Words/phrases that piss you off

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Nothing directly comes to mind, although I do make the effort to point out that proper Latin didn't have soft 'c's, and that Caesar was pronounced Kaesar(hence: the German name for 'Emperor' is Kaiser). That and that the english word 'cut' is derivative of 'caed', which would have to be pronounced with a hard 'c'.

Our latin teacher always said that noone actually knows if it's pronounced 'ts' or 'k'. Brought up the russian 'Zar/Tzar' as a reason why it might have been pronounced 'ts'.

Germany provides a more faithful link in my opinion(recordkeeping was horrendous back in the day, so I'll agree with you; it's just my own leanings), as it was fashioned from the ruins of the Holy Roman Empire.

It would also make sense that the language changed due to Rome being a bit thinly spread. It was a vast, sprawling empire to be sure, but it wasn't populated exclusively by Romans. Perchance that the individual dialects were absorbed into Latin, and that's why we have soft/hard c conflict? Again though, it's supposition and assumption. I don't usually bring it up unless it's an egregious example

 

[Mikeybb]

'Shitlord', 'pissbaby' whatever. The words themselves don't piss me off, it's the idea behind them.

They're politically correct insults, aimed at not offending people because slurs are so bad... Never mind the bullshit that passes for a slur nowadays like 'idiot' or 'stupid'.

So yeah. God forbid you actually insult someone with your insult.

Shitlord demonstrates a vilification of upper class or aristocratic individuals based solely upon their background.
Lord is attached to a negative term and treated like a negative term.
Furthermore, infantilization of piss, by attaching it to the term 'baby' is offensive to an already stigmatized group, that is adults with incontinence issues who already mocked too much for a medical condition beyond their control.

Sorry.

I just wanted to illustrate you can dig enough to be 'legitimately' offended at any insult.
Granted, there are some that are genuinely offensive terms, but many receive this additional stigma of usage based on additional criteria applied beyond the context of the highlighted use.

As to my own phrase?

Triple A or AAA when in reference to a game.
For some reason, ever since I heard this phrase, it raised my hackles at the every utterance of it.
Now it's become so ubiquitous that exposure has resulted in me being a little more tolerant of it, but I still feel a ghost of that revulsion tickle across my thoughts whenever I read or hear it.

 

[L. Declis]

Well, you've put a good deal more effort into the attempt to explain it than anyone else has for me, and that deserves some genuine commendation. That said, it doesn't really resolve my confusion over the term. I frequently hear Anita Sarkeesian described as a cultural Marxist, for example, and not a single thing you've listed here matches with any opinion I've ever heard her espouse.

Well, I'll try and apply it to her.

Let's take the idea that gaming is largely a male hobby (Come on...). Anita is trying to force the majority of male gamers who may be apathetic to the female minority and force them to be equal; so rather than the male game industry cater for the male audience, she wants them to cater equally to the male and female audience at a rate of 50:50 or more.

She also dislikes many very male aspects of game culture; trash talk, "guy saves the girl", "girl being kickass is co-opting the man", reliance on violence and so on. By forcing her feminist views on a large un-feminist hobby (or to be more accurate, a large apathetic audience), she is implying that there should be an equal field even if the hobby is not really equal between men and woman.

Plus, some people just don't understand the phrase and throw it around willy-nilly, see "misogyny" for the example from the other side.

Social Justice warrior. IT's just dumb.

Its like whiteknight or Mary sue. meaningless buzzwords that idiots use when they cannot have a civil discussion with people.

Besides SJW is easy to replace just plain 'Arsehole' will do

Some Arsehole: ALL White men should die.
ME:Fuck off Arsehole.

See how easy that is?!

Yes, but Social Justice Warrior is a subset of arseholes, like chips are a subset of potatoes; we need words to be more specific.

Genderfluid.

It sounds like cum.

Oh, thanks dude, now I'll never unhear that.

Reminds me of the phrase "man batter".

I'm about as far away as you can get from the internet's brand of Social Justice advocates without actually just being a massive racist, but if I ever did suffer a massive brain hemorrhage and begin fighting the good fight against The (White CIS Hetero) Man, I'd definitely call myself a Social Justice Commissar. Like Lenin said, the term reeks of blood!

God yes, Social Justice Commissar is awesome as a title. I may award it to people.

 

[Varrdy]

"Cray-Cray" - 'the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway? Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned "batshit"? Cray-Cray sounds like a cartoon character.

 

[DaWaffledude]

"Cisgender"
Actually, a lot if the Tumblrisms. Most of them. I don't know when everyone started deciding everything needed a special word and a flag and a dedicated movement.

I also hate being refered to as "mate", it sounds really condecending.

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If people could carry on a discussion about Gamergate without using any of those words, that be just greeeeeeeat.

... Toblerone?

 

[Barbas]

"Cray-Cray" - 'the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway? Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned "batshit"? Cray-Cray sounds like a cartoon character.

For shizzle.

OT: I came across someone on YouTube a few years ago who kept signing off every comment with "Anti-racist is code for anti-white". "Marxism"/"Marxist" also gets bounced around more frequently and with more vigour than Justin Beiber in General Population the ball in a squash court.

Fit.
Used in a sentence. "That girl/boy/puddle of primordial ooze is well fit."

Just...no. It makes me want to punch whoever says it.

"No, she is well up for it, though. She's slack."

Sometimes they tickle the funny bone.

 

[imperialwar]

I've always hated "Fiance" as in the person you have asked to marry you. It just sounds wrong.

Political Correctness: nope sorry you can leave the room now thanks, it's my opinion and I will express it. If that offends you, then you can express that too. Doesn't mean I will change my opinion or the way I present it. Not everyone has to agree on everything.

The "Fat Gene" nope sorry doesn't exist. You can have a genetic disposition to poorly metabolize energy, granted, but genes don't make you fat. Unless they mutate your body function (normally the thyroid).

The "C" word. I used to hear it so much at my former work from the indigenous population here, that I used to get down eye to eye with them and tell them it was against my religion to even hear that word. You'd be surprised how effective that was.

 

[babinro]

In reality none...there's no trigger word or phrase that actually piss me off but rather ones that just irk me. Sadly, these words appear EVERYWHERE online. For context, keep in mind that I have never owned a mobile device (cell, smartphone, tablet and the like).

I'm referring to intentional misspelling of words as an attempt to fit in to a community, joke, troll and the like.
- lawls
- gears
- urn (referring to run)
- teh
- 100kk

So on and so fourth...there are hundreds of these that you'll get exposed to within various gaming and social communities and they all rub me the wrong way. The absolute worst offenders being the ones that aren't actually shortening a word in any way like gears, urn, and teh.

 

[Rattja]

Hm I would not exactly say it pisses me off, but it REALLY bothers me..
Abbreviations, all of them.

People, can you please stop using those things unless you are 100% sure everyone in question knows what it means? We seriously need some kind of rule set for using those things, as it's rather annoying reding anything or hearing anything only to have to look it up to figure what the hell it is about. Took me forever to figure out what SJW meant, because I never bothered to look it up.
Also, at this rate they are already overlapping all over the place too, so sometimes I have no idea if it means what I think it means. OP still says "Overpowered" in my head whenever I see it.

Just think about it okey? I know it saves time, but do something like LoL (Leauge of legends) and then you can use LoL as much as you want because then everyone knows what it means from that point on.

 

[CaitSeith]

"An opinion is never wrong" WTF!? I've never understood where that freaking lie was born. It sounds like something they were told as small children to boost their self-esteem or something.

 

[L. Declis]

Political Correctness: nope sorry you can leave the room now thanks, it's my opinion and I will express it. If that offends you, then you can express that too. Doesn't mean I will change my opinion or the way I present it. Not everyone has to agree on everything.

The "C" word. I used to hear it so much at my former work from the indigenous population here, that I used to get down eye to eye with them and tell them it was against my religion to even hear that word. You'd be surprised how effective that was.

Can I just...

So, you're free to express anything you want, from racist to sexist to unpopular decisions, but if someone says "****", you have a problem with that?

Seems a bit contradictory.

That said,

"Swearing is the sign of a small vocabulary"

I fucking hate it when people spout this crap; for fuck's sake, swearing can be used for dealing with many shitty situations; like when you're dealing with a ****, someone is being a twat or an absolute shit, or when you're just dealing with the cum-stain of humanity.

Don't bloody act like you're the shit because you don't swear; bad vocabulary is not fucking swearing, bad vocabulary is when people say "Yeah, bruv, like, tots, yeah, I tots respect ya, blud, bruv, you know." That's fucking bad vocab, now piss off.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

"Because reasons"
I despise this. It basically says "well I can't understand why someone thinks/feels a certain way, so I'm going to act like it's so far beneath me that I don't have to actually attempt to understand someone else's perspective."

"Faux News"
I don't even like Fox News, but Christ, "faux news" wasn't a particularly edgy or smart insult 5 years ago, and it hasn't gotten any better with time.

"__________ privilege"
It would require a very long discussion about why I hate the use of the phrase "_______ privilege", but suffice to say it does piss me off. People are individuals, they are not the color of their skin, their sexuality, their religion, or their gender; treat them like individuals.

"What about the menz!"/"they r tryin to tak away our freedomz!"/"they wnt my vidger-gamez!" etc. etc. etc.
I got it, there are people out there you likely disagree with and have decided that you know what they are thinking, and boy are they thinking stupid stuff! What are you, 7? Make a coherent argument, you're not impressing anyone by acting like a child and doing mock voices of people with whom you disagree.

 

[renegade7]

"I'm just sayin'" Really? Do you have Tourette's syndrome or something? You suddenly had to say those words without any particular meaning behind them in that exact moment because they like felt good in your mouth or something?

Sheeple. This deserves a special place in the litany of words used exclusively by morons. Whining about "the corporations" and thinking you're being contrarian and edgy by complaining about Big Pharma/Big Oil/Big Whatever isn't really a whole lot else but annoying.

The term "rape culture" when paired with "consent". The idea that there need to be PSAs carefully explaining to men what sexual consent is is not only insulting, it's completely ineffective. It implies an understanding of sexual violence slightly below that gained by watching Law and Order SVU for a few hours (is that still running?). Rape is not a problem because a large number of people don't understand what is and isn't violating someone. It's a problem because people are well aware of what "violating someone" means and choose to do it anyway. I agree that there is are cultural elements that condone or at least exacerbate sexual violence problems, but the thinking that the problem is nothing more than a need for a clearer definition of consent is sending the message that men are either stupid or incapable of respect: do they really think it's going to come as a surprise to anyone that getting someone so drunk that they can't stand up and then forcing yourself on them is considered a horrible thing to do? Rape is a problem, but the reason that throwing around the word "consent" bothers me is that it's a half-assed, zero-effort solution that won't get anything done at all.

Oppression. Are some groups more advantaged than others by virtue of factors not under their control? Absolutely: some people will get a better lot in life as a result of being born prettier, smarter, and/or wealthier. I myself am not happy with the situation of women in technical jobs, for instance, where women often have to work twice as hard as men and still get passed over for jobs despite better credentials than competing male applicants, that's disgusting. There certainly is discrimination in society against a whole multitude of different kinds of people. But "oppression" isn't the word for that. "Oppression" is what happens in third-world dictatorships. "Oppression" is when you live in fear that you might accidentally offend the ruling party and be taken away in the middle of the night by the secret police. Those 200 girls who were kidnapped by political extremists and very nearly sold into sex slavery just for wanting to go to school were "oppressed".

"Check your privilege". Seriously, screw off. I acknowledge that I got lucky in life in some ways, but I'm pretty insulted by the notion that everything was just handed to me, or, even worse, that I'm part of some elitist class that seeks for nothing but to keep people down. I will admit that I have the privilege of wealth because of my parents, but that's it. I paid my own way through college with scholarships and work study, and I'm actually being paid to go to graduate school. I rarely asked my parents for anything growing up. But that's the end of my "natural" privilege. I certainly have others too, but here's the wonderful thing, such things can be earned. How did I get "thin privilege"? By dieting and exercising. How did I get "smart privilege"? By studying. Telling me to "check my privilege" is an insult to me because it belittles what I've accomplished in life and, moreover, attempts to pin all of society's problems on me just because of who I happened to be born to.

"Scientism". Obviously, because my background is scientific and technical, in many ways I try to look at things from a purely material and analytical perspective. I think in numbers and, in evaluating and analyzing the world, I see it as a set of data. I believe in scientism in that I think that reason and analysis of evidence are the most effective way to earn a factual and, more importantly, useful understanding of the world. However, most people seem to conflate it with reductionism, and they fail even to understand that, thinking it to mean that my interest in understanding the world means that I consider things worthless, ie, that saying that all things are ultimately made up of subatomic particles means I see people as nothing more valuable than a pile of quarks and leptons.

I could go on, but I need to stop before this turns into an 8 page rant.

 

[Eddie the head]

"Hater"

It basically demonizes anyone that has a different opinion... thats it. Something isn't your cup of tea? Have legitimate reasons as to why? Well too bad, you're labeled as a cynical loser who goes out of their way to seek pleasure in disliking what other people like.
And not only has this fallacy been spread... but dear god almighty, the word just sounds stupid.

You use that term in an argument, you lost the argument, period.

Ok that's a good one. I forgot about it. I guess you could say I don't like words and phrases that marginalize others opinions as disingenuous. So guess "Privilege" as well.

 

[ObserverStatus]

Cinematic: Constantly used to excuse everything wrong with modern games, from railroading, to quick time events, to 30 FPS locked games.

Political Correctness: Because most of the time when I hear someone say they're sick of political correctness, what they really mean is they're sick of not getting enough support and encouragement when they are being rude toward women and people of minorities.

Emotional Intelligence: I get the concept, but the people who constantly bring it up tend to be stuck up douche bags.

 

[laggyteabag]

"SJW". No, I don't care about how/when it is used with Gamergate or whatever. I just don't. What I do care about, is that it just sounds nasty. Not the meaning, I'm not referring to that either, it's just the combination of letters that sounds off. Bleugh.

"Herbs". No, not "Herbs", but "Herbs". Y'know? How the Americans say it? With the silent "H" because that is apparently too much work? "'erbs"? Really? Icky.

2K14, or just any 2K__. IS IT SO HARD TO USE A GODDAMN 0?!

"Jelly" as in "Jealous". It just sounds nasty. When did it become so difficult to use the whole word?

 

[AkaDad]

Totes
Adorbs
Preggers
Dudebro
Cray-Cray
White Knight
Mancave
Epic
SJW
Jelly
Deets
Sheeple
Mangina
Libtard/Conservatard
Feminazi
Obola
YOLO
Rethuglican

I'm sure there's some more that I'm not remembering.

 

[The_Waspman]

I know its been said already, but as an English person, I've got to say it really irks me whenever I hear "I could care less".

Addicting is another one that really irritates me. As does Quadrilogy.

And as much as the term Grammar Nazi annoys me (as well as any other kind of Nazi, really) I'm someone who really dislikes it when people use words incorrectly. Like Irony, though I guess I have to give people a free pass on that one, otherwise I'd be a hypocrite.

People who use Douche as an insult. So I'm a shower in France am I? Well... ok then..?

What really really makes me sad though is the bastardization of the term 'meme'. Because now its used to describe any stupid little thing that takes off on the internet, and that isn't what meme's are...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Pretty much all the currently running buzz words, you know, misogynist, racist, sexist, SJW, Gamergate, etc.
For most of the "ist" words, it's pretty much because I'm fairly certain the people using them don't even know what the words mean.

EDIT:

Preggers
Dudebro

Shit I forgot about those! Yes anything with the word "Bro" in it gets on my nerves. And while I hadn't really thought about it much, Preggers is also a really stupid term.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Oh there is a lot to hate... list time!!

Being called "mate", unless intentionally ironic, i will grate your face to meet its fate.

"Fit" ughhhh
"Epic"
"Adam sandler"
"insert macho bullshit phrase here"

Also people who say internet anachronims like "lol" instead of..you know...actually laughing. CBA to put up with your bullshit.. GTFOOHYCT!
Hyperbole got overused a bit...but im over it now.
Oh and all the ones in the first post too. SJW is quite a pathetic one.