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!

All of these are very annoying! Plus "designed to..." Eg "our vacuum is designed to suck up dirt" it's such a pointless phrase, I don't care what you "designed" it to do or be, I want to know if it actually does it or not?!

Recently I saw it pointed out that "pre-book" doesn't really make much sense, you're just booking it, and now I can't stand it either!

Nice to know there are other biblioholics out there!

Bespoke, everything has to be bespoke. Extra points if it’s a bespoke artisan xyz.

Why does coffee have to be grabbed? That one has pissed me off for a while.

And Teams meetings need to be ‘jumped on’. Like large, unusually-dull trampolines.

Source or 'sourced 'is used a lot on Saturday morning cooking programmes. Who are these people who want to spend their weekends out shopping for hard to find food items , then spend hours cooking it all? Dh likes watching them, but has rarely ever gone out 'sourcing ' any of the ingredients.

Never even heard those being used, let alone allowing it to bother me.

“We are so pleased that you reached out to us”.

No, I didn’t. I complained.

Agree it's so wanky and self-important.

“We have a spring offer just for you”. Don’t be ridiculous, of course it isn’t just for me, it’s for everyone.

I always wonder how we even got by before we all have to have a fucking "Narrative" 🤬

Have to admit as a small business owner using social media for the majority of my advertising I am guilty of using wanky language ....

Trouble is you're kind of a hostage to it in that context.

I hate virtual world - it demands that you're "authentic" but not really.....

I feel as if I'm living in two parallel universes - the real world where I sell secondhand clothes and gifts, and the virtual one where I curate Whimsigoth ephemera for my niche clientele as they explore their spiritual and aesthetic options on a journey into the esoteric....

Pretentious? Yup. But it's demanded apparently.

Maddening.

Or when one of the Royals or other c'leb 'recycles' an item of clothing. NO, they just wore it more than once
FFS!!

And I am not on any kind of fucking journey - I am just living my life. Breathing in and out and doing day-to-day stuff around the breathing

Beware, you'll have some angry bugger come along to sarcastically offer you a medal in a minute...Lol.

Reading this thread has made me realise I'm quite a chilled out person...of all the things to get angry about in society a different vocabulary is not one of them.

Human pettiness strikes again.

I hate the fashion singular a red lip, a jean, a shoe etc, etc. MN seems to love it.

Also drop, haul, stash etc. You went shopping, big deal

or alevated as Monica Galletti says!

I hate it when someone wants to "share something with you" instead of telling it to you. The only thing I want to share is cake!

"Colourways" when referring to different colours for clothes.

"Blooms" for flowers.

”Wearing” a handbag. I don’t wear my bag, I use it. It’s a functional item.

I read through one of dd2's practice essays for A level English last night and it made me thank my stars I didn't return to teaching after she was born. I think she made some decent points in amongst all the word salad but it was a hard read...

I also hate the fashion singular and also "pop of colour" and garments are always "teamed".

Play date used to annoy me but that's mainstream now. Can't be dealing with "gotten" either, despite many saying it's fine.

Haha, yes!
It was probably got rid of because someone hated it.

When I was working I was often told off for my emails being abrupt but I was just being precise and to the point. Which I thought was a good thing.

Hear, Hear!

I thought all of this anger I had about all this crappage (eer, yes, appreciate that this might be another of those words!) was just me and my old age!

Glad to see I am not alone

Thank you @PyongyangKipperbang for this thread!