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.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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Ironically, the phrase "rustles my jimmies" really burns my biscuits.
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Game Changer, a stupid phrase that is so overused it has become meaningless
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I had a young coworker who reported to me and a few others, for a few months earlier this year. She would come in and say βthat being said,β¦β all the fucking time. I heard it at least once or twice per brief conversation with her. I think she was just trying to sound smartβ¦ but, it was like nails on a chalk board to me.
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im still a bit salty about 'literally'
also the constant failure to say 'i could not care less' correctly
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"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.
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?!
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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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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.
I bake a lot of bread, including for my coeliac stepmother, so I've taken to labelling the loaves gluten-free and gluten-expensive
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.
Here a regular coffee would mean a milk based drink. Something like a cappuccino but not quite. Nestle ass drink.
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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"?
Regular coffee is a coffee. People say regular coffee because they've gotten fatigue from "which type?" questions. I'm more annoyed that the understanding of coffee has shifted away from the default just being an espresso. Over here in Spain if you ask for cafe you'll get a cafe solo.
Ah, the four basic types of coffee, Regular, Posh, Italian and Wrong.
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If someone uses the word 'curate' they'd better be preparing to show me a shoebox filled with their favorite vaseline glass and not a pile of random deli meat on a wooden board
I don't even like when people say that in context of a playlist on a music streaming platform...
I mean maybe they spent a lot of time picking individual songs but it's still just a digital playlist, nothing that special IMO
Lemme get that shark cootchie board of curated meats
Would you settle for a single clergyman?
Sure, but only if they're a member of the presbyterium and not laity, then they're just 'the pastor's secretary'
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pretentious
Especially in news headlines: slams, blasts, mind-blowing, hack (or lifehack)
I'm sure there are others, but that's all my brain can handle at the moment.
Ah all the typical clickbait words. I hate them too. Lifehack in particular is a word I'm sick of now
"BREAKING:"
It's always superlatives, even for the most mundane and boring things
I really like your username btw... I now wanna cuddle a cassowary and/or you
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@CuddlyCassowary ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS this topic!
Exspecially
All intensive purposes
Irregardless
I could care less
All intensive purposes
Wait a minute...
It's "all intents and purposes"
I know, but the others are mistped or logically wrong but close enough to know what they meant and this one just has a completely different meaning unrelated to the context it is used.
It stood out from the crowd.
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i know i'm being a 
but i despise the term 'taxpayer funds'/'taxpayer money'. besides being completely wrong in nearly all cases, it places taxes above the people, above labor.
'American taxpayer is paying for the genocide in Gaza'. No, every person/entity using U.S. Dollars is paying for it. Even foreign countries are indirectly paying for it.
"I'm just sayin'" ok but you're still an asshole.
Also "Not gonna lie..." to start a sentence. Well thank you for that decency?
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The corporate overenthusiasm "LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO".
Ugh. Sure, maybe the product launch went great, but still. Ugh.
Any corporation or even companies social media account being memey is annoying.
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Holding down the fort.
You hold the fort. It's a military term. It's not taking off if you let go of it.
It could become accurate. I mean, with global warming and extreme weather increasing.