"Stop trying to make it a thing!"

[Saltyk]

You know, I never called french fries french fries. I just call them fries. It's my catch all for all such things. Waffle fries, curly fries, and french fries are all just fries to me. Most places only serve one of those, so just saying you want fries usually gets the desired item.

I'd actually kinda forgotten about freedom fries.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Girls who call themselves 'geek girls'. Why do you have to segregate yourself? Can't you just call yourself a geek and leave it at that? Why do you have to mention your gender when we can clearly see you're female?

On that vein, people who put 'geek' in the bio/profile. I see it with mainly women which I find a bit odd, considering geeky women aren't exactly a rarity any more.
I remember a while ago people were enraged about being labelled but now they're labelling themselves with "i'm such a geek hehe" all the time and I find it odd.
Fairy snuff if you believe you are but I've never seen the appeal of telling everyone you're a geek rather than letting them find out for themselves in time what you're really like.

It's hard labelling yourself as a geek/nerd whatever because some people will think you're up for scrutiny which is why I don't care for labelling myself despite having interests that are considered geeky.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I was browsing the UK retailer GAME's website this morning, and I noticed there was some promotion on for 'Black Friday'.

No, GAME, we can't have black friday. Do you know why? Because we don't have thanksgiving in the UK you thick cunts.

 

[Queen Michael]

I was browsing the UK retailer GAME's website this morning, and I noticed there was some promotion on for 'Black Friday'.

No, GAME, we can't have black friday. Do you know why? Because we don't have thanksgiving in the UK you thick cunts.

That's kind of how it's like with Halloween here in Sweden. You never know if you'll get any trick-or-treaters or not, nobody can get in into their heads that Halloween always falls on the 31st of October, and in short it never managed to fully catch on.

 

[Shraggler]

Girls who call themselves 'geek girls'. Why do you have to segregate yourself? Can't you just call yourself a geek and leave it at that? Why do you have to mention your gender when we can clearly see you're female?

On that vein, people who put 'geek' in the bio/profile. I see it with mainly women which I find a bit odd, considering geeky women aren't exactly a rarity any more.
I remember a while ago people were enraged about being labelled but now they're labelling themselves with "i'm such a geek hehe" all the time and I find it odd.
Fairy snuff if you believe you are but I've never seen the appeal of telling everyone you're a geek rather than letting them find out for themselves in time what you're really like.

It's hard labelling yourself as a geek/nerd whatever because some people will think you're up for scrutiny which is why I don't care for labelling myself despite having interests that are considered geeky.

But it is a rarity. Not the self-imposed label, but the reality of there being a large number of "geek" or "nerd" girls. The whole concept is bullshit. It's a simple farce - a desperate thrust for attention by trying to be counter to the mainstream perception of something.

The trouble is, it's completely false. There's not even a sizable minority of "geeks" or "nerds" who are female. Sure, they exist, but the people trying to use a term usually considered a pejorative, or at the very least a neutral label, and spin it for their own personal gain are not 'geeks' or 'nerds' in any sense of the words. It's such a shallow, stupid and unimaginative grab for attention. With all the clamour for "individuality" these days, it's ironic that most people fall into the same obvious behavior collectively.

 

[briankoontz]

And just so that I'm not sticking to only phrases here, I sincerely hope the last Hobbit film marks the end of painfully protracted film adaptations of books. That is, unless Peter Jackson is planning to adapt The Silmarillion into a 20 film magnum opus next.

If the Hollywood capitalist industry teaches us anything, it's that what makes rich people lots of money replicates itself until it stops making rich people lots of money.

 

[Akytalusia]

And just so that I'm not sticking to only phrases here, I sincerely hope the last Hobbit film marks the end of painfully protracted film adaptations of books. That is, unless Peter Jackson is planning to adapt The Silmarillion into a 20 film magnum opus next.

If the Hollywood capitalist industry teaches us anything, it's that what makes rich people lots of money replicates itself until it stops making rich people lots of money.

how did you quote something i never said?

 

[rednose1]

I was browsing the UK retailer GAME's website this morning, and I noticed there was some promotion on for 'Black Friday'.

No, GAME, we can't have black friday. Do you know why? Because we don't have thanksgiving in the UK you thick cunts.

HA! It's too late now, it's all yours. I call no givesies-backsies!! People DIE during Black Friday, and other shoppers complain when stores shut down so the body can be removed. If you get pissed that you don't get 80% off the brand new hoop and stick, or missed the buy 1 rock get 3 free deal, just because someone had the nerve to go and die, then you need to get help.

IN a reversal of the OP, I'm hoping the "Secretly We Are Gay" meaning behind swag takes off. I don't know what yolo could be, best right now is You Only Look Obedient.

What's wrong with saying you have style instead of swag and Carpe Diem in place of yolo?? They just convey more than some douchey kid acting crazy.

 

[MrGuy]

A classic example is "freedom fries." Some Americans suggested that as a protest to French opposition to the Iraq war, we should stop saying "french fries" and start saying "freedom fries." Needless to say, the expression did not catch on.

Actually, it sorta did. The people behind it got menus redone in certain government cafeterias.

It's particularly annoying because they were inspired by similar renamings of German food in WW2.

That is, if France doesn't want to kill Iraqis, they are Nazis.

Your history is a bit off. "Liberty Cabbage" and the like were World War I terms, not World War II. Goodwin's law not yet invoked.

 

[Retardinator]

I guess Riot pulling the term "Marksman" to suddenly replace the term "AD Carry" in League. Seriously out of nowhere, no trace of anyone using it before. Stop. It ain't working.

Plus it's completely cringeworthy.

"I PLAY MARKSMAN!"

*facepalm*

Thankfully, I never heard anyone using it. Also, I don't get how Master Yi and similar champions can be considered "marksmen". Next they'll say a melee AD Carry is a "swordsman", then Jax is gonna get dubbed lampman or something.

 

[Something Amyss]

I was browsing the UK retailer GAME's website this morning, and I noticed there was some promotion on for 'Black Friday'.

No, GAME, we can't have black friday. Do you know why? Because we don't have thanksgiving in the UK you thick cunts.

To be fair, "Black Friday" no longer just refers to the Friday after Thanksgiving. Rather, it refers to "any time we wish to evoke the image of a huge shopping day or sale."

I get a "Black Friday" ad in my email almost every week of the year.

"Black Friday for Halloween."

"Black Friday in spring!"

"Black Fourth of July!" You'd think this one was a terrorist attack, but no. Just capitalism.

Fun fact: when I worked at Wal-Mart, they'd dress us down for use of the term "black Friday." The term was "Gold Friday," because they were going to make us all curl up in little balls wetting ourselves in terror a lot of money on Christmas shopping!

No clue if this was Wal-Mart policy or if our store was just extra douchey.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Windows 8. 8.1 is better in the same way that Neighbours is better than Home And Away. Also Bing. And every other attempt by Microsoft to break into a market they haven't a hope in and blatantly don't understand (tablets, phones etc).

Google+. I can't remember the last time I commented on a YouTube video, and that actually depresses me sometimes.

The Wii U. Or maybe they should start trying with that one, I'm not sure which. Either way, what they're doing right now clearly isn't working.

 

[Queen Michael]

And just so that I'm not sticking to only phrases here, I sincerely hope the last Hobbit film marks the end of painfully protracted film adaptations of books. That is, unless Peter Jackson is planning to adapt The Silmarillion into a 20 film magnum opus next.

If the Hollywood capitalist industry teaches us anything, it's that what makes rich people lots of money replicates itself until it stops making rich people lots of money.

how did you quote something i never said?

That one is very easy to explain. Just press the quote button, then remove the text that the poster wrote and let the quote tags remain. Then, enter some new text where the original entry was until you removed it.

 

[StriderShinryu]

My biggest pet peeve as far as this sort of thing goes is using acronyms like LOL and ROFL in actual conversation. I'm not sure if it is a thing or not as I've heard it done but never to the point of it being everywhere but, if it is a thing, I wish it wasn't.

 

[Muspelheim]

I was browsing the UK retailer GAME's website this morning, and I noticed there was some promotion on for 'Black Friday'.

No, GAME, we can't have black friday. Do you know why? Because we don't have thanksgiving in the UK you thick cunts.

That's kind of how it's like with Halloween here in Sweden. You never know if you'll get any trick-or-treaters or not, nobody can get in into their heads that Halloween always falls on the 31st of October, and in short it never managed to fully catch on.

If there is a thing about Halloween here, it's about not making it a thing. There is always a lot of "Bwuuh, why we had to import this yankee custom, toooo..." in the air, which is a shame. Halloween is lovely, it really should be a keeper. That and a second Labour Day. One in May, one in September.

Of course, a few weeks later, the christmas machinery kicks in place and the nay-sayers forget their patriotic concern for native customs and unironically lay their sacrifices at the Altar of Santa Claus nonetheless.

I'd say that Google's attempts at making Google+ the New Facebook is getting rather pathetic. It's like they're all mishandling some sort of mid life crisis, going so far to force it on everyone wether they want the bloody thing or not. It's the most desperate attempt at "thing"-making I've seen, until perhaps Kim Jong Un makes a meme and force it on the country on baton point.

 

[Kyogissun]

One thing I can still stand is "legit". Maybe it depends on who uses it. Jim Sterling just said "...but the angry whopper is fucking legit" on the podcast I'm listening to and it made me laugh, so I suppose it works when he does it.

Legit is just shortening for Legitimate. People, like myself, say something like 'That news seems legit' or 'This game is totally legit' as another means of saying 'It's good' or 'It's credible'.

I use Legit to mix up my vocabulary every now and then and also... Because it's common slang for people in my age group of early to late twenties.

 

[Clunks]

Bottom line of this thread seems to be that all those things we wish didn't catch probably did somewhere. Except the only thing that deserves to:

Come on man, Bing is Streets Ahead of Google!

YES.

Of all the listed things, I think "selfie" bothers me the most. Not the activity of taking photos of yourself but the misapplication of the term. A "selfie" is a wank. It can only be a wank. It can't have more than one meaning because all of those meanings would be wank. You can take a photograph of yourself wanking if you wish, but that would not be taking a selfie of a selfie. That would be a photo of a selfie, or wank.

ps Yes we do have Hamburgers and Fries in England, but we call French Fries "chips".

 

[Kinitawowi]

ps Yes we do have Hamburgers and Fries in England, but we call French Fries "chips".

PPS: Forgive the lateness of my reply.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Selfies. I'm pretty sure you holding up your camera with a very gratitious view of your wannabe cleavage to make your self-pitying wank of a self-esteem improve a little, is great, but it's pretentious, and really annoying.

Really, I don't come across a lot; I try to avoid those places of society and the internet. Also news anchors using memes and talking about video games in order to seem cool. Drives me up the wall.

 

[Daria.Morgendorffer]

On a completely different tack, I'm going to go with things that bug me based on popular entertainment:

Justin Timberlake as an actor - He's like the Madonna of this decade. That's not a good thing.

Alexa Ray Joel - For those who don't know, this is Billy Joel's daughter. A few years ago, she had a song called "Notice Me". Which probably says all you really need to know about her ability to hold an audience. That, and the fact that daddy never taught her not to sing through her nose. It's very clear that someone's trying really hard to make her happen, because she just released a cover of "Just the Way You Are".

I watch Once Upon a Time (don't judge me, I used to think it was a lot of fun). In the first season, they introduced Belle. Rumplestiltskin was The Beast. OK. When she showed up in Season 2, almost every time she showed up in a scene with Rumple, it was to remind the audience that they were supposed to be shipping that. Which, as attractive as I find both actors, they have zero chemistry, and the relationship dynamic is gross. I finally gave up after an episode or so ago when a plot point hinged on "the strength of their love". Really, writers, stop trying to make it happen.

And this is my feminist soul snapping into action after Miley Cyrus called herself a "feminist": Pop culture, stop trying to convince women that empowerment comes from sexing yourself up. In the real world, if you try and "sexy" your image up, people think all you really want others to notice is your sexual attributes to cover the fact that you're a bimbo (see: Palin, Sarah) and you don't get taken seriously. Yes, feminism IS about choice and this is not about "slut-shaming" anyone. BUT, if you're dancing around in flesh-colored latex while not making some justifiably artistic statement about it being satire, you don't get to slap the word "feminist" on it just because nobody else is willing to tell you otherwise.

tl; dr on the last one: Ask any leading feminist if Miley's doing anything more revolutionary than what Madonna did thirty years ago. Unless, you know, you want to turn sexuality into something gross. In which case Miley is a pioneer.