Words/phrases that piss you off

[Uriel_Hayabusa]

Yeah, you're not really understanding the context this is happening in.

I understand it just fine. I just find it perplexing that you take something as admittedly annoying as a staff member inflexibly sticking by the written rules as a dismissal of you as a person or an attempt to run away from a problem, or as you said yourself:

it's essentially no different from "fuck off"

 

[Musette]

Maybe I read into it too far, but I dislike the term "Talent."

I feel like people use the term to say that someone has a lot of natural ability, which unintentionally comes off as writing off the hard work necessary to achieve that level of skill. Yes, natural aptitude is a thing, but it isn't as necessary as actually putting the work in to improve if you actually want to be good at something. When people say "I have no talent for dance/painting/dragon slaying/etc." they sound like they're saying that they can't do something because they aren't immediately good at it. Guess what? Most people are total shit at things that they are trying for the very first time. Even the greatest people in their fields were beginners once. Maybe that bothers me became I decided to pursue something that I had no natural skill for and worked my ass off to get to where I am today (and I will continue to work until there is no ass to work off anymore), and people just say "you're so talented! I could never do that!"

Please note that when people use "talent" as a compliment, I don't go apeshit on them. I say my thanks and move on. The word still irritates me, but I understand that people don't use that word to spite me. (I'm also kinda awkward when it comes to praise in general. I can think of a million reasons why the praise isn't deserved and list more than enough things I wasn't happy with in my own performance, but shooting down praise almost feels like you're questioning the person's tastes or ability to perceive quality, so I can't get out more than a "thank you" without fearing that I'm being rude.)

 

[DANEgerous]

-Feminazi: No just... you are building in Goodwin's law in to your title
-irregardless: Ir (Without) regardless lacking regard, this irregardless is without lacking regard
-Rape culture: No one is for rape.
-pro abortion: or abortion
-Darwinism: Do you think people worship Darwin?

 

[Varrdy]

"The Customer Is Always Right!"

Whoever came up with that fucking doozy obviously never worked in any kind of sales or service role! In my previous job the "customer" was largely an arrogant, entitled dickhead.

My favourite was the one who thought it was acceptable to call at 16:55 (we closed at 17:00), ask for something that didn't actually exist and demand it was delivered NOW! Apparently this non-existent type of cable was critical to the whole project they were working on and if we didn't deliver then he would lodge a formal complaint and, as many have threatened when they were told "no", take their account (which represented about 2% if our turnover, tops) elsewhere. That basically translates to "I screwed-up but, as I am a former electrician who now wears a tie and am therefore full of my own self-importance, I cannot admit this as it would make me look bad. Therefore I will pass the blame neatly onto the wholesaler."

He was "very angry" that he had to accept something similar (and actually existed) and had to go fetch it from another, bigger branch that refused to deliver it. Apparently "The same-day delivery cut-off is mid-day, you refuse to pay carriage charges and the van-drivers have homes and families to get to!" was not acceptable.

The upside of that armpit of a job was that it has made me extremely tolerant and patient with sales and service staff.

 

[poundingmetal74]

Queer - I understand it's part of the LGBT lexicon to denote a non-binary view of sexuality, and there are academic "queer studies" and so forth, but I've never cared for the term. It's always felt like a derogatory term, no matter how much people try to reclaim it.

Retarded - As someone who's worked with people with special needs, this term really bothers me. I don't particularly like it being used about something, as in "that new is retarded!" but I can't stand when it's used about someone. Using it to mock someone with special needs is about as low as you can get IMO.

YOLO - Just a personal annoyance. I've never actually heard the song that popularized this term, nor do I want to.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

"Literally" as a synonym for "really". Fucking hate it.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

This kind of phrase: "I don't mean to be rude, but..." immediately followed up by a rude statement.

If you're going to be rude then be rude. I say harmful and inappropriate things all the time but, unless I'm in sarcasm mode, I always mean what I say. The amount of inherent deceit that goes into crafting a statement that "Doesn't mean to do the thing it's totally going to do" is disgusting to me. It reveals a personality that is both cowardly and treacherous.

Mass Effect's Ashley Williams said it best "Why is it that when someone says 'With all due respect' they really mean 'Kiss my ass?'"

 

[megaflash]

Just going to throw this out there.

"Bae"

The hell is a bae, and why is it used in reference to women?

 

[Artaneius]

"The Customer Is Always Right!"

Whoever came up with that fucking doozy obviously never worked in any kind of sales or service role! In my previous job the "customer" was largely an arrogant, entitled dickhead.

My favourite was the one who thought it was acceptable to call at 16:55 (we closed at 17:00), ask for something that didn't actually exist and demand it was delivered NOW! Apparently this non-existent type of cable was critical to the whole project they were working on and if we didn't deliver then he would lodge a formal complaint and, as many have threatened when they were told "no", take their account (which represented about 2% if our turnover, tops) elsewhere. That basically translates to "I screwed-up but, as I am a former electrician who now wears a tie and am therefore full of my own self-importance, I cannot admit this as it would make me look bad. Therefore I will pass the blame neatly onto the wholesaler."

He was "very angry" that he had to accept something similar (and actually existed) and had to go fetch it from another, bigger branch that refused to deliver it. Apparently "The same-day delivery cut-off is mid-day, you refuse to pay carriage charges and the van-drivers have homes and families to get to!" was not acceptable.

The upside of that armpit of a job was that it has made me extremely tolerant and patient with sales and service staff.

While I agree that many customers are entitled jerks that abuse their role in a capitalist based economy. That's what the rights and powers of a customer are. As a customer, I have the ability to decide what business lives and what business dies. What people keep their jobs and what people lose their jobs. I like all customers have the authority to decide who makes a living and who doesn't. It's honestly nothing to be that surprised or upset about. People with any kind of power are always going to abuse it. Why? Because if someone doesn't someone else will for their personal gain. And like everyone else, I sure as hell care more about myself than I do about others.

Welcome to capitalism, please enjoy your stay or don't. It really doesn't matter, life goes on.

 

[Barbas]

For the past month or two, the word "narrative".

Everything is a "narrative". Everyone is "spinning a narrative".

Narrative narrative narrative.

I agree. What customers really want is an experience. That's what we should really be selling. And Jar-Jar. Because if we can make him work, it'll all sort of gel together and rhyme.

Hopefully. Hopefully it'll work.

(...)And because of that people just decide that they can just pat me on the head and go "wubbble wubble wubble" at me. At least, that's what I hear.

And it drives me nuts. And what's worst? I know that I am cute. I may not be beautiful, or even all that pretty, but I am cute, and it makes me appreciate the phrase, to cut my nose off to spite my face. Fuck cute.

Heh. That reminds me of when my dad lost his temper at my friend and me in a supermarket. He said "if you two don't shut up, I'm going to throw a wobbly in a minute". My friend, always quick on his feet, immediately said "wobble, wobble!" and my dad broke down into fits of giggles.

You can just do what I do - pull your shirt up over your head and do a Cornholio.

Spoiler

"Pissbaby" and "Butthurt"

Especially when it's accompanied by a point that's trying to make sense.
It kind of discredits everything that comes before or after in my head.

Ew, gross. Where does that term "pissbaby" even come from??? Do we wanna know?! D:

OT: "Troll" and "kid" are thrown around a lot on sites like YouTube, which occasionally makes me rub my hands up and down my face in that stress-relieving manner, or put the kettle on again.

 

[UFriday]

Trigger is a word that annoys the living hell out of me.

I suffer from a condition where I have "Triggers", but I despise the word because I'm so used to hear it being used by the overly-sensitive or people who get offended easily: the dark side of Tumblr, as it were.

Naive is another word that can be a pain: if only because of that nasty implication that the person calling you naive considers themselves terribly experienced and worldwise, and I hate the sheer amount of arrogance that comes from someone automatically thinking you're beneath them.

 

[Tay's Nightmare]

My ex-boyfriend was British and always said "for fucks sake" and it pissed me off. He said it ALL THE TIME to the point I wanted to blow a gasket.

 

[Malpraxis]

"Well that's just your opinion."

When we're discussing facts. It specially gets me when someone posts something ridiculous on Facebook as a fact, and I have to be "that guy" that tells them to stop being stupid and post definitive evidence that they're wrong. "No, it's not my opinion that chemotherapy is not the spawn of satan, literally every children that ever had cancer would be dead if it weren't for it, I hope you never reproduce you cum filled bubblehead of a person".

Okay, I need to cool off now.

 

[chiggerwood]

Words and phrases alone don't piss me off. They all have a context that needs to be listened to. When someone is complaining about the feminazi or the neckbeard MRA they are usually complaining about the exact same thing, which is a set of extreme behaviors. When one person calls another retarded they hardly if ever mean actual mental retardation. They probably overt, excessive stupidity, but calling them a dumbass just doesn't cut it.

It makes no sense whatsoever to be offended by a word. All a word is is a series of noises given meaning by the people speaking and the people hearing them, and it's all too common nowadays for the person hearing the word to ignore all context and add their own narrative. Which is not only intellectually stunted but robs a person of vocabulary, which is just sad.

TL;DR Don't hate words hate the context in which they're spoken.

 

[CaitSeith]

"cinematic experience" - aaaarrrggghhhh!!!!! I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting your games to look like movies (if that's the gameplay concept like in Heavy Rain, or if it's just cinematics with quicktime events); but recently it has been used to justify subpar quality (or they are really clueless about why movies look like movies, and why videogames don't).

 

[CaitSeith]

"The Customer Is Always Right!"

Whoever came up with that fucking doozy obviously never worked in any kind of sales or service role! In my previous job the "customer" was largely an arrogant, entitled dickhead.

My favourite was the one who thought it was acceptable to call at 16:55 (we closed at 17:00), ask for something that didn't actually exist and demand it was delivered NOW! Apparently this non-existent type of cable was critical to the whole project they were working on and if we didn't deliver then he would lodge a formal complaint and, as many have threatened when they were told "no", take their account (which represented about 2% if our turnover, tops) elsewhere. That basically translates to "I screwed-up but, as I am a former electrician who now wears a tie and am therefore full of my own self-importance, I cannot admit this as it would make me look bad. Therefore I will pass the blame neatly onto the wholesaler."

He was "very angry" that he had to accept something similar (and actually existed) and had to go fetch it from another, bigger branch that refused to deliver it. Apparently "The same-day delivery cut-off is mid-day, you refuse to pay carriage charges and the van-drivers have homes and families to get to!" was not acceptable.

The upside of that armpit of a job was that it has made me extremely tolerant and patient with sales and service staff.

The one who did it was living in an age where sales people were total jerks with superiority complex and treated the consumers with total ingratitude ("you should be grateful we bother to sell you our excelent products"), and saw the chance of getting more consumers by being much nicer than the competition. That was about 100 years ago...

 

[CaitSeith]

"Well that's just your opinion."

When we're discussing facts. It specially gets me when someone posts something ridiculous on Facebook as a fact, and I have to be "that guy" that tells them to stop being stupid and post definitive evidence that they're wrong. "No, it's not my opinion that chemotherapy is not the spawn of satan, literally every children that ever had cancer would be dead if it weren't for it, I hope you never reproduce you cum filled bubblehead of a person".

Okay, I need to cool off now.

Just answer: Yes, an opinion supported by facts.

 

[Rariow]

-"Autistic" referring to someone you disagree with, in particular in YouTube comments.
-"Cis", in regards to gender. I realize there has to be an opposite of "Trans", but I just don't like the word. It makes me think of molecular structure and not humans.
-"Lad", especially from a teen/young adult when referring to oneself or ones friends. It almost always indicates some kind of macho behavior and makes me want to not know them.
-"Cheers" as in "thanks". It feels dishonest, and since I moved here to the UK it keeps popping up.
-"MRA"/"SJW", both tags that have been made up to avoid meaningful debate and just label anyone who disagrees with you as bad.
-"Neckbeard" We've gone back to judging peoples personality by how they look? Really?
-"(Wo)man hating" Just because someone isn't as invested in equality as you, doesn't mean they hate women. Just because someone points out men have privileges doesn't mean they hate men.
-"White Cis Male" It's a way of shaming people, just those people who tend to be more privileged. "You were born into a segment of population that makes it more likely you'll lead a good life and you should feel bad!". It's not like every white cis male is Rockefeller, either, there's plenty of white, cis, male homeless people.
-Saying "no one really cares about X". No, sorry, someone cares, or you wouldn't be discussing it. I understand it isn't meant to be literal but it ticks me off.
-"Weeaboo" Most people who use this are nerds. Why do we have to invent a term to shame a particular kind of nerd? It's not like we don't get enough of that already.
-"420". I just still don't understand why, and it always takes me a few seconds to remember.
-Any phrase that's over 30% hashtags or the words "YOLO" or "swag", unless it's being used as a joke.
-Saying you "like something ironically". It feels like you're trying to be to cool for school.
-"I've got a theory..."/"But that's just a theory!". No. A theory is the highest level of scientific truth. Your guess about a random thing isn't a theory, and saying "That's just a theory" is equivalent to "That's only been proven to be true as much as it possibly can be"

And, the one that makes browsing the internet a nightmare...
"LOL". There's something about it that just drives me fucking nuts. I can't stand it. It hurts me. It hurts me so bad. Funnily enough, I don't mind it in spoken conversation, but on the internet it just makes me very, very upset, and is EVERYWHERE.

 

[paulbnet]

Thread Tl , dr

Words that set my teeth on edge

Community
Spokesperson, Chairwoman
Islamist / terrorist / exteremist when deluded retarded loner psycopath would be better.

Other than that most words are fine, it is the context and what you put them next to.