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Words or phrases that annoy you (even if you can't explain why) . . .
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She’ll be pleased to hear that the anti-labels brigade is being sued by Dymo and Avery.
Mildly annoying
Bussin', Gaslight, Ghost, Yeet
Rather annoying
Nek minnit, GOAT, Totes
Super annoying
My truth, YOLO, LOL
Most annoying
Birthing person
"My kids" - Spoken by teachers referring to the children they teach.
I'd argue it's a golden time in anime history! The two most seminal works of modern anime both come from that era, Akira and Cowboy Bebop.
Bussin', Gaslight, Ghost, Yeet
Rather annoying
Nek minnit, GOAT, Totes
Super annoying
My truth, YOLO, LOL
Most annoying
Birthing person
"My kids" - Spoken by teachers referring to the children they teach.
I've never used the word "Japanimation" but it sounds like enjoying 80s and 90s dubbed anime is a bad thing???
I'd argue it's a golden time in anime history! The two most seminal works of modern anime both come from that era, Akira and Cowboy Bebop.
Ouch. Let me perhaps offer some perspective. As one who has taught kids for about 20 years now, I use that phrase with great affection. I am in no way under the delusion that I am replacing their parent(s) or can make parental decisions for them, but I do care for each and every one as if they were my own during the time we're together--that is all I mean by the phrase. I even had one boy tell me he thinks of me as a second step-dad. Anyway, I guess if it were a teacher who didn't really care about their students that used that phrase, I could see it being annoying due to its insincerity.
Watch the dubbed version of Macross: Do You Remember Love and tell me the 80's dubbing was good with a straight face. Compare 80's and 90's sub vs dub. The difference is as great as the difference between medium rare Waygu beef steak vs well done Select beef steak.
The voice acting didn't improve until the mid 2000's, when the decided to hire real actors to do the dubbing. The latest anime has quality dubbing. The only reason I still prefer sub is some references are lost in translation.
I'm actually looking for that, so I can compare it to Robotech. I finally got through the Macross Saga before getting to Southern Cross, and I get it; I was a Miriya Sterling person, but now I'm straight Lisa Hayes.
Offtopic, but here we go! 😁
BL.
I forgot about how much I dislike/hate this word.
I had known about that term/acronym for a long time, but one time a coworker was showing me some video on his FB from a Beyonce concert he went to, and there was an animated goat (as in, the animal) GIF on the video of the concert. I asked him what was up with that and he's like, "Uh, it's just slang." Then a few seconds later it dawned on me, and I felt stupid that I had asked--just never seen someone use a literal "goat" to mean "GOAT" 🤦🏼♂️
As a child, I remember picking up books that had nothing but Peanuts/Charlie Brown strips in it. every page had a 3-panel strip on it. One of them was with Charlie Brown on the pitchers mound, with his pitching deciding the outcome of the game.. And with him thinking which one is he going to be: the hero, or the goat.
In short, back in earlier times, goat meant the bad guy, the or the loser.
It's like "cougar": It's a bad guy, or is it a older women seeing a younger guy!?!? 🤯🤷♂️
BL.
This isn't an annoying phrase to me, but one I just never heard before, and can't seem to find additional info on it. Anyone remember the late 60s/early 70s sitcom Family Affair? In one episode, Buffy says of her teacher, "Miss Cummings is neato basso" (pronounced NEE-toh BOSS-oh). I've heard "neato" before (slang for "neat", in the sense of "great"), of course, but not "basso" (outside of a musical context, in which it means a bass singer, which obviously wouldn't make sense to describe a female teacher, lol). Obviously just another way of saying she's really great, but I've just never heard it before!
Hmm.. the only thing that I can think of when I hear something like that is what Robert Palmer did on his 1988/1989 album, Heavy Nova. His concept for it was to combine the rhythms of heavy metal (which at that time his concept of "heavy" wasn't really heavy, but more hard rock) with bossanova.
He achieved it with Heavy Nova, because songs like Simply Irresistible and his cover of the Gap Band's Early in the Morning were straight hits.
But Neato Basso? That reminds me of some messed up concept of Heavy Nova that doesn't hit too well.
BL.
I'll just tell ya right now—I'm not one of those "cool kids" that uses those kinds of phrases. That one would go on my list of annoying phrases...
Funnily enough, I used to use the following all the time when I was a child, and never knew what it truly meant. It would take me over 30 years to finally figure it out.. when it was used to describe a former POTUS.
Watch Woman Flirt With ‘Fine’ Obama At Voter Rally In Detroit
The former president talked about how being on the campaign trail is more difficult for him now than when he was younger.
BL.
Adults using teens/kids slang feels so...
Even my kids roll their eyes at me when I try talking in the teen vernacular.😌
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but "media consumption." As in, "this large display is great for media consumption." Why not just say "viewing media" instead? "Consumption" conjures a mental image of someone literally eating or drinking something, lol! I guess it wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't so overused.
I admit I get triggered when people say like as if its proper in every sentence.
e.g
i am like totally bleeding in my underwear, like totally.
e.g
i am like totally bleeding in my underwear, like totally.
"Demoed".
Dear God.
What is wrong with using the (full, unabbreviated) verb "demonstrated", instead?
Dear God.
What is wrong with using the (full, unabbreviated) verb "demonstrated", instead?
When overgrown, lazy children order in a bar, cafe or restaurant with the tactless “Uh Yeah Can I Get Uh” instead of MAY I PLEASE HAVE:
How much harder is that to say? And quantifiably more polite.
How much harder is that to say? And quantifiably more polite.
This.
"Gaslighting" is supposed to refer to a kind of psychological abuse where you cause someone to doubt their sanity (from the eponymous film in which a woman is led to believe she's losing her mind so she'll be institutionalized and the perpetrator will have full access to her estate). Ever since the term blew up on the internet, it's now used so loosely that it's losing its meaning and significance: people now use it any time their perspective clashes with someone else's, which is not what it was intended to describe ("we disagree on what happened, so you're gaslighting me!"). Along with "narcissist", it's become the go-to psychological evaluation of one's ex-partner: we're all innocent "empaths" and our exes are all gaslighting narcissists.
Doesn’t the word gaslight also mean this? From the Merriam Webster dictionary: ”to grossly mislead or deceive(someone) especially for one's own advantage”This.
"Gaslighting" is supposed to refer to a kind of psychological abuse where you cause someone to doubt their sanity (from the eponymous film in which a woman is led to believe she's losing her mind so she'll be institutionalized and the perpetrator will have full access to her estate). Ever since the term blew up on the internet, it's now used so loosely that it's losing its meaning and significance: people now use it any time their perspective clashes with someone else's, which is not what it was intended to describe ("we disagree on what happened, so you're gaslighting me!"). Along with "narcissist", it's become the go-to psychological evaluation of one's ex-partner: we're all innocent "empaths" and our exes are all gaslighting narcissists.
From Wiktionary:
"Loose use of the term, to include unintentional or inadvertent gaslighting or even just any dishonesty, biased efforts at persuasion, or putting down of someone, have contributed to a degradation in its usefulness in describing the more specific type of behavior."
That's exactly what I'm describing (although I have observed an even looser usage than what's quoted here, to refer to any discrepancy of perspectives in a relationship. It's natural for two people in a relationship to sometimes see things differently, to be affected by something differently and this can lead to a conflict. It does not mean one is being psychologically manipulative). I'm arguing that this "loose use" is pernicious and undermines the more sinister manipulation it was coined to denote.
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