Annoying Words & Phrases

In case you're wondering, today is the equivalent of Howard Stern's "Computer clean-up day"; except it's photo cleanup day for me, where I go through all the stupid pictures I took (with the intention of posting them here), and post them - so I can delete them from my phone.

Yet another excellent excellent example of the awesome graphics editing work, on our local news channel.

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Channel98 said:
I've complained about the last syllable of "Watergate" being appended to the names of dozens of scandals which have no connection to the Watergate Office Building in Washington DC. Well, here is another idiotic "gate" name. Two, actually.
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Welcome to..... "Staplegate"

An innocuous black stapler became public enemy No. 1 for some New York City-based gamers after it damaged a Nintendo Switch 2 at a local GameStop in June.

Now, that same stapler, and some additional items, have sold for $250,000 on eBay as part of a GameStop-organized charity auction. The auction closed on Wednesday with 282 bids.

"Let's consider this GameStop's version of 'corporate accountability,'" a GameStop spokesperson told Business Insider.

The saga — dubbed "staplegate" — began last month when the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 became available to the public. It had been a long road for fans, who were introduced to the original Nintendo Switch eight years ago and were forced to weather a tariff-related delay on the newest version of the popular gaming console. The Nintendo Switch 2 sells for $499.

While many fans received their Nintendo Switch 2 orders without fuss, some said their consoles arrived damaged with puncture holes on the screen. The culprit was a lone stapler at a Staten Island GameStop used to secure the receipts to the console boxes.

Although GameStop replaced the damaged consoles, the company spokesperson said it wanted to "turn the snafu into something for a good cause."

The winning bidder received four items: a stapled Nintendo Switch 2 (now fixed), the console's box with stapler marks, the stapler, and the "carefully extracted" staple.

www.businessinsider.com

The GameStop stapler that punctured a Nintendo Switch 2 has sold for $250,000

A GameStop employee damaged a Nintendo Switch 2 with a stapler in June. Now that stapler and other "staplegate" items have sold on eBay for $250,000.
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You can't call a group of women "ladies" anymore?? WT actual F??

la·dy /ˈlādē/ noun
1. a woman (used as a polite or old-fashioned form of reference).
 
A Los Angeles Times story today about South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone quotes former Comedy Central president Doug Herzog: "If you're going to be in the creative business, in show business, it's always about the talent. Whether it is Matt and Trey or Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, these guys are incredible talents and they don't grow on trees."

Gee, really?
 
I notice that when they do Celebrity Jeopardy, they introduce both males and females who act as "actors", not "actor" or "actress".
 
An actor is a person who acts. There is no need to have a separate word to identify female actors.....or female aviators.....or female sorcerers.....or female waiters.....or female stewards.....or females of any other profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times explained why the gender-neutral word "actor" is preferred over "actress."

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From actor to actress and back again

From actor to actress and back again
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Channel98 said:
A Los Angeles Times story today about South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone quotes former Comedy Central president Doug Herzog: "If you're going to be in the creative business, in show business, it's always about the talent. Whether it is Matt and Trey or Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, these guys are incredible talents and they don't grow on trees."

Gee, really?
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The new South Park is off the hook!
 
UCLA Bruins quarterback Nico Iamaleava, quoted in today's Los Angeles Times:

"This is a year where, you know, I'm really trying to get out after. So, you know, I'm going to give my all to UCLA and, you know, if I have the year I want, you know, I want to get out. I was playing a lot of video games with my friends and my cousins, man, and, you know, really paid no mind to it. Sometimes I had no idea. My cousins would come and tell me about stuff they would see and I was like, 'I don't care.' So, you know, I think a lot of that just comes with, you know, protecting your space."

Take out all the "you knows" and it still makes no sense!
 
Oh, don't even get me started on the "you know" epidemic. Also...apparently all the idiots who used to overuse the word "amazing" have moved on to "wild"?
 
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