The word “dystopian” is used WAY too much these days. Stoppit. —Kelsey Grammer
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Sounds like a Utopia of some kind.
#Tomasso: only masochists would enjoy a Utopian Dystopia …
I had to Google what both meant.
dystopia is all fun and games until it actually happens. then what do you do for toilet paper?
I’ve NEVER heard anyone around me remotely mention this word. I saw it used to describe why everyone was so fucking poor in the hunger games, but that’s about as far as that word’s been used in my world. Stop hanging out with hipsters!
#?
#swagswagimadolphin
#rsvp
All those college courses reading Orwell, Huxley, Zamiatin…
Who knew the future would involve drinking Fruitopia and being occasionally dyspeptic. >: (
thats what you get for reading nothing but dead wasp guys ivan
now if you had read a little atwood munro and jong you’d be sipping herbal tea and pondering your choice of exfoliants
I ate bad Mexican food once and had explosive dystopia for days afterwards…
GDM – I’d sooner go to Room 101, except, what you just described IS Room 101.
I have dystopia in my right eye, and wear corrective lenses for it. but everything still looks dark. ish
Ba Dum Bum. Tsssshhhhh
I don’t hear this word much, but what really irritates me is hearing “at the end of the day” used in a sentence.
Ugh. Stop that.
“WAY TOO MUCH”
As everyone knows the word “dystopian” is simply the antonym of “utopian,” a common adjective indicating that one is being unrealistically idealistic. Named after Thomas More’s “Utopia”describing an imaginary island with a perfect social and political system, the term has become one of common usage as, of course, has its antonym.
So the question reduces to just why the poster claims that the word “dystopian” is being used WAY too much? What reasons, if any, does he have for making the assertion or, as is so common on this site, it is simply based on his unsupported view – just another in the long melancholy history of Bitch brainfarts? In other words, is this bitch itself an instance of a dystopian rationality, one which he must, as a matter of simple logic, deplore?
Write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
my personal phrase peeve is ‘reach out to’ instead of contact.
I get this vision of a looooong rubbery arm stretching across the country and tapping some hapless schmuck on the shoulder.
“On the ground” for “there.” “Putting boots on the ground” as the military equivalent as in “Obama does not intend putting boots on the ground in Iraq.”
“At this point in time” for “now.” I have actually replied to this monstrosity with, “And this place in space” for “here.”
(Here and now, get it?)
the use of the word random for anything other than mathematics
“Closure” especially in regard to the arrest, trial and conviction of someone who has committed a particularly horrific offense. Closure comes when you are dead, your last brain synapses have stopped firing and you can no longer think about what happened or was was done to you or a person that you cared deeply about.
Lazy journalists reared on 3 decades of Oprah need to stop asking this question of the next of kin.
^^ yes! pre-packaged, processed, ersatz language. ( and I think it was brothers, not oprah that started using that stupid ‘closure’ word when she wasn’t talking about her apartment building doors)
“YOU KNOW”
Well, you know, if there’s one phrase, you know, that gets my goat is “you know.” Every time I hear this, you know, on TV or even, you know, on the radio, I feel like, you know, shouting out, No I don’t know and, you buffoon, neither do you!
“I know, we know, you know, they know” and so on. What do they all, you know, all have in common? That’s right, they don’t know.
Oh, yes. Also the answer given to a question, “That’s a good question.” But, you know, why is it a good question? It’s a good question because, you know, he doesn’t, you know, know the answer.
A pleasure, you know, as always.
Cheerio!
Dystopia was going to be my nickname as a professional cage fighter: Biscuit ‘Dystopia’ DeBeers from South Africa. It’s also odd that I don’t speak like Adam Rose despite being born and raised in Cape Town.
Exuberant
This is the “devil’s” term…….
You bring De Beers and we’ll have a party(eid)
After Nurse Hezz rebuffed his advances, Donarious tried stalking Charlize Theron by pretending to be Wikus van der Merwe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnulxrMs5CM
shall we play our mandala-ins?
the word awesome to describe a couch or tv or cat that someone is trying to dump on kijiji
Really? No one caught the sign-off: Kelsey Gramm*e*r?
I’m so disappointed…
^^ you expected a full monty applause? now is you had done a double play, like Quel See Grammer….now that’s sweet.
Nelson was cool but Winnie was a bit of a poo.
Man, Nurse Hezz is like Alexander the Great!
And Daniel Ibrahim, you still haven’t trimmed those eyebrows?