What are you sick of?

“It is what it is”

selfies

"Not in my wheelhouse."

Reaching out.

#hashtags!

hypocrisy

name-calling

this endless fucking heat/humidity

At the end of the day, I'm sick of cliches. And "come to Jesus moments."

"Price point."

People denying the existence of the alt-left (see Stanford “killer RA” thread).

The use of the word "foodie" - ok, cool, so you like to eat. You can just the old standard, "fatass."

Right wing politics.

+1 for selfies. The minute some friend posts a selfie on FB, I unfollow them. I hope every person who posts a selfie dies in one of those freak selfie accidents.

I, personally

Yeah, selfies.

Why not just say "hey do you like how I look?? Do you?? PLEASE TELL ME SO."

YUCK

Instahos and them constantly getting new threads here on DL.

Let’s agree to disagree

People who take pictures of food and then say “Yum!”

Fuck them all!!!

Picky ass people at restaurants. "I know the special of the day is Porkchops with mushrooms, but could I make a few alterations? I don't eat pork, so if we could swap out farm-raised lamb? K, thanks. Also, instead of mushrooms, do you have organically-grown baked potatoes?"

If I worked at a restaurant, I'd either say - GET THE FUCK OUT, or I'd lie and say "Sure" and then bring back the goddamn special of the day is it was advertised.

If you don't like what restaurants have, stay the fuck home.

I hate emojis. No adult should be using emojis

People who end sentences with "right?" all the time. I know you're all busy today, right? We can make this meeting pretty short, right? So and so has a great voice, right?

R19 YES...

AND.....when they ask the server "what do you like here..." or "what do you suggest"....

R20 I agree and I notice that is a new thing for TV pundits......so annoying

"The policies are right left and center, right? and this is what the issue is, right? In the sense that...."

Or end sentence with "yes"

"You are working today, yes?"

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

The Kartrashians

Now I know why I avoid talking to people. All these things piss me off so bad. I have a pretty friend who changes her FB pic a lot. Travels with her husband and says shit like “feeling loved”. Meanwhile, I’ve been told by a trustworthy source (a real frau) that he cheats on her.

"FAKE news"

stop repeating the phrase of a retard.

Discussions of emotional intelligence, usually by people who lack it...that’s annoying.

Also, “motherly” reminders...”I would like to add that the WHOLE team helped”, when it’s not always true...

R20 and r22, that happens a lot on public radio. I don’t notice it as much on television.

I suspect it’s a psychology hack to make the listener feel included, and gets the listener to nod and agree. Asking the listener to be on the same page. I find it extremely off-putting. When someone does this, I think: “You’re the expert, why are you asking ME?” It erodes any confidence I have in their authority and knowledge. You need me to agree with you? Just talk.

Another one is the “so”. When they end the sentence with “right?”, it’s almost always begun with a “So...”

“So we know that pond water contains bacteria, right? So when we test a sample of the water, we find more organisms, right?”

I don’t listen to right-wing programming, so I don’t know if they do it, too. But generally, the more progressive the speaker, the more these speech patterns appear.

R29, wow, you are right on. Never really considered that. You are good.

Traffic lights that are just on old timers, instead of sensors. The city I moved from had sensors - it was wonderful - pull up to a red light, if no one else was coming, it would switch to green almost instantly. The town I live in now - nope, old timers. You can sit at a red light for 3 minutes and not another soul is coming from the cross street, but there's their green light waiting...and waiting...and waiting.

R26, it’s always the way. Just judging from the people I know well, they’re a mess but post GLAMOUR!

also people who don't use turn signals. I hope they die in a slow fiery car crash burn.

This thread will reach 500

Dear Lord, please take more selfie takers up there to see you

SJWs calling everything PROBLEMATIC

“ooh that’s a cute dog”, “did you rescue it”???

Why do people exalt brunch over other meals? Lunch is just as good. So is breakfast. Dinner is too. All meals are pleasant in the right setting and with good company.

"I won't come in you."

“wow, your hair is such a beautiful platinum! Is it real”?

r18 I've always found that kind of thing to be kind of crude and tacky. Just eat what's on the damn menu!

Eat shit and die

People dragging religion and/or politics into a conversation, because they're obsessed with one or both and love arguing.

People who don't wear deodorant or wash daily, although they have means to do both. Especially in this heat.

“You’re so pretty. How old are you, anyway? My, your skin is good. It’s because you don’t work”. How the fuck does someone know I could be a cop or PI.

WTF, GRRRR!

"This is just a gentle reminder"

"Have a blessed day"

All forms of white privilege

I'm sick of bitter queens asking what we're sick of.

But these are real things which ruin your mood. I don’t know why.

Agreed R1. I had a boss who said that whenever he was confronted with a problem. It drove me crazy.

It almost makes for an idiotic tattoo.

I do have to admit that I’ve had to work on myself to not say a lot of these things. I don’t mind empty air so much now.

No worries.

"An expression seen in English meaning "do not worry about that", "that's all right", or "sure thing". It is similar to the American English no problem. The phrase is widely used in Australian speech and represents a feeling of friendliness, good humour, optimism and "mateship" in Australian culture. The phrase has been referred to as the national motto of Australia."

-- It's an Aussie expression that Canadans have adopted and I'm sure half of them have no clue where the expression originates and how stupid they sound saying it.

"It's all good."- No it is not and if you can't differentiate, your lazy attitude makes you bad.

I only say “it’s all good” when the Amazon delivery lady bursts into tears when she messes up my delivery. Or to the poor guy from Eat 24 who was half hour late. He apologized a lot and sounded scared, because these places are tough on their delivery guys. So I had to pat his young kid back and say “no worries”, “shit happens and it’ll happen again” “It’s ok not to be perfect”. And pay a good tip too. *Sigh* I guess I must be maturing.

People that use shopping carts and insist on rolling them down very narrow isles. Taking up entire fucking aisle. AND not moving it when people are trying to get by.

People who are on their phones while it's their turn at the checkout. They're fishing for debit cards, cash, coupons, exact change with one hand and ignoring the cashier when he or she is asking them a question.

touch base

Lets circle back.

Let’s add a POP of color!

Granular.

Had a boss who thought he was so cool using the word granular in business meetings. 'We need to look at It from a more granular perspective.' WTF?

Any of Ivanka's corporate-speak.

Vocal fry - it does NOT make you sound sexy. It makes you sound like a meth addict with a with severe tracheal damage from god knows what.

[r29] hack needs to go

YES! R60

I work with one young woman who has vocal fry and speaks in a little girl voice. I was to slap her every time she opens her mouth.

Too many examples of idiotic corporate-speak to list right now. I hate all of it.

Screechers

R18 I agree.

We have a friend who does this every time we go out. I'm just the opposite. If I'm not cooking, I'm more than happy to let the chef decide how to make the dish and with what accompaniments.

As for what I'm sick of, how about people who insist upon taking photos of live events where they're more obsessed with recording the moment than actually being in the moment? All the while blocking the view for those behind them.

A corporate speak one for my company - "let's socialize this" - which means, at least to my coworkers, let's pass this document around and get feedback, or just a simple "let's discuss this." But, I guess, saying "socialize it" makes it cooler.

Alpha Male support groups - bro, you better look up “Alpha” in the dictionary.

stank sleeves

The beauty-pageant organizers - or anyone else - who can always find something nice to say about someone's appearance. Swear to God, they'd liberate some POW camp and be telling the survivors, "Love what you've done to your hair."

I was out to lunch the other day with a couple of people, all of whom worked with one another at one time or another. One woman there hadn't seen one of the other women for a while and woman #2's appearance had changed to the tune of adding about 50 pounds to her already amply-padded frame. "You have such great color" was one comment I heard from gal #1. Well, yeah: she was red in the face and out of breath from walking about 200 feet from the car. I'm not saying she should have said, "Jaysus, you look like a heifer" but people know when they're being patronized.

But "reach out" pushes all my buttons the most. What happened to the words "ask" or "tell" or "call"? All perfectly good words w/o any possibility of ambiguity and fewer letters, too.

[quote]People who use shopping carts

Do those of you who whine incessantly about other people's shopping carts use the small carts yourselves? I do, and I have no problem making my way through any grocery store. If someone's too close to me, or in my way for whatever reason, I just zoom past with an "excuse me," bumping their cart a little if I need to, and I'm on my way. It's all doable with the little cart.

I can't imagine being this agile with a big cart, so I never, ever use them.

[quote]Let’s add a POP of color!

I don't mind "a POP of color" as much as "that color really POPS." Ideally, I would rather hear neither, but the verb form really adds a POP of aggravation.

people that find fault with someone else's finding fault on a find fault post.

People like R70

Doesn't make "people that find fault" as desirable as "people who find fault," r72.

No R74, as the impetus is the required permission to do so.

Posts like r74

People like R74.

I told you so

#metoo from allegations that happened 20, 30 years ago and are not rape but an unwanted pass.

r75, that made no sense.

"Living your best life."

Booze hounds who don’t share

"[insert name] HATES America." Do you really want to think and talk like a 5-year-old?

ALL media bias. So tired of it.

Sick of people masking their racism, misogyny, and homophobia with inane coded hot take "it just isn't Star Trek," when it comes to Star Trek: Discovery. Yes, I was on that subreddit just now and needed to vent. Fucking deplorable breeder white trash incel pieces of shit. With bad taste.

I feel better now. This thread is actually kinda therapeutic.

I’ve had it with this fucking snakes!!

Things are bad!!

Much worse than "right" is "amirite"....it makes me murderous!!

In my feelings

WTF is that?

“imma going to do this” , fucking “imma” on text msgs

“you do you” , ok who else would I do?

“you look so good because you don’t have kids”(that one feels bad, very bad, I tried hard)

The main thing is people on their phones, all day, everywhere. People out on dates, parents with small children in tow, groups of students walking 4 abreast on narrow European sidewalks. I put my arm out so they won't crash into me.

"Back in the day." WHAT fucking day???

People who are total fucking cunts.

“Wow! Tell me how you REALLY feel!”

It’s a dig, like you’re a bugeyed madman or madwoman for answering a question expressively or with any precision.

"Right in the feels."

“Yeah, I can’t eat any of that because I’m on a cleanse”

[quote]“imma going to do this”

No, r89, just "imma do this."

r91, I have said "back in the day" since back in the day. And what I refer to is "the time when we did, said, thought, read, ate, smelled—whatevered—in a we don't anymore." Not so difficult.

R96 Lord, I couldn’t even get that right. Thanks for correcting me. Now I hate “imma” even more. On a more positive note though, I was one of the few people who got “adorbs”on a NYT crossword. Another guy was like “what the hell is adorbs”! But I knew because I loved watching “Jessie” and learned a whole new vocabulary.

but my hatred for imma is eternal.

R88-I just looked it up. In my feelings is a Drake song. But I am getting triggered about lyrics from some old, er, not so recent song too.

r57=Gio Benitez

"ahem"

The retarded beltway journalists who would not let go of the Clinton e mail scandal now feigning tears over Trump being elected. They spent the whole election spewing bile all over the Clinton family and sucking up to the Trumps . They concern trolled over the Randy Bill Clinton being in the white house and worked themselves into hysterics over Chelsea's speeches(the proceeds of which went mainly to charity). They didn't seem to upset by Trumps treatment of women or Ivanjas sweatshops. And of course there was no insult towards Hilary that they didn't feel the need to print. What did they expect?

R91 - Still sounds stupid. What's wrong with the phrase, "I remember when..."

I prefer BITD, r103.

the phrase "just sayin'." It's an empty, redundant, verbal shrug. Demonstrative phrases for emphasis or indifference are preferred.

and the phrase "totes magotes." Sure it's an emphatic reduplication, but from adults it's awkward and silly.

I'm literally tried of hearing the word literally.

It is what it is

Living the dream

Bump

“Livin’ the dream” is a lazy, cynical response, but I did like a better reply I got from a doorman in my building in NYC. When I asked him how he was doing, he sighed and said “oh, you know, just trrrrryin’ to make it happen...” I thought that was clever.

"Be Best."

Thanks, Vairst Letty!

Have a good one...

“Just saying”

the guy who posts "[R__] see [R__]" because the first poster posted something someone else posted fifty posts ago. Talk about a Goofus.

"No problem"

"The optics look bad"

"Open concept"

"Thrown under the bus"

The phrase “cool beans”. Yes, people still say this. People who do not reciprocate basic human decency. Lena Dunham, for some reason - never met her, but everything I have ever read about or by her makes my ass itch.

R18 yeah sorry I pay enough at restaurants (where you’re given the stink eye btw these days if you leave less than 20% tip) that if the $38 organic salmon comes with lentils, which I hate, and I want mushrooms instead (and they have them), and id like it medium rare please, for that kind of money I’ll ask whatever the fuck I want.

Obviously a fast food chain type restaurant is different (and even there who can sub certain items for an upcharge), but any kind of remotely upscale restaurant is making your food to order (at least I would fucking hope so) and so long as they have enough of the ingredients should not be any kind of big deal. It’s part of what your paying for - not as assembly line dish.

My bill is bad enough now I’m supposed to suck up dishes I don’t like?

People taking selfies

"Skin in the game"

so sick of hearing this bullshit in the office

"That's what I'm talking about!" said after having not said anything.

I had a gay sewing teacher in LA for years, Russell Conte, who said “cool beans” and “having said that” in class all the time and I wanted to strangle him, but we liked each other of course. He has no plastic surgery or nothing like that, but has been 51 for 7 years now.

Oops, I just mixed up the Michael Hasselhoff chain, or is it thread(get it? Haha).

Yes, to 'literally' used inappropriately. And what is worse, in some dictionaries, both uses of the word, that is, the correct and incorrect version, are deemed acceptable. No. You can't have a supposed meaning which actually negates the correct usage of the word. It isn't the same as the word 'cool' which can refer to temperature as well as hipness. And don't say words 'evolve'. No, the incorrect use of words flourish, that doesn't mean it becomes so.

Journalists who ask a question and then not allow the interviewee to answer the question - where the interviewer has launched into another question or statement.

That all it takes for the wrong way to say something to become a right way to say something is for enough idiots to say it wrong often enough.

R122. True, here in Australia, we had our Prime Minister pronounce hyperbole as 'hyper-bowl' and she wasn't criticised for this, maybe because she was the first female Prime Minister of Australia, and more explicitly decided, because words 'evolve', things 'change'. Bullshit!

Republicans

Condescending liberals.

"Smol". "Smol bean". Puppy filters.

The word alpha since most of the men it describes are for sale.

Where/what is a wheelhouse?

Starbucks and people who post photos of their Starbucks drinks. Who gives a fuck???

I've always assumed, r128, that it's the steering wheel room on a big ship, i.e., boat—where the captain stands, steering the boat. But I haven't googled it. "Wheelhouse" may mean something completely different.

Shaved pubes!

tats

Fucking man buns. Do their owners realize exactly how incredibly stupid they look? It's even worse when they're adorned by guys over 30.

People offended by everything or reacting like saying something offensive is a terrible crime

Women,girl cashiers who call all males regardless of age "babe,sweetheart, sweetie, hon, sugar." So unprofessional and it just sounds so stupid to me. In this day and age how well would it go over if a male cashier referred to women like that?

Jaw dropping! The internet is going insane! You won't believe!

"tight pink fart box"

Clickbait headlines informing how you are expected to react or should think about something. Memo to millennials: Very few things in life are ‘hilarious’ or ‘adorable’. On occasion they may possibly be somewhat amusing or likeable.“

Privileged upper middle class stay at home mommies claiming they have "the hardest job in the world " when they are essentially glorified hookers. Except hookers actually work harder.

This fucking bollix, Bishop Kevin Doran, A Catholic bishop in Ireland. After the abortion referendum he demanded that Catholics that voted YES got to confession to seek forgiveness for voting to bring in abortion. Now he's telling people they must obey Catholic teaching on contraception. Bollix needs to understand that we are now a secular country, and that he needs to shut the fuck up. Religion and law are separate.

“I hate white privilege.”

The racist cri-de-jour that has become the siren call of every 20-something moron who longs to be thought precious and special.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Political threads on DL They are full of rumors, wishful thinking and just plain BS..

donald trump

to the person that said sick and tired of heat and humidity...............better buckle up because global warming is beginning to kick into a higher gear..............

R137, really? I can’t imagine anyone hating a fun play toy.

R138 clickbait headlines? If you mean the content that follows an article when you open it, I hate that, too. Especially lists of things that I might like to review, but can only see by clicking through pop-ups and advertisements, or loud-videos (local auto dealers with home-made signs, crap like that.). They use the same cheesy language (“try not to gasp”, “mother (whale,bear, etc.) shocks (fishermen, hunter, etc.) by doing this...”). That stuff is so irritating. Who pays for that kind of advertising? I’d avoid buying anything sold like that.

Anyone aping the phrases "queer bodies," "queer identities," and (especially) "queer spaces."

"Pushing the narrative"

"The narrative"

I forgot "queering the narrative"

queer

trans

cis

I'M SHOOK

R50, "no worries" became used in the US because of the Crocodile Dundee movies.

Stores where the cashier says "Next guest, please".

I'm not your guest, I'm your customer.

When did customer become a dirty word? Without customers, you'd have no business.

#squad or #BFF - I know what these people say about each other behind their backs.

#squadgoals - usually the ugliest group of friends you could imagine

People who won't shut up about bacon.

Not crazy about emails that open with “Hey” and close with “Cheers”.

Condoled.

Condolences and consolation ain't the same thing at all...

The fuck is with Sunday Funday anyway? Saturday/Saturday night is the Funday. Fuck Sunday and sliding back into the workweek.

If I hear one more person call their significant other “bae,” I will not be responsible for my actions.

People who STILL overuse the word 'like.'

Like, seriously, I was like in the store the other day, and like every line was like, so full. They literally like had no one working. I'm like - wtf?

LMAO LOL ROFL

And any variation thereof.

People who use the term "soul mate." Please just keep that between the two of you, if you really must.

[quote]Not crazy about emails that open with “Hey”

What is your preferred alternative? (I open most non-formal emails with "Hey, _____.")

Amy Schumer.

[quote]What is your preferred alternative? (I open most non-formal emails with "Hey, _____.")

I prefer, "You there…"

Could R157 punch himself in the cunt for me, please?

People who serve nachos at holiday dinners

On trend.

Literal. Violence.

Any other phrase with a period Between. Every. Word. to make it seem Really. Serious.

R168 I always thought the periods were for Aren't.I,So.Witty.? effect.

Maureen Dowds snide, low intellect, daddy issues ramblings stinking up the opinion section of the New York Times. Whoever this botoxed hag sucked off to get the job must have tired of her by now so why is she still employed?

Moosifer!

[quote]People who won't shut up about bacon.

I feel your pain.

"Literally."

Uptalk.

"I could care less."

Endings a sentence with “no?”

The combined smugness of Ottessa Moshfegh and Lena Dunham:

Using the words “fucking” and “fuck” is low class and trashy unless referring to the sex act.

The knob that keeps typing “fun facts.”

Lets agree to disagree.

NO Lets not, that is like saying the world is both flat and round. You are fucking idiot! Lets agree on that.

Too Soon?

As in someone just died, some snippy queen makes a lame joke, and when no one finds it funny they use the line "too soon". As if they are so comically edgy when in reality they just wanted to say something mean and use that phrase as cover to claim its humor. If you have to use that phrase, then no one laughed at your joke in the first place.

[quote]Endings a sentence with “no?”

It's easier to type than "n'est-ce pas," n'est-ce pas?

Its easier to type " ture dat" than " I totally agree with you" R180. Still annoying.

It is equally easy to type "true dat," r181.

reading "Janet Jackson" on DL

[quote]Ottessa Moshfegh

There is actually a person named Ottessa Moshfegh?

"gains"

Threads about Jebusinas like "Football Hottie Christian McCaffrey"

Game changer

People pretending that they're something that they're not.

Tell us more, r188. Who lied to you?

Awesome. Whatever. It is what it is. Functionality (or any word with unnecessary "ality" added)

My Bad

I love "my bad."

No "curated" or "artisan" yet?

Those have never bothered me, r193, the way they do some people.

Verbing to make yourself sound more authoritative. "Let's dialogue this."

Duck Dynasty/ZZ Top beards.

Cargo shorts

Pictures of people's food on social media

Tourists, I know they’re good for the local economy but there is no relief from them. In NYC the winter months used to see a drop in the number of tourists but not anymore.

2/3 of a WW for R196.

"bussy" (from Shawn Mendes, Part 15!!)

We’re — or You’ll — anything in newspaper headlines.

As in: We’re /You’ll be /simply amazed/stunned/shocked

Stop presuming and proclaiming what we’ll think!

Selfies!

"Adulting," makes me want to set fire to the actual rain.

Adam Levine’s voice. Give our ears a break for a God’s sake.

Business colleagues and clients who use email like they are sending a text. You answer one question and they immediately shoot back with another question, over and over again. Either compose your emails thoughtfully or pick up the fucking phone and call me.

I'm also sick of people who send me an email by replying back to an email I sent months ago, without changing the subject line when they are writing on a totally different matter.

Old coots on DL who fake talk young especially with the masc fetish or the instaho worship.

I hate when people cannot make a decision they will say, ‘Sure, but I don’t know. I hate hearing I don’t know. It’s really saying, I Know!

I have a colleague who, when pushed to take a side, and takes one, then waits a few days and rescinds her declaration by saying "I don't know what I think." She does this often. She also appears to me to be in her mid 50's with serious anorexia. She is also an ass-licker with all sorts of employees who have nothing to do with our work. I am sick of her bullshit.

Label Queens

You know the type that have Gucci or LV everything. They think its attractive somehow and totally clueless as to what a turn off it is.

Truth, as in 'my truth', 'her truth', etc. People who use it that way need to be knocked out.

[quote]Business colleagues and clients who use email like they are sending a text. You answer one question and they immediately shoot back with another question, over and over again.

Oh yes. Struck that the other day. I thought it was an American thing, given the tendency of some Americans to ask lots of irrelevant questions like they do to tour guides: “Why is the Eiffel Tower tall?”

I’d commissioned the person for a project, and promptly de-commissioned them, as it was warning signal of a non-focused mind if ever there was one.

People who wink at you. Stop it! Just say what you mean please. I'v even had someone say the words "wink,wink" over the phone!

[quote]Adam Levine’s voice. Give our ears a break for a God’s sake.

Where is it you're forced to listen? I find him quite avoidable.

[quote]Old coots on DL who fake talk young especially with the [bold]masc fetish or the instaho worship[/bold].

These are the only posters I put on ignore. I don't have any idea how old they are.

[quote]Old coots on DL who fake talk young especially with the masc fetish or the instaho worship.

What’s more sobering is imagining their pudgy digits skittering over Instagam on their phlegm-flecked iPad, in search of fresh meat, all the while seated at the formica kitchen table of their trailer home, while summer’s flies slowly circle above.

The shimmering romance of it!

'resto'

Sesh .....as in gym sesh. Wtf?

Everything about this:

"mlem"?

Matcha.

[quote]Doggo-speak consists mainly of words for dogs (“floofs,” “fluffers,” “boofers,” “woofers,” “pupperinos”) and the faces and sounds they make (“blop,” “blep,” “mlem”). These terms have spread on social media accounts (such as @FluffSociety and @dog_rateson Twitter) and groups (such as Doggo Love and Dogspotting on Facebook). Doggo-speak appears in oodles of memes and hashtags, usually as captions for pictures of dogs, as in a tweet by @MissJazzDaFunk, featuring the tweeter and a dog: “Look at this heckin boofer I found.”

[quote]Some of these terms are unremarkable. “Doggo” and “pupper” are straightforward variations of “doggy” and “puppy,” while “bork” is an alternative form of “bark.” “Mlem” is weirder, starting with a consonant combination that could have come from Klingon. But a weird spelling doesn’t indicate a lack of meaning. An Imgur blog post from 2015 makes a clear separation between “mlem” and another tongue-centric word, “blep.” “Mlem” is a conscious act of licking, while a “blep” — a tongue protruding from an animal’s mouth — just kind of happens. (To judge from the species-diverse photos on the Imgur post, it seems that cats, lizards, and other critters are now just as mlem-able as pooches.)

Sick of old lazy ghetto blacks blasting "the white man" for everything that is wrong in their lives. Grow up. Whites are not responsible for your life.

If we are speaking of things on this site that we are sick of, then I will throw in my two cents: people who start posts like the one called “Do except attractive people to be total assholes?”

There’s something bizarre about the Data Lounge interface that seems to cause strange typos and that cross-posts comments written in one thread to a different thread. Both of those events happen to me a lot here and nowhere else. But there is no excuse for basic illiteracy. I don’t understand how people can navigate the Internet, reading information that is written in standard English, and yet those same people cannot grasp how to use basic proper English to communicate. What the fuck? Seriously, waht the fuck? I don’t expect people here to be able to diagram sentences and to be able to identify parts of speech as we were all taught to do in third grade, but each of us has to get through life communicating with one another verbally, whether orally or written. How in the world does someone end up with “Do except attractive people to be total assholes?” Does this person go to the deli and say “Do had meat bread between to eat mm mm good flavor time?” Are Labrador retrievers participating here, or what the hell is going on??

^^ive often wondered if the DL interface autocorrects wrong on purpose.

It’s possible, R223. It’s a major annoyance to someone who edits for a living. I am careful to type correctly here, and there’s a strange half-second (or so) delay between the keys being pressed and the letters appearing in DL’s text boxes. Even though I am usually careful when I type here, “what” will end up as “waht,” as in my R222 post. But I don’t whine about it much because...why whine about it? Someone is obviously having fun with driving people mad here.

[quote]I don’t expect people here to be able to diagram sentences and to be able to identify parts of speech as we were all taught to do in third grade.

For those of you who wonder what "back in the day" means, this would be a primo example: back when people could write correctly because they'd been taught how to do so, in something called grammar school (though I understand "grammar school" is a NY/NJ localism).

Does anyone even know what "diagram a sentence" and "parts of speech" even mean nowadays?

Climate change hysteria.

David Hogg haters.

[quote] Using the words “fucking” and “fuck” is low class and trashy unless referring to the sex act.

Then please stay away from my office. Everybody, from the VP who runs my department right down to the 60-something woman in the Legal department uses 'fuck' and 'fucking' constantly. All day long.

I guess it's my own fault for taking a job in Brooklyn, but most of the offenders are Staten Island trash.

I'm sick of seeing "it's" instead of "its" when using the possessive

Hypocritical sellout slutsow Meghan McCain, who never should have been born.

What a clerk, service worker addressing customers as "boss" or "bud"?

I think this is rude but it seems to be becoming the norm.

“What a clerk, service worker addressing customers as "boss" or "bud"?”

What a what addressing a when?

"YAAAS QUEEN!" Is the worst!

Misuse of "your/you're" and "their/they're/there." I see it constantly. Why is that so difficult for people to grasp?

People who are desperate for attention and post EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING THEY DO on facebook.

People who are obsessed with their dogs. "Can we go somewhere dog friendly?" "Can I bring muffin to this place?" "Do you mind if we meet up somewhere where we can sit outside so binky can come, also?" Yes, freak, I do mind. It's Atlanta in August. Leave your stupid ass dog at home, it's too hot to sit outside. It's a fucking dog - learn to have a life with humans. It's fine if we're not friends, but I'm friends with you - not your dog.

R235 My sister sends me videos of her dogs doing nothing, or scampering up the steps in front of her. I don’t begrudge her, but...why?

R222, you are a hero who speaks for many of us. It's come to the point where I just FF the author of any thread with egregiously awful grammar (and ignore the thread.)

R231 it was a typo. "about" not "a". Unclench. Besides you know what I meant.

R222 if we had the capability to edit our posts on here that wouldn't be an issue. It's a problem with DL not the posters here.

Are you an NYC native, R228, or flyover trash?

[quote] Are you an NYC native, [R228], or flyover trash?

Even worse, I'm a west coast transplant, which I guess makes me insufferable AND self-righteous

But I'm old, and I remember when you were expected to have a certain degree of decorum and respect in the office, so the first time I heard one of the middle-aged women here tell someone to 'Go fuck yourself', I almost fell off my chair.

[quote]Misuse of "your/you're" and "their/they're/there." I see it constantly. Why is that so difficult for people to grasp?

Don't forget then/than.

r236, it's the same for me when people multi-post pictures of their children everyday doing nothing or something stupid. I DON'T CARE!!!

Drugs

I REALLY hate “doggos” and “puppers.” And also all the “mmmm bacon” talk.

I am tired of casual anti Staten Island-ism.

[bold] On Datalounge: [/bold]

* Millennial/Trans/Bi/Frau-bashing threads

* The weird fascination with locker room nudity (or current lack thereof)

* The number of guys who defend gay sexual predators like Kevin Spacey and Bruce Weber

* The number of threads about whether something is "low class" (if you have to ask...)

* The sense that for many DLers the years from 1984 to 2018 never happened

* The political threads, i.e., "Fanatical Followers of Hillary Clinton and the People Who Troll Them"

[bold] IRL: [/bold]

* People (invariably female people) who post about the "yummy pancakes" they had for breakfast with a "delish" organic coffee. * High maintenance people in general. (I don't GAF that you're not in the mood for pizza tonight. The other 6 people in the group want pizza. It's not like you're being executed tomorrow and this is your last meal.) * Bottoms who don't bother to clean out thoroughly before going on Grindr * Waiting on line for anything

Women

Fat People

Guys who use a condom

Unruly dogs

Religion

“Guys who use a condom”

Really?

Here comes super-AIDS.

It's made even worse r138 when adjectives are often preceded by the word insanely, as in insanely adorable or insanely hilarious. I think this is part of some effort to somehow shock one in popular culture. Few interviews of anyone anymore on television, from noted "celebrities" to Mr./Ms. Average Citizen on the evening news are complete without someone bursting into tears. Where restraint had its place at one time in American culture, it is now considered puzzling if the overly emotional and hysterical are not part of everyday expression. Special effects were used sparingly and to usually good result in movies, say, before 1980. Now movies are stuffed full of banging, booming, unnecessary female nudity, hysteria and cloyingly maudlin scenes apparently to encourage some kind of further dumbing down of the American populace.

If one points out to millennials that their grammar or spelling is wrong or their use of apostrophes is atrocious, one is not thanked and appreciated but is instead called "rude". That from the generation of incessant phone starers. I've often thought that all millennials think baby boomers are good for is to continually mooch from them. Yes, give them a free college education so that they have more money to get more tattoos!

Prep, grandpa r249

It’s 2018, not 1988

I’m sorry that you have post traumatic stress, but that has nothing to do with young people

Stupid female neighbour making everything smell like mothballs and female shit instead of guys.

I forgot:

Old fags who don’t believe in science

Trump and his entitled kids.

"If one points out to millennials that their grammar or spelling is wrong or their use of apostrophes is atrocious, one is not thanked and appreciated but is instead called "rude". "

Imagine that. Going around pointing other people's faults is considered rude. Just imagine! Why I never!

Seriously, bitch. Check yourself before your wreck yourself.

Young people will be old someday too and it will be hilarious to see all the tattoos sagged into an indescribable mess. But I suppose in the meantime they could learn the difference between it's and its, their, they're and there, house and home, peak and peek, to and too or not to use an apostrophe in plural words unless it indicates possession, however, I won't get my hopes up too high.

How old are you r256?

At least 70? Older? Your post is rife with envy at those who are not near death.

Everyone is equally "near death" r257. No, I am 64 and know better than to be envious of ignorance and bad taste, I mean, what was I saying, tattoos are indescribable messes now, but just wait, and not too long I might add.....

I think that's "check yourself before YOU wreck yourself" r255. Or if you like, "chickety check yourself before you wreck yourseeeeelllllfff".

Instagram stories. Why do they exist?

Lying liar who lies

Truthiness

Blanky McBlankerson

Mindfully curated flights of sustainably sourced salt

Anything prefaced by "man" or "lady" -- lady pants, man buns, etc.

Anything on the "no fucks" spectrum that begins with the simple "no fucks given" and ends with "and on that #blessed day in the realm of the pretty princess, she lifted one freshly mani-ed thumb as if to Tweet back and then slowly put it down again because — smiling knowingly to herself — she realized that in order to live her best life no fucks were to be given. The pretty princess vowed that she would never again let haters live rent-free inside her glorious head. As such, on that magical day and every day forth Not. One. Single. Fuck. Was. Given."

People who declare in some authoritarian manner that So-and-so needs to get botox.

Whiny millennial women who won't take responsibility for their own sex and dating lives .

Whiny gay-voiced queens who walk along the street with the "and then I was like - OMG" "and then I was like -WTF?" "and then I was like......."

The heat

Did we meet the same queen, R264? Did it look like he needed a slap to the head?

I overheard a coworker asking people what he could use to prop up his phone so he could start recording his workouts and posting them on youtube for others. I just froze in disgust. I'm sick of this out of control narcissistic ego-driven world where we think everyone just can't wait to see even more of us - youtube, instagram, twitter, facebook. OMG DID YOU SEE ME EAT TODAY, EVERYONE? I'VE STARTED A NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL SO YOU CAN WATCH ME CLIP MY TOENAILS.

R267 the worst part about those types is they will not respect others people's privacy either . I hate this creepy camera phone culture

Turning the news on and seeing that orange blob called trump.

Do you think r267 and r268 that the next thing will be toilets that have a way of phones in the bowl so that it will record daily shits and pisses to be put on youtube? LOOK MA, I'M REGULAR, I REALLY DON'T NEED AN ENEMA!!!!!!!

OK, one of my pet peeves anymore is how nothing is simply made, it's CRAFTED. And when someone dies he or she doesn't just die, they PASS or PASS AWAY--it almost makes death sound like a football game or a kidney stone. I really hate it when a bill isn't drafted in Congress or some legislature somewhere it's CRAFTED, almost to make it sound as though the people who get sent there are really worth the money spent on them--"your tax dollars at work". After someone PASSES AWAY, they of course always leave a LEGACY, and I don't mean money. Nine times out of ten the "legacy" is pure condensed crowshit.

R270....take a Xanax

I will if you will r271. We can make it a great, big Xanax party.

Celebrities who've done nothing meaningful.

[quote]If one points out to millennials that their grammar or spelling is wrong or their use of apostrophes is atrocious, one is not thanked and appreciated but is instead called "rude".

It's not just millennials. You'd think people would be grateful, but no, you're rude for trying to help someone.

R270 yeah we're definitely heading that way . It's not like anyone has any shame anymore.

[quote]Instagram stories. Why do they exist?

Some are entertaining. Most are not. I delete the people whose stories have music or other noise in them. It never sounds like anything but noise, especially ones who are at the gym.

[quote]when someone dies he or she doesn't just die, they PASS or PASS AWAY

Been around FOREVER.

People not voting.

r275, I mean, if you read some of these obituaries online or in the newspaper anymore it's incredible what some people will toss in there. I wanted to say in my mother's obituary that she died such and such date, simple, huh? NO, the funeral director said that passed away is better as it reads and sounds better. So my other siblings went along with it or at least it wasn't a problem for them, so I was outvoted. Some will say crap like "passed into glory" or "passed into the arms of his/her savior". At one time, I don't think infants who died at birth or shortly thereafter even had obituaries not too long ago if I'm not mistaken, at least I never recalled seeing them. Now they will post pictures of the infant along with insipid, syrupy nonsense like, "he was received by angels on high in heaven" or some such crap. Nothing surprises me anymore, but after saying something like that there is always the other shoe that drops with a huge thud.

“I’m a maker. I’m heading down to the maker-space to do maker shit with the other makers. Yay makers!”

YouTube stars

Snapchat, cis-gender, social media, redneck moron trump supporters, bestie, date night, baby bump, find your tribe, squad

^ influencer. Kill me now

Are movers and shakers makers r280?

People typing that a food item they got was "on point."

r33 I love you. I live in San Diego and I would bet that not even half the drivers in this town use their goddamn turn signals for anything. I wish I had a kind of gun that zaps rays at them and makes them disappear into thin air. r230 I went to a quick oil change place and was called "dad" by the clerk. I was as much surprised and amused as slightly annoyed but didn't say anything--I guess there are worse things in this world to be called than "dad". Almost forgot, it's not uncommon to see cars, especially on the freeway with their turn signals perpetually on, usually indicating left. I wonder how many of them think the lever for the turn signal is just a hook for their handbag or something--"it's so nice and convenient that Ford provided this hook next to the steering wheel for my handbag".

Posters who reply to the wrong thread. How is it that even possible?

Women who do their full make up whilst on public transport.

I know it sounds extreme, but I feel like it's akin to clipping your toenails.

Get up early to do your 'beauty regime'.

R282 The world is becoming 'feminised' with the popularisation of these 'cutesy' words.

We are becoming more 'feeling' focused then action focused, and as such, there's lots of 'conversations' being had, but nothing actually getting down. This is the future, all talk, and no action.

R277 It's strange when a news reporter saying someone who dies in a horrific accident, 'passed away' at the scene. Old people 'pass away' in their sleep, those dying from cancer jacked up with morphine 'pass away', but someone obliterated in a metal mess of a car crash does not 'pass away'.

It’s usually not an accident, either. It’s likely a preventable incident, caused by assholes.

The overconfidence of professionals who bil by the hour. You can tell when a lawyer or accountant is insecure about his or her opinion because they become bombastic and bullying.

When accidents/fights/crime happens but nobody helps them but everyone pulls out their phones to record the drama. Idiots!

Long lines at In 'N Out.

People that use "slay" "humblebrag" and "sorrynotsorry" should all die in a grease fire 🔥, get dragged out of the fire, chopped into pieces, battered and fried into human tempura! 🍤

R293 those people who pull out phones are vile. Either help out personally or use the phone to call authorities who can. It is disgusting how mainstream this behavior has become.

Pants that strangle my calves

I would make a terrible Nazi, film director, or oompaloompa.

I'm sick of all the people who anthropomorphize animals - calling their pets 'fur babies', refer to them as their 'children', call them the 'siblings' of their actual children, etc. I love animals, but they are not your kids, period. They are not your biological (or even adopted) kids' siblings. They are PETS.

On social media, YouTube and elsewhere there are people taking it to the next level of stupidity - 'Cat daddy is so excited to meet his daughter!', 'Dad supports mom cat giving birth!'. Reality: male domestic cats, once they breed, don't give a fuck about their offspring unless they perceive them as a threat for some reason. I guarantee you Cat Daddy doesn't think of that kitten as his bouncing baby girl. PLEASE make it stop.

“Clean eating”

R296, sometimes neutered cats can act as dads or surrogate dads. One of my cats used to anxiously look after his younger siblings. Grandpa Mason is a well-known Youtube example, but I've heard of many such. But I vehemently agree with your post in general.

I completely agree with you, r290. I hate "passed away." It's one of the pussiest phrases in the English language. I'm just saying it isn't something new. I am old and have been hating it forever.

I prefer you kicked the bucket R299

croaked

“Graduated highschool”. A cylinder is graduated. You graduate from highschool.

“We’re pregnant”. God I hate this one. A man is not pregnant and does not give birth.

Vocal fry.

I heard the Postmark commercial (linked) and it was like listening to nails on chalkboard. Listening to Ivanka Trump’s voice is even worse the woman in commercial.

I don't think that's vocal fry, r304, though I agree with you, she has an absolutely hideous, gritty, scratchy voice, and she should simply NEVER open her mouth to speak.

Vocal fry places greatttt emphasissss on the lastsounddddds of wordddds, which she doesn't really do. Google "Jeopardy" "vocal fry" and "Laura."

"And I'm like/ I was like...". . (particularly when followed by gurning and/or a mini mime act, in place of bothering to form words). Same kind of person tends to have a vocab lacking all standard English intensifiers other than "super-" , and rather than call, email or write a letter, they "reach out" to people.

Twitter. I'm becoming more and more convinced that the world would be better off without it.

R306 - can't stand the "I'm like..." thing. I immediately stop listening and back away as soon as possible.

Foodies - cool, you like to eat and talk about it. My mom does that, too - oh and my dad and my sister and me.

So, you're not special - you're just fat, and you wanted a cutesy name besides fat ass, lard face, cow, tank ass, etc.?

#Goals.

I hate when you point out all the overwhelming bad points to a political party, and they have nothing to say to defend it, the response is always " well they both are corrupt" Never an acknowledgment that one side could be a lot more corrupt than the other. NO THEY ARE NOT BOTH THE SAME.

Mommy Approved

Foodies irritate me too. I find few topics of conversation more boring than people talking about what kinds of food they eat or don't eat. I couldn't care less.

Winos. A peroson who loves wine so much they think its cute to call each other wineo. There is even a Meetup group called that. Please stop, all you are really saying is you are an alcoholic.

Pot heads.

Pot proselytizers who offer it up as a cure-all for any ailment known to humanity.

The first asshole who "wittily" replies, "Dude, you need to smoke a bowl" to this post.

Get a life, you useless drug addict.

Many people believe that if you only drink wine "you're not an alcoholic." They drink two bottles a night but they're "not alcoholics" because "it's just wine."

I am sick of everyone saying “sooner rather than later” instead of “soon.” Agh!!!

Thank you, r317. Every time I hear “sooner rather than later," I think of what a perfect entry it is on a list such as this. It makes no sense.

R318 I just saw Edie Falso say it to Julianne Moore on some random movie when I changed the channel. “What would you say to your son? What if, say, we found him sooner rather than later?”

All the people involved in the production of a movie allowed that to make it into the movie! Arrrrggggh!

[quote]Posters who reply to the wrong thread. How is it that even possible?

It's a weird tech glitch that happens periodically on DL.

I am always irrationally annoyed when people use "floor" when they mean "ground." It happens daily at my client's summer camp. There is no understanding that floors are indoors, the ground is outside.

I also dislike when people use improper subject-verb agreement, as in: "There's three donuts left in the staff room." Actually, fatass, there'RE three donuts left. I hear educators and newscasters regularly making that simple mistake.

"Literally", when used unnecessarily in ordinary statements "I was literally there yesterday!" or "I literally woke up at 6am this morning and had breakfast".

Foodie must go. My husband says foodie and he’s such a nice and kind man, I just don’t have the heart to correct him.

Why people must say “super” instead of very I don’t know. I grew up in the 70’s and as a child or teen said super, but outgrew it. Now I hear newscasters and grown ass pundits saying super and it’s so childish sounding. I don’t find hearing children or teens say it.

R320, you made me laugh.

R302 there are some piss elegant pockets who consider that a school graduates the student and not vice versa. So they use a passive (or transitive) - to be graduated from (such and such). He was graduated from Princeton.

Guys (and they are almost always guys) who think an interstate is a video game and speed along at 90 mph, cutting back and forth from lane to lane , almost causing accidents at every step, as they cut off unsuspecting drivers who brake to avoid crashing into them

You invariably catch up to them at the toll plaza 15 minutes later because they don't have EZ Pass or CalPass.

Even though I use it, I HATE Waze for ruining my neighborhood. The traffic got so bad, the city installed a no turning left sign on my (not-so-local) shortcut. Even the traffic on my street has gone up at least 100%..

People walking around looking at their phones instead of where they are walking-especially crossing the street

People walking 2 or 3 abreast (and 1 is inevitably on their phone) and will not move into a single file for you to pass if you're walking or running in the opposite direction

#squadgoals

#fleek

#autotune

Have a blessed day!

“Die in a grease fire” needs to go

[quote] Some will say crap like "passed into glory" or "passed into the arms of his/her savior".

"Went home to Jesus' is another one I can't stand.

Unless Jesus is a hot Puerto Rican with a big, uncut dick, I'm not interested in going home to him.

People who always tell you every detail about a dream they had, Dreams are only interesting to the person who had it.

[quote]“We’re pregnant”. God I hate this one. A man is not pregnant and does not give birth.

When a man says this, I always want the woman to say “Then YOU squeeze out the fucking baby, idiot.”

I'm like, what? And she was like, right?

It still stings when I hear that, r331, but I don't think I grimace visibly any longer. It's in kind of the same category as "no problem" instead of "you're welcome." There's nothing I can do to control either one.

"Based off" instead of "based on." That's the current idiocy that pisses me off. It doesn't even make sense.

People who use apostrophes in weird places - 80's, for example. Someone in another thread put, "I went to visit my niece's."

I like music of the 60's instead of just 60s.

R32, I’m with you on the “no problem” thing. I’m a baby boomer and it really used to annoy me until I realized the millennials and younger age group really do not get why this irritates us. Recently, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts and the young hosts were going on about this “no problem” issue and making fun of us purists for making such a deal about it. They made me look at it from their perspective and I felt kind of stupid for getting so annoyed about it.

I realized I was over "I was, like..." hatred the first time I heard Meryl Streep say it. Must be 20+ years ago by now.

R309 except it’s really not true . As I’m sure you know, there are some people who are super into food and can describe everything about it who are very thin, and others who will shovel anything that’s served to them in their pieholes and they’re fucking cows.

Speaking of food, I’m fucking sick of it being normal for restaurants in New York (or any big city, frankly) to be closing at 10pm. I mean what’s the point of living in New York if it’s going to feel like a suburb these days. Really midnight should be the norm, and there should be many that are open even later (1-2am, and even a few all night). There certainly used to be.

"Problematic."

Agree, r336. Especially when you consider a city like NY where people are out late at night, or don't even get out of work until late. There's a big customer base for restaurants to stay open later, imho.

People who write shit like this:

[quote]it seems written to purposefully punch sideways at its audience.

(from the “This is every single girl I grew up with” thread.)

I'm 65, and while I do have a problem with a lot of grammar, punctuation, and spelling issues, phrases like "no problem," "no worries," etc. don't really bother me. Similarly, while I'd prefer to be addressed as "sir," being called "boss," "chief," etc. isn't a big deal to me. (I think I'd draw the line at "dude," however.)

"I think that's "check yourself before YOU wreck yourself" [R255]. Or if you like, "chickety check yourself before you wreck yourseeeeelllllfff".

Wait, the person who goes around correcting everyone else's mistakes caught one of my mistakes and made an asshole comment about it?

I'm shocked that you're still an asshole! I mean, this came out of nowhere! The way you turned from being a prissy asshole into being a sarcastic prissy asshole!

The metamorphosis was absolutely stunning. The hidden depths of who you are! So impressive.

Enjoy the reward of alienating those who you come in contact with. You deserve to be alone with your own company. You are the best at being who you really are!

Oh, look!

Someone said "check yourself before you wreck yourself" last night in some show or video I was watching. L&O?

Ending emails with “Best”

I like "best." I don't use it myself, but it doesn't bother me at all. How do you end your email, r343?

Various ways depending on the content of the email. “Best” what? I don’t get it. Wishes ? Regards ? of Luck ?

People who use “I” rather than “me”. Use of “me” is correct when used in the objective, rather than subjective case in a sentence. I see (and hear) this daily in the business setting.

“From mild to wild”

Republicans and Neo-Nazis. I want them to all fucking die right now.

r341--Honey, is your medication wearing off?

The ringing in my ear that sounds like an alarm going off for 7 years now 24/7. I think it might actually be driving me crazy.

The last 200 posts on this thread have been boring as shit

Comments on funny Instagram accounts, for example, Awkward Family Photos that go like this:

Omg this is us

I’m dead

Dying

#dipshit this is us!

#asshole this reminds me of your dad.

Kids calling celebrities Mom and Dad. Wtf?

Stopping at a light and looking to the other drivers and noticing EVERYONE is on their phone. This results in people who don't go when the light turns green and I end up laying on my horn to get their attention.

People who sit in public places and play something on their phone. I don't want to hear your damn sports game or tv show. Put some fucking headphones in.

Open office spaces at workplaces. The bosses love them because they can watch everyone at the same time. Employees loathe them. One person shows up sick, we all go down. The noise level gets really bad and I'm trying to work. I hate having to wear headphones all day long just to work.

Corporations getting the largest tax cut ever this year and yet, asking for a raise is a sure way to get yourself fired. Of course, they don't offer them anymore. You always have to ask.

The cost of healthcare in America. I had two teeth pulled, one today, one last Monday. In the span of just two weeks, I went from 0 debt to $7,000 in debt. And yes, I opted for implants because if you don't, your teeth spread out and you get wide, ugly spaces in them. Of course, dental insurance doesn't cover them. So back to the salt mines for me....

I'm sick of this friggin' heat and humidity for weeks on end, with no relief in sight.

R341 = JPN

[italic] Just Plain Nuts !

[quote]People who sit in public places and play something on their phone. I don't want to hear your damn sports game or tv show. Put some fucking headphones in.

"People who deserve to die" for $200, Alex.

threads on cast iron pans

Drivers who stop for people jaywalking across a street thereby stopping traffic so that someone can break the law. Both the driver and the pedestrian need to be ticketed. It's not being nice, it's being stupid and is dangerous.

The driver should run the jaywalker over, r359, to avoid getting a ticket?

The loud thudding sound of "ethnic" music from the next car while stopping at a red light. It compares equally unfavorably with other "ethnic" music being blasted all over the neighborhood usually on a Friday or Saturday night. Why these people think their music must be inflicted on everyone else within 25 blocks is beyond me. Nothing but a call to the police will stop them, otherwise they would go on well past midnight when decent people want to sleep. If you need to play your circus music that loudly, rent a fucking hall somewhere.

R19, I like this. If you want custom made food then how about paying the $$$ for a personal fucking chef.

Humidity

Peeing. What a bore of a chore.

Shitting, too.

You got this.

No, you really don't.

No, r360 but they should blast their horn, loudly and repeatedly. They'll get the message.

But if r359 thinks cops have nothing better to do than ticket jaywalkers and their enablers, that’s delusional.

[quote] The cost of healthcare in America. I had two teeth pulled, one today, one last Monday. In the span of just two weeks, I went from 0 debt to $7,000 in debt. And yes, I opted for implants because if you don't, your teeth spread out and you get wide, ugly spaces in them. Of course, dental insurance doesn't cover them. So back to the salt mines for me....

Next time look into going to Mexico for dental work.

Seriously

I had a terrible toothache and went to a dentist in Polanco, Mexico City. I ended up having a root canal with a temporary crown, all for $540, and they threw in a free cleaning a few days later. Clean, efficient, and more modern than my Park Ave dentist. I was in Mexcio anyway, but airfare is only a few hundred dollars so the trip could end up paying for itself.

[quote] It really all comes down to price. Mexican dentists charge 10 to 20 percent of the prices that their U.S. counterparts get. I was quoted $3,000 for a root canal in the U.S. In Mexico, it’s $250. A crown is $250. Mexican dentists are fast, efficient and there’s no messing around. It took me two-and-a-half days to get an X-ray, three root canals, posts and have three crowns molded and “installed.”

And they sell Viagra over the counter at the Mexico City airport gift shop.

People who don’t RSVP. How hard is it to take 30 seconds and let me know if I need to buy enough food and booze for your ass?

Amaze balls

awesome sauce

When there's a traffic jam on the highway, those assholes who get in the breakdown lane and drive up to the front of the traffic jam, then cut back into traffic. I'm not normally a violent person, but those people should get the shit kicked out of them.

r361 what my great aunts and great uncles used to call "jungle music."

[quote]And they sell Viagra over the counter at the Mexico City airport gift shop.

Are you sure about that? Every time I've been to a farmacia in Mexico, they clearly state that Viagra requires a prescription.

[quote] Are you sure about that? Every time I've been to a farmacia in Mexico, they clearly state that Viagra requires a prescription

Well I didn't buy any so I can't tell you for sure, but I did see this on Trip Advisor

[quote] saw cialis at the airport duty free store next to baggage claim. didn't take notice of the price but you definitely don't need a prescription for this stuff.

"The American people". Every time I hear that I know something is being proposed to deceive the American people.

If you’re invited to someone’s home, better to come 10/15 minutes late then even one minute early. Chances are I won’t have myself or my place ready right on the dot to begin with and frankly it’s just fucking intrusive.

R376 Really? How are people suppose to know which host will be ready by the set time and those that won't? Best to actually go with the time that's actually set out on the invite - the time that's actually designated by the host. God knows that when the host is on time, and people are 10-15 minutes late, then host would get his panties in a wad.

R377 It's called Dutch time. Its inconsiderate to the host. More gracious to be a little late. .

Love you, R18.

R377 my panties are not gonna be in a wad of someone’s fashionably late because guess what - I’m HOME. It’s very different from waiting for someone who’s running late when you’re in a restaurant or some other public place.

If you’re meeting a friend at a restaurant and you get there a little early, all the more power to you - you’ll already be there when your friend arrives. It’s very different from showing up at someone’s home early, which is just overbearing and rude.

r374 It's probably fake or "herbal" Cialis or Viagra.

It's incredibly easy to get a prescription for anything in Mexico. It's just a formality.

Sarah Jeong

Idiotic women driving with their side window completely covered by a scarf, towel, etc. I was almost just hit by one who blindly swerved into the center lane because there’s no way — if she even bothered to look, which is doubtful — she could have seen through the polka-dotted rag obscuring her window.

And then there’s the driving-while-visored.

Angry, negative people. They are exhausting to deal with.

R386 so why do you come here?

R380 But you're not turning up early, if you're actually turning up on time. So the guest has an issue with arriving at the designated time, but the host doesn't have any issue in that they can't organise themselves to be ready on time? Strange.

People who post the "Sure, Jan" gif.

R388 Obviously you haven't hosted a dinner party darling.

Insta hoes.

You suck.

[quote]People who sit in public places and play something on their phone. I don't want to hear your damn sports game or tv show. Put some fucking headphones in.

These people always get offended if you ask them to turn it down.

A similarly annoying public offense is to have music blasting while a television is on. Why would I want to watch a show that I can't hear? An independent coffee shop I used to frequent started this shit at 7am. We canceled our orders and walked out, after letting them know why. People used to visit coffee houses to chat, but it's no longer possible to do so in most of them.

A UFO could levitate ten feet above K street and no one would notice because they’d all be hypnotized by their phone screens.

Misusing "literally". Yesterday I heard a woman say "I was laughing so hard my head literally exploded! I literally pissed my pants." Now had her head actually exploded while she pissed herself it would have made my day complete!

I’m sick of figure skating, Meryl Streep stans and vocal fry.

Fake patriotism from phony assholes who don't even know what the Bill of Rights is.

Douchebros on Datalounge acting as if they matter.

People here who start new IG threads to discuss Instagram narcissists who post endless semi-nude photos with self-help platitudes.

[quote] Old coots on DL who fake talk young especially with the masc fetish or the instaho worship.

I remember one of my Mom’s friends saying “Take It easily,”. I’d like to give her a hug today, not then, though.

Thugs, everywhere

Lying egotistical assholes.

Not everyone I know, but I know or know of way too many.

People saying Beizhing and maharazhah like they are exoticizing or what.

[Quote]What’s more sobering is imagining their pudgy digits skittering over Instagam on their phlegm-flecked iPad, in search of fresh meat, all the while seated at the formica kitchen table of their trailer home, while summer’s flies slowly circle above. The shimmering romance of it!

This bears repeating because THIS is Datalounge! I mean the real DL!

W&W for you, Sir. Well played!

“It’s a witch hunt. I’ve been saying that a long time back.”

I just heard this from Giuliani. The phrase “witch hunt” bothers me, but [italic] what I’m sick of [/italic] is the idea that the repetition of a lie somehow gives it legitimacy.

R404, isn't Hitler attributed to a quote to that effect?

People saying “amazing” for every fucking thing. That word is ruined.

R405 Nixon. There was no witch hunt for Hitler after he was released from prison—he was embraced and elected by Germans.

People coming to a sudden stop in the middle of the footpath to do something on their mobiles, then giving you nasty looks when you slam into them, like you were suppose to anticipate their sudden stop.

1970s nostalgia.

I just want to smack anyone who says "butt hurt"

Snowflakes being considered all wispy and weak. Come up here and say that when the blizzards roll in, wimps.

The stupid millennials who think "we been knew" is cute. Same with the use of "Sis".

You do you.

[quote]People coming to a sudden stop in the middle of the footpath to do something on their mobiles,

This is the most British sentence you will read today.

(Unless it's an American being pretentious.)

Straight-edge dudes.

Being sick. I'd pay back everything I've ever earned to live pain free for the rest of my life.

[quote]+1 for selfies. The minute some friend posts a selfie on FB, I unfollow them.

Why stop there? Send them a death threat. Or turd in a box.

People positing stupid questions. Just kidding! Trump supporters.

R416 I’m so sorry you live in chronic pain, I do, too and I wish it weren’t so, too,

People bitching about "damned autocorrect." Turn it the fuck off if you don't want it to autofuckup.

Posters like R351 who add nothing of value to a thread, but comments that the preceding 200 posts have been boring.

It took you 200 posts to form that opinion?

SMH

Unrealistic looking tiny homes.

* Two people planning on retiring in their tiny home will be content sitting next to each other on that hard, small, foldable bench attached to the wall... for the rest of their lives? Or are they going to sit up in their loft bed in their 70s?

* The glass jars so many people have lining the shelves of their kitchen sections? They all hold about one serving of pasta or flour. Where did the box/bag go with the rest of the pasta and flour servings?

* So many hard, pointy edges between the foldable tables and stairs and cabinets, I can only imagine I'd be covered in bruises all the time.

* I'd feel bad making my cat live with me... I don't think it would be big enough for her to get any actual exercise.

* Are you really lessening your carbon foot print if you create these homes and then leave them to move on to something bigger in 2-3 years? Aren't you really just creating more STUFF when you build them?

* If you're storing the rest of your stuff at a relatives or in paid rental storage space does that really count as reducing your life?

[Quote]So many hard, pointy edges between the foldable tables and stairs and cabinets, I can only imagine I'd be covered in bruises all the time.

Are you a toddler?

A toddler is just the right size for escaping unscathed in those places, r423.

Homeless people making demands. How about paying some flipping taxes? How about moving to the country and stop blocking the subway so I can get to work and pay taxes. How about if the City starts cracking down on this shit? I need a vacation.

Well, hopefully when Trump becomes dictator for life they can put the homeless in work camps. The camps could have a zippy catchphrase such as "Work Will Set You Free." Then you could enjoy your beautiful life in Trumpistan, a subsidiary of The Putin Entertainment Group.

You could wear a little armband to show your solidarity to the new thousand year government, perhaps with an insignia depicting a Big Mac, or a man sexually assaulting a woman. Or a man sexually assaulting a woman and a Big Mac.

But no vacation for you. You have to pay your taxes too and vacations don't pay for taxes.

Meanwhile, I love threads that exhort people to whine and complain because god knows, America needs more whiners and complainers. That's why we have to round up the immigrants. They work shitty jobs without complaining and that's just unAmerican.

Every time I see this thread, I think to myself, who the fuck says “Sunday fun day”?

R426 - yeah, I guess that’s the other option. Maybe we can move them all ove to your street. Get some boots though. You’ll want to avoid the needles and the feces and maybe your own bullshit.

I have never heard of "Sunday fun day" until you just typed it, R427.

"yeah, I guess that’s the other option. Maybe we can move them all ove (sic) to your street. Get some boots though. You’ll want to avoid the needles and the feces and maybe your own bullshit."

Honey, I don't know what things are like in Thailand when you go on one of your underage sex tours so maybe that's your experience there. Or that's just what you say to justify raping foreign children. But where I live, it's nice--even with all the immigrants. And in San Francisco, where there is some of what you describe on the streets, the shit and the needles usually belong to the homeless white people who became methheads or got addicted to oxycontin and no foreigners were involved. It was white Republicans taking in Big Pharma money and looking the other way, and allowing companies to ship jobs overseas where they can get cheaper labor.

By the way, since you're wallowing in your own bullshit, I would suggest a scuba suit. I don't think boots are going to cut it.

Oh wait, you LIKE to wallow in your own shit.

To each their own, I guess.

R430 - I ain’t bovvered.

[quote]Every time I see this thread, I think to myself, who the fuck says “Sunday fun day”?

John Tartaglia, every week on his SiriusXM radio show.

FRYYAY! SQUAD

Mommy-Juice Monday

Tipsy Tuesday

Wine-o Wednesday

Thirsty Thursday

TGIFriday

Sloppy Saturday

Sunday Funday

Libraries also used to be quiet places for study, reading and reflection. Now they are filled with rude people loudly talking and/or children shrieking or lying down on the floor blocking the way. Why has it become this way? I pay taxes for a quiet library, kids don't pay taxes. And I have complained about it to my city councilwoman and library staff, nothing gets done.

I loathe vacuous Instagram ‘models’. They use filters, poses, and photoshop. Most are real hubcap chasers with the IQ of a piece of mouldy cheese. The personality of soggy bread. The charisma of an armpit hair. And fucking hashtags such as #lifegoals #couplegoals

I hear ya on the library stuff, R435. I did complain at one, which has a separate quiet area that's not quiet, was told libraries have changed. My response was that what had changes was the willingness of library workers to do their jobs. One damn library in the area actually requires that people be quiet.

[quote]The charisma of an armpit hair.

I realize "an armpit hair" is not the same as "armpit hair," but charisma this, bitch.

I've a suspicion that libraries were changed to attract kids and non-readers, and that it happened as part of the overall effort to dumb down every institution of learning and to celebrate the non-cerebral. Began with Reagan, resulted in Drumpf. That's what I'm sick of; our society regressing into a modern day Dark Age, superstition and pretend 'science' leading the undereducated, disinformed, and insecure into Fascism and their own demise.

And I'm sick of passive-aggressive bluehairs calling complete strangers "fam" as part of their super-Woke posturing. Lame, fake, inspid dumbfuckery.

Libraries were changed because, since the advent of the internet, the library profession has been in a panic (yes, they've been in a panic for going on 30 years now) that people would stop using libraries. Since most people can consult Google for the information they'd used to have to visit a library for, librarians have been flailing about trying to think of ways to keep bodies (not just kids and non-readers) in libraries. As a result, you see them more and more transformed into "community centers" sponsoring all manner of completely non-library related classes, activities, etc.

Threads that start with “Jealous bitches” in the header...

"Dont let the bastards grind you down" style memes.

New Aretha threads. Fill one up before starting another.

I think libraries can and should accommodate people who want it quiet and people who regard it as a "community center". I have noticed that here in San Diego libraries always employ security guards now to enforce rules. Security guards are everywhere now whereas 50 years ago the notion of one was scarcely heard of. It's a telling commentary on society and stupid people today that this has happened.

Ashton Kutcher being alive.

R427

Me too, until I saw my neighbor wearing one. He's an engineer with a couple of degrees so presumably knows better. I wondered if he's being ironic or do people actually think this is funny?

Sick of almost everything. Nature is the only thing good and red tide is trying to ruin it.

Bad drivers and, even more so, bad parkers.

I swear, everything else I can handle with a deep breath.

Mine are: Slow Clapping and people who respond by saying, with periods separating words: Worst.Movie.Ever.

Sick of shitty website pop-ups encouraging you to sign up for their useless e-newsletter. Also, pop-ups asking you to take their pointless survey.

Additionally, dealing with increasingly disruptive coworker behavior that management declines to address.

Rightwing Middle American teens

People being sick and dying. I lost my mother in January, my uncle two hours ago, both after long arduous illnesses in and out of hospitals. I was sick for years, got better, my mom got sick and I lost her, now my uncle who my dad has been taking care of. He had a triple bypass two years ago and surgery for an aortic aneurysm three years ago. Sick of sickness and death and losing people and fear of losing people.

My condolences, R452.

Hugs for you, r452.

Thanks, R453. The world feels apocalyptic to me and I’d guess to my whole family even if they don’t admit it to me. I can’t take anymore tragedy. I kind of wish Trump would finally antagonize someone into a nuclear attack because this is just too much.

“Is this tracking?”

r449 Worst.Post.Ever.

Crunched credits and overly edited reruns. Though this has been going on forever at least 15 years. I can still be sick of it though.

Mass shootings.

Lock her up!

Found footage scary movies. They all fucking suck and make no sense. If I pay for a movie I want to see craftsmanship not something a fucking college freshman could produce.

#ForeverHome #Gains #Goals #Bro #Brothuh #Yo #smh #ForeverFriend #This IsBig #ThatIsHuge #TurnUp

[quote]Homeless people making demands. How about paying some flipping taxes?

Most homeless people have paid taxes, and some still pay taxes on retirement/disability checks that aren't enough to pay the rent. While I am sympathetic towards you wanting to get to work on time and unmolested, I am unimpressed by your general ignorance.

R463 - do the tax man cometh to the overpass hovel to collect?

Sick of people who are slow to exercise their rights of way. In traffic, when I’m waiting to take a left turn, very often cars traveling straight in the opposite direction will creep slowly toward the intersection, and, better still turn, without signaling.

Also, when someone is waiting for my parking space, I hop in and make a quick exit. Yet often when I’m waiting for a space, I get a dawdler who takes time to fuss with their radio and mirrors and check texts and email before leisurely pulling away. Maybe being unaware of others is a calmer state, but it can be irritating. The same holds true for slowpokes at ATM’s. Move it along, man!

Sorry you're in pain R416 .

R465 In my driving class, we learned that right of way is something you GIVE, not something you TAKE.

Hollywood ... same old shit, same people, same stars, same mediocre losers ... it's just the same shit.

Johnny Depp with another magazine cover. Ben Affleck in the daily mail 50 times a week and rehab. Same old shit.

And the new players are pathetic compared to their elders. Same country that produced Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, the Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson ... now propping up Jordan Peal and Damian fucking Chazelle as gifted filmmakers.

Pathetic.

I love you R467.

R468 I thought "Get Out" was excellent.

Owns this thread owns this thread.

I’m sick of vague posts. R471, to whom do you refer?

The endless onslaught of superhero movies that keep coming out year after year. How much more Marvel/DC shit movies do we need?

The United States of America

Halloween decorations.

Another Charlie’s Angels movie being made.

Well, in my inner circle at the Gersh agency we call it "Me and 2 Unknown Blacks."

The OP posted phrases he hated R472, so I just posted my own pet peeve phrase. "Owns this thread."

^ R478 = R471

The terms “rocks” to mean looks great in.