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 am now feeling really sad about Regretsy being taken offline. That's what this situation needs.

mn twattery at its finest....attaching negative value judgements to people who use the correct dictionary definition to describe an action. How fucking dare they, hey?

YANBU.

Source Read "Who moved my Blackberry". Probably a little out of date now, but very funny.

mouse I think that's terrible.

I've had "reaching out" thrown my way for over a decade now so I'm well versed in it - first time I heard it I nearly fell off my chair and uttered some FFS after I got off the call. Still it has become more and more used and common. I've never used it myself though, but probably will one day.

I do take an interest in English language and how it changes and develops. It mirrors our world - it's fascinating (to me).

grockle indeed, how very dare they!

mn twattery at its finest....attaching negative value judgements to people who use the correct dictionary definition

what do you mean with "correct dictionary definition" ?

how is up-cycling any more correct than the more commonly used "tarting up"?
how is foraging any more correct than the more commonly used "picking"?
how is reaching out any more correct than the more commonly used "getting in touch with"
how is re-purposing any more correct than the more commonly used "handing down"
how is sourcing any more correct than the more commonly used "buying"
how is vintage any more correct than the more commonly used "second hand"

reading this thread is as hilarious as watching an episode of The Apprentice, all these uber-cool people with their uber-cool phrases. Like The Apprentice they have no idea that the vast majority of the population find them pretentious twats and think they sound silly.

And how is it any less correct, more to the point?

Uber-cool phrases? IT's just fucking words. Why do have such animosity towards people based on the, perfectly correct, words they choose to use? It's not hilarious, its fucking weird. Talk about a chip on your shoulder...

I really, really, REALLY hate this word

Which is embarrassing as I 'm currently doing an evening class in making clothes from other clothes (see, I can't even bring myself to say the word).

The only thing that cheered me up, was that a friend pointed out that until I got good at it, I'd probably be down-cycling the clothes

(It's a fab evening class, though! I love sewing but material is so expensive, using jumble sale tat has to be the way to go.)

To those who object to people objecting to the word, I should point out that I also cannot bear the word 'moist', in fact even typing it or seeing it on the screen makes my skin crawl. Yet I accept that it is a perfectly acceptable and often useful word . . .

It's fine to object to a word. Whats not fine is to call people cunts and twats and ponces etc because they use the word.

Uber-cool phrases? IT's just fucking words. Why do have such animosity towards people based on the, perfectly correct, words they choose to use? It's not hilarious, its fucking weird. Talk about a chip on your shoulder...

chillax already !

(hehehee...now wasn't that just a totes amazeballs comeback! I had to brainstorm for minutes and think WELL outside of the box source that one, I wanted to upcycle an earlier comeback, but no doubt MNHQ would have zapped me for doing so)

in all seriousness, I am reaching out to you here if, like you say, they're just words, then what in my words is winding you up so much?

Does nothing make you cringe? Does nothing make your teeth itch? Does nothing annoy you? Do you find anything pretentious?

Maybe you don't. I find twat-language cringe-worthy and pretentious. Is that okay with you? Do I have to ask to ask your permission before I decide that something is cringe-worthy? Or am I free to make that decision myself?

Oh god. This thread was quite silly and fun to start with. There are MILLIONS of threads where people find things annoying and rant. And we're allowed to swear. I kind of think it's obvious that we're exaggerating our hatred by using stupidly over the top language.

Come on!

Exactly lemon!

There are not milions of threads that call people cunts based on their choice of words. MN N is twatty, but not usually that much. And if thats what you think is funny, you really need to get out more.

What is winding me up is that its not the words at all. It's the people who use the words that are being got at and ridiculed. Thats an entirely different matter altogether.

Takver Yes, the 'm' word is a bit grubby isn't it?! Good effort doing your 'making clothes from other clothes' course and well done for not saying the dreaded 'u' word!

Lempn Excellent analogy to the Apprentice. I think that's what I'm getting at. It's the fact that people using these words don't realise that most other people are judging them to be cunts.

Poop Yes, it was meant as light hearted fun with exaggerated hatred a bit but has now turned into a bun fight!

And if thats what you think is funny, you really need to get out more.

I like that about you grockle. Not only do you tell us what to think. You tell us what to laugh at as well. And how often we should get out of the house. You're a real old bundle of laughs you. Totes amazeballs hilariundo. "You need to get out more" that is THE classic original internet comeback. It's right up there beside "you need to get a life".

In agreement. I find it so irritating

I think it's the reasoning behind the use of the words that riles - there is nothing wrong with saying 'picking fruit', but somehow saying 'foraging for fruit' makes it sound more, I don't know, worthy or something, as if they person is saying 'I am no mere plebeian simply picking fruit, I am foraging'. Why would you use it apart from to set yourself apart from those you deem to be not quite as naice as you others.

I am astonished this thread has gone the way it has with all the twats and cunts being thrown around, I thought it was meant to be lighthearted.

I know someone who uses 'artisan' (as in 'artisan cheese' or 'artisan bread') in a completely non ironic way. They are neither a twat nor a cunt, but sometimes I would like to shake them and say 'IT'S JUST FUCKING CHEESE!'

I quite like the word twat.

Lempn Excellent analogy to the Apprentice. I think that's what I'm getting at. It's the fact that people using these words don't realise that most other people are judging them to be cunts.

It's like that guy this year with "there is no I in team, but there are 5 I's in individual brilliance". No doubt he spent ages thinking that one up. And I am sure he thinks it makes him sound uber-cool. Meanwhile.... the nation is thinking "what an utter fucking twat of a man". All this kind of twatty language is the same to me.

It's putting lipstick on a pig.

Like re-purposing a coat from Oxfam is so much cooler than buying a 2nd hand one, foraging is cooler than picking, sourcing is cooler than buying. It's window dressing twattery,

designed by twats, for twats.

Foraging means something different to me. Fruit picking is just that (or scrumping or whatever). Foraging, for me, would mean picking wild mushrooms or truffles (yeah, right) or nettles/edible flowers and having some guidance on what the fuck I was doing. So, I use both terms but for completely different things. Am I a cwunt?

Neverbuyheliumbalonz has it spot on. People who talk like this think they are better than the general masses who buy their fruit, cheese, bread etc in normal supermarkets with money so by foraging and sourcing their artisan products they think they are setting themselves above everyone else.

Lempn Excellent analogy to the Apprentice. I think that's what I'm getting at. It's the fact that people using these words don't realise that most other people are judging them to be cunts.

I have never deliberately watched the Apprentice but I have caught the odd snippet here and there. I found it all v confusing as they appeared to speaking a variety of English but one that is barely recognisable to what I am used to.

And if that makes me an old fart, I don't fucking care.

to me foraging is some how more complicated and requires more knowledge or skill or technique than picking an apple off a tree. So I guess I agree with you curly. But that what I mean with the uber-cool-speak crowd, everything they say is window dressing something mundane to make it sound more interesting or cool.

picking fruit becomes foraging (i.e it's window dressed to appear more interesting)

now if they got down on their knees and foraged with their nose for some truffles the way a pig does.... then they wouldn't be twats for using foraged

No cwunt from me.

And I am saving up my twats for poopooplop as she likes them.

I too have never seen The Apprentice but I blame it for people using pseudo intellectual management speak and forgetting how phones work. Is it their fault that everyone wanders around talking into their phones like they are walkie-talkies?

Neverbuy OnIlkley and Lemon YY. This is what I was saying earlier before things got weird. It's fine for posh people to nab mushrooms from a field because they're foraging but when normal people do it because they have to it's just picking mushrooms. Lots of class politics in all this I think.