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to be sick to death of wanky language?!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 19/04/2023 01:51

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!

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78thcat · 19/04/2023 13:45

Describing items of clothes as 'pieces' makes them sound way posher and more wanky than they are.

GreenWheat · 19/04/2023 13:52

"I am passionate about..." when they mean "I am not willing to listen to other opinions"

alltoowe · 19/04/2023 13:53

I work (indirectly) for agents and the stuff they say makes me want to turn myself inside out. Fuckin jargon

crazeecatlady · 19/04/2023 13:55

These ones or Those ones. Whatever happened to these or those. We even hear if on TV from programme announcers.

AutumnCrow · 19/04/2023 13:57

crazeecatlady · 19/04/2023 13:37

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.

God I fucking loved that and 'Twenty Twelve', and David Tennant's voiceovers.

'As the Targeted Sustainability Creative Solutions Meeting begins, there is a delay in discussing Item 1: Big Thoughts on Solution-Based Values while the team attempt to remember what the questions were.'

ScottBakula · 19/04/2023 14:00

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 19/04/2023 09:11

I see your wanky examples, and I raise you:

Vegan leather. That would be what we used to call plastic then?

Oh this , THIS IN BUCKET FULLS !

A few weeks ago two of my managers were talking about some work that needed doing I was in the meeting with them

Manager 1 . can xxx be done today ?
Manager 2 I will out source this to Scot and get it expedited
Manager 1 🤔 is that a yes or a no ?
Manager 2 this task should be feasible in the time frame you requested
Manager 1 ????

Me to Manager 1 , yes I can do that job today

Manager 1 smiles and said thanks, Manager 2 huffs and scowls

Bookist · 19/04/2023 14:07

The incorrect use of 'myself' and 'yourself.' Typically used by people trying to sound more intelligent and sophisticated. Ironically, it demonstrates the exact opposite. Same with all the influencer induced hyperbole which just demonstrates they have very limited vocabularies and their education was sorely lacking. Though, despite my DD studying a STEM subject at a prestigious university she also indulges in this word soup nonsense so perhaps it's now endemic?

DilemmaADay · 19/04/2023 14:11

doubt it will ever have registered with many MNers, but nobody ever used to refer to a ‘newborn’. It was almost always a new baby - or perhaps a newborn baby.
@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Oh I really hate this. "I don't like people holding my newborn" just say baby FFS. It's on the league with people saying 'baby' without 'the/my/our' "How's baby doing" So annoying.

Also I hate
"It is what it is" -so dismissive
"Suck it up buttercup" -only hear this on MN but I imagine someone hoovering up flowers with their mouth
"Speak my truth" - wanky
"Checking in" - a friend I know has done a life coaching course and she's always saying she's wanting to check in with people. I'm not at an airport...I don't want to check in

SinnerBoy · 19/04/2023 14:14

Someone mentioned "being my authentic self." This is usually spouted by a bloke who looks like the offspring of Brian Blessed and a bong eyed Rottweiler, which has eaten a lipstick. And insists that he's called Tipherneigh, or similar.

EffortlessDesmond · 19/04/2023 14:19

My people! My tribe... and special commendation to the person who contributed "twatspangles" to my list of insults!

TinyTear · 19/04/2023 14:24

Drop, for released or music or whatever

Just read someone saying "the new foo fighters has just dropped" dropped what? a guitar?

RagingWoke · 19/04/2023 14:26

the amount of presentations I have to sit through about 'being your authentic self' and it's 99% rich middle aged white men droning on about their privileged life.

Porridge bowl got me this week. Some wanky 'influencer' (what ever happened to prat on Instagram?) "make a porridge bowl with me'" and then made a standard bowl of porridge. See also burrito bowl, salad bowl or whatever other wanky food in a receptacle.

cobblers123 · 19/04/2023 14:31

Putting "super' in front of everything I.e. super excited, super pleased, super hungry.

What happened to good old "very"?

Every time I see that word used like the above, I picture it being said by an over excited 10 year old, not an adult.

WeAreOnTheRoadToNowhere · 19/04/2023 14:33

I hear myself and yourself all the time now. It feels wrong and clunky. Nobody ever says me. I'm not sure on the correct use of myself, I guess I use me all the time, so please educate me
I have ear piercings not a curated ear
My pet hate is lived experience. What other experience are you going to have, a dead experience 🙄
Gifted I silently fume at

SinnerBoy · 19/04/2023 14:39

@RagingWoke · Today 14:26

Porridge bowl got me this week. Some wanky 'influencer' (what ever happened to prat on Instagram?) "make a porridge bowl with me'" and then made a standard bowl of porridge.

My ten year old has been making her own porridge since she was 7.

But it's your own fault for watching wankfluencers on Instagram!

😃

RagingWoke · 19/04/2023 14:54

@SinnerBoy you're right, I should know better 😂 it was either waste time scrolling or hoover though

crazeecatlady · 19/04/2023 14:59

Another one is 'ownership' as spoken by talent show judges - you owned that song or owned the stage!!!! No they didn't. At best good, at worst mediocre.

SinnerBoy · 19/04/2023 15:00

RagingWoke

you're right, I should know better 😂 it was either waste time scrolling or hoover though

Oh! Fair enough!

TimeSlipMushroom · 19/04/2023 15:04

Slide deck. That is all

Merangutan · 19/04/2023 15:07

‘Self-care’ is another newish buzz word which annoys me because it implies you’re taking a moment for yourself (fine) then always involves the need to purchase something to do it. Shopping, in other words.

Lovelyring · 19/04/2023 15:07

DilemmaADay · 19/04/2023 14:11

doubt it will ever have registered with many MNers, but nobody ever used to refer to a ‘newborn’. It was almost always a new baby - or perhaps a newborn baby.
@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Oh I really hate this. "I don't like people holding my newborn" just say baby FFS. It's on the league with people saying 'baby' without 'the/my/our' "How's baby doing" So annoying.

Also I hate
"It is what it is" -so dismissive
"Suck it up buttercup" -only hear this on MN but I imagine someone hoovering up flowers with their mouth
"Speak my truth" - wanky
"Checking in" - a friend I know has done a life coaching course and she's always saying she's wanting to check in with people. I'm not at an airport...I don't want to check in

People saying "How is baby?" drives me crazy. Why?!!!!! I find it like nails on a blackboard and did actually tell my mother to stop doing it when I had just given birth.

Isitsixoclockalready · 19/04/2023 15:09

EffortlessDesmond · 19/04/2023 14:19

My people! My tribe... and special commendation to the person who contributed "twatspangles" to my list of insults!

The 'my tribe' phrase is quite popular but I always feel like no-one is a clone of another person so whilst you might have one or two things in common with one person you might be completely different in other ways. There isn't one exclusive type of person or people that I would necessarily identify with and I'm sure that is the same with a lot of people.

JudgeJ · 19/04/2023 15:13

LilySavage · 19/04/2023 12:44

@JudgeJ that’s reminding me of BlackAdder and Captain Darling 😂

Blachadder made me cringe for that very reason! For years I would read the papers expecting him, my ex pupil, to be arrested as a serial killer.

JudgeJ · 19/04/2023 15:16

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

When I said to a friend that I needed to buy some sheets she said Do you mean bed sheets? I told her I didn't need ropes for a bloody boat!

Georgeandzippyzoo · 19/04/2023 15:19

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 19/04/2023 08:09

Words and expressions become fashionable and you start seeing/hearing them everywhere. ‘Reaching out’ instead of just contacting, is another.

I doubt it will ever have registered with many MNers, but nobody ever used to refer to a ‘newborn’. It was almost always a new baby - or perhaps a newborn baby.
I’m fairly ancient so every time I see ‘newborn’ I wonder what on earth was ever wrong with ‘new baby’.
As for ‘curating’ I’ve seen it on a big sign in John Lewis, who really ought to know better, but maybe not, after signs with ‘gifting’ all over the shop around Christmas time. That’s one that really does rouse my inner Victoria Meldrew. (Aka Grumpy Old Bag, for anyone too young to understand the VM reference).

Not too bothered by newborn, it gives me an idea of the baby's age but have never liked new baby (what? As compared to them old babies??) However , nit quite the same , but I've always hated 'it's a baby boy/girl' on cards.

Also, hate gifting, could see sourcing being used in certain circumstances/jobs but not related to food/clothes shopping in the high street/supermarket.