Calling people out?!?!

[SmiledWithTheRisingSun]

Whoever the fuck came up with this phrase and why is it suddenly EVERYWHERE?? It makes me cringe. And cross 😡😤 JUST STOP IT WILL YOU?!?! !

(And breathe 😁)

Yanbu. I can't get wound up about it, but I do think it makes no sense at all.

Yanbu. It's the catch cry of identity politics. I see it said and withdraw quietly away from the crazed cultist speaking it. Also cf self proclaimed "intersectional feminists".

YANBU. This, and ‘self crit’ can fuck right off

YANBU it really annoys me too. It means nothing. What is wrong with challenging someone, or querying, or just asking about?

..... And I don't know where the gin came from

I use it sometimes. "I called him on it", "I called someone out on...". Isn't it a poker reference? Meh.

Until this week it's something I have only heard/seen on MN. I don't know when it arrived in the language and I absolutely loathe it. Then this week I heard John Humphrey say it on the Radio 4 Today programme and my world was shattered

Really is it a poker reference? I tried to do some research on it's provenance a few months ago but didn't come up with much.

Ah come on, if it's on radio 4, surely it's an accepted phrase now?

I’m American and this has been in our lexicon for as long as I can remember. Certainly “calling someone” in bad behavior is quite accepted, although “calling out” is a bit more casual/slang. It sounds normal to me so from where I sit YABU.

But don’t get me started on people who say “myself” instead of “me”! I think they think it sounds more formal or more intelligent, but I think it sounds ridiculous.

Although it doesn't irk me as much as 'reaching out to' instead of contacting (which I head a company spokesperson, who was British, say on Radio 4 too this week - it's been a bad week for a sensitive Radio 4 listener)

But don’t get me started on people who say “myself” instead of “me”! I think they think it sounds more formal or more intelligent, but I think it sounds ridiculous

Oh now you've opened a can of worms! It's not always people who "think they sound more formal or intelligent". If they're Irish (and possibly from other cultures but I don't know) it is used because it is a direct translation from the original Irish.

So nerr !

Calling out is a ghastly phrase. I prefer 'mentioning it'.

Too many stupid people do it to show off and virtue-signal. Often a quiet word would have sorted whatever the problem was but, oh no, you had to have a big tanty on social media and drag everyone else into it, and now you've blown two professional contracts and made several previous friends think you're an idiot.

(Yes, I am thinking of someone I know who got all puffed up about 'calling [company] out' when she'd actually misunderstood what they were doing in the first place. Several organisations will now never work with her again...)

I cringe at 'going forward'. We're going to do this 'going forward'. Do you possibly mean 'in the future'? WELL, SAY THAT THEN!

Yes, I am thinking of someone I know who got all puffed up about 'calling [company] out' when she'd actually misunderstood what they were doing in the first place

Well that person made a dick of themselves, (but I don't really think the phrase itself is what made them look a dick tbh)!

YANBU, 'calling someone out' is a ridiculous phrase and it makes me cringe everytime I read it here. MN is some kind of trailing behind pit-stop for the latest daft memes and phrases and then they're overused all over the board.

But don’t get me started on people who say “myself” instead of “me”! I think they think it sounds more formal or more intelligent, but I think it sounds ridiculous

Yes yes yes!

"Silver and myself will be attending the meeting"

Fuck. Off.

YANBU

And hurricanes arrive in the country.

BBC- they DO NOT make landfall. In the US or reporting on a US hurricane fine. Storms "arrive" or make themselves felt here.

So multiple fuck offs with your self conscious yankee shit.

Thank you.

'At this moment in time...'
Arghhhhhhhh!

I’m sure I first started hearing this on TV at some point, but can’t put my finger on when.

Does it mean you are like an umpire or referee saying 'right you're out'? So it is not quite the same as 'challenging' someone, because it carries a presumption that you are right and are also that you are the arbiter. I agree it is quite an annoying phrase!

On the other hand, language changes....some of the new phrases I quite like (can't think of them at the moment, can only think of other annoying candidates)

Doesn't it mean "making an absolute dick of oneself by having a pop at someone else for percieved slights that are undoubtedly overstated and probably fair points anyway"?