Annoying things people say
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"Your just not smart enough to get it." Oh really then explain it, oh you can't can you? Guess your just as dumb as me. Seriously I hate it when people just throw a controversial opinion out there with no backing, just to try and sound smart. You know Moviebob love him or hate him at least he give some backing on why he has that opinion.
At the end of the day you're another day olderStasisesque said:
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
It's a struggle, it's a war
And there's nothing that anyone's giving
One more day standing about, what is it for?
One day less to be living.
Oh yeah, I agree with this one. It's even better how most people who say that are already walking away before you even open your mouth to respond. I mean seriously, what's the point? Is it just something you do so that you feel good for some reason? I dunno, I don't get it.Nimzabaat said:
On topic (well, more on topic), plenty of single words annoy me. Yiff, furry, brony, fursecution, geek, nerd, bro, dog (yo dog/dawg), epic, nom....and probably many, many more that I can't think of right now.
Actually, thought of more. Entitled, elitist, strawman, red herring, pretentious.
I also forgot: Anyone who uses the word guesstimate should be shot. it's either a guess or an estimate! It's depressing that my spellcheck thinks it's a word too. Fucking Microsoft.
Because everything is to mainstream man, like, we totally need to stick it to the system. Funny that one though, I get called a hipster all the god damn time, because I happen to enjoy indie games more than most AAA titles.. Not my fault they're cheaper and take more risks, but noooo, I must be a hipster.denseWorm said:
For me.. There's about 3;
"Well you should have.." "If you had done.." "This wouldn't have happened if.." - Yes, well that isn't how things happened so please say something that helps the current situation or shut the hell up.
"Years ago this was like this." or variations on that. - My mother likes this one, now I promptly remind her that years ago I would have been considered above her being male and an adult and that she would have had to remain silent until spoken to. There's a reason things aren't as they used to be, so you can't pick and choose what suits you.
"Man up." - Being kinda effeminate this one annoys me a hell of a lot, y'know what, what if I don't want to follow someones small view of how a male should behave? I'll act how I want and doesn't make me any less or more of a "man" because of it. Frankly if being a "Manly man" means being a thick headed dolt he just sucks up everything, I would rather be a simpering little *****, because at least that has a shred more personality than a rock.
That's because it is a word, it is defined as an estimate made without using adequate or complete information (to quote wikipedia). It has been around and used for near 80 years now, pretty sure that means it's a word.TheRightToArmBears said:
"You only hate it because it's popular".
That one pisses me off.
Was said to me by a friend of my wife after I commented to her husband I didn't like Twilight.
No lass, no. I hated it because it was boring as feth, the acting was on par with a 50's B movie, the storyline involved stalking, necrophilia, school girl love with a (technically) old bloke, beastiality, the worst cast choice since S Club 7 and did I mention it's boring as feth?
And any combination of...
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore".
"I have lost faith in humanity".
And the ever so popular amongst the moronic...
"Humanity needs to die off".
Not so much the phrases themselves, although they do get right on my manly tits. But the people that say them are usually the gutter trash of society that will never do anything more productive than convert food into waste and talk verbal bollocks for whatever passes of their lives.
I hate those people, and hate is a strong word but accurate, I truly despise the people that warble these Sheep shit statements.
That one pisses me off.
Was said to me by a friend of my wife after I commented to her husband I didn't like Twilight.
No lass, no. I hated it because it was boring as feth, the acting was on par with a 50's B movie, the storyline involved stalking, necrophilia, school girl love with a (technically) old bloke, beastiality, the worst cast choice since S Club 7 and did I mention it's boring as feth?
And any combination of...
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore".
"I have lost faith in humanity".
And the ever so popular amongst the moronic...
"Humanity needs to die off".
Not so much the phrases themselves, although they do get right on my manly tits. But the people that say them are usually the gutter trash of society that will never do anything more productive than convert food into waste and talk verbal bollocks for whatever passes of their lives.
I hate those people, and hate is a strong word but accurate, I truly despise the people that warble these Sheep shit statements.
Well here in Ireland we have the same kind of problem with underage drinking, but pubs are just seen as the local hang out spot. Especially in rural areas, people just hang out there, not just for drinking but playing pool or darts or whatever.chozo_hybrid said:
Anytime "clearly" or "obviously" is used as a cop-out for "I don't have any solid data to back my claims up". Can't tell now whether I always had beef with it or it got to me once I went into science, but any claim prefaced with "clearly/obviously" tends to be either the person's own observation or just repeating popular myths.
While we're at it, anytime someone repeats a popular myth as an accepted fact.
While we're at it, anytime someone repeats a popular myth as an accepted fact.
My post was originally just "I'm sure you have none of those," but I realized by saying that alone, I was being a passive-aggressive prick.Mortai Gravesend said:
I was talking about my statement about the vast majority of people lying to suit themselves. It was you who then decided it had to be somebody who lies at every turn. I'm not saying most people are pathological liars, but most people will lie very often to make circumstances easier.
Thanks. That's quite a relief.
I know that, that's not what I meant. I'm well aware that you don't have to prove the negative of any assertion I make at all, even if I said "gravity exists." It'd be easy enough for me to demonstrate gravity myself.
Barring the troubles of getting to the moon itself, what I meant was that there is a moon orbiting earth that is accessible by humans, and there is empirical evidence looming above our heads that the moon is, in fact, not cheese.
That's what I meant, I'm skeptical about public surveys, especially things that ask the person to reveal something that would make them nervous if it wasn't completely held anonymously. The same applies to a survey about the social cycle I'm talking about.
Fair enough. But I suppose you could say that about anybody, really. I'm just making observations based on what I see.
I meant the vast majority that I've encountered, and then assumed a societal pattern. Sure in a perfect world I would give everyone I don't know the benefit of the doubt, but I find people far too predictable for that.
I see what you're saying. But clearly we're working with separate pools of people where I see it as extremely prominent, rampant almost, and you don't see it at all. Like I said, I find that interesting and, frankly, it gives me a bit of hope that the entire world isn't a big ball of trash.
I only did that because, in light of the recent topics at the escapist, I assumed the hot word going around was "misogynist" and I expected you to sling the same thing at me.
This is basically the same thing you said before, and I said 'fair enough,' so fair enough. Although I'd say that's true of almost anybody who's not, say, a diplomat. But you're certainly right about that. Though, I have been around the United States and Germany and I get the same sexual vibe from each place, that that's the way it is in a lot of modern, secular (which the United States really isn't, but still) societies.
I agree.
I meant sexual superiority, where men are encouraged to accept any advance and women are encouraged to deny any advance. It's really counter-intuitive to everyone if you ask me, but I said the only reason people would want to uphold it is that people on both sides get a rush from it. Men like the thrill of the chase, and they enjoy bragging (something I absolutely never understood.. bragging about sex. It makes you look like a filthy, sad human being) and the women enjoy being manipulative.
I think more of it comes from sex being held as this 'holy grail' of social status. That if you're a guy and you have lots of sex you must have the blood of a Norse god. That translates to people being able to nullify other social statuses and instead feel superior to somebody else due to how much sex they have (or how little, for females). It assumes that everyone's on an equal playing field in the sexual realm, which they're not. It's really a matter of circumstance.
Many physically attractive people find their life devoid of sexual advances, it's called involuntary celibacy. And many physically unattractive people have sex on a regular basis. It could be anywhere from prostitution, to simply that there are people out there who don't find that person to be unattractive. There certainly is no one standard for attractiveness.
But it all boils down to the idea that your sex life makes you socially superior to others. When, in fact, I believe it's something you should keep a secret. You'd never hear me saying "I totally did XYZ with my girlfriend last night," because I find that ridiculously derogatory. But that's not what other people think-- or at least are led to think. That's why it seems like it's a forced social standard to me, because the idea of objectifying another person that heavily seems borderline sociopathic to me.
I'm not complaining that men aren't getting sex. In fact it's in my best interest that nobody reproduce, because I think the world is absolutely rotten thanks to human beings.
But there also is the issue of psychological damage from sexual frustration (and this could apply to either side). There could be men and women who have equal libido, but the man becomes sexually frustrated because he can't have sex due to the woman's withdrawal of it, and the woman becomes sexually frustrated because she feels the need to withdraw sex as long as possible in order to maintain her Puritan status of "virgin" or even just "not a slut."
And when it becomes a constant thing, sexual frustration is not just an "Aww, man. I didn't have sex," kind of thing, it can literally drive people to the brink of insanity.
Thought of another one. THis mostly pretains to forum posting and not real world conversations.
"IMO" Seriously you are posting on a forum of course its your damn opinion. I guess you could be giving someone elses opinion but that is usually prefaced with "so and so said" or a link or a spoiler box.
"IMO" is not really impropper its just redundant and unnecessary.
Oh and using any twitter speak in a real conversation that does not have a 140 character limit. I swear I should be able to punch anyone who says the word "hashtag" in a person to person conversation.
"IMO" Seriously you are posting on a forum of course its your damn opinion. I guess you could be giving someone elses opinion but that is usually prefaced with "so and so said" or a link or a spoiler box.
"IMO" is not really impropper its just redundant and unnecessary.
Oh and using any twitter speak in a real conversation that does not have a 140 character limit. I swear I should be able to punch anyone who says the word "hashtag" in a person to person conversation.
Off the top of my head:
When someone is upset about something for say, more than a day, and some smug git comes out with the: 'Children in Africa have it worse than you../ man up!' line. Fortunately, this has rarely happened to me, on account of me being a right proud bastard and not sharing my problems often; but if a friend is genuinely depressed and needs some empathy or support to believe that they can and will bounce back; the most cuntish thing you can say is "You feel bad, and if I was you, I wouldn't feel bad because I'm obviously awesome in comparison to you, so now you should feel worse!" *smugface*.
Any statement along the lines of "Someone from this race/ gender hurt me or my ancestors in the past, so now I'm going to take it out on these other people because two wrongs totally make a right!"
"Talented" There may or may not be truth to talent; I'm still rather sceptical that talent is anything more than a keen interest in something from a young age; combined with a lack of fear to experiment or possibly fail at it. I don't like this word because it encourages people who show some early promise at something to get lazy and fall back on their 'talent'; and it discourages people who haven't had an early start, or who have perhaps come from a less encouraging background by making them believe they don't have the required 'talent'. See a rather depressingly large number of school music teachers for examples of this. Also, it can be used to excuse lazy teaching.
When someone is upset about something for say, more than a day, and some smug git comes out with the: 'Children in Africa have it worse than you../ man up!' line. Fortunately, this has rarely happened to me, on account of me being a right proud bastard and not sharing my problems often; but if a friend is genuinely depressed and needs some empathy or support to believe that they can and will bounce back; the most cuntish thing you can say is "You feel bad, and if I was you, I wouldn't feel bad because I'm obviously awesome in comparison to you, so now you should feel worse!" *smugface*.
Any statement along the lines of "Someone from this race/ gender hurt me or my ancestors in the past, so now I'm going to take it out on these other people because two wrongs totally make a right!"
"Talented" There may or may not be truth to talent; I'm still rather sceptical that talent is anything more than a keen interest in something from a young age; combined with a lack of fear to experiment or possibly fail at it. I don't like this word because it encourages people who show some early promise at something to get lazy and fall back on their 'talent'; and it discourages people who haven't had an early start, or who have perhaps come from a less encouraging background by making them believe they don't have the required 'talent'. See a rather depressingly large number of school music teachers for examples of this. Also, it can be used to excuse lazy teaching.
As a guy, the Kratos one has always amused me greatly.Vault101 said:
[sarcasm] Yeah mate, I'm sure there's nothing girls like to fantasize about more that a man with perpetual anger issues who kills everyone in his life that he loves. I'm sure their sitting there thinking "God, why can't my man be more like Kratos!" [/sarcasm]
(Although, judging by the popularity of 50 Shades of Gr-actually, no, I'm not even going to go there.)
As for the rest... Well, I'd argue that everybody is judged by their looks first and foremost, as how someone looks is usually the first impression that everyone gets of everyone else, regardless of gender. Whether or not this is more apparent with women, I honestly don't know, as I am not and never will be a woman nor any other man other than myself. All I know is, yes, I am probably more likely to want to go up and talk to someone if I find them physically attractive. However, if by 10 minutes into the conversation I can find nothing that interests me about that person other than how they look, I'm unlikely to keep the conversation going just because I think she looks nice.
Anyway, on topic. I want to be an actor, and naturally, that unfortunately means I tend to spend a lot of time around people who are far more pretentious about theatre and film than I am. I'm not just talking about people who want to push boundaries and see what their art is capable of, or people who want to try things new and interesting, as I'm like that too. I'm talking about people who won't even give something a second look unless it's trying out of it's skin to look as highbrow as possible, and will scoff at anyone for liking anything too mainstream (completely oblivious to just how token and homogenized so called 'Oscar Bait' movies have become when compared to a lot of "dumb" Hollywood blockbusters).
I love film, and want to be in the film industry one day, because I love reaching out emotionally to an audience, telling a good story, and making someone's thoughts and feeling resonate with yours, just for a moment. I love that feeling; and I tell you, there is more of that feeling in one scene of 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' than there is in the whole of 'The King's Speech', so it really pisses me off when I hear people dismiss it (and others like it) as "dumb and flashy", for no other reason than they can't look past its budget and aesthetics, and by doing so play their part in driving the wedge between these two types of movies further and further apart, which I believe is the greatest threat the industry faces today.
