Something I have been saying lately to end trailed off sentences is "...and the what-nots."
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 26, 2010 6:06:05 pm PDT #20516 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Dana - Aug 26, 2010 6:06:14 pm PDT #20517 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Totally verbal tic city.
"Totally" is one of mine, though I think shrift gets it worse than you guys do. And definitely. And starting my sentences with so.
Amy - Aug 26, 2010 6:06:19 pm PDT #20518 of 30001
Because books.
I use ellipses too much when I post. Even I know this. But I don't really care, because I like my little trio of dots.
shrift - Aug 26, 2010 6:07:21 pm PDT #20519 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
amych - Aug 26, 2010 6:07:26 pm PDT #20520 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm incredibly ticcy. And judgy. And prone to gratuituously ending things with "y".
Zenkitty - Aug 26, 2010 6:07:45 pm PDT #20521 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think I use too many qualifiers. Like "I think", and "pretty much", and "sort of". As if I'm afraid my opinion will annoy someone, so I throw in qualifiers to dampen the effect somehow.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2010 6:08:07 pm PDT #20522 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I use ellipses too much when I post.
Oh man. I am the most unrepentant ellipses abuser around. All. Day. Long.
Knowing how wrong it is, I still write like I speak...pauses and all.
eta: I also begin far too many sentences with And.
And, I'll start a statement with "I don't want to be harsh but...no wait, that's not true, I DO want to be harsh because..." No one has ever suggested that is annoying, but I bet it really is.
Zenkitty - Aug 26, 2010 6:09:48 pm PDT #20523 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I use ellipses too much when I post.
ooh, I love the little dots. I use them all the time. I just edit them out before I post/hit send. Maybe I'll lose those wimpy qualifiers and use my darling ellipses without shame...
sarameg - Aug 26, 2010 6:12:28 pm PDT #20524 of 30001
Oh, I have plenty of others.
So tomorrow is the last night at my pool FOR A WEEK. Expect a week of pissyness as I'll have to drive to one seven miles away. In traffic. During the first week of school. Oy. I may shift MK's shots up to 8 pm.
Spidra Webster - Aug 26, 2010 6:15:15 pm PDT #20525 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Zenkitty, I speak back a bit. As calmly as I can (because not being calm makes it escalate). But there's a limit to how much I can tell him he's being unreasonable when I'm living under his roof. Need to figure out a way to get out of here.
Thanks, bonny. :)
I'm annoyed with my own overuse of "awesome" and "epic". Saw them online too much and now they've pushed out the words I would have used before. Pushed them so far I have a hard time remembering what I would have used before.
Most of the verbal phrase peeves upthread don't bug me. One that does is "totes".