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You Think Too Much and other catchphrases that set my teeth on edge

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The Natural Way

16:55 / 04.07.03

Yes! WEIRD!

We must kill that one.

Along with NINJAS and bloody PIRATES. Y'know why? Not funny. Never has been funny and is as tired and dull as 'Lithers offering up whole sentences as their names.

Maybe I should take this to the hate thread.

The Natural Way

16:57 / 04.07.03

Oh, quickly, on the 'You think too much' thing: I have to agree with Chol. It's not always a bad'n.

But mostly it is.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

17:22 / 04.07.03

Often a little white kid, with a thick Jamaickney accent :

"Ya get me?", as a suffix to practically every third or fourth word.

As in :

"So, right, me an' Malachi, ya get me? We was dahn the shop, ya get me? An', right, the guy, right, in the shop, ya get me? Right, that guy, he says "Oi!", ya get me? "Are you knickin' stuff?!" ya get me? An' Malachi, right, he says "Nah man", ya get me? etc.

NO I FUCKING DON'T GET YOU AT ALL YOU IRRITATING CULTURALLY CONFUSED IGNORANT FUCK.

17:58 / 04.07.03

like like like like like.
I can bear, and he was like "..."
But I refuse to stand and listen to it being every second word for no apparent reason. Ick.

18:18 / 04.07.03

Bling.

When exactly did selling your soul to get something innately worthless but shiny become a statement about how cool you are?

No, don't answer that, just feel the "hating".

02:06 / 05.07.03

Re: 'You think too much' -- it's most particularly when it's not intended to be offensive that it offends, for at best it's condescending. Nothing worse than being soothed when you feel decidedly unsoothy.

pointless and uncalled for

09:03 / 05.07.03

Why don't you get a real job?

What's up, do I scare you? Huh, Are you frightened of someone who doesn't share your goal of clawing their way up the frail ladders of middle management, desperately trying to keep from the keen sight of the axe of down-sizing, vicariously living through your kids who are the sole reason you dedicate every waking moment to earning money so that you can overprovide and coddle them for all you're worth? Well I guess you'll be able to gloat over your life choice when you get skull-fucked by those above you in order that they may get a better bonus at christmas and your oh so wonderful children are busy not caring about you.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:14 / 07.07.03

"culturally confused"

As opposed to keeping the bloodline pure, right?

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

07:41 / 07.07.03

When people say "x is like y, only more so."

Sheesh!! That really gets my ripped-to-the-bollocks-on-goofballs goat.

Wankers.

10:32 / 07.07.03

Z is:
Like x meets y.
Like x on INSERT DRUG HERE.
Like x for the 21st century.
The perfect antidote to x.
x as reimagined by INSERT CULT WRITER/DIRECTOR HERE.
Etcetera...

Of course, I've been guilty of a few of these myself.

10:39 / 07.07.03

'disinterested' is gradually coming to mean uninterested'

Amen, sister (in pedantry).

Some psychiatric terminology in common misuse that pisses me off:

Schizophrenia does not mean the same thing as "in two minds". Nor is it the same as "multiple personality disorder".

And people who are unhappy, even very unhappy, aren't depressed. They are just miserable. People who really are "depressed" are way beyond ordinary unhappiness. They're licking their fingers and sticking them in electric sockets, if they can be arsed to move at all.

Use of the phrase I'm mad, me and the word crazy should be punishable by incarceration in Strangeways for at least twenty years. A better term would be "irritating".

Also, whilst I'm in this particularly intolerant Monday morning mood:

People who have bad headaches do not have to call them migraines. If you'd ever had a migraine, you'd know the ****ing difference.

Funky is an stupid, ugly word and deserves a smacking.

Special has ceased to have any distinct meaning at all as an adjective and should be posted abroad and kept there. If used at all, it should be accompanied by the adverbial phrase "so fucking..." à la Creep. Otherwise, only Haus can use it authoritatively, with an Edith Evans /Lady Bracknell tone.

Enough. Off to chew on some furniture...

11:38 / 07.07.03

"Y'nar-meeen"

I'm sorry! What?! Did you just ask if I understood or are you calling upon some love-craftian deity?!!

"'nuff said"

[sob]

"Dude"

Yes, I know this one will attract the pyrotechnics [especially from Quantum

] but ... oh I give up

"Sore-id"

I do apologise but do you not have the letter 'T' in your alphabet. Is that why you cannot understand the concept of Twat?!

"e,f,g,Hate-tzch,I,J"

That is not even funny, just ill educated. You should be locked in a room with people who point index fingers like guns and wink.

14:42 / 07.07.03

a mate of mine who I've been working for the past month had a tremendously awful habit of saying: "Not being funny..." just before he would say something that, indeed, was not funny.

Sort of like "Not being funny, but cancers a killer".

Okay so I made that up and it was usually said when getting out of doing something for the client because it cost too much, or giving me a bollocking for some school boy error I'd made (or how the profanisarus puts it "Piss with the lid down") but I heard it enough times over those four weeks that I considered stabbing him with something blunt. And this is an old friend of mine too.

Oh and I've found the phrase "really" does work in msn but only if you put a smiley face after it, either winking or sticking it's tongue out, depends what you're responding to.

15:07 / 07.07.03

The use of the phrase "urban" as a euphemism for black. If you mean black then just say so. Funky when used to describe anything other than a style of music. Both used by morons, and everytime I hear them I want to scream

16:55 / 07.07.03

phyrephox: fuckin a.
i remember last year sometime starbucks opened a store in harlem, and they proudly proclaimed it their "first urban store." uh, what? they have stores in urban centers all over the world.
IIRC they were taken to task a bit for it.

17:13 / 07.07.03

"I like you, but just as a friend."

I have heard this phrase way too many times in my short life. It always hurts, but it is far worse when she cannot look you in the eye as she says it, and it seems as though she is coldly, mechanically reading the words off of a cue card about three yards in the distance over my shoulder.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

19:30 / 07.07.03

"culturally confused"

As opposed to keeping the bloodline pure, right?

Culture and blood having what direct relationship exactly? The same one as Mockney and Patois?

Ooh, I see, I'm a racist

*sigh*

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:40 / 07.07.03

Well, Mu, what on earth *do* you mean by "culturally confused" in this context?

Don't worry, though, you're not the only alone in this thread. This is those-non-WASP-people-talk-funny central.

21:04 / 07.07.03

i find it mildly amusing (with you, with you, not at you) that everyone gets so angered at these things. some of them are a little angering i suppose, but i have learned to live with the fact that most folks use language in ways you would never dream of. nothing makes a girl seem less attractive to me, for example, than her use of TXT abbreviations. C U L8R? no. not until you can spell, binty.

like i say, though it's only a wee thing, and i built a bridge, got over it, and now reside happily on the happy bank. there is more sex on the happy bank, albeit with functional dyslexic wannabes.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

21:28 / 07.07.03

Hey, I just wanted to SHOUT because I was drunk as a particularly slaughtered monkey at the time.

I think I meant "You are from St. Albans / Hemel Hempstead / Stevenage, and live in a 5 bedroom house with two bathrooms (en suite) and attend Grammar School, or will soon. Why are you electing to speak as though you grew up selling drugs in Sao Paolo / Jamaica / Haiti and have no education whatsoever, with a little bit of Hackney / Edmonton / Tottenham mockney thrown in, just for good measure".

If you sit on a bus, daily, surrounded by it, you surely know what I mean? If not, seek out a TV interview with the Blazin' Squad.

Ya get me?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

21:30 / 07.07.03

Oh, and the word 'arks' instead of 'ask' in any sentence.

Why?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

21:35 / 07.07.03

This is those-non-WASP-people-talk-funny central.

If you can point to an example to back this up that'd be just dandy.

22:03 / 07.07.03

i think they elect to speak that way because no one likes posh kids and more of them get beaten up.

that, and the fact that hip hop is the mainstay of the youth culture of this and other countries, a musical style that emphasises being 'real' and from the streets.

i would rather you thought i was a yardie than a preppie.

22:04 / 07.07.03

but then you knew that.

22:08 / 07.07.03

Oh, and the word 'arks' instead of 'ask' in any sentence.

Why?

Maybe because The Man selling trainers, CDs and mobile phones to them have given them to believe that's how cool and sexy people pronounce the word. They're young. They want to get laid. Hell, I'd give it I go if I thought I'd get away with it.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

22:27 / 07.07.03

Hence 'marksing tape' when painting the house, Jim Carrey in comedy classic 'The Marks', and The 12 Tarks of Hercules.

Plus the Eric Clapton lyrics, as sung by Damage

'And when she arks me
do I look alright?'

Yes, it is all a bit anal retentive this, isn't it

23:16 / 07.07.03

This is those-non-WASP-people-talk-funny central. - Flyboy

If you can point to an example to back this up that'd be just dandy. - Mu

I don't think that Flyboy is entirely alone in his discomfort at some of the examples being put forth here. But I am not sure that responding to this challenge is going to be at all constructive. Personally, I like hearing people who speak differently to me.

What does irritate me slightly is Oirish pubs, replete with leprechauns and shamrock (and, in Sitges, a sign saying "!!!YES!WERE STRAIGHT!!!"). Not really a catchphrase though.

23:22 / 07.07.03

me too.

i love the differences in dialect and accent, and i love the variety of reasons for which they occur.

embracing my brothers and sisters.

be more like me, why can't you?

03:25 / 08.07.03

The Birmingham accent is shit, though.

The Last Telephone

04:42 / 08.07.03

The Birmingham accent is shit, though.

The Birmingham accent is pretty non-descript - it's the Black Cooountraay accent which offends most people.

My own personal teethgrinder is also 'I'm not being funny, but...' Well you're not, so I'll just walk away whilst you're talking if that's okay. Arggh!!

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

08:22 / 08.07.03

Lurid, Flyboy, everyone feeling uneasy at some of the examples being given : you think too much

08:25 / 08.07.03

nah, mate, you dont think enough, innit.

you need to think more, ya get me?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

10:06 / 08.07.03

I'll fink it fru.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

10:57 / 08.07.03

Actually what bugs me is people in North America who affect "britishisms" or pseudo-english accents. Man this is such shite! *holds a peace sign backwards*. What a git! Thats Bullocks! Some of the people who do it seem to be sex pistols fans the rest are me.

*

18:36 / 08.07.03

Whatever, homie.

That's so totally less annoying than the people in north america who actually use AMERICANISMS. Bleah. Gag me with a stick.

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