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Please don't think I'm here to complain about rizz or skibidi toilet etc. Thats all fine by me.

The term I dislike strongly is 'eeeh' before you make a statement disagreeing with someone. (This is over text only). Now maybe I've been pavloved bc it's always used by someone disagreeing. But I'm happy with people disagreeing with me normally its just the 'eeeh' or 'erm' that annoys me.

So what's a random term that annoys you?

PS. Saying "eeeh actually 'eeh' is a perfectly fine term" would be a ridiculously easy joke and I will judge you for making it. And I know atleast one person will. Especially bow that I've said all this.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ironically, the phrase "rustles my jimmies" really burns my biscuits.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People ending sentences with “rn”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I'm literally doing that rn

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Please do the needful.

This one really grinds my gears! I think it's because the person can't even be bothered to describe what they want you to do, just go fix it and don't bother me with any details.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • paradigm shift
  • military grade encryption
  • cyber kill chain
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

People using double negatives incorrectly. Like "I didn't do nothing!"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I recently heard someone say after they almost accidentally went in a wrong building entrance, "Good thing I didn't do that or I would regret my life choices."

A bit much for something minor that created no more than two seconds of awkwardness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The replacement of the term “conspiracy theory” with just “conspiracy”.

That’s two different things. If we equate the two semantically we can’t discuss them.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

you can't just say Perchance

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When people say 'like' constantly between sentences or sentence fragments or before every adjective.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

"bend the knee"
"Sweet summer child"
And other phrases from GoT that people now pretend they've been saying their whole lives

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Using the phrase "serious question" or "honest question" will make me immediately assume your question is the exact opposite of that. Probably I'm overreacting, but expecting that anyone might respect that declaration you've made about your own question, that gives me narcissist vibes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's meant like "I'm about to ask what might sound like a dumb question, but I'm genuinely asking, so please take me seriously."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Utilize, when they mean Use.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

leverage

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

"Live. Laugh. Love." or similar.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

"It is what it is."

It is lazy, circular, a cop out and means next to nothing. Vague enough to pass as a wise quip, to some. It is not.

Also not so much a saying per sé, but people who use quotes of famous people at the bottom or ends of emails. As if that implies a personality. If you are going to use something you think sounds smart, at least try to come up with that something yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

“Beloved” in so many articles. Yes I tend to use a specific browser. No, it is not and never will be “beloved”.

That word is so jarring most of the time and seems to be everywhere online in the last two years. I can only assume it’s some sort of SEO, trying to convince Google it’s a personal article or something. I hope to god it’s not ai assuming that’s what attracts our attention

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

My son started saying "what the sigma?" constantly. I've tried to figure out where it came from and only landed on some "Sigma Male" shit on youtube.

Drives me nuts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Start using it yourself. Use it in awkward, wrong, uncool ways. They'll drop that shit like, "What the sigma Dad!?!"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, just "sigma" goes back to sigma male claptrap. But as with all internet memes, it evolved super rapidly and took on layers. "Sigma" started to mean just "the best", not in reference to male hierarchy necessarily. Then there was a cartoon clip with Squidward from SpongeBob where he said "what the sigma" and it went viral.

Websearch "what the sigma meme" today and you will get text and video explanations of the meme for old folks like you and me. I prefer ones from teachers who interact with middle schoolers; our frontline troops facing the bleeding edge of internet memespeak.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"The proof is in the pudding." It makes zero sense! The actual adage is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." It means that a dessert can look perfect and enticing, but if the cook used salt instead of sugar it will taste disgusting.

I don't know what people even think they're saying with "the proof is in the pudding".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

People thinking their clever by making up words that already have a meaning.

"Lawfare" meaning chargingnrich white assholes for the crime they committed

"Disinformatsiya" or however libs spelled it to mean pointing out the hypocrisy of American nationalists.

"Sanewashing" to describe media putting their thumb on the scale for the fascist who wants to cut their taxes.

It implies it's a new phenomenon and not just the current version of whatever propoganda apparatus has been chugging along for decades.

Liberals complain about "sanewashsing" and then in the same breath talk about how cheyney and bush weren't exactly the fucking same as Trump.

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