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Social media sayings that can fuck off and die

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AngeloMysterioso · 12/06/2024 01:58

I’ve reached the point of feeling a totally irrational surge of rage whenever I see them which is every damn day…

“I was today years old when”

“POV”

“That feeling when”

Anything that is referred to as a “hack”.

Calling an outfit a “fit”

OP posts:
Majellaa · 12/06/2024 18:56

I am LIVING....

"I am LIVINGGG for this nail colour" 💅🏼

UnNiddeRides · 12/06/2024 18:57

InfiniteTeas · 12/06/2024 13:12

POV is really annoying. I think it was originally used for a controversial opinion/unusual take on something. It now just seems to mean 'stuff happened.' I know someone who uses it on all their instagram posts about their job.
'POV: It's a lovely day and someone compliments you on your way to work and your coffee tastes lovely and you have a really lovely day working with an amazing client and someone sends you flowers to say thank you for the great work you did for them and then you go for a lovely drink with your best friend and everything is lovely.'
I really want to know what the 'POV' is supposed to add!

I also really hate 'Yaaaaaaas queen!!!!!'

In this example I think POV means Post Of Vanity.

Ti7ch · 12/06/2024 19:29

Not a saying but how bad people's reading comprehension is

flipflop76 · 12/06/2024 20:03

AngeloMysterioso · 12/06/2024 12:45

A new loathing is “core memory”. Everything is a core memory.

Inside Out is a great movie and all but that needs to stop.

Yes core memory does my head in! Also 'memories made'.

AInightingale · 12/06/2024 20:50

RainbowZebraWarrior · 12/06/2024 14:54

This is why I can never go back to social media (appreciate MN may be viewed as a version of it of course)

I would probably just reply "tell me you're a twat without telling me you're a twat. And fuck off with your neurospicy"

Twats.

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I have noticed on SM a trend amongst female academics and writers, in particular, to list various neurodiversities, sexual preferences and ailments after their names. Why do they do it?

flipflopsandsun · 12/06/2024 20:54

Sundays with "This one"

SinnerBoy · 12/06/2024 21:08

JudgeJ · Today 15:58

Like baseball caps worn backwards, should be banned after 12 years of age.

I agree, with one exception - if you're painting your walls.

Funnywonder · 12/06/2024 21:10

And of course, most of the over-used Mumsnet adjectives: grim, crass, etc.

That 'etc' has to cover 'vile'. I have come to HATE that bloody word.

PeterPedant · 12/06/2024 21:16

"Can I get" is perfectly correct, sensible, normal usage in lots of places including Ireland, Scotland (I think) and the US. Nothing wrong with it.

I completely agree. I don't understand why Mumsnetters get so worked up about it.

saveforthat · 12/06/2024 22:19

Words · 12/06/2024 17:09

No. In your example 'get' means 'what were you given'

Not great but

'Can I get' At a cafe counter means 'may I please have'.

Agreed.

CelesteCunningham · 12/06/2024 22:25

saveforthat · 12/06/2024 22:19

Agreed.

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In both cases "get" means to receive.

Seriously it's the most normal, everyday phrase in loads of places, it's only on MN I've seen it picked at.

saveforthat · 12/06/2024 22:29

CelesteCunningham · 12/06/2024 22:25

In both cases "get" means to receive.

Seriously it's the most normal, everyday phrase in loads of places, it's only on MN I've seen it picked at.

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It may be normal now but I never heard it when I was young and it just sounds american to me. "Please may I have" or just "a cappuccino please" is much more polite, I think the "can I" is as bad as "get" in this example.

CelesteCunningham · 12/06/2024 22:32

saveforthat · 12/06/2024 22:29

It may be normal now but I never heard it when I was young and it just sounds american to me. "Please may I have" or just "a cappuccino please" is much more polite, I think the "can I" is as bad as "get" in this example.

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That's because it's not the dominant phrasing where you grew up. Now that you're online and being influenced by people from a wider range of places, you notice it.

Growing up in Ireland, no one would have said "please may I have" because that's overly formal and old-fashioned there. "Can I get... please" is normal.

Isn't regional difference fascinating?

TheyreWafflyVersatile · 12/06/2024 22:39

H34th · 12/06/2024 07:31

I'm not sure if this is just social media or language is moving on but I had to look up a lot of posts, like
'Zest' and a few others I've now forgotten. I think this one was gay.

And when I first went to TikTok had to use a lot of imagination to figure out sentences abbreviated to first letters -
Fr (for real) and all the rest.

We are getting so abstract, I sometimes wonder how our little children will ever catch up. A contemporary children's movie requires so much decoding now, things are not spelled out as they used to be when we were children...
Is part of the anxiety and problem behaviour caused by the fact we expect them to run before they walked?

That’s interesting, I feel the opposite about kids films now, they’re so simplistic and predictable. I’m sure people can give counter-examples, but generally speaking I love how slow, odd and subtle a Railway Children or a Bedknobs and Broomsticks is, compared to any Wonka or Wish.

On SM: anything that screams “notice my special-ness” while using a globally knackered meme phrase (ie. 99% of all social media posts)

I love you, OP, for starting this thread. It’s lanced a mental boil for me.

TheyreWafflyVersatile · 12/06/2024 23:04

IhateSPSS · 12/06/2024 11:02

I wonder if Bob Khan and Vint Cerf anticipated so many people hating the internet whilst simultaneously using it for every part of life Grin I think what I have learnt from this thread is that the humans being human on the internet is ruining the internet. But is AI any better? Should we ban human interactions because they are so annoying? But then in 50 years will we get threads asking 'AI sayings/actions that should just fuck off and die?' I wonder if AI would 'do' the internet better?

Sounds like something AI would say.

Devilsmommy · 12/06/2024 23:23

Summerflames · 12/06/2024 07:54

When people post "I love you all the world". Fuck the fuck off, it doesn't even make sense, you irritating fuckhobbit! 😤😤

Pmsl at irritating fuckhobbit 😂 I'm now going to use this every chance I get😁

saveforthat · 12/06/2024 23:30

CelesteCunningham · 12/06/2024 22:32

That's because it's not the dominant phrasing where you grew up. Now that you're online and being influenced by people from a wider range of places, you notice it.

Growing up in Ireland, no one would have said "please may I have" because that's overly formal and old-fashioned there. "Can I get... please" is normal.

Isn't regional difference fascinating?

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Yes, absolutely agree it's fascinating but there is also some factual meaning to the words. "Can I" means am I able to. "May I" is asking permission. When I used to ask my Mum to (e.g) pass the salt, if I said "Can you pass the salt" She would say, yes I can but not pass it to prove a point so can I get...Yes physically, literally you probably could get it but what you mean is please would you get it for me.

Summerflames · 12/06/2024 23:37

Devilsmommy · 12/06/2024 23:23

Pmsl at irritating fuckhobbit 😂 I'm now going to use this every chance I get😁

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I've no idea why I even typed it, it was early morning and I was still sleepy 🤣 Glad you can put it to use

Devilsmommy · 12/06/2024 23:39

Summerflames · 12/06/2024 23:37

I've no idea why I even typed it, it was early morning and I was still sleepy 🤣 Glad you can put it to use

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I'm sure DH will give me a reason to before I know it🤣🤣🤣

SinnerBoy · 13/06/2024 02:24

TheyreWafflyVersatile

Sounds like something AI would say.

Pacino, or Gore?

Newnamehiwhodis · 13/06/2024 02:29

Yes- “it’s giving”

and what used to drive me up the wall: “on point,” as in “my eyebrows are on point today” (which should be en pointe, but it’s still horrible), and luckily, that went out of fashion along with “bae” which i also hate. So take heart, these things will pass, and there will be something (no doubt equally horrible) to replace them soon.

also “I love you to the moon and back” MY GOD

SinnerBoy · 13/06/2024 03:27

Oh yeah, Salt Bae with his gold plated £1,000 steaks. I hope he's mining salt in Siberia, now!

whatdoidonowffs · 13/06/2024 05:23

SinnerBoy · 13/06/2024 03:27

Oh yeah, Salt Bae with his gold plated £1,000 steaks. I hope he's mining salt in Siberia, now!

Bleurgh!!! who wants hairy arm salt on their food 🤢🤢

flipflop76 · 13/06/2024 09:15

'Understood the assignment'

JudgeJ · 13/06/2024 09:47

CelesteCunningham · 12/06/2024 16:54

When you ask someone "What did you get for your birthday?" are you implying they went out and bought their presents themselves?

"Can I get" is perfectly correct, sensible, normal usage in lots of places including Ireland, Scotland (I think) and the US. Nothing wrong with it.

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'What did you get for your birthday' and 'Can I get a coffee' are totally different uses of the word 'get', the second use is a relatively new thing, being exceedingly old and having lived in and travelled to many places I'd never heard it. I became aware of it initially on American/Australian programmes before it morphed into UK English.

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