Words and phrases that are soooo...meh! Like meh (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

And really it's not that great. It's just a job, I have bills to pay".

Yes all the musicians who've been playing the same venue and the same set since March 2020?

 

[Cormcolash]

Sometimes if I'm working somewhere that looks cool I'll post up a 'view from the office' picture, purely in the hope of annoying the kind of wankers that do it all the time.

 

[seanc]

Yes all the musicians who've been playing the same venue and the same set since March 2020?

Well, they do have bills to pay. Pro performers have been amongst the hardest hit this past while. I'm sure some will take jobs they'd rather not take.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

"livin' the dream"

 

[Jerry Twig]

The current use of a thing or things "coming home", in the U.K.

Covid's coming home

 

[Jerry Twig]

Is “for sure” an Americanism?

Oh it is, to be sure to be sure.

 

[sleepy]

A musician friend had an insta up today because there were doing a function gig in the englands.

'view from the office today'.

I find this use of 'office' in the context of musicians to not sit well with me. Is it because the point of going to listen to some music, or to have music with a major life event is to be about as far from the office as you can mentally be, and the person responsible for that, who's been granted the local societal crown of being competent and talented enough that they are selected for these very important moments is basically on the insta going 'back to the fucking grind mate another bunch of plebs tying the knot'.
I dunno, I've always been of a mindset that wether it be a bar show, a function, a festival you are enterting sacred space, and to treat it such, and most definitely do not compare it to offices. Offices design humanity out in favour of uniformity. Fuck off like.

I don’t know, I don’t think it’s about saying “look at the grind I’m facing into.” I think it’s more “check out how much more interesting my job is than yours, you fucking pleb”.

But either way, you’re right. It’s fucking annoying

 

[seanc]

I don’t know, I don’t think it’s about saying “look at the grind I’m facing into.” I think it’s more “check out how much more interesting my job is than yours, you fucking pleb”.

But either way, you’re right. It’s fucking annoying

Interesting how this has taken us all into different interpretations. I can assure you though sleepy, while there's a bit of "check out how much more interesting my job is than yours” in there, it is more "look at the grind I’m facing into.” most of the time.

What that has to do with the hallowed ground of playing music on a stage, I dunno. I think that's a very valid point that ann post made earlier.

 

[sleepy]

Interesting how this has taken us all into different interpretations. I can assure you though sleepy, while there's a bit of "check out how much more interesting my job is than yours” in there, it is more "look at the grind I’m facing into.” most of the time.

What that has to do with the hallowed ground of playing music on a stage, I dunno. I think that's a very valid point that ann post made earlier.

I kind of figured that because it’s Instagram, the whole point of almost every post is “look how fantastic and interesting my life is…….you fucking pleb.” But that’s just my interpretation

 

[seanc]

Cool man, insta does seem like poison and I do avoid it.

It might be different for other people who are selling their brand or whatever.

 

[sleepy]

Cool man, insta does seem like poison and I do avoid it.

It might be different for other people who are selling their brand or whatever.

Ah in fairness, it’s not all bad. You find some decent bands there the odd time

 

[Cormcolash]

Almost all the 'view from the office' posts I see from people are pure "Look my job is class and way better than your shit" posts.
There's a few people who post funny ones instead, they're the sound ones.

 

[ann post]

I'm certain I've said this before

(when speaking in english, to an english speaking audience, about a place with name in Irish or english).

Costa del

For a few reasons - mostly that like, if you want to use a send language to accentuate something, I think we have one of those.

and

Toll plaza

We have a word for place, which is 'place'.

 

[Space]

A musician friend had an insta up today because there were doing a function gig in the englands.

'view from the office today'.

I find this use of 'office' in the context of musicians to not sit well with me. Is it because the point of going to listen to some music, or to have music with a major life event is to be about as far from the office as you can mentally be, and the person responsible for that, who's been granted the local societal crown of being competent and talented enough that they are selected for these very important moments is basically on the insta going 'back to the fucking grind mate another bunch of plebs tying the knot'.
I dunno, I've always been of a mindset that wether it be a bar show, a function, a festival you are enterting sacred space, and to treat it such, and most definitely do not compare it to offices. Offices design humanity out in favour of uniformity. Fuck off like.

I agree with ya but also think there's a level of satire or sarcasm involved. "This is where I get to work, thank fuck it's not an office" kinda thing. I think it also came from field work so science types who may usually be in an office show off their "office" for the day.

 

[therealjohnny]

We don't like that phrase, here in therealJohnny towers

 

[seanc]

Another day in your office.

 

[nuke terrorist]

'a good job', 'dynamic workplace', 'dignity of labour' or anything to do with paid employment supposedly being fulfilling.

I can't imagine working 40 hours a week and being happy.
e.g. I quit working on a pig farm as a 17 year old and immediately I stopped being depressed - permanently.

 

[Cormcolash]

I was in one of those offices last week that has 'inspirational quotes' written all over the walls. Big fuckin office too, and there's all this shit from the likes of Nelson Mandela and Stephen Hawking and crap like that, haha. I actually forgot to take a picture of the 'Leonardo Da Vinci quote' on one wall that also had a massive picture of some guy surfing a wave on it.
Imagine working in one of these places. "Yeah Nelson, your inspirational memory is really helping me sell this total fucking bullshit over the phone today!"
I stuck out Amazon for a year and a half nearly 20 years ago, but nowadays I'd wanna smash the whole fuckin place up within a week when faced with that fuckin shit!

 

[magicbastarder]

in our offices in germany they did a revamp and decided to stencil quotes on the wall; the one nearest where i'd have sat when i visited was an ayn rand one, along the lines of 'it's better to do and ask forgiveness, than to seek permission and be denied'.
i did wonder was it one of the interior designers having a laugh.

 

[sleepy]

in our offices in germany they did a revamp and decided to stencil quotes on the wall; the one nearest where i'd have sat when i visited was an ayn rand one, along the lines of 'it's better to do and ask forgiveness, than to seek permission and be denied'.
i did wonder was it one of the interior designers having a laugh.

I’ve had people say that to me in work. Never realized it was an Ayn Rand but when I think of it in the context of who said it, it fits