to be sick to death of wanky language?!

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Late shift so cant sleep and this has been bugging me.

Loads of examples I am sure but the two that are currently pissing me off is "curating" and "sourcing".

When did "buy new clothes" become "curate a fresh wardrobe". I do not curate, I am not a curator. I need clothes, I buy clothes, I wear clothes. End of. Also clothes do no go off, they go out of fashion but if that is the case then you are buying the wrong clothes, timeless classics never go out of fashion. You do not need "fresh" clothes.

When did "going to do the big shop" become "sourcing ingedients". Has anyone ever said "I am going to Tesco to source our ingredients"? Have they fuck! If I am making stew or salad or lasagne or.....dog shit on toast (an option I have occassionally offered the kids when they were pissing me off about dinner options) I will go shopping and buy what I need. I do not "source" beef and vegetables, or lettuce or bloody pasta. I will concede that the dog shit may need more in the way of sourcing.

You need stuff. You buy stuff. Why the need for bullshit language to make this boring life task into an "experience".....actually that's another one, I didnt "experience" a restaurant or a stately home or whatever, I visited it.

Now I cant sleep even more because venting has made me more angry!

It's prentious to deliberately create snobbery and an air of attitude over others.

The word salad bellends are just that. Bellends.

Fortunately this trend makes them easy to avoid.

It's the adding unnecessary extra words I hate, eg 'pan fry' 'bed sheet' 'house party'

And 'change up' and 'swap out' FFS

Also, as mentioned by a pp the word drop is being used in a very strange way.

A post on here mentioned that 'the Oxford English dictionary has dropped the definition of the word woman' Why would they do that? What she meant was that they had changed it to be someone who believes they are or something equally senseless

I hate unctuous, in cookery programmes. I know it actually means oily, but they appear to be entirely unaware of the normally derogatory connotations it has.

"Delivering" as in delivering solutions, or policies. You're providing them, you twatspangles.

Artisanal - I just hate that. It's probably a proper word, but it's not in my 1967 Oxford Universal Dictionary.

I really loathe restaurants which don't use a currency symbol: Cod Goujons - 125

A hundred and bloody twenty five what? My wife once told me off, because I had a lot of Kazakh Tenge and was going to pay a £40 bill with 400 Tenge.

Snorting tea down my nose......

Genuinely did this once.

Years ago outside a chippy in London at midnight....not as dodgy as it sounds (anyone else go to the MAYC London weekends?). My friend said said something funny as I had taken a mouthful of tango. I clamped my hand across my mouth and it shot out of my nose. Fizzy pop coming down your nasal passages fucking hurts! And I could smell orange for days!

"My truth".....good one. I think its used to try to emphasise the "very real" nature of a person's "lived experience ". But to me it makes them sound unsure....as if they know that what they are saying is bs but are sticking to their story. "I know most people believe that the world is round but a flat earth is my truth".

Ah, the PP who mentioned 'EDIT' - aaarrgghh.. & does anyone over the age of 13 take any notice of 'influencers'?
Then there's the politicians' ROBUST.. it's in every sodding sentence.
Have 'blue sky thinking' & 'level playing field' gone now?

"Sourcing ingredients" doesn't mean "I'm off to do a big shop at Tesco" IMO. I follow a wonderful veggie Instagrammer who recently posted a recipe involving a special Mexican spice blend I'd never heard of. I can't find anywhere to get it from. If I do manage to track down somewhere that sells it, that will be "sourcing ingredients".

TinyKitty · Today 11:48

It seems to have begin with the wanky TV chef programmes where they didn't fry or saute any more, they had to 'fry off', pan fry (there was no other way to fry in those days) etc.

Yes, what else are they going to fry it in? A toaster? A blender?

Equally hateful are fry pan, race car etc, instead of frying pan and racing car.

We had a new geography teacher in the 1970s who kept talking about 'modelling' amidst her general gobbledegook and we weren't sure at first if she was talking about Airfix models, twirling about on a catwalk, or what. Fortunately the penny dropped when we covered the weather.

I think we should double down on the wanky language.

Share cake????? Never! It’s mine!

YANBU

Phone call from my dd just now.....when told that the place I work at doesn't sell something she is after " OK I'll just Amazon it"

Amazon is now a verb apparently .....

Shop, as in Shop Sainsbury's Online

Please, go and put your head in a latrine trench.

I've had to stop watching property development programmes cos of all the 'putting your stamp' on the 'space'.

Pre-loved instead of second hand.
"Curvy" to describe obesity

That's a great archive!

Yes, isn't it?

😄

On trend - bleurgh

I haven't read all the posts yet- but did anyone else watch W1A? For all the wankiness in one place - drama yes(kind of) but it seemed so plausible.

Sorry posted too soon. “that’s bang on trend at the moment” - who cares?

I just read a thread about doing everything when working full time and one of the first replies said 'outsource or prep'

People see these wanky things being said on here and then say the things themselves as they want to sound middle class

One that I see frequently on here is decompress. I have never seen that anywhere else. I just relax, calm down, chill out. I never decompress nor does anyone I know.

It's been used for years, but when the presenters on 'homes under the hammer ' on tv refer to the rent being asked for as being due .. ' per calendar month '
(No idea why it winds me up as it is the correct terminology rather than saying ' each month ')

'I am loving (this, that or the other)', 'did you see what I did there?' following some inane reference (I think Steve Wright started that one)

Yup. Applying for jobs at the moment and the pretentious and barely communicated drivel combined with very glaring spelling mistakes has given me muscle strain from my eye rolling.

A whole lot of people with fuck all real to say.