1. "Toxic". Toxic co-workers, toxic relationships, toxic politics. Never any explanation of what makes something "toxic" as opposed to simply "bad". Generally seems to be used in pathetic articles about what types of nasty people to avoid. Fuck right off.
Agreed on toxic. The only people who use that word or incessantly talking about how everyone and everything else BUT THEM is toxic, are usually complete and utter failures in life. Like hello, if everything is so fucking horrible, maybe take a good long look at the common denominator.
Jan-30-2017 19:49
Trance-M
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"Great", I can't hear it any more, Trump totally gave it a different meaning....
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Jan-30-2017 21:39
Sykonee
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Location: Vancouver, Canada
Re: 2017's words that can f%ck right off
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
1. "Toxic". Toxic co-workers, toxic relationships, toxic politics. Never any explanation of what makes something "toxic" as opposed to simply "bad". Generally seems to be used in pathetic articles about what types of nasty people to avoid. Fuck right off.
Contributions welcome.
Your toxic stance on the word 'toxic' is problematic.
(I'd really love to see 'problematic' go the way of the dodo - just another convoluted synonym for 'bad')
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Jan-30-2017 23:17
Lira
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2. "Fascist/Fascism". Not really a 2017 word, but the word has peaked way too frequently in the last 12 months both in the US (November and January) and here (during the impeachment), it's hard to take whoever uses this word seriously when they use it to refer to anyone right of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders...
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Jan-30-2017 23:29
Dykes_on_Jay
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How is toxic contemporary?
15 years plus at least.
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Jan-31-2017 14:57
Lira
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How about...
3. "Snowflake", when used by right wingers to discredit leftists whenever they draw attention to some issue they disagree with.
4. "Sea lion", when it serves the opposite purpose - that is, to make self-righteous leftists feel that debating them in a civil manner is not a genuine engagement but a way to piss them off or something.
These are pretty recent!
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Jan-31-2017 16:27
DJ RANN
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Not 2017 words per say, but I'd very much appreciate it if the sentences like "I can't even" would finally fuck off.
Can't even what? Finish the god damn sentence.
Followed closely y by "I'm so excited", used in the most mundane circumstances and usually nothing to do with something that's about to happen. Just a general statement of current status.
Jan-31-2017 16:31
SYSTEM-J
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quote:
Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
How is toxic contemporary?
15 years plus at least.
Because it still crops up constantly in 2017, and therefore it's high time it fucked right off.
I will accept Lira's nominations as words that can indeed fuck right off.
5. "Normalise". Another bullshit, faux-technical description of something bad. Rather than advocating or tolerating unwholesome values, a dodgy cultural artefact must now be "normalising" them. Rather than fearing the rise or growth of the alt-right, or racism, or anti-EU sentiment, people must now fear the "normalisation" of it. Fuck right off.
This has been a bullshit word for the last 15 years but anyways, 6. "sustainable". 99% it's not actually sustainable but just slightly less openly shitty to make people feel better about themselves.
