No Sir, I Don't Like It: Words Edition

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**Flinty**

I last read it about 30 years ago, but just skimming the Wikipedia entry almost gave me PTSD. As a Bene Gesserit is invited to watch an Honoured Matre complete her sexual domination of Duncan Idaho, but ah-ha. She didn’t count on secret Tlielaxu implant training, so now who’s the dominated one!

Good grief.

**Ahtman**

Flinty wrote:
As a Bene Gesserit is invited to watch an Honoured Matre complete her sexual domination of Duncan Idaho, but ah-ha. She didn’t count on secret Tlielaxu implant training, so now who’s the dominated one!

I have to admit that was not a sentence I expected to see when I checked back in on this thread.

**Jaxmeister**

Nor did I expect that sentence.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

There are two words which in conjunction drive me to apoplexy.

The first is James. On its own? Just a name. And a pretty common one.

But add Corden? And I’m livid.

**Olthannon**

There's something about him and Ricky Gervais that really twist me. Smug little gits. They remind me of those fat kids who were desperate to avoid getting bullied at school so they hung about one step behind other bullies and picked on kids themselves.

**chromedog**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh, and anyone that is a professional “consultant” or “consultancy” should be kept away from all businesses forever.

You don’t know what we do. You don’t know how we go about it. You don’t know why we do things the way we do, or the approach we takes. You’ve absolutely no idea what is involved in being good at what I do. And it takes a good six months to get a new recruit signed off - and even then it takes years to get a rounded experience.

So some tosser in a suit who’s no more than a poke-nose git trying to suggest we do things differently can get squarely in the bin, then in the sea. I don’t care what your degree makes you reckon would work. Because you’ve never done this job, and you may not even be capable of doing it - because not everyone is.

Consultancy is the flipside to the old "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" adage. I prefer "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.", myself.

Consultancy: There's money to be made prolonging the problem.

**insaniak**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is there a term for a more or less acceptable film, such as Alien Resurrection, where general appreciation increases because what follow was utterly dreadful?

.

Or a series with good bookend titles but best to ignore whatever is in the middle. See Blade, Riddick, or the Highlander movies.

**BobtheInquisitor**

A valley franchise? If short enough, an odds-only franchise, or like Star Trek and Mad Max, an evens-only franchise.

**Easy E**

Dang, I love how humans are SOOOOO desperate for patterns in their lives.

**Slipspace**

Flinty wrote:
Its a sequel that is positioned between two pre-existing films in the in-universe timeline...

Ghaz helpfully provided a link to an even bigger archive of hairsplittingness!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequel#Classifications

Gearbox (technically 2K Australia) have a better term for it: pre-sequel.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Easy E wrote:
Dang, I love how humans are SOOOOO desperate for patterns in their lives.

I’ve tried chaos and I don’t recommend it (for anyone over 30).

And naming things is how we gain power over them.

**Haighus**

Slipspace wrote:
Flinty wrote:
Its a sequel that is positioned between two pre-existing films in the in-universe timeline...

Ghaz helpfully provided a link to an even bigger archive of hairsplittingness!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequel#Classifications

Gearbox (technically 2K Australia) have a better term for it: pre-sequel.

Underrated game IMO. The low-G stuff is great.

**Dysartes**

insaniak wrote:
Or a series with good bookend titles but best to ignore whatever is in the middle. See Blade, Riddick, or the Highlander movies.

If we're talking the Snipes Blade films here, I have to ask... what the heck are they doing in that list?

**insaniak**

I enjoyed the first and third movies, but not the 2nd.

**Haighus**

My partner has just encountered "componentry element" as a great example of corporate bullgak.

We have spent ten minutes trying to figure out what it could mean...

**The Power Cosmic**

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but I wanted to add my trigger words.

Foodie. It's mostly dead, but for a time was everywhere.

Elevate. I work in marketing (its own black box of sin), and it's used everywhere. Also every food show you watch uses it liberally.

**Jadenim**

Haighus wrote:
My partner has just encountered "componentry element" as a great example of corporate bullgak.

We have spent ten minutes trying to figure out what it could mean...

Component?

**Haighus**

Jadenim wrote:
Haighus wrote:
My partner has just encountered "componentry element" as a great example of corporate bullgak.

We have spent ten minutes trying to figure out what it could mean...

Component?

That would make sense if talking about fridge parts or something. Instead it was part of the "rationale" for a big digital departmental structural change...

**Cyel**

Oh, oh, I have another one!

People putting "I wish I knew..." on thumbnails of their YT videos, when they really want to say "I wish I had known..."

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

“I was today days old”.

Cards on the table? First couple of times, it was amusing in a twee way.

The of course it “trended” and became overused. Like Jim Carey playing Jim Carey in every Jim Carey comedy film until he showed he could do straight roles too.

**insaniak**

Or any article of video entitled 'You've been doing [x] wrong!' ...

Also people giving their age as '... years young'.

**Ahtman**

Since this is about words it sort of fits here. Today I heard an ad for a prescription medicine (ask your doctor about ect) and I only noticed it because at one point it said "over ninety percent of users don't suffer a stroke"...

Along the lines of "years young" I loathe "fur baby".

**Haighus**

Similar to those is "life hack" which invariably takes four times as long as doing a task normally and with worse results, for clickbait.

A personal bugbear is "heart attack", which is supposed to mean a myocardial infarction (where the heart muscle hasn't got enough oxygen supply) but gets frequently used for cardiac arrests, a much more serious condition that can arise from lots of causes even in someone with a previously healthy heart. A heart attack can lead to a cardiac arrest, but with modern medicine rarely does.

**Flinty**

I can definately see the annoyance on terminology, but as long as saying “heart attack” leads to urgent medical attention then it probably gets the point across

**Ensis Ferrae**

insaniak wrote:

Also people giving their age as '... years young'.

If the person using the phrase is north of 70, I'll allow it. But people roughly my age (lets just stick with under 40) using it for themselves is just dumb

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Life Hack can definitely get in the bin.

Especially cleaning ones, where the real tip is “don’t be a mucky child born out of wedlock in the first place, and do your washing up every evening, thus precluding any need for especially deep cleaning you clarity, dirty sod”

**Henry**

I have two contributions.
"It is what it is." A phrase so tautologically stupid I'm convinced the user must have had oxygen deprivation during their most recent sleep.

"...the actual ...itself". Bear with me on this one as it may be unique to the UK military experience. Usually only used by representatives of the more academically challenged trades when giving instruction. For example "...aim the actual fire extinguisher itself at the base of the fire", "...take hold of the actual rifle itself and load with the actual magazine itself", etc.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

It is what it is?

I use that a fair amount, to acknowledge there’s stuff I can’t really influence. Private or professional life, sometimes it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s just not gonna go as hoped.

It can be overused, and used inappropriately. But as a way to help manage my anxiety, it works for me because I genuinely mean it.

**Ahtman**

Eh, se la vie.

**Jadenim**

Ahtman wrote:
Eh, se la vie.

Bravo sir.