Wordban

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:01

I've just started to type FAIL (I don't actually say it, that would be sad) because of bloody LOLcats

The words I hate:

Corrugated-It reminds me for some reason of alligators and porridge. And should be spelt Corrigated in my opinion! GAAAAAR
Familiarise-I don't like this. I hate it when people say 'familiarise' yourself with the surroundings. I used to have this image of me shaking hands (branch) with a tree! This is indeed warped I know
Incompetent-Just say thick

Other than that there are no words that I really detest-except 'Silence,' maybe ^.^

EDIT: Actually I hate the way Americans say vehicle, it sounds like they are going to vomit.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:08

Shin wrote:

Corrugated-It reminds me for some reason of alligators and porridge.

Oh WHAT? Corrugated is one of my favorite words and now you've ruined it

Ban request Shin: "being too weird" kthx.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:11

I've whinged about this some years ago on my webshite, but the British porn industry use of the word "slags". I saw a DVD advertised with "Red Hot Slags" as the selling title and was repulsed by the notion. "Hot Sluts" yeah! "Red Hot Slags" No. Might as well go the whole hog and put "Watch the red hot slags suck knobs into their gaping maws" on the reverse cover and be done with it.

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:12

kalmar wrote:

Shin wrote:

Corrugated-It reminds me for some reason of alligators and porridge.

Oh WHAT? Corrugated is one of my favorite words and now you've ruined it

Ban request Shin: "being too weird" kthx.

This makes me sad inside

It's a bloody awful word! Say it now-you said it didn't you?

It's an icky cardboard-taste in my mouth that word is

EDIT: Genuine LOL at Dimrill then

I dislike the word Slag aswell, it's not an attractive porn word to use
EDITEDIT: It's just conjured up an image of a filthy old woman with ripped tights, fag in one hand, bottle of Lambrini in the other with broken heels and a massive KFC bargain bucket-style...*ahem* it's weird how words make you think of things isn't it...

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:17

I agree with Dimrill - watching molten metal would be really boring and not at all arousing.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:21

Technically, red hot isn't molten, that would be white hot.

Shin: only kidding

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:22

kalmar wrote:

Technically, red hot isn't molten, that would be white hot.

Shin: only kidding

I knew you were love

Edit: I think we should have a 'words you love' thing aswell maybe. I love the word Limber

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10089

"off of". Fuck you, Scott Mills. Fuck you. Not content with it being broken even in the less-heinously incorrect case 'took <thing> off of <other thing upon which it was sat>', the twunt constantly talks about '<person> off of <place>' and such; to properly put it into context, 'Lester Wudeboy off of Staines'. Get fucking fucked.

Also: 'rediculous' and 'could care less' (which I actually just accidentally typed properly and had to 'correct' because I'm not a dribbling idiot).

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:31

"I could care less" is fine. It's simple sarcasm and needs to be said in a withering tone of voice.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10089

As a late entry, I would also like to propose the cramming of bricks down the collective throat of everyone devaluing "hero" these days.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:36

BikNorton wrote:

"off of". Fuck you, Scott Mills. Fuck you. Not content with it being broken even in the less-heinously incorrect case 'took <thing> off of <other thing upon which it was sat>', the twunt constantly talks about '<person> off of <place>' and such; to properly put it into context, 'Lester Wudeboy off of Staines'. Get fucking fucked.

Hehe. I'm sure he does that purely to annoy people who should probably be listening to Radio 4 instead

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Shin wrote:

I've just started to type FAIL (I don't actually say it, that would be sad) because of bloody LOLcats

FAIL.

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:48

Dudley wrote:

Shin wrote:

I've just started to type FAIL (I don't actually say it, that would be sad) because of bloody LOLcats

FAIL.

I was waiting for that

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:54

Aw man, Get over it.

Words change, and I bet you (yes all of you) were saying things like "cool" and "wicked" and other such words that had one meaning 50 years ago, but now have extra meanings.

Thus is the joy of English.

Malc

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

You're gay Malc, GAY*.

* happy

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 16:58

You think you're so Crucial but you're just a Wally. You Joey.

Plissken · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 17:11

BikNorton wrote:

As a late entry, I would also like to propose the cramming of bricks down the collective throat of everyone devaluing "hero" these days.

And "brave", when combined with "cancer". Not so much "brave" as "unlucky".

Zardoz wrote:

You think you're so Crucial but you're just a Wally. You Joey.

Skill.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 17:44

Shin wrote:

I've just started to type FAIL (I don't actually say it, that would be sad) because of bloody LOLcats

The words I hate:

Corrugated-It reminds me for some reason of alligators and porridge. And should be spelt Corrigated in my opinion! GAAAAAR
Familiarise-I don't like this. I hate it when people say 'familiarise' yourself with the surroundings. I used to have this image of me shaking hands (branch) with a tree! This is indeed warped I know
Incompetent-Just say thick

Other than that there are no words that I really detest-except 'Silence,' maybe ^.^

EDIT: Actually I hate the way Americans say vehicle, it sounds like they are going to vomit.

Anything with multiple syllables, then?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

BikNorton wrote:

the less-heinously incorrect case 'took <thing> off of <other thing upon which it was sat>'

It's a clumsy redundancy but it's not actually incorrect, is it? What grammatical rule is it breaking?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Isn't the 'of' a completely made up addition?

I took the potato off the table.
I took the potato off of the table.

The 'of' makes no sense in that context.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Craster wrote:

Isn't the 'of' a completely made up addition?

I took the potato off the table.
I took the potato off of the table.

The 'of' makes no sense in that context.

It does make sense, it's just redundant. Which was my point.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Mr Chris wrote:

Craster wrote:

Isn't the 'of' a completely made up addition?

I took the potato off the table.
I took the potato off of the table.

The 'of' makes no sense in that context.

It does make sense, it's just redundant. Which was my point.

I don't think it does make sense though. Of the table means 'relating to the table'. I took the potato off relating to the table? The of isn't just redundant, it has no place in that sentence. Then again, you say 'out of the box', which seems to make as little sense.

THE INTERNET says don't use extra prepositions when you don't need them, which isn't the most striking indictment ever, I'll admit.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

"Of" is a synonym of "from" though, so there's a certain demented sense to it. Although it's still a redundancy, as I've said repeatedly.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Mr Chris wrote:

Although it's still a redundancy, as I've said redundantly.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 18:40

I don't think it's so much redundant as that our usage has slopped into not saying "off from the table" to just "off the table". And people prefer the more common sloppy way.

metalangel · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 19:04

Dimrill wrote:

I've whinged about this some years ago on my webshite, but the British porn industry use of the word "slags". I saw a DVD advertised with "Red Hot Slags" as the selling title and was repulsed by the notion. "Hot Sluts" yeah! "Red Hot Slags" No. Might as well go the whole hog and put "Watch the red hot slags suck knobs into their gaping maws" on the reverse cover and be done with it.

Seconded. You don't exactly get a nice mental image from 'slag', do you? You think of those horrible orange blotchy women on channel 951 in myoptika's house. As opposed to Sunny Lane/Vanessa Chase/Cherry Poppens levels of loveliness.

I'd like to add 'shambolic' and 'unacceptable'. Both are words used by self righteous cunts to make their petty complaints (often to the media) seem more important.

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

Tmuk wrote:

MaliA wrote:

"Randoms" to mean people. As in "It was us on the ride with a few randoms".

It's cunt garglingly cretinous to use it.

Yesyesyesyesyes. My estimation of someone immediately plummets when they use the word in this context. I've even tried to find another word to replace it for its intended use but the closest I've got is 'arbitrary' which isn't quite right.
If we can extend this to phrases, all this 'I'm loving...*noun*' gets right up my nose. Where did it come from? It's spread everywhere in the space of a few years, even to the BBC news, where that patronising wench Sian Williams liberally throws it about every morning.

Unknown? New? Strangers?

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 21:59

Tmuk wrote:

MaliA wrote:

"Randoms" to mean people. As in "It was us on the ride with a few randoms".

It's cunt garglingly cretinous to use it.

Yesyesyesyesyes. My estimation of someone immediately plummets when they use the word in this context. I've even tried to find another word to replace it for its intended use but the closest I've got is 'arbitrary' which isn't quite right.
If we can extend this to phrases, all this 'I'm loving...*noun*' gets right up my nose. Where did it come from? It's spread everywhere in the space of a few years, even to the BBC news, where that patronising wench Sian Williams liberally throws it about every morning.

I would argue that they are using "randoms" as a short version of "random selection of people from the local populace"

But that's just me

Malc

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

Except those people chose to be there?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:46

<quietly loads shotgun>

Sorry?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:55

I'm not sure whether I'm finding this thread underwhelming or whether it's pure genius...

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:19

I'm loving this thread right now.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:24

It's full of randoms off of the Internet, but it is Win.

YOG · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:03

Using "vis-a-vis" or "re:" in real-life conversation would have me quietly wishing that all manner of nearby objects would hurl themselves at your sanctimonious yuppy mush.

I'd bounce them off your conk myself, but that would ruin my air of easy-going, matey nonchalance.

Also, I strongly dislike the tendency to overuse 'cute' portmanteau words in advertising.

Tmuk · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:11

Pod wrote:

Tmuk wrote:

MaliA wrote:

"Randoms" to mean people. As in "It was us on the ride with a few randoms".

It's cunt garglingly cretinous to use it.

Yesyesyesyesyes. My estimation of someone immediately plummets when they use the word in this context. I've even tried to find another word to replace it for its intended use but the closest I've got is 'arbitrary' which isn't quite right.
If we can extend this to phrases, all this 'I'm loving...*noun*' gets right up my nose. Where did it come from? It's spread everywhere in the space of a few years, even to the BBC news, where that patronising wench Sian Williams liberally throws it about every morning.

Unknown? New? Strangers?

What? What? What?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:13

kalmar wrote:

It's full of randoms off of the Internet, but it is Win.

GRAWR!!!!!!!!!!!11111

YOG · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:18

The thing I don't like about "randoms" is that it places the user and their immediate friends at the centre of the universe, and implies that they're much more interesting and cool than everybody else in the world. This is only because they're sneering, insular cunts who don't bother speaking to anybody outside their clique*, of course. Probably. I love baseless conjecture, me.

*Add people who pronounce this 'click' to the list of People Who are Going to the Fucking Sun When My Cannon's Finished.

Guwuffle · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 158

kalmar wrote:

... people who should probably be listening to Radio 4 instead

What, everyone? Radio 4 being amongst the finest media products in the world.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:38

I listen to Radio 4.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:38

Klatrymadon wrote:

*Add people who pronounce this 'click' to the list of People Who are Going to the Fucking Sun When My Cannon's Finished.

Surely I've taught everyone that it's pronounced 'CLEEEEEEEEEK'?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:40

Klatrymadon wrote:

The thing I don't like about "randoms" is that it places the user and their immediate friends at the centre of the universe, and implies that they're much more interesting and cool than everybody else in the world. This is only because they're sneering, insular cunts who don't bother speaking to anybody outside their clique*, of course. Probably. I love baseless conjecture, me.

*Add people who pronounce this 'click' to the list of People Who are Going to the Fucking Sun When My Cannon's Finished.

5) Strongly agree.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:41

myoptika wrote:

Klatrymadon wrote:

*Add people who pronounce this 'click' to the list of People Who are Going to the Fucking Sun When My Cannon's Finished.

Surely I've taught everyone that it's pronounced 'CLEEEEEEEEEK'?

Seems like you found yourself a nitch.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:42

A 'nitch'? *dies*

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:44

Winned in the face!

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:45

How do I buy shares in this cannon?

YOG · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:51

Quote:

As a late entry, I would also like to propose the cramming of bricks down the collective throat of everyone devaluing "hero" these days.

Also: "legend", "epic" and any other word from the semantic field of sub-REH pulp fantasy.

(Actually, I wouldn't mind if people started using proper fantasy words, such as "eldritch", "obsidian", "chthonic" and "squamous", in idle bus-stop conversation.)

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:16

You forgot cylopean, and nighted. Ai ai Shubniggurath! Ai!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

"proper".

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:20

Talking proper like what I do, is proper bo I tell thee.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:24

I hate it when people (usually footballers or football managers) don't use adjectives properly:

"Oh, he's hit that real sweet!"

It's 'really sweetly', you moron.

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