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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] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

“Not me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

But that is them accepting it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Bemused

It's used incorrectly so often that even when I suspect it's being used correctly I can't be sure. At this point its ambiguity makes it a bad word choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

What's the correct usage? and the wrong one you've been hearing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Correct: confused or perplexed

Incorrect: amused

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Property, when referring to a house/home.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Pah-sketti

You're 65 Brad, use big boy words.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

actually huge pet peeve when people write out erm at all. also poor public speaking really bothers me. slow, with "um"s and "so like"s, monotone. really, really makes a work meeting drag by

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Trump, Zuckerberg, Musk, Gates....

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Enshitification

A meaningless buzzword made up by nostalgia blinded millennials.

Also Saint Patty's day. God dam plastic paddies.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 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] 9 points 14 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hit your kids harder, dude.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?".

-Bender Rodriguez

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

“Hang in there” bothers me for some reason.

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