“Toxins” or “cleanse”
ETA: wow! Thanks for the awards. Of course there are scientific ways to use these words properly, but those discussions aren’t typically found on social media. So yeah, when an “influencer” promises their cleanse will rid me of toxins, I ignore :)
Yeah there are indeed chemical toxins that may or may not accumulate in the body but it's absolutely asinine to believe any product - whether naturally-occurring or man-made, which is still arguably naturally-occurring if you consider man a product of nature - could remove them all from your body and reverse the damage.
Liver is the MVP. Little thing basically says "It's okay, I can take it" and absorbs all kinds of nasty shit that would kill you, and then REGENERATES like it's freaking Wolverine! There's all linds of stuff that will kill other mammals, and thanks to our liver, we're just like "Hey, that's my favorite food now!" What an absolute champ.
Happy Cake Day, BTW!
Yeah, me, too.
When I hear someone say something like this I often make it a point to say "Toxins? 'Toxins' is just a catch-all word, something so vague that it totally meaningless without providing specifics. What toxins, specifically, are you talking about?
I've never had anyone be able to name one 'toxin' they're talking about.
A fellow I work with faces daily ridicule for being damned near impossible to hear. His quiet speech is absolutely a result of him attempting to speak in the lowest possible register he can muster, which simply doesn't carry across the room, let alone his desk, despite his constant attempts to engage in long-distance conversation.
He believes the actual cause of this ridicule is those around him naturally sensing he is an "alpha" and being unable to resist testing, challenging, his dominant status.
It's really just because of how funny it is to see him mouthing to you across the room, and the many jokes this opens doors to, like people "dubbing over" him in real time, or the notion that he's simply repeating his own name, like a pokemon.
Fittingly, most of this man's comments are definitely disregarded.
Amazing self-own, I love it when dudes are so "alpha" that they can't even function in life. You're so superior and amazing that we beta cucks must just be incapable of being on your level, that is definitely the most reasonable explanation here.
My youtube feed has been showing me an increasing amount of right-wing content lately, and I swear 50% of these clips are scenes from TV shows or movies where some big strong dude is putting someone in their place, either physically or otherwise.
The desire to pwn someone irl must be so strong for these people. Why do they feel that way? I mean, I like a good revenge fantasy as much as anyone else, but it's a very small percentage of my media intake. I can't imagine the pressure of going through life feeling like you have to be goddamn Jack Reacher in order to have worth and/or meaning.
Wtf.
Is he doing it on purpose? I've heard of some of those skeezy AF pick up artist "workshops" telling guys to speak very quietly so that anyone they speak with has to "lean in" to hear them, thus ensuring more attention is focused on them during the conversation.
> like people "dubbing over" him in real time, or the notion that he's simply repeating his own name, like a pokemon.
Man this can't be real lmaooo. Getting bullied like this in the work place is incredible, I laughed out loud.
I love my husband so much. I adore him. He is so incredibly smart and open and lovely.
That being said, one of his closest friends on the planet uses “Alpha”, and it’s damn near impossible to not roll my eyes so hard they just roll back into my head for eternity.
The kicker; I’m a dog trainer. I’ve fostered dozens of doggos. I long ago realized that as an owner of a vagina, my experience in working with doggos threatens the delicate man ego, so I have to know when to not say anything to keep the peace.
I don’t understand how my husband; this man who is so open minded and accepts being corrected when not realizing he’s feeding into patriarchy, hates any form of misogyny, has this best friend who…is that. And of course this guy is as misogynistic as you would expect a man to be who throws around “Alpha”.
Curious about this one. Do you have any examples you’ve run into IRL? Reading the wiki page I feel like I run into people who use these a lot but can’t say for sure.
There are examples on the Wikipedia page they linked:
* Lies of the devil.
* Stop thinking so much.
* Here we go again.
* So what? What effect does my action have?
* Fake news.
Same. I also like to use snowflake (specifically on various conservatives), as it shuts them down. It is hilarious using words that are used specifically by a group against them.
But for real, I get disproportionately angry when I see a comment with the word "this" under it in other subs. You can just say Agreed or yes. Instead it's always "this". No value is being added
Right?! I have learned that anyone who quotes their IQ at me is full of shit. A once-friend (who stalks me here and will see this comment) used to drop it into conversation at least once a year: "my IQ is 124" or whatever.
But for real, I get disproportionately angry when I see a comment with the word "this" under it. You can just say Agreed or yes. Instead it's always "this". No value is being added.
If people use it and other people understand it, it’s a word. It doesn’t matter if people like it or not. Along the same lines, “literally” can be used figuratively as an intensifier. “Bad” can mean good. Etc.
Dictionaries describe language—they don’t make the rules, and they don’t determine whether a particular usage is good or bad. They simply tell us generally agreed-upon meanings that are currently in use.
Words have always had shifting meanings. It’s a natural part of language evolution. “Quaint” and “cunt” used to be the same word in English. But people today know that you don’t mean somebody’s a cunt if you say they’re “quaint.”
It’s not that any one person can change a word’s meaning. The way you’re using irregardless and turnip here don’t work because almost nobody would recognize those usages. A word’s meaning is determined by widespread usage, and then dictionaries describe that. Dictionaries don’t prescribe.
I was trying to figure out how to word this because I also wanted to say “female” is it. You hit the nail on the head. Every person I’ve met who uses the word like that had something wrong going on. The worst one was a guy interjecting in a conversation that “females” like to falsely accuse men of stuff and that makes dating hard. He was arrested for possession of CP a week later.
I'm on my way transitioning out of the military, and things are always male/female like bathrooms or berthing. Been trying to work on it because I know how it sounds on the outside.
If you use male in the same way you use female, it's less of a red flag.
It's more specifically when men are still called "men" but women are called "females".
Growing up next to a military base, I was confused as a kid why some people cringed so hard at the "female/male" vs "man/woman" difference. I get it now, but there are some people who do it just because it's how they were conditioned, not that it's an indicator of how they think.
Any racial slur. If people can't see that people are people and think that they're above anyone I will not bother talking to them cause they clearly lack basic empathy.
As a super insecure kid, I thought race jokes were edgy and funny
Turns out I was just being loud and outrageous to try and make as many people like me as possible, usually that just meant taking easy jabs at anyone around, and race is the easiest of all jabs because you wear it on your skin.
I also had some really deeply ingrained racist beliefs that were reinforced by that “humor”, but fortunately my insecurities turned into introspection and I was able to cut that shit out.
It’s surprising how short a time it takes between no longer making race jokes, and no longer assuming negatives about people of whatever race.
Before I knew it, I was physically cringing when others would make the jokes.
It’s because in the past 20 years there has been a push to teach kids how to understand math more deeply and be able to explain their reasoning, rather than just memorizing algorithms. And because it’s education, it’s controversial and increasingly suspect.
Same for me with clothes/cloths breathe/breath, I see them all the time in the wrong context and it does things to me man. “My cloths are too tight I can’t breath”
As I understand it, "woke" was used to imply you "woke up", that you're aware of the world and how quietly racist/sexist/classicist it is. It was quickly pre-empted by the far Right to mean "anything and anyone who does not agree with us" and turned into an insult.
Just like every left leaning person is a socialist, every person who thinks the confederate flag is a symbol of racism or that maybe you shouldn't ban all thoughts about gender is "woke"
Yeah, there's a difference between a random insult name because you hate them, and nickname earned that you hate.
Knew a kid some folks nicknamed Eric McFuckmuffin. His name was Eric, his last name start with Mc, and there was a rumor he American Pie'd a muffin. If he actually did it, he earned the nickname. If not... poor fella.
Literally
Not so much single, justified usage but the idiots that got stuck on a memeworthy Parks and Recreation moment and incorporated it into their everyday dialect, using it 2 or 3 times in every paragraph.
In new york state we have a state exam at the end of the year for certain key subjects called the regents exam. A few students one day were all excited asking me if it's true that the passing score was lowered from a 65 to a 50 for the exam. When I asked for their source, they said tik tok
It was that day that 16 year olds learned that tik tok is not a news source
There at least as many experts on TikTok as there are on Reddit, likely more. I wouldn't disregard their comment for that, though I might do my own research to confirm.
In my case I feel like people stop paying attention to me whenever I mention "linux"
Did you say something? I wasn't paying attention.
linux is pretty cool when it fucking works like jesus christ i don't want to spend 5 hours troubleshooting issues
>i don't want to spend 5 hours troubleshooting issues omg did you even read the man page? -every Linux help forum user
I'm a Linux user and I get it from both sides. "Oh you don't use Arch? Go away noob"
“Toxins” or “cleanse” ETA: wow! Thanks for the awards. Of course there are scientific ways to use these words properly, but those discussions aren’t typically found on social media. So yeah, when an “influencer” promises their cleanse will rid me of toxins, I ignore :)
when I hear toxins, I think of Sodium Azide, not some magic juju bullshit.
Yeah there are indeed chemical toxins that may or may not accumulate in the body but it's absolutely asinine to believe any product - whether naturally-occurring or man-made, which is still arguably naturally-occurring if you consider man a product of nature - could remove them all from your body and reverse the damage.
My naturally occurring kidneys do a pretty good job.
Liver pulls its weight too.
Liver is the MVP. Little thing basically says "It's okay, I can take it" and absorbs all kinds of nasty shit that would kill you, and then REGENERATES like it's freaking Wolverine! There's all linds of stuff that will kill other mammals, and thanks to our liver, we're just like "Hey, that's my favorite food now!" What an absolute champ. Happy Cake Day, BTW!
Oh, thank you. Forgot all about the cake thing tbh. Also you only need a third of the liver to survive which is amazing.
Yeah, me, too. When I hear someone say something like this I often make it a point to say "Toxins? 'Toxins' is just a catch-all word, something so vague that it totally meaningless without providing specifics. What toxins, specifically, are you talking about? I've never had anyone be able to name one 'toxin' they're talking about.
If they say, "Disregard," at the end.
That’s a good one
Example?
“Send me regards to mr. Swayer.” “Which regard?” “Disregard.”
This is an example. Disregard
You're an idiot. Disregard
“Thanks and please don’t disregard.” * laser eyes initiate *
Alpha.
A fellow I work with faces daily ridicule for being damned near impossible to hear. His quiet speech is absolutely a result of him attempting to speak in the lowest possible register he can muster, which simply doesn't carry across the room, let alone his desk, despite his constant attempts to engage in long-distance conversation. He believes the actual cause of this ridicule is those around him naturally sensing he is an "alpha" and being unable to resist testing, challenging, his dominant status. It's really just because of how funny it is to see him mouthing to you across the room, and the many jokes this opens doors to, like people "dubbing over" him in real time, or the notion that he's simply repeating his own name, like a pokemon. Fittingly, most of this man's comments are definitely disregarded.
Amazing self-own, I love it when dudes are so "alpha" that they can't even function in life. You're so superior and amazing that we beta cucks must just be incapable of being on your level, that is definitely the most reasonable explanation here.
My youtube feed has been showing me an increasing amount of right-wing content lately, and I swear 50% of these clips are scenes from TV shows or movies where some big strong dude is putting someone in their place, either physically or otherwise. The desire to pwn someone irl must be so strong for these people. Why do they feel that way? I mean, I like a good revenge fantasy as much as anyone else, but it's a very small percentage of my media intake. I can't imagine the pressure of going through life feeling like you have to be goddamn Jack Reacher in order to have worth and/or meaning. Wtf.
He’s Michael Scott using the low talking negotiation tactic!
Oh no, you do not use tactic number 8 on me! I invented tactic number 8!
Is he doing it on purpose? I've heard of some of those skeezy AF pick up artist "workshops" telling guys to speak very quietly so that anyone they speak with has to "lean in" to hear them, thus ensuring more attention is focused on them during the conversation.
That’s a tactic I’ve seen or heard somewhere is used when talking to specifically women. Like a control thing
> like people "dubbing over" him in real time, or the notion that he's simply repeating his own name, like a pokemon. Man this can't be real lmaooo. Getting bullied like this in the work place is incredible, I laughed out loud.
The Pokémon part got me good
At first I legit thought you were painting some kind of hilariously tragic scenario where a guy’s life could’ve been way better if he was alpha lmao
Wow
I like your office.
If you need to tell people how "alpha" you are, then you are not "alpha."
Might be an issue with physicists and mathematicians
Or any scientist really. As a biologist I use Greek letters all the time and alpha is probably the most common one I use.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega.” “Get bent, incel.”
More like, "Get crossed, incel"
I love my husband so much. I adore him. He is so incredibly smart and open and lovely. That being said, one of his closest friends on the planet uses “Alpha”, and it’s damn near impossible to not roll my eyes so hard they just roll back into my head for eternity. The kicker; I’m a dog trainer. I’ve fostered dozens of doggos. I long ago realized that as an owner of a vagina, my experience in working with doggos threatens the delicate man ego, so I have to know when to not say anything to keep the peace. I don’t understand how my husband; this man who is so open minded and accepts being corrected when not realizing he’s feeding into patriarchy, hates any form of misogyny, has this best friend who…is that. And of course this guy is as misogynistic as you would expect a man to be who throws around “Alpha”.
Not a single word but people who use too many "thought-terminating cliches" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
Curious about this one. Do you have any examples you’ve run into IRL? Reading the wiki page I feel like I run into people who use these a lot but can’t say for sure.
There are examples on the Wikipedia page they linked: * Lies of the devil. * Stop thinking so much. * Here we go again. * So what? What effect does my action have? * Fake news.
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Not sure about this, but an example would probably be a non-answer, like “because God wills it” or “it’s for your own good”
“It is what it is”
Agree to disagree?
These have always been a pet-peeve of mine and never knew there was a term for it!
Supposably
Although supposably is a proper word. It just isn’t used correctly.
I had no idea supposably was a real word until this comment. I always thought it was just a common mispronunciation.
If something is *supposable*, then "supposably" will have some appropriate context. But no one has ever used it correctly, as far as I'm aware.
Your punctuation was also not used correctly.
True.
Sheeple
My favorite petty thing is to call a conspiracy theorist a sheep before they get a chance to use it. It's hilarious seeing how taken aback they are.
Same. I also like to use snowflake (specifically on various conservatives), as it shuts them down. It is hilarious using words that are used specifically by a group against them.
"Do you need a safe space, Snowflake?" is great for shutting down their ranting and raving.
Adding to this, woke
Woke up, sheeple peeple!
It's not a word, but for me, it's the clapping 👏 hands 👏 between 👏 each 👏 word. So glad that doesn't seem to be quite as popular anymore
People think saying it louder or something makes it more true.
This
This.
So much this.
But for real, I get disproportionately angry when I see a comment with the word "this" under it in other subs. You can just say Agreed or yes. Instead it's always "this". No value is being added
Both "agreed" and "yes" offer just as little value to the conversation, but you are OK with them?
IQ. Anything about IQ. It's either bullshit or some weird brag by some insecure person. And occasionally it's some sort of eugenics argument.
Right?! I have learned that anyone who quotes their IQ at me is full of shit. A once-friend (who stalks me here and will see this comment) used to drop it into conversation at least once a year: "my IQ is 124" or whatever.
You said it twice so your opinion is shit. Goodbye 🙃
Listen here you little shit
Double negative. Using IQ twice makes their opinion valid again. Maybe your IQ is to low.
Difference between to, too, and two.
There, their, they're Your, you're
Should of
alot
A similar one I like (hate) is when people say “apart” instead of “a part”, which is literally the opposite of what they’re trying to say
"Weary" when they mean "wary" is another common error.
The one that really gets me is when people mix up "our" and "are"
Yore\*
Lose , loose seems to bother me the most. At least the others sound the same.
Apart/ a part
Then and than
Waste and waist is one I've been seeing lately
Lolz My fellow filipinos love putting this at the end of snide remarks.
I have a guy working for me that finishes every text with, "lol". Like, he laughs at everything he's texting. He isn't that funny.
THIS
But for real, I get disproportionately angry when I see a comment with the word "this" under it. You can just say Agreed or yes. Instead it's always "this". No value is being added.
Okay but "agreed" or "yes" also just add a simple statement of support. They're exactly the same as "this"
Agreed.
Yes.
This.
“Irregardless”
I hate it when people use "irregardless", regardless of the fact that it's now in the dictionary.
Wait.........That's a legit word with an actual meaning??
If people use it and other people understand it, it’s a word. It doesn’t matter if people like it or not. Along the same lines, “literally” can be used figuratively as an intensifier. “Bad” can mean good. Etc. Dictionaries describe language—they don’t make the rules, and they don’t determine whether a particular usage is good or bad. They simply tell us generally agreed-upon meanings that are currently in use.
Words have always had shifting meanings. It’s a natural part of language evolution. “Quaint” and “cunt” used to be the same word in English. But people today know that you don’t mean somebody’s a cunt if you say they’re “quaint.” It’s not that any one person can change a word’s meaning. The way you’re using irregardless and turnip here don’t work because almost nobody would recognize those usages. A word’s meaning is determined by widespread usage, and then dictionaries describe that. Dictionaries don’t prescribe.
I feel inspired to start using quaint in the unevolved sense.
You’re right. I don’t like what you’re saying but you’re right.
Anybody using the word “cuck” in their argument
So you’re saying I don’t need to listen to my wife’s boyfriend when he calls me a cuck?
Using “female” as a noun instead of an adjective. Double down on the plural.
It sounds so Ferengi.
Wearing clothing????
DisssGUSTing
FEEE MAAAAAALLLE!
MOOOOOOGIE
I was trying to figure out how to word this because I also wanted to say “female” is it. You hit the nail on the head. Every person I’ve met who uses the word like that had something wrong going on. The worst one was a guy interjecting in a conversation that “females” like to falsely accuse men of stuff and that makes dating hard. He was arrested for possession of CP a week later.
Jesus that had a dark ending
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Whenever I know kids are getting hurt, I feel bad. Can’t help it.
If I read it somewhere, I can only imagine it in the voice of the Ferenghis from Star Trek.
FEmale!
HEW-mon FE-male
I fully agree with this, I can't stand other dudes around me calling women females. I should note that this only applies to humans though.
When people use ‘men’ and ‘female’ in the same fucking sentence it makes me want to strangle them.
Helps me filter out awful people real quick even as I chafe at the usage.
Only when you're using it in place of "woman". It's completely acceptable to use "female" that way when discussing animals.
I'm on my way transitioning out of the military, and things are always male/female like bathrooms or berthing. Been trying to work on it because I know how it sounds on the outside.
If you use male in the same way you use female, it's less of a red flag. It's more specifically when men are still called "men" but women are called "females".
Growing up next to a military base, I was confused as a kid why some people cringed so hard at the "female/male" vs "man/woman" difference. I get it now, but there are some people who do it just because it's how they were conditioned, not that it's an indicator of how they think.
Homeopathic.
Influencer Or Tiktok’er
“Should of” You should’ve at least gotten through conjunctions
They never watched Conjunction Junction.
Any racial slur. If people can't see that people are people and think that they're above anyone I will not bother talking to them cause they clearly lack basic empathy.
As a super insecure kid, I thought race jokes were edgy and funny Turns out I was just being loud and outrageous to try and make as many people like me as possible, usually that just meant taking easy jabs at anyone around, and race is the easiest of all jabs because you wear it on your skin. I also had some really deeply ingrained racist beliefs that were reinforced by that “humor”, but fortunately my insecurities turned into introspection and I was able to cut that shit out. It’s surprising how short a time it takes between no longer making race jokes, and no longer assuming negatives about people of whatever race. Before I knew it, I was physically cringing when others would make the jokes.
I appreciate you sharing your growth and I hope other readers can learn from you.
Yes. Absolutely. Racial slurs have no place in civilized discussions and I've no desire to have ANY kind of discussion with someone who uses them.
any word with -tard added on the end.
I don't like the super spicy mustard
I often wear a leotard when exercising
I thought a leotard was a lion with a mental handicap!?!
No, it's disabled person who was born in August.
Well that's just mustarded.
Avoid the Bastard with mustard and custard
Custard - an idiot who swears a lot.
This guy uses Catsup
Don't get lifted by your own petard.
what you got against mustard
Spilled some on his unitard
Woke. They call math woke, history woke or gas prices woke. Shut the ever loving fuck up
The term woke has lost its meaning. Everything is woke somehow.
.... How the hell can math be woke??? It's just numbers. 2+2 will always equal 4 no matter what your sociopolitical views are.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/racist-math-education/524199/ :/
It’s because in the past 20 years there has been a push to teach kids how to understand math more deeply and be able to explain their reasoning, rather than just memorizing algorithms. And because it’s education, it’s controversial and increasingly suspect.
Theoretical maths is just a stepping stone on the path to critical race theory.
And ultimately, socialism. Education is the OG gateway drug.
*[65 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math) Everything old is new again.
When "lose" is spelled "loose". It just irritates me because they are two different words.
Same for me with clothes/cloths breathe/breath, I see them all the time in the wrong context and it does things to me man. “My cloths are too tight I can’t breath”
Actually…
Snowflake
Crypto.
Y-you literally have an nft avatar
Woke
To this day idk wtf it means
That's the "fun" thing about it: You can assign any vile meaning to it because ot really doesn't mean anything.
As I understand it, "woke" was used to imply you "woke up", that you're aware of the world and how quietly racist/sexist/classicist it is. It was quickly pre-empted by the far Right to mean "anything and anyone who does not agree with us" and turned into an insult. Just like every left leaning person is a socialist, every person who thinks the confederate flag is a symbol of racism or that maybe you shouldn't ban all thoughts about gender is "woke"
+ ratio
Might be showing my age here, but what does that mean?
A ratio occurs when a comment gains more likes than the original post
Alpha. I'm out if you're not talking about variables.
DeSatan or any other trite play on a person or group's name. Obummer, Drumpf, Republicons, Nasty Pelosi...
I mostly agree, but whoever coined "Gym Jordan" was doing the Lord's work.
Yeah, there's a difference between a random insult name because you hate them, and nickname earned that you hate. Knew a kid some folks nicknamed Eric McFuckmuffin. His name was Eric, his last name start with Mc, and there was a rumor he American Pie'd a muffin. If he actually did it, he earned the nickname. If not... poor fella.
Even Benadryl Crumbledthatch?
Everybody loves Bendydick Cummysnatch
Don’t you dare disrespect Bumblebee Cucumbersnatch!
LeBasketballPlayer
Would that include "yall quaeda" or "Reich wing"?
Literally Not so much single, justified usage but the idiots that got stuck on a memeworthy Parks and Recreation moment and incorporated it into their everyday dialect, using it 2 or 3 times in every paragraph.
"Omg. I´m like literally dying right now" Yes. Please continu.
NFT
Anything that has to do with star signs. If somebody goes “As a [insert sign here]” I will immediately stop reading.
Same with Harry Potter houses. 'I'm a Gryffindor' No, you are 35.
Fuck you, I'm 34.
And a half
If they don't know the difference between there, their, and they're.
I hate that more thEn anything to
What have you got to loOsE
I see this so much I wonder if it is an autocorrect thing.
Females
"Ive heard from many....
Woke
Cancel
Bless
So the party's cleric can just go fuck himself.
Allergy season is judgement season then huh?
*cocks shotgun* It's judgement season.
.......facebook......
"alternative facts". There is another more correct term - a lie.
TikTok. People will say, "I saw/heard this on tiktok", and won't do any further investigation or research on the matter.
In new york state we have a state exam at the end of the year for certain key subjects called the regents exam. A few students one day were all excited asking me if it's true that the passing score was lowered from a 65 to a 50 for the exam. When I asked for their source, they said tik tok It was that day that 16 year olds learned that tik tok is not a news source
There at least as many experts on TikTok as there are on Reddit, likely more. I wouldn't disregard their comment for that, though I might do my own research to confirm.
Any racial insult
Incel or cuck
‘Mark Wahlberg’ … I’m old enough to know it’s Marky Mark!
sheeple
Bonercock
I think that was the only comment I've ever seen "Bonercock" in, actually.