Overuse of the word ‘iconic’

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I’d like to nominate the pathetic overuse of the word ‘iconic’.

Much like ‘epic” of several years ago, yoof/trash culture has cheapened this word by using it to describe the everyday or at best, the mildly impressive, to elevate the mundane to the transcendental, which is where these nitwits completely misunderatand what iconic really means. The Icon is a work of religious or spiritual significance, be it The Creation of Adam or the Buddha statue destroyed by the Taliban (in an act of iconoclasm). The definition has been stretched to embrace more recent pop cultural artifacts (you might give the westerns of Sergio Leone iconic status because they created indelible images, sounds s and shaped the imagination of two generations of filmmakers). certain books, plays and films that have artistic merit and cultural significance, and have done so for decades, might be iconic, but any old shit in a tik tok video, record label or fast food chain’s latest ‘special’ seems to get ‘iconic’ slapped on it by stupid kids and adults who shoukd know better within a few seconds of existing.

Everything some potato-faced, duck-lipped ‘influencer’ cunt likes is suddenly iconic, in nit. Memes are iconic. Witless, vacuous celebricunts are iconic. the most ‘iconic TV moments ‘ feature Gemma Collins , Simon Cowell and Claudia Winkleman.

The worst part is hearing this cunt-speak from BBC presenters. You only have to watch trailers of their latest reality TV Contest or game or panel show, the creatures from radio 1 and 2, and you’re bound to hear the sad attempt to jive with the youth by using this peasant lingo.,

I’ve recently found myself correcting these hyperbolic cunts on the usage.

‘No, your macaroni cheese and bacon bites are not iconic, you daft fleck of shite. Stop bo-toxing your fat face, gurgling at shit memes and invest in a fucking thesaurus.’

Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.

69 thoughts on “Overuse of the word ‘iconic’”

  1. Don’t forget the overuse of national treasure and legend..

    Whether it be bottom botherer pip schofield or a women footballer with a 100 caps.

    Sorry but they ain’t..

      • Aye.

        T’other week I saw a clip of former Newcastle keeper, Shay Given, helping out Newcastle’s players in a coaching session.

        One of the main coaches said to the squad, “Boys, the word legend gets thrown around too easily. Well here’s a real one for you. Shay Given.”

        Fuck off lol.

        Legend? Steve Harper (who?) fought for and took his place in the team, including for a cup final.

        Get to fuck.

    • phillip Schofield is fast losing his nation treasure starus, if he ever really had it.

      Certainly not in my book, and I was there at his peak when he spoke to gophers.
      ‘get up my arse, Gordon’.

  2. Nothing useful to say except that I agree with every word here. Another bete noir for me are the number of squeaky wimmin on Wireless 4 who screech “ABSOLUTELY!” when the presenter comes out with a commonplace.

      • Now, now, Harry play the white man. No cnuting fellow cnuters (unless it’s last years COTY). Just accept that Mr B admitting on a site like this that he listens to R4 makes him truly stunning & brave as the latest 3D extra wide widescreen release by Boggs Pride Productions (Brighton) LLP, the Tom Daley Prolapse Story, will doubtless confirm.

    • Are these posh middle-aged BBC women responding to questions about ‘BBCs’?

      Do they get sad when the last guest, Amanda Huggenkis, doesnt turn up to Women’s Hour?

    • Squeaky wimmin with massive speech defects….sorry…thpeech defec’th…on all radio stations everywhere. Generally giggling. Like, abtholu’ly, heeheehee.

      CUNTS.

  3. What a super nomination, that is actually the most literally iconic nomination I have ever read.

  4. Spot on CP.
    ‘Awesome’ irritates me as much as ‘iconic’. The view from the top of the Empire State Building is awesome. The meal you just had at your local Harvester wasn’t, you thick, hyperbole-spouting cunt.

    • The Best! The Scariest! The Worst!
      Everything has to be superlative now to exaggerate the experience.

      “Oh My God, you’re killing me.”
      Give it a minute, darling.

  5. I seem to recall,regrettably,that during the fawning aftermath of the dispatch of that tremendously misunderstood Robin Hood of the Ghetto St George of the Floyd some dreadful cunt on the TV described it as an “iconic moment”.

    No it fucking wasn’t,what it was was effective policing.

    • The fentanyl that Saint George had ingested an hour before was iconic.

      Good morning

      • The funniest bit of the St George of Floyd wailing and gnashing was a building where a mural of his drugged-up face had been painted getting struck by lightning.

  6. Angel of the North
    Red double decker bus
    Stockport viaducts
    Big Ben
    That photo of a Buddhist monk on fire 🔥

    Iconic.

    Some celebrity homo with plastic surgery,
    Not iconic.

    • Ribblehead viaduct, not that red brick stained one in Stockport.. surely…?

    • The Dalek
      George Best
      Testcard F
      Sgt Pepper
      Twiggy
      Led Zeppelin
      Hilda Ogden

      All iconic.

      Poofs
      Drag acts
      Modern Hollyweird cunts
      Social Media and Youtube ‘stars’
      Any of today’s pop shite
      Footballers now
      Anything on TV from the last 15 years.

      Not iconic.

      • George Best

        Iconic footballler

        But a total cunt of a person who got through his own liver and that of somebody else and still couldn’t stop swigging the sauce

      • Can’t argue with that LaugingGravy. I am on the kidney transplant list due to a childhood accident. Yet I will wait my turn like everyone else. Yet Best jumped the queue because of his fame (he didn’t even pay for it), and he then chucked it away by abusing his new liver by getting pissed like he always did. An abuse of power and privilege in one go, and an insult to everyone who was and is awaiting a genuine transplant opportunity.

  7. It’s like rain on your wedding day. A free ride when you’ve already paid.

    Oh sorry that’s Ironic isn’t it

    • The Queeb version of ironic, maybe. I always thought it was sod’s law.

      • Sods Law it is indeed!

        I read a comment about that song once that said “nothing that happens in that song is ironic and that’s the irony”

        People overthink shit like this, who cares it’s just an average song…

    • And it isn’t even that, LG.
      Everything that Alanis Morrisette said was ironic was in fact annoying coincidence.
      Morrisette has the second hairiest, blackest fanny in the world, after Salma Hayek.

      • I’ve always thought that Kirsty Allsopp must have the most hirsute vagina of any women alive.

      • I think that prize goes to Miss Diane! No:not the one from crossroads. Miss Abbott.

      • Alanis’ growler looks like a black standard poodle with its guts slit open.

      • I’d like to think Gal Gadot has some strong bush. Women of the levant should, i think.

    • The irony of that song is that every lyric is not ironic. They are all pure coincidence or bad luck.
      Eg. “Like a traffic jam when you’re already late”
      Just bad luck.
      Irony would have been if the person in the car were on their way to a presentation to congratulate the local government on the vast improvement in the local road network.

    • I hate Alanis Morrisette. A screeching howling harridan. My ex used to listen to her and it used to drive me mad. ‘You Oughtta Know’ is one of the biggest crimes in the history of popular music.

  8. Rembrandt was iconic. As were Shakespeare, Homer, Da Vinci and Mozart. Byzantine religious painting was also iconic – literally. The likes of Claudia Winkleman are moronic, not iconic. All of which shows just how low our “civilisation” has sunk. A civilisation of morons, for morons, by morons (if I can paraphrase the iconic Abraham Lincoln).

    • I think it may have been the fans of the Kardasians to start overusing this word. I remember a meme depicting two of the dim-looking sluts with the idiotic captions;
      ‘Name a more iconic pair.’
      *picture*
      i’ll wait…’

      I can only think it was created by a twelve year-old girl but in this age it could’ve easily been a forty-something Californian of any gender.

      I did smile at how well it illustrates the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the sly piss-takes.

    • Claudia Winklecunt. A Furby in a Beatle wig.

      And as for those cunts, Schofield and Willoughby? A deflecting from the child absuing brother stunt if ever there was one. Pair o cunts.

  10. Legend. Cunts.

    Great nom, Prime. Well deserved. I wonder which words these same trough of cunts will destroy next. Maybe we could have a deadpool style poll to see which words will fall before the end of 2024?

    • How about “cool” (long overdue a reckoning) and “no worries”. Also “literally”, “absolutely”, “basically” and “at the end of the day”.

      “Basically, at the end of the day, these phrases are absolutely not cool, literally.” What gobbledegook. “No worries”.

      • I’d add “dude” to cool and going forward. Also, OMG, usually a moronic screech.

  11. Over used words. All they’ll get from me “they were all right considering”.

  12. An indication of the times : Google iconic and the top hits are for a range of makeup products. Ffs.

      • The only Apple product I have ever owned, and ever will, is an iPod classic, about 15 years ago. It still works even though I never use it. Shame that it needed iTunes to load it, a piece of software I loathed from the first time I used it

  14. I digress. In the news, a young boy saves his sisters from being kidnapped with a slingshot ? What the fuck is that you may ask ? A catapult in plain English. Even though the incident happened in hamshankland, they should use the correct terminology over here. Cunts !

  15. Tik Tok, simply the masturbation of ego and promotion of self. Today ( Daily Mail ) Tik Tok invasion of your home for a laugh! In todays Britain, we need to take the lead of the USA and arm the citizens!

  17. “Bully for you” is a good term for taking the piss out of someone’s over achievement.

  18. The use of ‘literally’

    Needs a cunting on it’s own.

    ‘I literally laughed my head off’

    No you fucking didn’t you cunt because it still on top of your shoulders.

    ‘I missed the bus so I literally walked home’

    No, cunt. You walked home…or you didn’t. If you did walk home…then there’s no literally about it…you did walk home.

    Cunts

      • So true LG if you want to hear a North West London accent now you’re more likely to hear said accent miles away from londonstabistan. I have mentioned this before on IAC. few years back I attempted to purchase some items from a shop which my family had used for years before we went our separate ways in the borough of Harrow. The person on the till had trouble understanding me. I was born 9 miles from that fucking shop and spent the first 16 years of my life living 1/2 a mile. Iconic used so often now the hole universe is iconic

      • ive read that page before but the list of nonsense kerps growing.
        Londonese -the language of never getting a job..
        If only Polish were more prevalent tgen we could have youths speaking something like Nadsat from a clockwork orange.
        Sounds better than that garage/grime/drill shite.

        Bddddrrraappp, yeh wasteman.
        sorry, did you say ‘bird crao?’

  19. Epic, everything is fucking epic. No it’s not. Cunts. Great nom.

  21. As Alanis Morissette once said: Isn’t it iconic?…… Don’t you think?

    • My younger brother took a liking to it.

      He loves the smelly goth/hippy birds, the grubby little fucker.

  23. It is overused, I agree. Very overused.

    But one genuinely iconic band lost a member today.
    Andy Rourke was a top bass player and a good lad.
    ‘Barbarism Begins At Home’ being arguably his finest hour.

    RIP

  24. Good nom !
    It’s a bit like when a pathetic video clip has been reported as “gone viral” when it turns out that it’s only had 5 views.

  25. The general destruction of English pronunciation into a homogenised melange of Manc, Estuary and POC. In which all vowels tend towards a neutral noise emitted through nearly closed lips* and the letter T is dispensed with in favour of a glottal stop.

    *Turkish “ı”. As in “bık” for “book”

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