Annoyances (con't)

[StephanieL]

At least you're not hearing "cringe" everywhere (as an expression/reaction, not as a verb).

[Wilfrid]

12 hours ago, MitchW said:

Is that a vocal "tic," or just using language in a way which annoys you?

Because I think of a vocal tic (for instance), as the way a whole generation or two of people say the words "Thank You," with some weird inflection when they say the word "you."

It's not literally a vocal tic at all, but just a way of describing people constantly, and in this case totally unnecessarily, using a word or phrase without even knowing it. "So I was like..." is notorious. But please go ahead and disagree of course.

[hollywood]

See, this is why you don't have 400 million followers like Mr. Beast on YouTube.

[bloviatrix]

I hear "slay", "cringe", and "gyat" at home. It's so much fun to live with a member of Gen Alpha!

[hollywood]

Urban Dictionary says "gyat" is slang for "girl you are thiccc."

[backyardchef]

On 4/12/2025 at 11:57 AM, hollywood said:

A synonym for "fair" is "valid."

Fact

[Wilfrid]

Sadly, Merve Emre, a New Yorker writer, professor at Wesleyan and podcast host chose to use the term "cringe" as an adjective several times in a recent podcast. I hope she stops because I like her work.

[bloviatrix]

This morning I learned that rizz is derived from charisma.

[small h]

I knew that, but I'm still confused by "dank."

[voyager]

I think its a later generation's resurrection of Germain "thanks".

52 minutes ago, small h said:

I knew that, but I'm still confused by "dank."

I was recently amused by an 11 year old grand-sprog snidely explaining to me that his peers had developed a language unintelligible to older generation.    So they can talk behind our backs while in earshot.   While I understand the vital importance of staying in touch with youth's thinking, I had to bite my tongue to refrain from telling him that most of their chatter was of little/no interest to me.    Hard to walk the tight-rope.

[small h]

4 minutes ago, voyager said:

his peers had developed a language unintelligible to older generation

$5 sez it's Pig Latin.

[voyager]

I dunno.   These kids are pretty sophisticated.   And pig Latin was out of date/useless in MY time!

[Wilfrid]

Just trying to open a bottle of hoisin sauce and my knife skips off the foil wrapper and I stab myself.

Not badly. Really trivially. But I sit here in the odor of tea-tree oil, pressing the wound, and thinking thanks universe.

But the dirty secret is that I used the knife because I didn't want to mess up my nails.

[hollywood]

Well, Ana was wounded.  You are wounded.  I see commonality.

[Wilfrid]

We both have nice nails.

[voyager]

I have 3 sizes  pliers in my kitchen drawer, from needle nose to mini-wrench, also a single-edge razor blade..    Nice nails need protection.

[Wilfrid]

The self-stabbing was pointless. I reached into my jeans pocket to grab a handkerchief today and broke a nail on one of those little rivets.

Manicures are $20, so there's two bucks down the drain.

[voyager]

Cheer up, knowing that as you age, your nails get tougher.   (Of course, everything else may go to hell.)

[hollywood]

I don't know. I find my toe nails getting tougher but my finger nails are getting thinner.  

[StephanieL]

Samsung pushed an OS update to my phone, and now I have to learn where everything is all over again.

[small h]

I begin by saying that this happened in the country that invented logic.

Before we left for Athens, I bought noon entry tickets to the Acropolis, one of them a "senior" ticket (not for me, 'cause I'm not quite there yet). I presented the tickets to the gate agent, and he said senior tickets were only for EU members. Okay, no problem, happy to pay the additional cost. Nope, I have to buy a whole 'nother ticket. Well, not super thrilled about that, but fine. Ah, but they are sold out of noon tickets, and the next available entry is 6pm.

I immediately went into WTF mode. I have two tickets. There is already space reserved for us. How can the noon tickets be sold out, when I am holding two of them, and one can simply be exchanged for another ticket at a higher price? The gate agent wouldn't budge. It took us about 40:00 of arguing with two other people before we were finally ushered in, past the gate agent, who started yelling (luckily, I understand almost no Greek).

Behold, the Acropalypse!

The crowd thinned out once we got through the entrance, thank Athena.

 

Edited May 9, 2025 by small h

[Evelyn]

Went to my Whole Foods this morning to restock after a long stretch of travel. Arrive to find a completely full parking lot @ 7:15 am. And no available carts. No way this is people shopping for Mother's Day. Did someone announce the apocalypse and for get to tell me?

Close. The store was clearing its inventory to move to a new location this coming week. Place was an absolute zoo. Shoppers thinking they are audtioning for the Hunger Games. All the "good stuiff" already stripped from the shelves. I thought about leaving, but nothing fresh in the refigerator at home. And the produce depsartment relatively calm. I am glad I didn't leave. Even with the 45 minutes spent waiting to check out. Every single item in my cart was 50% off. If I'd known that, I might have looked to see if there was anything else shelf stable I needed/wanted. Oh well. Saved $72. (which made me think their margins are a lot higher than I even thought...)

[Wilfrid]

@small h Not as bad as that, but you  jogged the memory that the one time in my life I went to Vatican City, the Sistine Chapel was closed.

[small h]

And then you went to Disney World and Space Mountain was under repair.

I was one of those scofflaws who lay down on the floor of the Sistine Chapel and got yelled at by nuns.

[voyager]

Your experiences at the Acropolis sent me into a deep depression as I recalled our visits with our then pre-teen son.   We waltzed onto the Acropolis at our convenience, often returning after dinner to enjoy its moonlit magic, spur of the moment visits to museums throughout Athens and Crete, Florence's Uffizi and Pitti, a dozen Roman sites including the Vatican museums, all without need much less thought of reservations.    And even then, seasoned travelers taunted us with stories of  old days when travel was so much easier!

Edited May 10, 2025 by voyager