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"Gifting"... when did we start using "Gift" as a verb?
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:18 pm
It just sounds stupid.
You aren't "giving" someone something anymore? Now you have to be "Gifting" them something? Sounds made up and stupid.
That is all.

You aren't "giving" someone something anymore? Now you have to be "Gifting" them something? Sounds made up and stupid.
That is all.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:19 pm to MemphisGuy
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Sounds made up and stupid
how was your nap, rip van winkle?
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:20 pm to MemphisGuy
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when did we start using "Gift" as a verb?b
Around 1600 according to Google AI
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:21 pm to MemphisGuy
I’m curating great gifts
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:21 pm to 777Tiger
When did we stop using typewriters??
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:22 pm to MemphisGuy
A better question is, when did invite become a noun? It's an invitation.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:22 pm to Tyga Woods
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When did we stop using typewriters??
my old Royal is still cranking letters out
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:25 pm to mattz1122
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I’m curating great gifts
"Curated just for you"
Yeah, sure it is.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:31 pm to MemphisGuy
i saw a commercial a few years ago and this broad said "gifting is one of my love languages"...so dumb 
Posted on 12/17/24 at 9:58 pm to MemphisGuy
Wait until you hear about "adulting" and "cringe."
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:01 pm to MemphisGuy
Did you try googling it? Not "looking it up" but googling it.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:15 pm to MemphisGuy
The worst is when people use a season as a verb:
“We are going to Summer in Italy.”
Pretentious fricks.
“We are going to Summer in Italy.”
Pretentious fricks.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:24 pm to MemphisGuy
I think it started about the time they started using adulting as a verb as well.
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:30 pm to Laugh More
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The worst is when people use a season as a verb: “We are going to Summer in Italy.” Pretentious fricks.
In fairness to the turn of phrase, it originated with people actually spending entire seasons abroad as a regular occurrence
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:35 pm to MemphisGuy
What came first, the noun “pet” or the verb “pet”?
Posted on 12/17/24 at 10:56 pm to MemphisGuy
Ever since I was birthed
Posted on 12/17/24 at 11:00 pm to MemphisGuy
I can't give a give, but i can gift a gift.
Posted on 12/18/24 at 12:50 am to MemphisGuy
I don’t know.
Side rant completely unrelated.
If I call your business and a person says “I’ll reach out to…” you just guaranteed I’m not fricking with you anymore.
I don’t want you to reach out. I want you to handle it. You answered the phone with the implication you could solve my problem. That’s why I called you and pressed x.
Don’t sit there and raise your hand waiting to be called on. Don’t wave at the passing boat.
Whatever “reach out” means.
Get it done. Take personal responsibility. Be a fricking grown up. Not even a badass. Just a normal functioning adult.
Or tell ya what. Give me that guys number. That’s even better.
Business men. Business women. Be aggressive. Fix your clients stuff.
Rant over. Whatever. Okay boomer. I’m old. I’m not. I’m a fricking baby and I’m your boss. Take some gd responsibility and solve the problem.
Gift yourself some balls and do it now.
Gift. Do it now. Not -“I’ll be gifting myself some balls this year. Maybe in 14 years I can use them”. Just gift them and then get my shite done.
The saying is “take responsibility “.
Not “reach out” for someone else to save my arse on a simple gd thing that I can do but I’m too big of a weenie to exercise any modicum of autonomy “
Side rant completely unrelated.
If I call your business and a person says “I’ll reach out to…” you just guaranteed I’m not fricking with you anymore.
I don’t want you to reach out. I want you to handle it. You answered the phone with the implication you could solve my problem. That’s why I called you and pressed x.
Don’t sit there and raise your hand waiting to be called on. Don’t wave at the passing boat.
Whatever “reach out” means.
Get it done. Take personal responsibility. Be a fricking grown up. Not even a badass. Just a normal functioning adult.
Or tell ya what. Give me that guys number. That’s even better.
Business men. Business women. Be aggressive. Fix your clients stuff.
Rant over. Whatever. Okay boomer. I’m old. I’m not. I’m a fricking baby and I’m your boss. Take some gd responsibility and solve the problem.
Gift yourself some balls and do it now.
Gift. Do it now. Not -“I’ll be gifting myself some balls this year. Maybe in 14 years I can use them”. Just gift them and then get my shite done.
The saying is “take responsibility “.
Not “reach out” for someone else to save my arse on a simple gd thing that I can do but I’m too big of a weenie to exercise any modicum of autonomy “
This post was edited on 12/18/24 at 12:53 am
Posted on 12/18/24 at 4:33 am to Slevin7
Repurpose bugs me more than gifting.
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