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.
- vext01 ( @vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ) 36•1 month ago
“I could care less” to mean “I could NOT care less”
- mannycalavera ( @mannycalavera@feddit.uk ) 7•1 month ago
Thing is… this sort of makes sense if you say it with a hint of sarcasm. But curiously the only people that use this phrase are Americans. And we all know how much they understand sarcasm 🤣.
- Da Bald Eagul ( @dabaldeagul@feddit.nl ) 1•1 month ago
Same with “Do you mind doing x?” “Yeah sure”; so you mind doing it? I get what they mean with the response, but it annoys me every time haha
- bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) 25•1 month ago
“Ding ding ding!” When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.
“Meanwhile” in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 9•1 month ago
The entire way recipes are written is trash.
“Add the flour and stir gently”: How much flour? Why do I have to scroll back up to check?!
- bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) 7•1 month ago
It makes sense to have the ingredients first for making a shopping list and prepping. However, I do agree, with recipes being online, it should be a small task to include the quantity in the description too, even if it is adjustable for different servings.
- howrar ( @howrar@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 month ago
Normally, portioning out the ingredients would be the first step of the process and is all done at once.
- SatyrSack ( @SatyrSack@feddit.org ) English3•30 days ago
Probably not normally, but ideally. I doubt mise en place is all that common in most homes.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 month ago
How many tablespoons do you think I own?
Oooh yeah. Even saying, ‘this’.
- ClassifiedPancake ( @ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ) 22•1 month ago
Enshittification. Everyone just learned a new word and has to use it at least once in every comment section to feel smart.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 month ago
Marxists have a hundred years of text dedicated to alienation from labor, the falling rate of profit, degeneration of art and creative disciplines under later capitalism due to the profit motive, cycles of class struggle, all based on a materialist analysis of changing production and class relationsi
But for some reason a trendy term like enshittification that vaguely means things are getting worse, without going into the basis about why they’re currently getting worse, has caught on.
I’m convinced it’s part of the tech grifter trend to take things that were already invented, slap a new name on it, repackage it, and sell it.
- rainynight65 ( @rainynight65@feddit.org ) English5•1 month ago
I suggest you read up a bit on how and by whom the term was coined and what it actually means. It’s by no means ‘vague’ and it is also a bit more than just repackaging and selling something already known. I suspect many people using the term aren’t even fully aware of what it describes and, crucially, what is being proposed to reduce the effects it describes.
- mindaika ( @mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•29 days ago
Sure, but 80% of people stopped reading after that first word because of “socialism”
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) English10•1 month ago
I’m also sick of it, but I also sort of like how it’s gone viral. I had a very non-techy friend mention it to me the other day. I feel like most of the people who I see talking about it are jazzed because it makes them feel seen. My friend, for example, said to me that before she learned of “enshittification”, she felt like she was going mad because of how things don’t seem to work like they used to, especially in tech; she said that for the longest time, she had assumed it must be something that she was doing wrong.
- icerunner_origin ( @icerunner_origin@startrek.website ) 19•1 month ago
Upskill. I’m not ‘upskilling’ someone, I’m training them.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English12•1 month ago
I’m allergic to corpospeak in general.
- thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 4•30 days ago
Can we sync on that real quick? I think we can ideate on some quick wins for your allergy that’ll get you unblocked.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 18•1 month ago
Someone could take all the answers here and create a copypasta equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
- MonkeMischief ( @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 17•1 month ago
I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:
“Be better.” or “Do better.”
The sentiment isn’t terrible, but it’s prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
They’re the same types that appear in comment threads with contradictory arguments to literally fucking anything -
“We should save the whales”
“Yes but my cousin got splashed by a whale on a boat trip as a toddler and now has a terrible phobia that makes her wheeze whenever she sees one. Do you want that, is that what you want?”
“We should plan walkable cities”
“OH MY GOD SHES IN A WHEELCHAIR TOO DO YOU ONLY EVER THINK ABOUT YOURSELF YOU ABLEIST”
😂
My theory is that they’re just unbelievably bo-o-o-o-oring, humourless people with nothing to add to a conversation but a desperate need for attention
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) English5•1 month ago
The wheelchair one (whilst obvious hyperbole) is a great example of why this rhetoric isn’t useful.
Often people who say we should plan walkable cities don’t consider what that would mean for wheelchair users and other disabled people, because they don’t have the lived experience to think along those lines. So it would actually be super useful if someone could say “okay, but what about wheelchair users?” in a constructive way, because there are additional considerations re: pedestrianisation and public transport. Disabled people are way too often treated like an inconvenience or obstacles to progress, and that’s fucking exhausting, so it’s useful to have allies who ask “hey, what about disabled people tho”
The people your comment is about don’t do this. As you highlight, they make things about themselves, and if anything, this makes it harder to have productive conversations about what a ‘walkable city’ for everyone would look like. I suspect that for many of these people, it’s based on a nugget of good intentions inside a blob of insecurity and dread at the state of the world; they feel like they’re not doing enough so they resort to very loudly virtue signalling in the most bizarre ways.
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
See?
The “whilst obvious hyperbole” bit is the clue. The two situations/comments/opinions are just examples, never happened and never will
It wouldn’t have mattered what examples I’d made up, someone like you would come along and go “wELL aKShULLy”
Fucksake!
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) English3•1 month ago
My dude, I’m agreeing with you
Edit: effectively I was saying that I agree with you that there seems to be a particular kind of person who is overly contrarian, very loud and impossible to have productive discussions with.
I felt like the wheelchair example you picked was a great example of how this happens “in the wild”. I wanted to build on your comment by using that example to elaborate on how these contrarian types cause harm, even if they might seem to be concerned and well-intentioned. I found the wheelchair example to be a good one because it is actually something that I’ve seen happen multiple times.
I feel that your reply is an unfair characterisation of my comment. Given how the internet’s communication norms can prime us to read and respond to things in an overly adversarial manner (especially as it’s clear from your original comment that you’ve got way too much experience with silly argumentative types, so I sympathise), I am hoping that your response was based on a misinterpretation of my comment and/or me being insufficiently clear in what I originally wrote (apologies if so).
- kubok ( @kubok@fedia.io ) 16•1 month ago
No, you don’t have a “challenge” for me. You have a problem and are trying to make it mine.
- MonkeMischief ( @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 2•1 month ago
Man if that isn’t just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 16•1 month ago
“living my/your/their best life”
Please gtfo
OK yeah
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 13•1 month ago
im still a bit salty about ‘literally’
also the constant failure to say ‘i could not care less’ correctly
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English3•1 month ago
I don’t mind people using “literally” to refer to things that they don’t literally mean because that’s just perfectly normal exaggeration.
What I hate is that the dictionary definition changed to formalize the nonliteral meaning as a literal meaning.
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
That never bothered me all too much. Then yesterday i watched a video on youtube to kinda doze off. Dude made some insane stuff in Minecraft. Now i usually don’t really watch these videos or Minecraft videos in general. But the production value, time and effort that went into it was beyond everything i have seen so far. The usage of the word literally kept me awake. Every time i had to flinch and at some point i had to turn it off, despite my interest.
- vext01 ( @vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 month ago
RIP “literally”
I literally could not care less about literally. MANY words over time end up meaning the opposite of what they did, its just the nature of how humans use language. I love that we’ve seen this change happen right in front of us.
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 2•1 month ago
congratulations
I presume you must’ve seen em all Lucy
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 1•1 month ago
im just so happy you also have opinions. congrats
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 2•1 month ago
I thought “I could care less” was a sarcastic way of saying “I couldn’t care less”.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 1•30 days ago
You could remove 99.9% of instances of “literally” and it wouldn’t change the meaning of the sentence at all. It’s just like “um” by now.
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 11•1 month ago
“It is what it is”
I get the sentiment behind it, it’s just usually so defeatist/dismissive of a situation to me.
- joelfromaus ( @joelfromaus@aussie.zone ) English1•30 days ago
I’m currently going through a pretty bad divorce where my wife cheated on me, drained my accounts, lawyered up and send a letter demanding $280,000 and isn’t signing documents or responding to her legal council.
I’d love to get it all finalised and end that chapter of my life but realistically I can’t force her to do anything. I can’t make her sign documents, I can’t make her talk to her lawyer. So ultimately it is what it is.
Frankly, that saying has (since our separation) become an anthem to me. I can understand why you’d think it’s defeatism etc if it’s someone speaking of something they can legitimately do something about but truely sometimes it really is what it is.
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 11•1 month ago
Places using “gluten-friendly” to mean “gluten-free”. I am gluten-UNfriendly. I do not want gluten. They’ve tried to be cute and actually managed to make the term mean the opposite of what it’s supposed to.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.earth ) 9•1 month ago
I bake a lot of bread, including for my coeliac stepmother, so I’ve taken to labelling the loaves gluten-free and gluten-expensive
- Evkob ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) 10•1 month ago
I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a “regular coffee”.
Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn’t parse “regular coffee” as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply “coffee”!
I honestly don’t even know why it annoys me this much.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@slrpnk.net ) 9•1 month ago
I’m a waitress and “regular coffee” means different things across regions. Some people mean just “drip, not decaf” with no indication of cream or sugar. Some people mean “drip, black” with no indication of caffeine content. And where I grew up, “regular” means “2 cream 2 sugar”, as in you’d be asked if you wanted your coffee “regular or black”. It’s the worst.
That latte lady was just crazy though… unless she meant “my regular”?
Here a regular coffee would mean a milk based drink. Something like a cappuccino but not quite. Nestle ass drink.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 10•1 month ago
Pah-sketti
You’re 65 Brad, use big boy words.
Is that for spaghetti? I actually love people who naturally say words in a different way. Especially if they speak a different dialect or language.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 3•1 month ago
Yes, for spaghetti.
And yes it’s for people who know they are ‘making a funny’, it doesn’t bother me for kids or others.
I’m with you then. All the food ‘content creators’ and their bs pisses me off
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 9•1 month ago
So many things. In written form, I hate when someone writes “Period.” after they make a point to mean “this can’t be argued” or whatever. My good bitch, I don’t think you understand how arguing works. 😆
“Full stop” is a close second.
- Kalkaline ( @Kalkaline@leminal.space ) 6•1 month ago
It’s a perfectly valid way to win an argument, end of sentence.
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 month ago
Ha serves me right ✌🏻
- everett ( @everett@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 month ago
Q.E.D.
- dustycups ( @prex@aussie.zone ) 5•1 month ago
Q👏E👏D👏
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 3•1 month ago
That’s fine as long as you don’t spell out the periods. 😆
By the by, I’d love to be the guy with the confidence to end an argument with “thus it is proven”. That’d be epic. I think I’ve only ever used QED humorously or ironically.
- uniquethrowagay ( @uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ) 4•1 month ago
“Hands down”
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 2•1 month ago
Yes ugh 😩
- BumpingFuglies ( @BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ) English9•1 month ago
Not a term, but a lack thereof:
People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding “to be”, especially with “needs”, and it’s infuriating.
This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.
Those sound so wrong
- klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) 3•1 month ago
My brother-in-law says the dishes “need washed” and it’s nails on a goddamn chalkboard every time I hear it.
- oktux ( @oktux@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
To quote Shakespeare, “Or not?”