To hate - I was today years old

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This phrase is everywhere and it's driving me insane.

You were not today years old when you found out 😡 you found out today

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just turning j to the grumpy old woman I was born to be? Are there any other words or phrases drive you insane??

Stop verbing nouns!

I hate, hate, hate to the point where I want to reach through the screen and give the poster a shake, “reader, I married him.”

Another one - why the need for the word “hate” three times? It doesn’t assume a different meaning if you repeat it over and over.

@FamilyOfAliens

I hate, hate, hate to the point where I want to reach through the screen and give the poster a shake, “reader, I married him.”

Another one - why the need for the word “hate” three times? It doesn’t assume a different meaning if you repeat it over and over.

Repetition for effect?

Where has the phrase 'I'm shook' suddenly appeared from? It doesn't make sense!

Repetition for effect?

I’m sure that’s the intention but that’s not the effect it has, on me, at least. It just sounds like another instance of someone not knowing how to emphasise what they’re feeling by the use of other words, so just using the same word three times and thinking that’ll do!

I take your “I was today years old” and raise you
nobody : (followed by)
Me: (and some stupid observation or meme)

@MiddletownDreams

Where has the phrase 'I'm shook' suddenly appeared from? It doesn't make sense!

I don't know where you're seeing or hearing it, but it's a very old expression where I'm from in Ireland my parents and grandparents' generations would use it and 'shook' is a synonym for unwell/old/disturbed/haggard/exhausted/not yourself, and is adjectival (though presumably originally derives from looking 'shaken'.)

So someone would say 'Did you see X at the funeral? I thought he looked fierce shook.' Which could mean anything from grief-stricken to ill to hungover to having aged ten years overnight.

But maybe where you're seeing it, it's being used entirely differently?

@LadyCatStark

YANBU.

I hate, hate, hate to the point where I want to reach through the screen and give the poster a shake, “reader, I married him.”

Because you have a lifelong loathing of Charlotte Bronte, or don't like literary tags used online or out of context? (Personally I get annoyed when people appear to think it's the final line of Jane Eyre, but that's my issue.)

@hamfisted

Good point.

Somehow that doesn't bother me as much. They have an identity if that makes sense.

I mean more those who happily share their child's names. It just one of those things that really irritate me.

Along with, as those above said, this one! 😂

I do think raging at memes is a symptom of Grumpy-Old-Womanitis

It’s not meant to be grammatically correct, it’s meant to be evocative. Like many memes, it plays with the rules of spelling and grammar in order to create a feeling or mood. In that respect, it’s much more effective than ‘today I learned’.

Can I volunteer the phrase "circle of hell" for the sin bin, please? I've just been reading a thread and every other post was describing a "circle of hell". The OP started it off at, I think, the 5th circle, and by the time I stopped reading subsequent posters had escalated up to the 9th circle. Just stop it.

I am terrified of death and have always swished to live for ever.

I recently realised that if my wish was granted, I would eventually been unable to converse with people.

Even at my 58 years I find that people around me are increasingly conversing using utter gibberish.

@CreosoteQueen

I do think raging at memes is a symptom of Grumpy-Old-Womanitis

It’s not meant to be grammatically correct, it’s meant to be evocative. Like many memes, it plays with the rules of spelling and grammar in order to create a feeling or mood. In that respect, it’s much more effective than ‘today I learned’.

Guilty as charged - I'm all for a colourful phrase. Shit like the one cited is different because it follows the current fucking trend of making no fucking sense at all.

Old and Grumpy.

@Barkbark

I take your “I was today years old” and raise you nobody : (followed by) Me: (and some stupid observation or meme)

Nobody:
Literally no one ever:
Me: something supposedly hilarious

I do love a curated thread

I hate when people shorten words unnecessarily, that "perf with surf" advert gives me the rage.

I'm similarly annoyed by people saying 'choccy' instead of chocolate.

I once heard somebody refer to a taxi as a 'taco'

Just why?

Speak properly for fuck sake.

I am terrified of death and have always swished to live for ever.

Do you do it in a glamorous, floor-length taffeta gown, though?

I have never hear this today years old thing and I'm still not sure what it means.

Not so much a MN thing, more a podcast thing, but the phrase "deep-dive" is driving me insane.

You aren't going on an expedition with Jacques bloody Cousteau, you are simply doing some research (which is more or less expected in your line of work anyway).

Never heard it. Don’t understand it.

It's the same as saying "I was six years old when I learned that Santa wasn't real", but stylised, somewhat infantilised phrasing to say "I learned today that..."

My teen DD was ranting about it last night. She says her peers repeat these things for two reasons: apeing Instagram memes to appear cool; playing at being "cute". She says that it often seems peculiar to her female friends who enjoy sounding "cutesy" or pretending they don't understand basic concepts whilst looking round for approval. She did make some interesting points about teen girls and their need to project a persona. She asked how long before she can be a wizened feminist, rolling her eyes at learned helplessness and infantilising language. A girl in her class announced in Geography yesterday that she thought the capital of England was Norwich, said with wide eyes and a feigned blush and at least three other girls clapped delightedly and called her "cute".

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Where has the phrase 'I'm shook' suddenly appeared from? It doesn't make sense! 
I don't know where you're seeing or hearing it, but it's a very old expression where I'm from in Ireland my parents and grandparents' generations would use it and 'shook' is a synonym for unwell/old/disturbed/haggard/exhausted/not yourself, and is adjectival (though presumably originally derives from looking 'shaken'.)

So someone would say 'Did you see X at the funeral? I thought he looked fierce shook.' Which could mean anything from grief-stricken to ill to hungover to having aged ten years overnight.

But maybe where you're seeing it, it's being used entirely differently?*

I've seen it used on social media, it seems to be used in the context of 'shaken', but in a flippant, jocular way, IYSWIM? It's only in the past year I've started noticing it.

I hate when people tell a story about something that happened in the past in the present or present progressive tense.
“So I’m walking along and I see a complete dullard. Fast forward three years to three years ago and I’m currently still unable to tell an anecdote”

I really dislike 'forever home' as in 'it will be my forever home.'

Also people have started to miss words out of sentences. For example 'needs gone.' It makes no sense and is just lazy.