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OCD

I am a clean guy. I like my room to be tidy, my hallway to be swept, and my kitchen to be insect-free. But there are those that would accuse me of “being OCD”. This acronym, which once stood for “obsessive-compulsive disorder”, is now a simple stand-in for cleanliness, perpetrated by the denizens of filth, [...]

Posted 25 August 2010 § Incorrectly Used § Medical § Nouns § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Have a Good One

Have a good what, asshole? A good day? A good life? A good diarrhea? What on Earth is this noisy air that escapes your lungs every time you walk away? And who taught you to talk to strangers, or worse, your friends, like such a turd?
What ever happened to “good bye”? It used to be [...]

Posted 24 August 2010 § Expressions § Meaningless ‡ Comments (0) °

Irony / Ironic

“Irony” has been a word I hated for a long time, but it’s almost TOO BIG now to blog about. The problems with this word are almost too egregious and too numerous to do justice to it. Nonetheless, it screams out for an entry here, if only to put me on record as anti-irony.
Certainly, we [...]

Posted 11 August 2010 § Adjectives § Incorrectly Used § Meaningless § Nouns § Overused § Pop Lexicon § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (0) °

Meta

People, listen up and listen good. “Meta” is not an adjective. It is a prefix which can take one of two meanings:

connected with a change of position or state

metamorphosis
metabolism

higher; beyond

metaphysics
metalanguage

But now some people have decided it would be a good idea to take this PREFIX and turn it into its own WORD, because apparently “arcane” [...]

Posted 24 March 2010 § Adjectives § Pop Lexicon § Redundant § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (0) °

Awesome

Awesome is not such an awesome word that you people need to say it all the time. Seriously, “awesome” has been blown completely out of proportion. It used to be that anything that was AWESOME was actually worthy of awe. AWE! Awe is a big thing. A bowl of Captain Crunch cannot be awesome. Your [...]

Posted 07 March 2010 § Adjectives § Overused § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (0) °

Efficient Dynamics

This one is specific. BMW has just launched a new ad campaign that revolves around the slogan “Efficient Dynamics“.
What a meaningless, sophomoric, puerile, dogshit horseshit whaleshit idea for selling cars. This is clearly the work of a whole committee of adfucks because no single semi-educated human person with half a moral compass could be so [...]

Posted 23 February 2010 § Meaningless § Weird Stuff ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Kerfuffle

See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes.

Posted 16 February 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Real (adverb)

“Real” is not an adverb. It is an adjective. If you remember back to your school days (and I know it’s tough with all the bong residue clouding your memory) an adjective modifies a noun, while an adverb modifies an adjective, or another adverb. So, for example, the following is grammatically correct:
That guy is a [...]

Posted 12 November 2009 § Adverbs § Incorrectly Used ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Pornography

It’s not 1955 anymore. With the exception of a few holdouts (probably loosely affiliated with Jesus) pornography is accepted as part of modern living. And while it may still have some very important political issues concerning the exploitation of women, most of what you will find out there is not obscene, much of it is [...]

Posted 10 November 2009 § Nouns § Poor Connotation § Sex § Too Long ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Morose

I think I’ve hated morose longer than any word I can remember hating.
It’s likely I first got acquainted with it while studying for the SATs in high school, but I’m sure I hated it even before I heard it. But it took me until just today to realize why I hate it.
Normally I like words [...]

Posted 29 September 2009 § Adjectives § SATs § Sounds too Much Like Meaning ‡ Comments (0) °

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