Yeah! Funk dat!
Yes, yes, yes to hating the word harvest when refering to meat!
At the farmer’s market:
Nice Young Caring Woman: I would love to learn how you harvest chickens.
Me: Process chickens.
NYCW: 'Cause I have an older laying hen that needs to be harvested.
Me: Killed.
NYCW: And I could come to the farm one day when your harvesting.
Me: We butcher on these days.
And lost. As in we lost granny last week. I always want to ask “Well, have you gone back to look for her?”
Mine did …
There’s a story about a bunch of Americans in Foreignia on business, and one of them excused himself to go to the “little boys’ room,” whereupon their hosts turned to the other and asked “how long has your colleague been interested in little boys?”
A troop is a bunch of guys–in the Boy Scouts*. In the context of of the military, “troop” to mean one individual member of a fighting force has been standard usage for ages. I don’t know for sure that it’s correct for all branches of the service, or if it’s just the army, but it’s not automatically incorrect.
*IIRC in the Scouts the troop was the whole roomful of guys, and your patrol was the column you lined up with.
There is a term often used by people on another site that is derogatory about children, and it makes me want to choke the poster. Crotch fruit. I’m glad I have the FoxReplace add on for my browser, and have added that term to the list for that site.
“Right to work” law
Instead of Union suppression law.
OMIGOD. I’ve never heard that expression! :eek: Awful. I’m going to do my best to erase it from my mind.
You mean the No Union Oppression Law.
I’ll add “Buttfucker”.
No. You are fucking a sphincter and a colon not the butt.
Sure, but there are various ways to describe it without outright lying, beating around the bush too much, or saying something accurate, but unflattering like “Gargantuan” “Colossal” or “Morbidly Obese.”
Based on my online dating days, there does need to be a standard to describe the various terms- Match.com back in the day had (IIRC), “Normal”, “A Few Extra Lbs” and “Large”. It was all dependent on how the person self-described. I met more than one girl I’d call normal, and who had nice figures, who had described themselves as “A Few Extra Lbs”, and more than one enormous girl who described themselves as either “Normal” or “A Few Extra Lbs.”
I have the stupidest example of the misuse of “hero” ever: here in WA we have (or had a few years ago, I haven’t really noticed lately) signs up with an 800 number to call and report people not wearing their seat belts. It’s 1-800-xxx-HERO.
I’m just happy if I can keep people from lying to me. I must have low expectations.
Ohhhhh - My my my such venom.
Never had a pet, eh?
“Buttfucker” is more an inaccuracy rather than a euphemism - a euphemism sounds nicer or more polite than the word it replaces. Besides, you’re not fucking a butt or a sphincter and colon - you’re fucking a person.
At least, so one hopes. 
I get stabby every time I see the word “guest” used for “customer”.
Stores now have “guest services”. Restaurants hand out “guest menus”, etc. A guest is someone you invite, who is entertained or given hospitality by a host. They do not pay for the privilege. Stores do not have “guests”. I don’t know whether this is a misguided attempt to make people think the store cares about you as a person, but it’s annoying and ridiculous. There’s nothing wrong with the word “customer.” It is not a shameful activity to be selling things to people who want to buy them. Stop pretending we are good friends or family. We have a business relationship and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I think they’ve been called ‘guests’ in hotels since forever.
Yeah, but at least you’re having a sleepover at the hotel. I’d hate to be called a “guest” at Hobby Lobby.
Hmmm, maybe if I set up a cot, got all snuggled in (and asked them for a mint on my pillow) when they referred to me as a guest…
A person on privately held property is by definition a guest.
Once upon a time, I was working in the ER, and overheard the following radio exchange:
Rampart General to Rescue 51: “Please give us a status update on your patient.”
Rescue 51: “We’ve lost our patient.”
Rampart General: “What exactly do you MEAN when you say you have lost your patient?”
Rescue 51: “The back door came open, and we LOST him!”
OK, so it wasn’t really Julie London, Kevin Tighe, and Randolph Mantooth, but the dialog is otherwise authentic.
‘‘Consumer’’ instead of ‘‘patient.’’ I briefly interned at a partial-hospital psychiatric center and we called the clients ‘‘consumers.’’ I think this originated with Mad Pride / people taking ownership of their mental health care, and that’s cool, but it just sounds terrible.