To hate the use of the term "hack" for (usually shit) "tips"

[TeaCake5]

What is it with newspapers and articles calling everything a "hack"?

Unless it is an article about hacking a computer it is a stupid phrase.

[KermitRuffinsTrumpet]

I agree YANBU

[PurpleDaisies]

It annoys me to a degree to which I accept is irrational.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

YANBU.

[StealthPolarBear]

Or worse life hack.

[IateallthePies654]

YANBU!!

[ThoraGruntwhistle]

Life hacks are used by people who also never talk, but banter instead.

[FlyingElbows]

A hack is a type of show horse or going out for a ride. Anything else is just wrong.

[troodiedoo]

Agreed. I also dislike it when people say they hacked someone's social media account. No, you just knew the password anyway or went on their phone while they went to the loo. Not hacking!

[KondosSecretJunkRoom]

Oh, I quite like hack and life hack

A hack sounds a lot quicker and efficient than a tip or worse a top tip.

[TroysMammy]

Bloody Daily Mail uses this phrase and type of articles time and time again. It is a shit paper with journalists who like an easy life. And their spelling is atrocious.

[TeaCake5]

They are always on the "paid outbrain" ads on ALL newspaper sites.

Always shit stuff - like "starbucks hacks" that are actually rubbish bullshit anyway and US focussed and if you asked for in your local starbucks in Lichfield you would be met with blank stares.

[KondosSecretJunkRoom]

Hold on, just before this shit gets serious, I'd like to point out I don't read the Daily Mail. It's all fun and games until you get slandered by association.

[spaghettithrower]

YANBU - really irritating and smacks of writers trying to be "cool".

[dailydance]

YANBU. It's very annoying and totally incorrect usage of the word

[TeaCake5]

glad to see I'm not alone

[RedBugMug]

yanbu
a hack is to use something not for it's original intended purpose, but nowadays it's wrongly used instead of tips.

[highinthesky]

Isn't it an American invention? Hence not a real word in English

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

I agree with you completely unless we're talking Ikea hacks in which case you're wronger than a wrong-tailed thing of wrongness from Wrongsville.

[TeaCake5]

hey? whats an Ikea hack? How not go to ikea without punching your partner or something?

[StealthPolarBear]

What Is a Starbucks hack? Tap your nose and wink and you get a free muffin?

[StealthPolarBear]

Redbug I can kind of seethe logic then if the 'hack' is along the line if "wear your tights over your face, then you can rob banks with no one recognising you"

[RedBugMug]

well, the hack is 'wear tights over the face.
the tip is 'obscure your face so you don't get caught'

[user1471545174]

Urrgh, hack.

I hate "pins" for legs, too.

[hellooooooomama]

Yep, it's an Americanism. Annoying as hell!