I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.
I hate the word “home” in a real estate context. You do not buy a home. You buy a house and make it a home by living there with your family.
Similarly, “houselessness” is a dumb euphemism because what homeless people lack is literally a home, not just a house.
I agree that a house is not a home, but what do you tell people when you’re buying a “house” but it could actually be a condo or a townhouse? When I say house, people assume I’m talking about a single-family house with a yard, driveway, etc. Is there a better word to encompass different property types that can become your home?
I love the phrase “This is not a crack house, it’s a crack HOME”
except that you can have a home without having a house, so “houselessness” would be more accurate with that logic
I guess that’s true, though the biggest problem homeless people have is typically lacking a home. It feels a little off to me to describe someone who feels at home living itinerantly as homeless.
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Excellent points.
‘Ass’ is a huge turnoff word for me. It could be one of the nicest part of the human body but also one of the worst, and is usually used to describe an awful smell and/or taste. Or a bad personality type. Even a mood. There aren’t enough useful euphemisms in English to call a nice butt
Praise the derriere!
“Woke”
It’s been misused by so many people so many times that it’s lost all meaning
I think it’s started to mean “person I think is left-leaning and whom I don’t like”, same with “wokie”
nothing, free for all
“Gamer”, despite being a basic description of someone who plays video games often, has always felt wrong to use or be called.
Doesn’t help that it’s only really ever used ironically or to mock someone, and if it’s not that, it’s used to advertise overpriced and mid-tier PC peripherals that could be used as makeshift flashlights.
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Not that RGB lighting is bad, but it always feels like it’s used to justify insane prices for stuff that either doesn’t last that long, or malfunctions often.
I think it’s because “Gamer” make it part of your identity, instead of a hobby or something you do. It’s like when people call me a cyclist, it makes it seem like it’s the only thing I am when in reality I just use a bike to get around.
I knew a physics professor who also did tours reading his poetry internationally. in an interview he was asked if he felt he was a physicist who did poetry or a poet who does physics, and he said when he’s driving he’s a motorist, when he’s walking he’s a pedestrian, when he’s tucking his kids in he’s a father. the idea of an umbrella identity is restrictive and is for other people to put you in a category
If someone calls themself a gamer I know they don’t have much else going on. This is from someone that plays games.
I don’t like the casual use of the word “hate”
Maybe it’s just me but hate is quite an extreme emotion. It basically means you want something killed/destroyed. I know people don’t often really hate the thing they claim to hate but I’m far enough on the spectrum to not take words literally.
I think it’s problematic when used in political contexts. Complex societal problems, like racism etc., are reduced to a feeling, thereby ignoring all the wider implications, histories and contexts while also reducing it to a mere individual problem.
I know. I hate it so much I just want to see it burn!!
Bimbo. In German, it’s the N-Word.
Yeah, that confused the heck out of me
If you date a Nazi and he calls you a bimbo, that’s on you for dating a Nazi. Never understood people demanding sympathy for this lmao
You wrote out one of those two words. I don’t think they are comparable.
Because a) Germany doesn’t have this christian-magical-thinking the US have and b) it’s a term hardly anyone would use, but it’s indeed by far not comparable.
Probably because they’re were writing in English, where the meanings will be different. Which is kinda the point.
Huh. TIL.
Depends entirely on context if it’s the same or not, but most often it means the English meaning, or just “slave” without racial connotation.
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Have you tried their pre-packaged toast? It’s weird but kind of good.
Isn’t it, technically, the b-word?
Oh yeah man, this is sooo weird!
Junkie
Everyone should watch painkiller on Netflix. It’s gutting but eye opening.
Genuine question: is there a better term, beyond “heroine addicted people”? Because I can see how that’s gotten shortened in casual conversation.
“Addict”. No need to specify heroin unless it’s important to the conversation, and then you can just say “heroin addict”.
“Person with addiction”
It’s too easy to become apathetic when human keeps getting take out of the descriptor. As a person can change so the descriptor isn’t their only identity. The ‘person’ will always remain while the association can change.
Additionally, we shouldn’t let doctors off the hook too easy to stop remembering they are humans with a problem and they are not ‘the problem’.
Addicts are people. They can be both. I don’t feel the need to point this out. It’s like how you don’t say “person who acts” when you can just say “actor”. Heck, you used the term “doctor” and not “person who heals”. Some people definitely try to ignore the human behind the term, but they do that with every term because they’re shit and don’t want to treat people with respect.
“A person affected by substance use disorder”. Or " people with addiction disorders". Addiction is an illness that people sometimes have, but it should never become a descriptor of who or what they are.
those don’t really address the part where I can see how it’s getting shortened.
I don’t think it’s something that should be shortened. It’s dehumanizing.
It’s just unrealistic to think people won’t shorten it.
I will, sure, but the public at large won’t. So your answer just doesn’t address my question, is all.
I hate consumer also, and I really agree 100% with what you say here.
I’m trying to stop myself from going on a long rant about surveillance capitalism… I get so triggered.
Whenever I hear or read the word “user” I think of that scene in Tron: https://youtu.be/yR7nXku4Jpg
“USER!”
That word stands correct. To give you an example - Coca cola has been labeled #1 for the worst company when it comes to pollution however nothing being said about people who consumes and throw the plastic bottles wherever they feel like. A for profit company works on demand and forecast accordingly so consumers consume that shit and the company produces more to keep up with the demand. However people dont like getting blamed so they blame the company for not collecting their plastic and the company blames the government and it goes on. Hence the word consooomers
I hear the word “freak” in movies and it rubs me the wrong way. Not because it’s bad but it’s because people don’t call each other that IRL. It’s only an insult in movies. It’s weird.
We said it a lot in the 90s
I think it’s very interesting to go back and look at those movies. Many words were used that are not allowed today. :)
Even Seinfeld has jokes that would upset some people today.
Yeah, I mean, I kinda feel like it’s fair now to admit that Seinfeld kinda sucked the whole time.
Early 00’s definitely used that term a lot, too. It sounds cringy now because it’s outdated.
Might just be where you’re from. People definitely use freak as an insult irl.
I still hear it, just not as commonly these days. Personally I decided to enjoy hearing it applied to myself; that means I’m on the right path.
You want to be a freak?
Much more interesting than being “normal”, if I had to choose
“Try Hard.”
It’s the dumbest of all insults. You seriously are gonna talk shit about someone who is doing well at the game because they are actively trying to achieve victory? And that’s the best you can come up with? Get the fuck outta here with that.
They are talking shit because the try hard was probably an asshole.
Lmao what? Have you ever played games online? The recipient of the trashtalk isn’t “probably” an asshole. People talk shit unprompted especially when they get killed by a better player.
Also everyone who is worse than me is a casual and everyone better is a try hard.
I got called a try hard in tft recently. It seemed so moronic especially at a silver elo because I’m just playing to have fun not be min maxing
Devs use it in the software industry to describe the people who work excess hours and weekends to try and impress somebody, when it was unnecessary. And all it does is make normal people look bad for just doing a reasonably regular amount of work. If you’re going above and beyond all the time, that’s no longer going above and beyond, you’ve just pushed out the goal post for what is normal
I don’t think it refers to effort level alone. It’s about doing obnoxious, unfun things to get marginal (at best) advantages.
For example, the only game I really still play multiplayer is Madden. If I hold a dude to 4th and 15 and they go for it, I know damn well it’s going to be a boring shitshow of a game until they rage quit. They’re going to turn it over on downs because that’s not a convertible play, I’m going to get an easy touchdown, they’re going to be even more stupidly aggressive on the next possession because now they’re behind, and it’s going to be a blowout where I’m just waiting for them to quit because there’s no way they’re going to play it out for a whole game.
That’s a try hard. Someone just winning and making intelligent gambles isn’t.
I don’t think it refers to effort level alone. It’s about doing obnoxious, unfun things to get marginal (at best) advantages.
Nearly every time I’ve seen someone using the term, it’s against someone who isn’t even talking and just playing the game better than the dude who cried “try hard.”
It’s only more recently I’ve seen a trend of younger gamers giving it this other definition, which I’ve never actually seen used in a game session.
It’s been a thing forever (well over a decade). You’re playing a casual pickup basketball game and one dude is diving on the ground for loose balls near other people’s legs and playing really grabby defense? People will notice and say shit.
At the same time they’re saying “I’m not a try hard. I could beat them any time I want but I choose not to”. GTFOH loser
“Nerd” is used similarly for kids who do well in school.
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I was also once playing Leauge practicing skillshots. I was in the zone and hitting everything with great tempo and out of nowhere comes a sore loser, “try hard.” Bruh, do you know what having fun looks like?? Lol I took it as an unintended compliment 💅
A customer is an equal who participates in business transactions.
A consumer is a being who’s sole purpose is to acquire and use products.
Karen.
If you tell me someone in your life is a “Karen”, then I just assume you are a asshole who didn’t like being told to stop.
The joke has been overused and beaten to death back in 2020 imo, but there are absolutely obnoxiously entitled and loud complainers out there. This is just a shorthand for it.
I’m progressive, so I’ve always just called them cunts (in the non American gender neutral way), but what do you propose people call loud, obnoxious entitled complainers in your life?
Asshole? Jerks? Something other than an existing person’s name? I know two Karens, and they’re some of the nicest sweetest people I know.
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers
You Had it right there. Just use that.
yes: it’s wordy. But it is on topic. And it will never fall out of meaning or relevance. Because it’s practically a dictionary description.This is what communication is. It relays your actual meaning with clarity.
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers can’t wriggle of it with side arguments and assumptions about your narrative of the situation . They don’t take offence to it for the reason you think they are taking offence to it. They are taking offence to the blatant sexism you think you just got away with. And you’re making them look right when they point it out. So using ‘Karen’ as an insult is doing more damage to you than anyone you think you’re describing. Same could also be said about ‘cunt’ too. It just sounds like you’re trying to be an edgy 12 yr old gamer who just discovered the ‘n’ word and have become obsessed about it for no other reason than to push buttons. You can come up with all the Aussie backstory you want about it but then it turns into a story about you struggling to not look bad. It’s no longer about the loud, obnoxious entitled complainers. If anything, shorthand is false economy when you have to spend 40 more words to explain yourself on what you could have done with just 4.
