Random things you hate

[Emelee]

Really?
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I said I hated the WORD, not the visual imagery.

 

[Seaviewer]

People who go to the trouble of registering for the site, then never make a single post.

That's curious. I'd ask them why they do they do that but they would have to post to answer.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I never heard the word "trope" before a couple of years ago, and I never heard "impacts" (in the plural) until a couple of years ago, either.

In the '90s, "copacetic" became a thing and then eventually went away.

I think I hated it.

Don't we have a thread about words we don't like? If so, I couldn't find it.

 

[DallasFanForever]

I never heard the word "trope" before a couple of years ago

Me neither. But you know, I‘ve totally forgotten what it means and I’m too lazy to look it up right now.

I never heard "impacts" (in the plural) until a couple of years ago, either.

Interesting, cause I don’t think I’ve ever used it in the plural that I can recall.

In the '90s, "copacetic" became a thing and then eventually went away.

I think I hated it.

I never liked the whole “copacetic” craze myself. I don’t know, for starters it sounded like the name of a cough medicine. And secondly I just found it a little too long to be trendy.

Don't we have a thread about words we don't like? If so, I couldn't find it.

I thought we did, unless I’m thinking of something else? I seem to recall one about our favorite words but I’m not sure if we have one for the words we don’t like.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Social media allows certain words to become trendy. I see the annoying use of the term "iconic" all over social media, but no one uses it in regular conversation....nor do they use it correctly.
"Oh, that scrambled egg dish was iconic."
"Your eye makeup is so iconic."
"I watched her being iconic for ten minutes."
They use it as a synonym for "exceptionally good", but iconic means "worthy of worship or religious admiration". I guess it is representational of how everything is exaggerated on social media conversations and interactions. The eggs weren't just cooked well--they're worthy of sainthood.

 

[Seaviewer]

I never heard "impacts" (in the plural) until a couple of years ago, either.

What about "impact" as a verb instead of "affect"? That's become common for some reason, too.

 

[Daniel Avery]

"Impactful is NOT A WORD!"

 

[Rove]

"Your eye makeup is so iconic."

Unless we are referring to the one and only...

 

[Seaviewer]

And "fun" as an adjective. We used to say things were fun (a noun). Something more fun was "a lot of fun." Now it's "very fun" which just sounds wrong.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Those pointless little video boxes that pop up in the lower-right corner when you log onto websites, especially news-related pages. They're intentionally difficult to cancel/close because they typically play ads, as if there were not already ads at the top of the site, down each side, and inserted into the text of every story already. I don't want to watch a video of the story I'm trying to read. TVLine.com and daytimeconfidential.com are the worst current offenders, at least of the sites I visit.

 

[Richard Channing]

Those pointless little video boxes that pop up in the lower-right corner when you log onto websites, especially news-related pages. They're intentionally difficult to cancel/close because they typically play ads, as if there were not already ads at the top of the site, down each side, and inserted into the text of every story already. I don't want to watch a video of the story I'm trying to read. TVLine.com and daytimeconfidential.com are the worst current offenders, at least of the sites I visit.

Indeed, visiting a website used to so simple. Now there's cookies to deal with, videos to close, possibly a 'sign up to our newsletter' box to close. Sometimes by the time I've done all that I resent them so much for making me work that hard I can't be bothered to read the article anymore.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Well...

Having a reasonably intelligent conversation with several people and someone...


Focuses on the least important point
Blatantly adds falsehoods
Brings up a totally unrelated point/topic
Cracks a silly joke

Did I just somehow describe some threads on this site... LOL!