"Innovation". The US leads on "innovation". Uber, AirBnB, Apple, are all innovative companies and that's why the US economy is so dynamic.
China had trains that go 400km/h. France invented the internet basically the same time the US did. The US innovates nothing except scams, like unlicensed taxis with an app or shitty media beamed into your brain 24/7, same as it always has.
For similar reasons the word "Opportunity" makes my skin crawl because usually "Opportunity" means "Something horrible/tragic we can exploit."
There’s a great Thomas Frank essay about the word “vibrant” that’s similar. Companies need to be “innovative,” cities need to be “vibrant” ( to attract innovative companies of course).
"Let that sink in."
I would have been able to think about the thing and its implications even if you didn't order me to, please stopany of the stock :reddit-logo: responses, particularly "ah, the ol' reddit switcharoo" makes me want to reach into my screen and just slap a motherfucker
edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Honestly the Reddit phrases don't bother me nearly as much as the obscenely long "quote offs" whenever someone mentions a movie or videogame that is a Certified Reddit Classic(tm). Those would make me just leave the thread, since it's the same 5-10 media-proporties, and the same scenes / quotes every time. After a month of using Reddit, you just wanted to make a million accounts and mass-downvote all these freaks.
One time I got essentially demoted from a vitally important (and very enjoyable) position because "it's not value added right now". Fuck the corpos and their feet-licking.
The cope, seethe, cringe, etc line of insults that seem to have wormed their way out from 4chan to the rest of the internet in the past decade.
I've long believed that cringe culture is a gateway drug to fascism. Fascists are huge on upholding "normalcy" as a moral imperative.
Something funny about Nazis saying "cope and seethe" when their ideology is literally the "cope and seethe' ideology.
I've started see "Toon" be used for ttrpg player characters and its been irking me like nothing else.
Dnow if its me but "sweetheart" and "love" used in the stinky nonce brit context when referring to a woman. It always comes across as incredibly patronising to me.
Infact most of the british dialect pisses me off to no end
yeah, it is annoying, it can sometimes be seen when Americans get an interest in (association) football.
Synonyms for 'eat' and 'food'. I am dealt significant psychic damage whenever I read the phrase 'snacking on'
it annoys me to an unreasonable degree when people describe food as "yummy"
I didn't realize I had this aversion but now I do
"Who wants some yummy noms? Om nom nom, delish!"
POTUS, SCOTUS and any other words that are way to silly sounding for serious conversation
more like SCrOTeUS am I right?
early in my marriage many years ago i made the mistake of calling my wife 'the wife' to a friend and she heard me lol. last time i made that mistake.
I just thought of another one "drip"
I know it means "stylish" but it sounds like "so sweaty that they're dripping" to me
man, I have a bunch of these. Maybe most annoying is the very self-serious tone taken by NYT columnists, like when they insist on saying "the novel coronavirus" or "Mr. Obama" when we know who or what they're referring to. I also hate the overused cliche that appears in every movie for some reason: "This time, there's no turning back." Or: "You understand there's no turning back"
hahahah. Too good. "You'll have to find someone else. I'm out." The studios love the "get together for one last job" story
I also hate the overused cliche that appears in every movie...
"You Just Don't Get It, Do You?" - A Montage of Cinema's Worst Writing Cliche - YouTube
if "could care less" and "couldn't care less" mean the same thing, then the word "not" means nothing, which is completely unhinged
If I care about something it’s from 0-100%. I couldn’t care less = My caring is at 0%, there is no room to lower how much I care. I could care less = I care like 5%, not much but enough that I could care less than I do.
