Author Topic: Things I find a tad exasperating v.3 (Read 115988 times)

Adami · « **Reply #1435 on:** November 06, 2022, 12:34:26 PM »

Ain't nothing but a mistake

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1436 on:** November 06, 2022, 12:35:05 PM »

Tell me why?

XJDenton · « **Reply #1437 on:** November 06, 2022, 01:27:16 PM »

I'm never gonna hear you say...

TAC · « **Reply #1438 on:** November 06, 2022, 01:43:55 PM »

Love you guys!

Aaron Carter is the brother of another Carter from a boy band. It's zero surprise that he's dead. He's been fucked up for a long time.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1439 on:** November 06, 2022, 01:54:28 PM »

You afraid to say the name of the boy band Tim?

TAC · « **Reply #1440 on:** November 06, 2022, 02:04:45 PM »

Can't put my finger on it at the moment..

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1441 on:** November 06, 2022, 02:55:58 PM »

XJDenton · « **Reply #1442 on:** November 06, 2022, 03:19:28 PM »

Quote from: TAC on November 06, 2022, 01:43:55 PM

Love you guys!

Aaron Carter is the brother of another Carter from a boy band. It's zero surprise that he's dead. He's been fucked up for a long time.

Oh. Ok, now I feel bad.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1443 on:** November 06, 2022, 03:22:05 PM »

He has been but what we did was pointing out who his brother is.

pg1067 · « **Reply #1444 on:** November 06, 2022, 08:41:55 PM »

Quote from: TAC on November 06, 2022, 01:43:55 PM

Love you guys!

Aaron Carter is the brother of another Carter from a boy band. It's zero surprise that he's dead. He's been fucked up for a long time.

So...he's from 98 New Backstreet Kids? Seriously...you could've given my 100 guesses and I likely wouldn't have guessed. I take it his name came up because he died recently?

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1445 on:** November 07, 2022, 04:04:45 AM »

His older brother is in Backstreet Boys. Nick Carter.

pg1067 · « **Reply #1446 on:** November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM »

Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

TAC · « **Reply #1447 on:** November 07, 2022, 05:59:42 PM »

Today years old? I've never heard that phrase before.

I even checked google lens.

wolfking · « **Reply #1448 on:** November 07, 2022, 06:02:27 PM »

Quote from: pg1067 on November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM

Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

I've never heard that before. That doesn't make any sense.

TAC · « **Reply #1449 on:** November 07, 2022, 06:03:18 PM »

Quote from: wolfking on November 07, 2022, 06:02:27 PM

Quote from: pg1067 on November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM
Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

I've never heard that before. That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, I was today years old when I heard that.

Did I do that right, Paul?

Stadler · « **Reply #1450 on:** November 08, 2022, 08:56:35 AM »

Quote from: pg1067 on November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM

Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

I hate that shit. I really do. I get slang and lingo, but TO ME there's a smarminess and snarkiness to a lot of the slang these days that to me isn't fun.

pg1067 · « **Reply #1451 on:** November 08, 2022, 10:32:31 AM »

Quote from: TAC on November 07, 2022, 06:03:18 PM

Quote from: wolfking on November 07, 2022, 06:02:27 PM
Quote from: pg1067 on November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM
Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

I've never heard that before. That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, I was today years old when I heard that.

Did I do that right, Paul?

Yup...it's usually used in connection with something that the writer has just learned that most everyone has known for a long time - e.g., "I was today years old when I learned who Aaron Carter is."

Quote from: Stadler on November 08, 2022, 08:56:35 AM

I hate that shit. I really do. I get slang and lingo, but TO ME there's a smarminess and snarkiness to a lot of the slang these days that to me isn't fun.

I don't know if that's it (for me), but there's a host of modern slang (and even stuff that isn't slang) that seems intentionally designed to do violence to proper grammar.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1452 on:** November 08, 2022, 10:40:24 AM »

pg, I know you'll agree but everything seems to be clickbait these days. Everything is like reading Star Magazine online.

jammindude · « **Reply #1453 on:** November 08, 2022, 10:57:19 AM »

I use that phrase all the time when I learn something new.

You guys are old.

Chino · « **Reply #1454 on:** November 08, 2022, 10:58:58 AM »

I kind of like "today years old"

Dublagent66 · « **Reply #1455 on:** November 08, 2022, 11:01:34 AM »

I was "yesterday years old". I am "today years old". I will be "tomorrow years old".

cramx3 · « **Reply #1456 on:** November 08, 2022, 11:02:55 AM »

I never use the phrase as I personally don't care for it, but it hasn't really bothered me when others use it.

pg1067 · « **Reply #1457 on:** November 08, 2022, 11:05:31 AM »

I sometimes think that, if I were to time travel 100 years into the future, I would have no ability to communicate with anyone (in the same way that old English is incomprehensible to us).

Stadler · « **Reply #1458 on:** November 08, 2022, 11:23:11 AM »

But I think what we forget is that there is a fine line between the general aging of a language/communication. - the difference between the Declaration of Independence and a contract today - and the sudden fads that pop up. How many of us now hear people from the '60s talk in hippie slang and laugh? I'm "today years old" or "that's how I adult!" are the "hey man, that is groovy, man" of yesterday.

I haven't had to say it in a while, but for a period there, from about 2016 to about 2018 I was really bummed, like REALLY bummed, that we were going to have a Presidential Library, whose main content was 140-characters or less tweets. Compare and contrast the hundreds of letters from John Adams to both his lovely wife and to his main political counterpoint, Thomas Jefferson with that of "Cofeve".

Chino · « **Reply #1459 on:** November 08, 2022, 11:51:42 AM »

Quote from: Stadler on November 08, 2022, 11:23:11 AM

But I think what we forget is that there is a fine line between the general aging of a language/communication. - the difference between the Declaration of Independence and a contract today - and the sudden fads that pop up. How many of us now hear people from the '60s talk in hippie slang and laugh? I'm "today years old" or "that's how I adult!" are the "hey man, that is groovy, man" of yesterday.

And before that is was "gimme some skin", "square", "don't flip your wig", "bumping gums", "dog soup" and "soiled my pantaloons".

Language and phrases constantly change. At least with "today years old", you know exactly what the person is saying. We're always going to laugh at the verbiage used a few generations ago. I could speak perfect English today and my grandkids' kids will still make fun of it. Way she goes.

cramx3 · « **Reply #1460 on:** November 08, 2022, 12:09:15 PM »

The dictionary does get updated to reflect changes/additions in language

MetalJunkie · « **Reply #1461 on:** November 09, 2022, 03:20:19 PM »

Quote from: pg1067 on November 07, 2022, 05:58:33 PM

Speaking of "mildly irritating"...

"I was today years old when I found out...."

For fuck's sake, really? Drives me crazy.

It was funny the first time or two. Now it's fucking everywhere.

wolfking · « **Reply #1462 on:** November 10, 2022, 06:38:28 PM »

Quote from: pg1067 on November 08, 2022, 10:32:31 AM

Yup...it's usually used in connection with something that the writer has just learned that most everyone has known for a long time - e.g., "I was today years old when I learned who Aaron Carter is."

This term could quite possibly the most insane and fucking idiotic thing I have ever heard.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1463 on:** November 10, 2022, 06:44:28 PM »

I can’t wait to drop this line in here sometime when it’s least expected.

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1464 on:** November 11, 2022, 09:19:23 AM »

Wow, there are some really old motherfuckers posting in this thread, hating the newfangled ways that people talk.

cramx3 · « **Reply #1465 on:** November 11, 2022, 09:23:08 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on November 11, 2022, 09:19:23 AM

Wow, there are some really old motherfuckers posting in this thread, hating the newfangled ways that people talk.

You don't like the OLD ways?

hefdaddy42 · « **Reply #1466 on:** November 11, 2022, 09:27:46 AM »

The first time I caught myself sounding like my Dad in this kind of situation, saying something like this, which he would have said about some hip phrase I was using at the time, I slapped myself in the face and said "Never again".

The old ways (proper English grammar) is always going to be there. Phrases and idioms like this are fads that come and go, and rarely hang around for very long.

Now excuse me, I have to pick up some groceries and yeet them into the car.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #1467 on:** November 11, 2022, 09:42:53 AM »

I'd like to yeet Yeezy. But Yeezus.

Am I doing this right?

pg1067 · « **Reply #1468 on:** November 11, 2022, 10:27:00 AM »

Quote from: hefdaddy42 on November 11, 2022, 09:27:46 AM

Now excuse me, I have to pick up some groceries and yeet them into the car.

Hope you're not getting eggs!

emtee · « **Reply #1469 on:** November 14, 2022, 11:12:58 AM »

Amazon is going to announce its biggest mass layoff in company history. Meanwhile Bezos has announced he's giving everything to charity. Dolly Parton received 100 million from him. I don't think she needs it. Maybe consider giving everyone who is getting laid off a generous severance and also giving a nice raise to all the Amazon employees who bust their ass every single day.

Geesh.

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Author Topic: Things I find a tad exasperating v.3 (Read 115988 times)