to hate the word 'up-cycling'?

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It drives me absolutely potty. What the actual fuck does it even mean? Isn't up-cycling just the same as recycling, really? Taking someone which was used up/going to be thrown out and using it for something else?

Why can't these rich fucking ponces just say up-cycling?

God, I'm in such a bad mood this morning and listening to some cunt on the radio going on about up-cycling some old shite has driven me around the bend.

I blame property/Design Challenge -type programmes for the fetishisation of 'upcycling', 'vintage finds' and whatnot. My pet hate is the 'Wow factor!'

Lunaballoon Eugh, yes definitely. Normally when they say things have the 'wow factor', they actually really do because I think 'wow that looks shit'.

It's about the fact that the words themselves are cuntish and pretentious and don't need to exist.

But this isn't a FACT - it is your opinion.

And you asked AIBU? (which is a question BTW) and I am saying yes you are.

What you really want is for everyone to agree with you - you aren't asking a question at all! And you are shouting down anyone who disagrees with you. So why ask in the first place?

But this isn't a FACT - it is your opinion.

and it's your opinion that twat-language is superior/better/more concise. It doesn't stop you stating it. So what's your issue with the OP stating non-factual opinions?

Whatever Lemon

Re-use is another strategy and means actually ensuring in the original design that it can be reused at the end of its life- for example designing something so it can be deconstructed and reconstructed elsewhere like a meccano set. Or just reusing without making any changes.

Sorry to be pedantic- you might have guessed that I work in sustainability!

Lemon

The thread is a ranty light hearted AIBU so I guess I generally expected people to join in a ranty light hearted chat about knobby words.

Guy You're hurting my brian

What you need is a word which refers to changing a product at the end of its life in a way which adds lifetime, longevity and value.

Guy BRAIN, not Brian.

YABU. It's called the natural evolution of language. And you're being nasty and judgemental to boot.

Guy Spruced up, tarted up?

Grockle So is text speak

Sorry for hurting your Brian. He must be furious.

What you need is a word which refers to changing a product at the end of its life in a way which adds lifetime, longevity and value.

Yes indeed - the Oxford English Dictionary tells us there is indeed such a word - you'll never guess what it is .......

"Upcycling refers to ‘the operation or process of reusing waste materials to create a product of higher value or quality’. In an unusual etymological twist, evidence suggests that das Upcycling may have existed as a pseudoanglicism in German before it was used in English."

Text speak is an entirely different thing.

Tarted up is excellent. I'm going to use it in my next academic publication...
God I wish I could!

grockle how?

Its not really made it better or worse, just different: side-cycling, do we think

customizing

A rich and extensive vocabulary is a wonderful thing. Most of the examples given here though are indeed examples of The Emperor's New Clothes e.g. the 'up-cycled' hat and coat stand which eventually proved neither use nor ornament.

Lemon , The thread is a ranty light hearted AIBU so I guess I generally expected people to join in a ranty light hearted chat about knobby words.

Exactly! I have no idea why becool is losing her cool at you stating your negative opinions on twatty language, yet she feels free to state her pro opinions on it. Maybe she can upcycle her eye roll to an ornate letterbox, or something equally twattish wowsers.

Lemon No idea. I'm going to up-cycle some cold tap water into a cup of tea now.

wow Lemon - so now you are one of the people you call "twats" who use the word "upcycle"!

What brilliant Self-twattery!

Yes indeed - the Oxford English Dictionary tells us there is indeed such a word - you'll never guess what it is .......

"Upcycling refers to ‘the operation or process of reusing waste materials to create a product of higher value or quality’. In an unusual etymological twist, evidence suggests that das Upcycling may have existed as a pseudoanglicism in German before it was used in English."

and the urban dictionary tells us there is also a term for these kinds of words - you'll never guess what it is.....

"Twattery-When somebody acts like a complete twat-Tom Is Just Full Of Twattery"

I don't think its very light hearted to call people poncey twats and cunts in your OP.
It's just a bit cuntish.

You are being pretty fucking rude lemon.

I'm off to sell some totes amazeballs up-cycled stuff in my vintage pop-up shop.
Laters.