If I didn't start this thread, there wouldn't be one yet. What is your inane phrase of the Day?

[Mona Lisa Simpson]

This morning I arrived at work about 25 minutes before my start time. Such things are unheard of where I work, and the night shift RN commented on this. Because it is a holiday, I had to adapt to the bus schedule and leave much earlier than usual, but instead of adequately explaining it I said "If I wasn't early I would be later."

That got an odd look.

So Dopers, what is your inane phrase of the day?

[Jragon]

Tautologies are tautologies.

[Lanzy]

Wherever you go, there you are.

[tapu]

This is going to take some advance planning.

[Beware of Doug]

"Shit! Shitnik von Fucksicle!"

[drewtwo99]

Needless to say, it's like anything else.

[Ambivalid]

"I could care less."

[cmyk]

"Yes, obvious things are obvious."

I hate, hate, hate with the heat of a thousand farts when people state incredibly dull and obvious things they know I already know. And they're usually such dull observations, there's literally nothing I can add to the statement if they were expecting some affirmative, remark or conversation.

So now I just say the quote above, instead of ". . ." Fight inanity with the inane.

[salinqmind]

I hear SO much inane talk all day long I can't think of an inane phrase I haven't used right back at them.

[Beware of Doug]

Originally Posted by cmyk

"Yes, obvious things are obvious."

I hate, hate, hate with the heat of a thousand farts when people state incredibly dull and obvious things they know I already know. And they're usually such dull observations, there's literally nothing I can add to the statement if they were expecting some affirmative, remark or conversation.

So now I just say the quote above, instead of ". . ." Fight inanity with the inane.

You could just pull a little German on them and grunt, "Selbstverständlich." Makes you sound kinda intellectual the first time or two.

[Mona Lisa Simpson]

Originally Posted by Jragon

Tautologies are tautologies.

Yep.

[Mona Lisa Simpson]

I work in tertiary mental health. Many of my clients have been former patients in a Provincial Psychiatric Hospital. So, I get a lot of shift reports that say "mental health status remains unchanged" which is ok, if you know the client, but for new staff that is completely unhelpful.
Yes, the person with paranoia is still paranoid, can you elaborate a bit?

[Martian Bigfoot]

Show me your house and I'll tell you where you live.

[Mr Downtown]

"It is what it is."

[cmyk]

Originally Posted by Beware of Doug

You could just pull a little German on them and grunt, "Selbstverständlich." Makes you sound kinda intellectual the first time or two.

Well, uh, pfff... Yeuuh... Obviously.

**googles Selbstverständlich**

[cmyk]

Originally Posted by Jragon

Tautologies are tautologies.

Yep.

[carnut]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

"It is what it is."

Grrr, I hate this phrase. When I hear it at work, I bite my tongue to keep from responding "You have a keen grasp of the obvious." That's my phrase of the day, week or even year.

[cmyk]

Originally Posted by carnut

Grrr, I hate this phrase. When I hear it at work, I bite my tongue to keep from responding "You have a keen grasp of the obvious." That's my phrase of the day, week or even year.

I hear a lot of people who say they hate this phrase as well. It doesn't bug me if used as how I see it as the proper use; that is, "it may bother you, but there's nothing that can be done about it."

Example:

[A couple minutes before a meeting]

"Gee wiz, Mary, when asked you to print and staple these reports, I was hoping you'd include the company's blue master sheet, not the white."

[rolls eyes]
"It is what it is."

[Boyo Jim]

"Have a good day!"

[rjk]

[rant]

Originally Posted by Mona Lisa Simpson

Yep.

Hotlinking takes you there, but doesn't tell you where.


(Corrected link: http://xkcd.com/703/. Those image-only links irritate me nearly as much as ones like "tinyurl.com/ClickMeSucker")

[/rant]

[movingfinger]

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

I heard this credited to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[Mona Lisa Simpson]

The sad thing is, my inane morning comment was actually meant to make sense and be helpful... "See I showed up wildly early unlike others who would just use holiday bus schedule as an excuse to show up late! I am being nice!"

It was just so poorly worded. I blame the early morning, the holiday wine I drank last night, and the fact I have worked my 9th shift in seven days...

oh and this

[Rachellelogram]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

"It is what it is."

Is it ever what it isn't? No? Good. On we go.

For a contribution: Smile! Life is as good as you make it!

[carnut]

Think outside the box.

[Max Torque]

Originally Posted by movingfinger

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

I heard this credited to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I've seen attributed to Lincoln: "People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like."

By the way, did you know half of all people are below average?

[Boyo Jim]

Originally Posted by Max Torque

...By the way, did you know half of all people are below average?

I've heard this another way:

"Think about how dumb the average person is. Then think about the fact that half the population is even dumber than that."

[campp]

"Well, if it's in stock, we've got it!"

[FairyChatMom]

We mocked one of my brother's friends mercilessly when he declared "I'll be there unless I'm not." Good to know, dude.

[MsWhatsit]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

"It is what it is."

This expression enrages me. I'm not even sure why.

[Freddy the Pig]

Originally Posted by MsWhatsit

This expression enrages me. I'm not even sure why.

Because life would be so much more fun if once in a while it was what it wasn't. But it never is.

[Boyo Jim]

Yea, it never is what it isn't.

[gotpasswords]

Originally Posted by carnut

Think outside the box.

That's fine, except for the shipping department manager who has to always think inside the box.

I still want to take "New Normal" out back and give it a good beating.

[Mona Lisa Simpson]

I knew a bar owner wh shrugged and said " it is what it is" with poor turnouts, bad sales and so forth. She shrugged and it is what it is-ed her way to changed locks and eviction notices.

I'm not saying sweat the small stuff but really? It is what it is? Try to make it NOT THat you know before the floor falls out from under you.

[Beware of Doug]

Bars, clubs, restaurants are high-risk, low-margin businesses, so by nature they don't attract people with much business sense.

[Inner Stickler]

I've never heard "It is what it is" said as anything other than a response to an eyerollingly obnoxious statement. So, if you're hearing this phrase a lot, I may have some bad news.

[Atomic Mama]

"I can believe that!"

[carnut]

Originally Posted by Boyo Jim

Yea, it never is what it isn't.

I am sooo using this! Thanks!

[Boyo Jim]

Originally Posted by carnut

I am sooo using this! Thanks!

Thanks! Have a couple more.

What won't be, won't be.
What hasn't been, still might be.
What ain't, isn't.
If it's not, it's probably not.

[jayjay]

“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.”

~Actual Mitt Romney Quote (January 2012)

[sahirrnee]

Why is it that you always find something in the last place that you looked?

Probably because once you find it you stop looking.

[Jragon]

Originally Posted by sahirrnee

Why is it that you always find something in the last place that you looked?

Probably because once you find it you stop looking.

Okay, this objection always bugged me. It's not saying the tautology "the final place I looked is where it was." It's saying "out of all the locations I chose to search, it was in the one at the bottom of the list." I.E. The last POTENTIAL place to look. At least that's what I mean when I say it.

[Martian Bigfoot]

Originally Posted by sahirrnee

Why is it that you always find something in the last place that you looked?

Probably because once you find it you stop looking.

If things always are in the last place you look, why don't people just look there first? Doh.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

My grandma, bless her heart, said a great one that I will never forget.

We were talking about an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast. Her response: "Yeah, but who can eat all that?"

My response: "Well, I can eat all that I can eat."


mmm

[ioioio]

The Texas Chili Parlor in Austin had a sign that read "Don't you feel more like you do now than when you got here?"

Mostly I'm posting to display my sig. For those who have disabled sigs, it says
"What if it was something totally different than what it is?"
which was posted in GD long ago by minty green in response to another poster's escalating series of "but what if?" scenarios.

[Autolycus]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

"It is what it is."

Originally Posted by MsWhatsit

This expression enrages me. I'm not even sure why.

Eh, whatcha gonna do? It is what it is.

[carnut]

Originally Posted by Autolycus

Eh, whatcha gonna do? It is what it is.

Autolycus, you have a keen grasp of the obvious.

[Autolycus]

Originally Posted by carnut

Autolycus, you have a keen grasp of the obvious.

Well, you know what they say, boys will be boys.

[Boyo Jim]

Yeah, with that and a quarter you can buy a cup of coffee. (an admittedly obsolete inanity)

[Ambivalid]

"How are you today?"

"Well I'm alright, I can't complain."

"Yeah, you know it wouldn't do you any good anyway!" (followed by big guffaws of laughter)






Ugh. Yet another example of how smalltalk makes me want to put a bullet in my skull sometimes.

[Try2B Comprehensive]

Originally Posted by Boyo Jim

Yea, it never is what it isn't.

This conversation reminds me of non-duality. In this view there is no distinction between this and that, subject and object. There is only subject. So a thing literally is what it ain't. And that's why I say:

Do what you cannot.