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Things that people need to stop saying
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| 95 degrees and 95% humidity |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|01:04 pm] |
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OK, here's a little meteorology lesson for you: If you want to know how uncomfortable it is on a summer day, look at the dewpoint temperature instead of relative humidity.
A dewpoint lower than 60 (Fahrenheit) is going to be a nice comfortable summer day until the temperature gets well up into the 90's. Once the dewpoint hits 70, it starts feeling pretty sticky. A dewpoint of 80 is disgustingly humid but uncommon in the U.S. outside the Gulf Coast states.
95 degrees with a dewpoint of 80 is beyond miserable, representing a heat index up around 115. But the relative humidity is only 62%, because at 95 degrees, the air can hold a LOT of moisture.
95% relative humidity at 95 degrees represents a dewpoint of 93, something you can only achieve in a laboratory. It does not occur anywhere on Earth.
So stop saying that! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|06:13 pm] |
"Passing out" for falling asleep.
For YEARS I was seriously worried about friends' health when they had really simply gone to sleep normally during the previous night. |
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| Lotta lotta |
[May. 19th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
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So, is that like two lottas, or the square of a lotta? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 9th, 2009|12:19 pm] |
Dear British people, not everything is "epic".
Beowulf was epic. Lord of the Rings was epic. Your running for eight seconds to catch a city bus that was about to pull away is not. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 6th, 2009|04:11 pm] |
"Reboot"
When referring to old tired movies or subject matter that should stay a memory.
Like Transformers, or Superman, or Star Trek, or Ghostbusters or anything else that's being remade by a director to put a marketing spin on a tired story.
It's not a damn computer. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|10:22 pm] |
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STOP combining the names of couples (for example, "brangelina" for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie). It's not cute or witty, it's just stupid. |
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| Internet lingo getting way out of hand |
[Apr. 15th, 2009|04:57 pm] |
Dear Internets:
Please refrain from using "totes" for "totally" and "bb" for "baby"
Those two infuriate me. They are just so...STUPID!
Thanks,
Me. |
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| ENOUGH |
[Apr. 11th, 2009|12:51 pm] |
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Please, please, PLEASE stop adding "licious" to everything. This goes double for you, advertising copy-writers! |
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[Apr. 8th, 2009|07:24 pm] |
"Sauce" instead of "source" when blogging about something that happened on another site, and adding the link to show the source. |
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[Apr. 6th, 2009|08:43 pm] |
"Too Soon?"
I'm tired of hearing it on radio, commercials, comedy channels, blogs, twitter, and anyone else who thinks they're funny.
"Hey ladies, Liam Neeson is single again. OOOhh.. Too soon?"
Stop Saying That. It's not funny, and the fact that you say "too soon" makes it obvious that you know that it probably is. You're stupid and need new material. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 23rd, 2009|01:21 am] |
I hate it when people say 'comdoms" instead of "condoms"
HOW HARD IS IT TO GET THAT ONE LITTLE WORD RIGHT?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! I just found this community and I can tell I'm going to love it but man, my blood is boiling already. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 13th, 2009|12:29 pm] |
Why must servers ask, "You still working on that?"
No, I'm not still "working" on my meal. This isn't a pie-eating contest. |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2009|06:54 pm] |
"My name is (unisex name) and yes I'm a girl."
I hate intro posts in communities if they're not needed (in other words, communites that aren't even "Let's be friends and get to know each other" places), and the ones that jump the gun in thinking everyone's going to assume things or be judgemental just cause me to not even read the rest of their post.
"I don't have any children, but I have (x amount of) cats and they're like babies to me!"
Get out of the house more often, seriously. I'm a total dog person and adore my dog to bits, but I've never thought of my dog as a child. If anything, he's like a brother to me. If any cat lovers in this community get offended by this, I'm just going to assume you've probably compared your cat(s) to a kid and that's why you're pissed. :P I have no doubt there are dog lovers who do the same, especially prissy girls with "purse dogs," who really do need a lot of attention, but really, I don't think I've ever heard/read of that other than what happens here in Los Angeles. It's always cat people, and they're always ridiculously annoying about it. I'll apologize because I'm slightly biased, I really don't like cats much at all, but I've had some cat lovers agree that some others are too obsessive. So nyah.
"Off to stealth click!"
You'd only understand this one if you're in any of the DragCave communities. DragCave involves sprites which grow by people clicking on them. There are a ton of lj communities based on the site, since they need a large chunk of views and clicks to grow. A person will post their sprites and tack on at the bottom something like "Off to stealth click!" or "Ninja clicking after I post this!" This means they're (supposedly) going thru the archive and clicking on everyone else's sprites, but not commenting on the entries to let the person know they've clicked. Speaking from personal experience, all that really does is give people the illusion that you're helping out, when in reality you just can't be assed to click on anyone's dragons because the community's too active for you to care about every single post, or you're just lazy. It takes an extra second to just tell a person you've helped out, so I really hate that comment. And I mod one of those communities, so of course I've been fighting the urge to make it a rule not to say it, to either just do it or don't. lol |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
"I found these gems" and "I'll just leave this here" when posting to a snark community.
"First post!" when posting just about anywhere. Nobody friggin' cares. It's different to say "New member!" because some members will welcome you, but there's really no response to someone saying it's their first time posting. (Note: This is not the same as saying "First!" in forums or YouTube etc.)
"If this is a failpost, commence with macros." This is mostly in communities like ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) stupid_free, sf_drama, wtf_inc, etc. A person posts and is told it's a repost or simply not interesting, so they try to save the post by saying it's okay to hijack it with macros or recipes. This backfires because that sentence automatically makes the post a fail since the OP obviously thinks there's a chance it'll suck, in which case you've gotta wonder why they bothered.
Whoop, one more. "Is this a guy or girl??" Meant as an insult, but said WAY too often and usually toward people who aren't androgynous at all. |
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| Discreet/Discrete |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|12:30 am] |
I've seen this pop up a couple of times in my local paper's online forum.
If you are being discrete, you are being a separate thing, or even better, constituted of separate parts. I think you are probably not this, and are trying to be discreet.
I don't post to their forum, it's easier to skim and ignore all of the bad spelling and grammar. |
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| A Couple More to Add |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|06:56 pm] |
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1. Stop saying you are "itching" something when you are scratching it. Didn't it already itch? Isn't that the reason for the scratching?
UGH.
2. Also...enough with "back in the day". This was bad enough when people first started saying it years ago, but now the phrase is everywhere. I hate it! |
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| LOL |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|11:49 am] |
This is driving me NUTS. 'LOL' or 'lol' being added to EVERYTHING. Especially, for some reason, when the sentence is written normally or completely small caps and then LOL in all caps. But just lol in general, especially outside of IMs and texts.
Partly (mainly?) because it's added to EVERYTHING regardless of whether or not it's actually FUNNY. "I went to the store LOL and got milk LOL and met my friend there LOL!!!" |
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| Voice Mail |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|10:55 am] |
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Don't leave me a voice mail (or worse yet, send me an email) saying, "I have a question for you; could you call me back?"
JUST ASK THE DAMN QUESTION! |
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