Pataflafla
In drumming, in particular using the snare drum, there are these things called “rudiments”. A rudiment is a basic pattern one learns to build a kind of drumming vocabulary. There are several national...
View ArticleOxymoron
Get rid of this word. Just get rid of it. We cannot have a word that ends in “moron” that has nothing to do with morons. Granted the “moron” in “oxymoron” comes from the same place as the “moron” in...
View ArticleVegas, Baby!
Please observe the following phenomenon: When a person is going to Las Vegas, or even when simply talking about Las Vegas, rather than saying I’m going to Las Vegas. they say I’m going to Vegas, baby!...
View ArticleCosplay
I think it is wonderful that adults like to play dress-up, be it for sexual purposes or just for fun. In fact, I even think it’s fair that we have a word specifically to describe the practice. But the...
View ArticleMeta
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...
View ArticlePlethora
Here’s a weird one where I hate the word, but I actually like it in its archaic form. In case you’ve been living in a cage in your uncle Harry’s basement, subsisting off sewer rats that venture too...
View ArticleMeme
I don’t fucking care at all that Richard Dawkins invented this word. It’s straight up horrible and nobody will point out this fact so I guess I have to. First of all, Richard Dawkins is a dick. I mean...
View ArticleKerfuffle (Revisited)
I hate kerfuffle so much, I have to post about it a second time. Last year I did a post on this word, and the entirety of the post went as follows: See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes. Amazingly, no...
View ArticlePatootie
Barf barf barf barf vomit barf puke barf puke throwup barf. You know who you are, people who use the word “patootie”. You’re probably a Mormon or maybe a little league coach who lures children into...
View ArticleKinky
I hate the word “kinky”. It makes me think of desperate married couples searching vainly for a way to “spice up” their sex life. “What about these ‘vibrating nipple clamps’?” “Ooh that’s kinky!” “Yeah?...
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