly.
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As for made up words, yeah some are good some are terrible. Chillax? It's not a particularly bad one. Bad ones are "Grrrrrrrrl". How can you have a word without vowels?
And you sir/madam have just proven that you don't understand scientific method in the slightest.
(RANT)
I do want to point out that a lot of the complaints here are petty as hell and if anything REALLY irks me it's people hating words/phrases and getting smug about it (though I guess that's just the way personal preference works out).
If I don't have anything to say, and you keep pushing me for answers, I'm going to say "I'm sorry, but I don't know what to tell you" and no I'm not being insensitive, I have nothing to say about the situation. If you really want I can be insensitive to you, after all, it's not like your problems even matter or anything. (see what I did there?)
Another irk-against-irks of mine is people that hate the word "epic" even in proper context. It seems we have a group that has thrived on hating what people do for so long that they hate the term even though THEY don't know what it means. When I say "x game is epic" I usually mean that it is of a very large scope that will likely take hundreds of hours to fully experience with lots of depth. When someone yells at me and says I'm using the word wrong I hit them with a shovel.
Then there's the word irony. A brilliant word with multiple definitions, that people hate just to hate. It's irony when I say: an evil monkey is terrorizing a city, but then gets eaten by a giant banana. Anybody going to argue? It's irony when I say: a man and a woman plan their wedding on a good summer day, because it doesn't usually rain in the summer (in the region in which they live), and they want an outdoor wedding; it rains on that specific day. How many people on youtube have argued with that definition? If so then they should argue with Shakespeare because he used irony in the very same way quite often.
The word "like" is just one of those words. "Like" is the new "um". People just use it while pausing. Ever think that they're pausing to THINK before the SPEAK? Maybe you should try doing that too? I'm sorry but there isn't a script to my life and I can't memorize what I'm going to say beforehand, so if I'm coming up with something on the spot you better give me some leeway to think about the opinion I present. It's funny because if you think about it people rage about this word when it's used correctly as well. I hate it when someone does something violent, like hits me in the face. I have taken flak for using the word in this way before. If you're going to freak out about a word being overused pay attention to whether or not it belongs there in the first place.
tl;dr: Stop complaining about certain words/phrases when they're used correctly.
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As for made up words, yeah some are good some are terrible. Chillax? It's not a particularly bad one. Bad ones are "Grrrrrrrrl". How can you have a word without vowels?
