Words that piss you off

[An archist]

thanks for the map, minus!

I think it's funny that people who call it 'pop' find 'soda' retro when for me it's the other way around. 'Pop' sounds like something the Beaver would go get down at the old drugstore with his buddies Biff and Peggy.

Ok, how about these:

'actively' - as in "This word is actively trying to piss me off." It's just redundant. Do you really need to remind us that verbs are the action of the sentence?

'dialogue' - I can't believe I didn't include this one in my first post. This would be a fine word, it's just that my ears were besieged with it for the 4.5 years I was in college. It's no wonder: these are people who love to prattle all day long so they naturally think talking is the highest of virtues so they took a legitimate word and *******ized the **** out of it. It's not only being overused, it's growing in number. Let me explain. One time in the hallway I saw a poster that went something like this: "The posablity of a Jewish, Christian, Muslim trilogue ..."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Oh, I also really really hate it when people turn it into a verb: "We need to dialogue with Douglas about the deal." TALK!!!! You need to TALK with somebody you pretentious **** heel!! God damn it!

'discourse' - This is another word that you hear way way too much in college. There are some words that professors just invent to puff themselves up and make themselves sound smarter for lack of real intelligence. This is the mother of them all.

'networking' - Oh boy! This one really gets my goat. Since I started job hunting 'networking' has constantly been in my ******* face. Maybe I hate it so much since it's something I can't do on account of my poor social skills. Or maybe it's because it conjures up images of sweaty capitalist pigs with dollar signs in their eyes yucking it up and 'pressing the flesh' with fake smiles on their fat faces. While networking, the conversation goes a little something like this:

Empty suit 1: "Johnson! How the hell are ya!? You heard Thomson got taken off the Hendrickson account?"

Empty suit 2: "Hot damn, Bradly! I guess that tasty wife of his is gonna be out on her ass!"

Empty suit 1: "Yeah, selling it to me hopfully!"

Empty suit 1 & 2: decadent laughter

Ok, I may have gotten carried away there. Forgive me. But I'm amazed this thread is so popular. I guess I struck a nerve, eh?

 

[sadface]

"George Bush"

 

[edgecrusher]

i hate when people say pop instead of soda.
i hate the excessive use of "the N word" in such a casual way.
i really hate the word "bling" and how it is used now as slang.
i hate a lot of the slang words people are using nowadays. you dont sound cool, you use them so much that you sound like you dont know the proper meanings of words. if you were talking to someone that didnt know what those words meant as slang, they would think you were just saying random words and calling it a sentence.

and pickle... mostly just because they are gross.

EDIT: oh yea and i hate when people say "mofo"

 

[csmswhs]

I'm from everywhere- military brat! I've lived in enough places to hear people call it "Soda", "Pop", "Coke" and even "Sodeepop" from elderly.

I think i normally use 'soft drink' or whatever the brand may be.

great map!! thanks!

it so went with my suspiscions lol. i'm from Minnesota explains it all

i'm glad to see you don't get butthurt over someones dislike for a word i wouldn't get butthurt if someone didn't like the word butthurt

cheers

 

[eris]

Im on the pop/soda border of that map. (soutwestern pa) Most people say "pop" here.

Is there going to be some kind of turf war ? Should I stock up on bottled water and batteries ?

 

[edgecrusher]

Im on the pop/soda border of that map. (soutwestern pa) Most people say "pop" here.

Is there going to be some kind of turf war ? Should I stock up on bottled water and batteries ?

death to the poppers!

 

[csmswhs]

death to the poppers!

i'll pop yo ass! soda boy!

 

[eris]

oh, its on !!!

There is a coke distribution center less than a mile away and Im willing to do whatever it takes. I hope you can breathe underwater.

 

[Brian]

'Affirmative Action'


Also, it's called Pop for the most part here in Idaho, but I pretty interchangably use 'Soda' 'Pop' or 'Soda Pop'. My dad, from Texas, used to always call it a 'Coke'.

 

[Just_Some_Dude]

brian's got balls so big he needs a wheelbarrow!

amen brother.

 

[VanillaCreme]

Pop.

It's soda.

Also: Hero or Sub.

It's a ******* hoagie people.

Thanks.

 

[edgecrusher]

Pop.

It's soda.

Also: Hero or Sub.

It's a ******* hoagie people.

Thanks.

lmao. here its sub nills.

 

[eris]

The word "sub" in that context was actually invented in the place I was born, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

The whole Pittsburgh area has a lot of weird words

yunz = you guys

redd up = clean the house

gumband = rubber band

and people say "aah" instead of "ow"

Downtown = Dahntahn

n'aaht - and that


We are dumb

 

[Rammy]

It's pop all the way over here in england, soda is either caustic or baking I think. Plenty of strange words around here in the north east though:

yem - home
gan - go
spuggie - sparrow
ganzee - jumper/sweater (don't hear this often mind)
bait - lunch (hate this one)
getting - as in 'ive just getting a new tv'
yep and there's plenty more I use daily that probably make me sound thick....

 

[Brian]

Also: Hero or Sub.

It's a ******* hoagie people.

Thanks.

But it heroically satiates my hunger to the highest level, with the awesome power of a submarine.


And amen, JSD

 

[Rammy]

And why do people say they are 'mortal' when they mean (very) drunk.....I'd have thought immortal would be more fitting.
Oh and 'im shopping' translates as 'i'm doing my messages' round here sometimes.......

 

[eris]

When I first started to chat with people on the internet I taked to some guy from England.

He was talking about getting drunk and he kept saying he "was pissed"

I thought to myself, "man this guy is an angry drunk"

Then I realized it was Brittish slang.

*embarrased

 

[Badjedidude]

These are some words I hate, and also encounter quite frequently. My dad is (or thinks he is) a DEEP Sunner (Southerner), so he pronounces some key words very strangely:

mile = mowl

creek = crik

fish = feesh

harnace = hornace

Satan = saintin

 

[An archist]

Whenever Spanish people call me 'papi'. wtf is with that?

 

[SofiasMami]

Whenever Spanish people call me 'papi'. wtf is with that?

Ay, papacito - you should like being called papi!

Here on the Left Coast there was a fad awhile back with a slang word "hella". As in "it's hella hot". "that's a hella big cow". I still hear it sometimes but now kids will say "hecka", like they're trying to say a cleaner version of hella. It's hella stupid, I tell ya.

And it's pop, NOT soda! Bah! I haven't been able to say pop since I moved from upstate NY to California. I'm going to rebel and say pop from now on!

Signed,
Mamacita