The unlevel playing field is in a town in Oklahoma and it’s the one the band gets to practice on. Now you know. It is so unlevel that on rainy days, when it’s slippery, band members might actually slide off. The football players get the more level one. To practice. For games everybody gets a level playing field. (Even the band, at halftime.)
Another unlevel playing field is the horrible tennis courts in the park nearest to me. There is an uphill side and a downhill side. However it doss make it easier to collect your balls. They all roll to the net on one side and the fence on the other side.
Sitnam’s gripe no doubt stems from all of the “life hack” and similar uses of the word. Tips & Tricks are not hacks. Favorable practices are not hacks. Adding jam to a ham sandwhich is not a “food hack”.
Maybe. Personally, my problem with “life hacks” isn’t the name; it’s that it’s always some stupid thing that either takes longer or is more costly than doing it the normal way, and so the “hack” aspect is completely backwards (either that, or the hack is completely mundane: “Hack an early retirement by not spending money on stupid shit and then saving it!”). If “life hacks” were genuinely useful and clever, they’d earn the hack moniker.
One of the supervisors at my job never misses an opportunity to let someone know “I get it”. Another uses a variation- she wants you to know: “… and I get that.”
Seriously? Wow. That’s a new low. A Target employee saying that? Sure. OK. But a machine programmed to give you that instruction? Goddamn, we live in a culturally barren world.
Soldiers are in the army. Sailors are in the navy. Marines are in the Marines. Airmen are in the air force. So don’t say “soldiers” if you mean “members of the military.”
At least 30 years ago. And that’s just when I started hearing it, could have been earlier.
It’s the ginchiest!
When I was a young’un we said things were “killer”.
Annoying everyday phrase I hate: People being quoted on the news are always “speaking out” or “breaking their silence”. :rolleyes: No, they’re just commenting. I associate the phrase “speaking out” with standing up against injustice.
“Reaching out” makes me want to reach out and choke the shit out of the people using it. We don’t phone, contact, email or otherwise speak with people. We must ‘reach out’ to them, because we’re all just so fucking caring and made of fucking stardust.
I do shifts behind the bar at a social club that I’m a member of; and I can’t tell you how pissed off it makes me when some young person wanders up to the bar and says, “Can I get a [drink]…”
NO! Why do you think I’m behind the goddamn bar? Tell me what you want and I’LL get you the drink!
Y’see, it’s because of this sort of provocation that, whenever any unsuspecting punter asks me “May I have a glass of tap water?” - I’ll get them by asking back “Hot or cold?”
j
Note: unpaid volunteer work. They’ll need another volunteer before they can get rid of me.