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Reply #70 on: November 27, 2007, 11:40:15 AM

For reals.
People who write an entire post in lower case including the personal pronoun.
People who end each sentence with 'lol' - Why are you cackling like a moron at your own 'wit'?
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Reply #71 on: November 27, 2007, 11:49:31 AM

I aspire to be a person who writes in lowercase all the time.



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Reply #72 on: November 27, 2007, 12:03:02 PM

I tried the no punctuation and all lower case thing.  It took me longer to type that way, though, because I had to constantly go back and fix the stuff I typed properly. 

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Reply #73 on: November 27, 2007, 12:22:35 PM

Sort of tangential to the topic…

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Reply #74 on: November 27, 2007, 12:24:57 PM

"Please to be" in more than one post by the same person in one thread.
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Reply #75 on: November 27, 2007, 12:43:47 PM

The phrase Web 2.0 needs to be faceraped, along with anyone that uses it in serious fashion.

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Reply #76 on: November 27, 2007, 12:51:08 PM

I'd reserve more hate for "digirati" myself. Then again, they might be the ones who came up with "Web 2.0" in the first place.
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Reply #77 on: November 27, 2007, 12:57:42 PM

Also can't stand stuff like Weaboo, and other catchphrases/memes people try to import here.  We've got enough of our own sayings here without borrowing them from places like 4chan.
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Reply #78 on: November 27, 2007, 01:05:54 PM

I hate when people use the word "literally" when they don't mean literally.

Unfortunately the word is now so misused that:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/literally

Literally has come to mean virtually which literally is not what it means....

Fuck I just confused myself and that is why I hate people. No, not just the people who use the word "literally", I fucking just hate everyone.
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Reply #79 on: November 27, 2007, 01:47:59 PM

I haven't even heard half these buzzwords.  I'm very out of touch, I think.  It comes from not being arsed to get a job the past decade or so.

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Reply #80 on: November 27, 2007, 02:00:28 PM

You could hold your own meetings, if you like.  Perhaps chair a committee on finding new avatars.

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Reply #81 on: November 27, 2007, 03:58:02 PM

I second "low hanging fruit".  Everytime I hear that I want to unleash a face-hugger alien.  That shit needs to stop.

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Reply #82 on: November 27, 2007, 04:02:56 PM

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 roflcopter Rofl Waffle <---both those annoy me.

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Reply #83 on: November 27, 2007, 09:16:47 PM

Social Networking should have a negative value on the "Increasing Knowledge Connectivity and Reasoning" axis. 

Oh, and on topic

- fucked-up possessive apostrophes
- typos in published materials - spellchecker yo, DKP 50 minus!
- using the company name a bazillion times in sales pitches and proposals.  We're interested in your business but we're going to talk about us instead.  Oh and we're going to say our company name every chance we get just in case you forget.
- and just browsing the office intranet, the following - "above the radar", "in terms of", "credentialing" (the fuck, not everything is a verb), "by the numbers"


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Reply #84 on: November 27, 2007, 09:37:31 PM

'No doubt about it' 

(sometimes 'No question...')


(Constantly being spouted by the pundits on ESPN-type shows in reaction to another's remarks or opinons.  Really starting to annoy the motherfucking out of me and I have no good idea why.)

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Reply #85 on: November 28, 2007, 12:08:58 AM

So, like... I'm totally like sick of people like overusing the word "like". 

This is one I'm trying to break my daughter of.  It gives me Moon Unit flashbacks.

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Reply #86 on: November 28, 2007, 06:25:20 AM

Verbal tics could be a whole 'nother thread. My supervisor is a pretty bad public speaker, long winded and filled with verbal tics from uh to you know. I just make funny growling noises and paw at the air. Speaking of MU Zappa, when did all teen and twenties girls start talking like valley girls and ending all sentences in a question? FFS.

From the chart, semantic seems to be TNBBW (the next big buzzword).
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Reply #87 on: November 28, 2007, 07:07:33 AM

Yeah, I agree.  As I've got older I've started noticing more and more verbals tics and they piss me off.  One of the other Directors here says 'you know' almost every second word when he's speaking to a group.  It's the most annoying thing...

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Reply #88 on: November 28, 2007, 11:33:51 AM

Personal pet peeves, due to my job:

"Extreme"
"Jack Bauer in space"

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Reply #89 on: November 28, 2007, 11:37:15 AM

Personal pet peeves, due to my job:

"Extreme"
"Jack Bauer in space"
Ok, fine, I admit it. I've refered to my "renegade oriented" character as being Jack Bauer like in describing the game to a couple different people.

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Reply #90 on: November 28, 2007, 12:47:27 PM


From the chart, semantic seems to be TNBBW (the next big buzzword).

"semantic" is so 20th century.

The upgraded term is the "global graph"…
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4

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Reply #91 on: November 28, 2007, 02:13:47 PM

No hate here.

I just really like trying to work the word 'moist' into normal conversation.  People have really weird reactions to that word.
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Reply #92 on: November 28, 2007, 02:22:26 PM

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"

Which directly contradicts the phrase I hate:

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Happy Hanukkah".

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Reply #93 on: November 28, 2007, 05:07:57 PM

I hate the word "benign".

No matter how many times I hear it, I immediately think something's gone horribly wrong for a second... No matter how well I know the correct definition. It just has a bad sound to it.
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Reply #94 on: November 28, 2007, 05:21:22 PM

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"

Which directly contradicts the phrase I hate:

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Happy Hanukkah".

I hate them both equally.  I also hate "Happy Holidays" instead of "Crotchety Festivus" or whatever you're supposed to wish people.  Also Agnostica, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan.  WISH ME A HAPPY WHATEVER YOU WANT, FUCKERS.  I CAN TAKE IT.
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Reply #95 on: November 28, 2007, 05:36:35 PM

If Merry Christmas was good enough for Frank Cross, then it's good enough for me.
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Reply #96 on: November 28, 2007, 06:07:33 PM

War on drugs/terrorism/poverty.

Publish as a noun. Its a publication, not 'a publish' you fucking cretins. Any similar inappropriately implied gerund designed to be cute or clever when it is patently neither.

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Reply #97 on: November 28, 2007, 06:08:20 PM

I've never seen anyone use 'publish' as a noun.
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Reply #98 on: November 28, 2007, 06:12:09 PM

Liar. When I fist met you in 'cyberspace' (there's another one) Bowman was using it all the time in the chat room - "we'll have dragons in the next publish". I'm not surprised that you excised it from memory. NCsoft used to use it all the time in Lineage too, but since 90% of them were grubby foreigners, it was marginally more excusable.

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Reply #99 on: November 28, 2007, 06:14:17 PM

This falls into the 'tight' vs. 'tight' category.

I can see how it would annoy you in most cases, but in the case of a large rollout in an MMOG, it seems perfectly acceptable to me. Though, I don't know why people use 'publish' instead of 'patch.'
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Reply #100 on: November 28, 2007, 06:16:18 PM

Cretins. That's why.

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Reply #101 on: November 28, 2007, 06:19:56 PM

Maybe they were trying to convey "issue"?

Just throwing that out there...
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Reply #102 on: November 28, 2007, 11:17:57 PM

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"

Which directly contradicts the phrase I hate:

"Happy Holidays" instead of "Happy Hanukkah".

I'd wish you a happy Hanukkah if I knew you were a Jew. The only question is whether or not you tack a C on the front of it.

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Reply #103 on: November 28, 2007, 11:22:22 PM

No 'c.' That's amateur hour.
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Reply #104 on: November 28, 2007, 11:26:05 PM

No 'c.' That's amateur hour.

I think it was one of those conspiracies to make it look more like Christmas.

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