Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a nerd for getting annoyed at it.

I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”

nerd kitty-cri-screm

  • blakeus12 [he/him]OP
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    111 year ago

    lol me and your partner have that in common. “Band-aid,” “Kleenex,” and all others like it get under my skin.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          61 year ago

          Here, that would mean long strips that you wrap around something. Bandaids are the little ones with the sticky bit.

          No one says Kleenex for tissue here though. Or hoover for vacuum cleaner.

          Tupperware gets used for multi-use food safe box with a lid.

          Trying to think of others, nothing feels quite as extreme as South USs “coke” for fizzy sweet drink

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            11 year ago

            no way. hoover is a brand?? don’t call a vaccuum hoover but ive heard hoover as a verb for sucking up. wack

            • keepcarrot [she/her]
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              21 year ago

              I think the one that peeves me a little is “D&D” for “RPG”. Please play a different RPG

              • oh that won’t necessarily fix anything. my friends also refer to our call of cthulhu and paranoia games as “playing dnd” - it really has started to mean any rpg in the same way that “photoshop” just means any photo editing

    • queermunist she/her
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      61 year ago

      You aren’t thinking big picture. When brand names just become product names, the brand name loses its power. Defile all brands!

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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      21 year ago

      See but asking for a bandaid implies more information. I ask for a bandaid and you know it’s not too serious, but asking for a bandage may be a paper cut or it may be a large laceration. I think this one is useful.