Does anyone else now find certain phrases extremely irritating?

[Welovewhitenoise]

I don't mean the new Covid phrases like "social distancing", "new normal" etc although reading the word "masks" makes me really cross for some reason even though I am fully behind and adhere to mask wearing etc

For some reasons phrases like "fed up", "had enough", "end of my tether" make me feel furious! Not because I don't empathise because I absolutely, completely do (I'm not angry because I'm one of those scathing race to the bottom posters, more the opposite)

Maybe it's the frustration and feeling of impotence of not being able to help those who similarly feel fed up etc etc as I do? And that empathising with other posters makes me feel my same feelings more acutely?

I don't know! But I've found I read many threads any more because I feel so stressed and irritated even though I'm completely with the posters and agree with them

People always talk about being broken.

‘It’s broken me’. ‘I’m broken’.

And the one I see most of all ‘WFH whilst homeschooling nearly broke us last time. I was on my knees. I’m not doing that again’.

Also ‘enough’, including that cringe inducing thread at the moment.

That threads great

Ah yes the misuse of 'staycation' @VicBen

It does NOT mean holidaying in the UK, it was meant to mean having time off at home and doing day trips in your local area - coined, I believe, during the 2008/9 financial crisis.

@ssd

That threads great

Sarcastic great, or great great? Maybe I should read it again! (I definitely won’t )

Teams
Zoom
Im a keyworker
Im vulnerable
Anyone whos dismisses studies with there experience

when do think schools will go back?

When the PM decides.

And people calling the Daily Mail the Fail - it's not witty.

Or refuse to click on a Fail link

Go on, we know you do when no-one's looking.

I'm going to a ............pub quiz,/concert/meal.
No you're not. Zoom is not real.
You're not going anywhere.
Attending a virtual XYZ is not the same as attending it for real.

"selfish"
"covidiot"
"people who think the rules don't apply to them"
"safe"

It means using scientific data properly to make the most sensible decisions. What's wrong with that?

The fact that is rests on the (incorrect) assumption that there is consensus in the scientific community.

All data (well, most of it) is open to interpretation, and that interpretation is nearly always influenced by very non scientific things like politics and economics.

There is no such thing as The Science, and it is a horrible example of dumbing down to suggest there is.

I want
I don’t care
It’s not fair
I need time to myself
Children don’t get the virus
I’m not wearing a mask
Why should I sacrifice x, y and a as I’m not vulnerable etc

The moaning has seemed endless and the selfishness of many has astounded me.

When people write ‘the roolz’ in a bid to be dismissive. Bonus points if they alternate between caps and lower case.

"Covid times" is bugging the hell out of me. Only seen it on here. God, it just gives me the full-body cringe.

Just "the rules" seems to grate on me now, regardless of the context it's used in.

Also overdramatic statements like "yes it's unbearable for me too but I will not put lives at risk"

The word "variant" or "bubble" 😵

Another vote for 'Unprecedented'. Honestly just fuck off.

And actually they aren't so sodding unprecedented anymore are they, we are nearly a year in!

"socially distanced, of course" usually following a social media post about doing something that isn't currently permitted

Loungewear. It can bugger off.

“Stay home”.

It’s stay at home!

What did the word “at” ever do to everyone?

"Flouting". People never complain about others breaking the rules, it's always flouting them. It makes everyone sound like a daily mail headline.

Bloody road map. Such stupid language. It's not a road and therefore there is no map. There might be a plan though. (Fuck all to do with a road.)

Scaremongering & Fear mongering

Stay safe is the worst🤬we’re not in a bloody war zone.

social distancing and shielding get on my nerves too.

When people pronounce it cOvid not c-oh-vid...it's a brand new word, how can you get it wrong?!

@Springfern

When people pronounce it cOvid not c-oh-vid...it's a brand new word, how can you get it wrong?!

The first o in coronavirus is a short o (tho admittedly it's harder to tell because it's an unstressed syllable so becomes a schwa sound), so it's reasonable to pronounce the first o in COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 2019) short, too.