Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[dave from knoxville]

"if you don't vote, you can't complain later"

Go fuck yourself.

Agreed. Your vote is meaningless, except on abstract principle. What I try to say to people who claim this is "if you don't campaign enthusiastically, and swing a large number of votes to your side who would otherwise have voted otherwise, or not voted at all, you can't complain." Casting your vote is literally the least you can do to make your community better.

[Pidgeon]

Well, it's not like I've ever had anything better to do in early November.

[Steve of Bloomington]

When people use the cliche 'I don't care what you had for lunch' to dismiss Twitter.

I only mention lunch when burritos are involved. That stuff is important.

[Bryan]

I do care what you had for lunch!

[cutout]

I hate it when magazines are interviewing a musician or actor and they're eating lunch and the subject of the interview is always described as "chewing thoughtfully" on his food before answering. Or something like "he paused to munch thoughtfully on his onglet aux échalotes". Or "noshed" which is always cutesy. It just seems like a lazy writing gimmick.


^that's the most random stuff I've hated on in this thread, but it's all I got

[Bryan]

I agree that "nosh" is a truly despicable word, as is "nabe" (i.e. short for "neighborhood".) I also dislike the current trend of using "crazy" as an intensifier: "Those brownies were crazy good!"

[Andy]

If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.

Hyperbole is killing our language.

[fonpr]

If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.

Hyperbole is killing our language.

Awesome post, Andy.

[andrew in philadelphia]

Casting your vote is literally the least you can do to make your community better.

Well said, Dave.

And nice job of correctly using the word literally also. I hate it when people don't.

[Christina]

If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.

Hyperbole is killing our language.

Awesome post, Andy.

This post is the best post of the whole entire thread on this board!

[Steve of Bloomington]

I find that noshing helps me think. I don't know about you.

Hyperbole I blame on advertising. They are responsible for all that is wrong and evil in the world.

[fonpr]

I find that noshing helps me think. I don't know about you.

Hyperbole I blame on advertising. They are responsible for all that is wrong and evil in the world.

They are responsible for literally, absolutely all that is totally wrong and completely evil in the entire world.

[gravy boat]

If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.

Hyperbole is killing our language.

Awesome post, Andy.

This post is the best post of the whole entire thread on this board!

Literally amazing.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Hyperbole is killing our language.

I love this so much.

[Christina]

This place where I work is constantly getting food for various made up occasions (its Friday! or Our group is done moving our offices around, so let's celebrate!). So there's bagels and doughnuts a couple times a month ontop of birthday celebrations. But with the birthday celebrations, this ain't yer mamma's sheetcake, chump! It's cupcakes, or gelato, or chips and beer. Then one of the assistants has a HUGE easter basket full of mini-candies which I found out is expensed as it's like a morale booster thing.

This may sound nice and in a surfacey way I guess it is. But there's something pathological about it because god forbid you don't take a portion or your co-workers will pounce. It's like we're all in a junk food shame spiral.