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Original poster

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

30 replies

TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 15:17

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.

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KermitRuffinsTrumpet · 23/02/2017 15:19

I agree YANBU

PurpleDaisies · 23/02/2017 15:21

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

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 23/02/2017 15:22

YANBU.

StealthPolarBear · 23/02/2017 15:23

Or worse life hack.

IateallthePies654 · 23/02/2017 15:24

YANBU!!

EyeStye · 23/02/2017 15:24

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ThoraGruntwhistle · 23/02/2017 15:24

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

FlyingElbows · 23/02/2017 15:24

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

troodiedoo · 23/02/2017 15:28

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 · 23/02/2017 15:30

Oh, I quite like hack and life hack Grin

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

TroysMammy · 23/02/2017 15:33

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.

Original poster
TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 15:35

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.

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KondosSecretJunkRoom · 23/02/2017 15:37

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 · 23/02/2017 15:53

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

dailydance · 23/02/2017 15:55

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

Original poster
TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 18:33

glad to see I'm not alone

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RedBugMug · 23/02/2017 18:37

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

highinthesky · 23/02/2017 18:37

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

Grin
MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 23/02/2017 18:40

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.

Original poster
TeaCake5 · 23/02/2017 18:43

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

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StealthPolarBear · 23/02/2017 18:49

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

StealthPolarBear · 23/02/2017 18:51

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 · 23/02/2017 18:54

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

user1471545174 · 23/02/2017 21:05

Urrgh, hack.

I hate "pins" for legs, too.

hellooooooomama · 23/02/2017 21:07

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