Things that you're SICK of people SAYING.

[Guest]

> People are good. (No, we aren't. We have occasional "attacks" of doing good).

[Tlam99]

anyone

[AKM]

On 12/16/2024 at 3:20 AM, Darkpig said:

peer reviewed study

Not against you, personally, but I've never really seen the value in a peer review.  It supposedly says "This is reviewed by people who know what they're talking about because they know this business." But it could (and in many cases is) instead: "This was reviewed by people who have a vested interest in making sure that the public has a positive view of "our" industry." 

Excuse me, I am just a WEE bit jaded.

[Darkpig]

8 hours ago, AKM said:

Not against you, personally, but I've never really seen the value in a peer review.  It supposedly says "This is reviewed by people who know what they're talking about because they know this business." But it could (and in many cases is) instead: "This was reviewed by people who have a vested interest in making sure that the public has a positive view of "our" industry." 

Excuse me, I am just a WEE bit jaded.

It is a matter of probability. Reviewed studies tends to lean closer to fact than non-reviewed studies because it holds people accountable. Not to interrupt your jaded rant or anything.

[Count Chocula]

Synergy and proactive, two words on everyone's bullshit business buzzword bingo card.

[DoctaSax]

Navigating. 

Once the preserve of proud specialists using advanced maths done on the fly and deeply ingrained lore about the nature of the sea floor at any given location to get precious lives and cargo from one speck on a not-so-detailed map to another, despite ever shifting winds and unseen currents, shoals, sand banks and rocks - long before the age of GPS. Mad respect.

Now criminally overused to designate that people in some show have *things* going on in their lives. "... while navigating work, family and love" Big whoop.

[Guest]

On 2/7/2025 at 2:05 PM, DoctaSax said:

Navigating. 

Most people would not even know what this is these days.

Spoiler

 

[porkybork]

On 2/12/2025 at 12:40 AM, Raven 54 said:

Most people would not even know what this is these days.

  Hide contents

 

That, my good sir, is a sextant. I only know that because it was brought up in one of the Thrillville games that I played when I was a kid.

[Darkpig]

On 2/16/2025 at 1:50 AM, Raven 54 said:

                                                                            "Change is Good"

                                                                        

                                                                                           Only when it comes from spending money.

“Change is Good.” Depends on what they’re bringing back. 80s mens crop tops I am all for. Everything else is either meh or just a bad idea in general.

[RedHeadAngel]

As an assistant manager at a retail store, this is something I hear a lot. Someone will complain to me "Oh, well, this is cheaper at (insert name of item here)!" I have to grit my teeth so hard not to say "Then why the f--- are you here?"

[RedHeadAngel]

On 2/16/2025 at 12:50 AM, Raven 54 said:

"Change is Good"

I find this quote very flawed. I believe it should be "Change is Inevitable."

[RedHeadAngel]

1 hour ago, Raven 54 said:

Did you miss the Sarcasm dripping from "My" post?

Did you miss the point of what I was saying in mine? It definitely seems that way.

 

Here’s a hint. It had nothing to do with you.

[RedHeadAngel]

5 hours ago, Raven 54 said:

First of all Miss, this is the "things that you're sick of people saying" thread, not quotable quotes.

It is bad form to correct another in person, on a public forum it is just rude.

If you "Believe" that quote is better, use it, just leave correcting my post out of your commentary.

First of all, I’m not illiterate. I know what the title said. Second, I saw something I wanted to comment on, so I did. Simple as that. Third, that quote is something I get annoyed hearing people say because I find it misleading. That was why I made the post with a version of the quote I feel is better. Like I said, had nothing to do with you. Fourth, I wasn’t “correcting” anything in my first post.

Is that clear enough, or do I need to spell it out more?

[Count Chocula]

Just about anything that starts out with"You should have done ..."

[Count Chocula]

"Ahead of its/their/his/her time"

[Grey Cloud]

"The <whatever> that changed history" and its cousin, "the <whatever> that changed the world forever".

[woodsman30]

Anything excuse based reason for others peoples behavior " it is only" his way, her way, their way or, how about " you have to understand"  " they did not mean it".

Favorite sayings

Fuck off

fuck you

eat shit

eat a bag of dicks

things went straight to shit

no fucks left to give

 

enough said

[Count Chocula]

5 hours ago, woodsman30 said:

Anything excuse based reason for others peoples behavior " it is only" his way, her way, their way or, how about " you have to understand"  " they did not mean it".

Following up on that, "He was a product of his time" to excuse reprehensible attitudes (usually racism) held by (often) authors of days gone by (such as H.P. Lovecraft).

[Demonwise]

Woke. At least in the way it is used today. It used to be a term used positively for being someone who was politically and socially conscious in the areas of racial and social justice. Nowadays it is used negatively to debase and refute individuals. 

 

Stop f***ing appropriating words and twisting them to suit your own selfish, politically juvenile agendas. 

[porkybork]

2 hours ago, chocula said:

Following up on that, "He was a product of his time" to excuse reprehensible attitudes (usually racism) held by (often) authors of days gone by (such as H.P. Lovecraft).

I love Lovecraft and his work, but saying that he was "racist for his time" is the most laughable understatement anyone could ever make about him. Lovecraft seemed to have this severe compulsion to insert his racist and xenophobic views into his work just for the sake of it. He wasn't just racist, he was flamboyantly racist. To this day, I have no idea what the hell Lovecraft meant when he refereed to a black man as a "nautical-looking negro" in "The Call of Cthulhu". Hell, that's a tame description considering how he describes a recently killed black boxer in "Herbert West—Reanimator", whom he describes thusly:

 

"He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life—but the world holds many ugly things."

 

Lovecraft is what happens when you combine creative writing talent with extreme anxiety and advanced racism. If he were alive today, he'd probably have the 14 words framed in his living room "Eat, Pray, Love" style.

 

1 hour ago, Demonwise said:

Woke. At least in the way it is used today. It used to be a term used positively for being someone who was politically and socially conscious in the areas of racial and social justice. Nowadays it is used negatively to debase and refute individuals. 

 

Stop f***ing appropriating words and twisting them to suit your own selfish, politically juvenile agendas. 

Let's add "DEI" to that list of words ruined by idiots for stupid reasons.

[landess]

This was an easy one for me.

 

"Please and Thankyou"

 

Spit out at the end of a request together so no effort of real warmth or thanks needs be given after the request was satisfied.

 

Prepaid manners. I'd rather read it on a receipt.

[Count Chocula]

1 hour ago, porkybork said:

I love Lovecraft and his work, but saying that he was "racist for his time" is the most laughable understatement anyone could ever make about him. Lovecraft seemed to have this severe compulsion to insert his racist and xenophobic views into his work just for the sake of it. He wasn't just racist, he was flamboyantly racist.

Every Lovecraft-based RPG after Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu has in its preface wording to the effect of "Lovecraft was a horrible racist, but you can like his works, and games based on his works, without being racist yourself." Cthork Borg, however, takes this to a new level, with wording along  the lines of "Lovecraft was a horrible racist, so let's pretend he didn't even exist (even as we play a game based on his works)." That's virtue signaling extraordinaire.

 

More on the "racism in entertainment," I once had an argument (and quit the discord server of the person I was arguing with) about fantasy racism. The other guy's  position was that racism in fantasy RPGs towards fantasy races was just as bad as real-life racism. That attitude is on display with a few comments on Nexusmods about a Skyrim mod that turns Argonians into Humans and Fallout New Vegas and 4 mods that make Ghouls look Human.

Edited May 16, 2025 by chocula

[DocClox]

2 hours ago, porkybork said:

To this day, I have no idea what the hell Lovecraft meant when he refereed to a black man as a "nautical-looking negro" in "The Call of Cthulhu". Hell, that's a tame description considering how he describes a recently killed black boxer in "Herbert West—Reanimator", whom he describes thusly:

 

"He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life—but the world holds many ugly things."

 

 

 

To be fair to HPL, he wasn't exactly complentary about the good citizens of Innsmouth, either.

 

The thing I'm fed up of reading? "Touch grass". Yeah, you go fondle your own vegetation, you smug jackass!

Edited May 16, 2025 by DocClox

[Grey Cloud]

On 5/16/2025 at 7:04 AM, DocClox said:

The thing I'm fed up of reading? "Touch grass".

Usually posted via phone by someone who spends their waking hours staring at its screen.

[Count Chocula]

Anything along the lines of "I hate to say it, but ..." For two reasons. One, it's the old "ignore anything before the word 'but'" syndrome. Two, if a person truly hates to say something, then they simply don't say it. Kind of like "Welcome to my ignore list" or "You're not worth my time to reply to."

 

Still, they all kind of fall into the bucket of "unintentional irony," and unintentional irony is entertaining. So I'm not really sick of hearing or reading things like that, more along the lines of "Thanks for self-identifying as a pretentious moron and for providing a few seconds of fun at your own expense." 

Edited October 23, 2025 by Count Chocula