I’m just saying= you need to think about this carefully, consider it and not just dismiss it out of hand.
they haven’t changed any of their options, it’s just a polite fiction to disguise the fact they just said “pay attention, stupid.”
Didn’t George Carlin do a bit on this? I remember being in stitches when he said something like “Because a guy is in his basement jerking off his dog, I, I, must listen to his shitty voicemail message” or some such thing.
“Jesus never gives you more than you can handle”. Yep, tell that to the thousands of people that kill themselves every year.
Of course it needs to be dismissed. Anyone who says “I’m just saying” more than likely just said something meaningless!
“He died doing what he loved.”
Yeah right, unless it’s high-speed car crash or jerking off to lesbian porn, count me out…
For the life of me I can’t figure this one out. Yeah, I get what it’s meant to convey (at least I think I do), but where did it come from? Frankly, it sounds like some kind of homosexual reference, to me. Either way it is NOT one of the “new” terms that I favor using because it just seems so VULGAR.
‘Nothing works better than <our product>!.’
Guess I should save my money and stock up on nothing, then.
I hate “we lost him/her.” Really? Did anyone go out looking? I mean, that seems pretty callous, not to go look for someone who’s lost. Oh! You mean he or she died. Why didn’t you say so? That’s completely different.
My MIL uses it so much that now every time she uses that phrase, she immediately turns to me and says, “yes, we did go look for him.” Then stop using cutesy phrases! You’re not softening the blow!
As a euphemism, this is more misleading than meaningless. It’s a close cousin to meaningless, though. Did they follow it up with "He/she’s in a better place now (mentioned earlier in the thread)? That would make it 10x worse. :smack:
I think this really means “Research labs need not apply.”
This used to mean something before odometers could register 100,000 miles. An odometer that had rolled over could say 20,000 miles, when it really had 120,000. If you had a 10 year-old-car with 40,000 miles, and the odometer hadn’t rolled over, you said “40,000 original miles,” or “40,000 real miles.”
Some people still use this if the car has the original engine. It’s usually something you see on older cars, at any rate, and just means the odometer is a real reflection of the wear on the car. If someone is selling a 3-yr-old car with 40,000 “real miles,” they’re idiots.
Here’s a photo of it next to a peppermint plant.
Mine: “This is voice mail. You know what to do.”
There was a Chevy truck commercial recently where the narrator said “Nothing works harder than a Chevy truck - and by nothing I mean Ford and Dodge”.
Really? Why would you buy air time to tell me that your truck is in 3rd place, behind your main competitors?
Nothing works harder
Nothing = competitors
Ergo, both competitors work harder
I’d love to meet that (ex) scriptwriter…