# Fatal Platitudes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878 "2010-10-03T01:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/1 "2010-10-03T01:36:46Z")
“Thank you for taking my call” makes me want to shoot the caller right between the eyes. “[Any given celebrity death] is a tragedy” is another. Et tu? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/2 "2010-10-03T02:04:16Z")
That’s a very good question! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/3 "2010-10-03T03:21:18Z")
[mod]Moved from Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS.[/mod] [nonmod]You might want to consider decaf.[/nonmod] ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/4 "2010-10-03T03:37:26Z")
Nonetheless, the OP should just be true to himself. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/5 "2010-10-03T08:15:43Z")
There are other fish in the sea. I’m not in the sea. I’m the desert. ALONE. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/6 "2010-10-03T19:03:24Z")
How are you? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/7 "2010-10-03T19:05:58Z")
“You’re hurting me!” :rolleyes: Drama queens. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/8 "2010-10-03T19:54:00Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > How are you? :rolleyes: I’m sorry that so many people are so jaded that they actually hate this. I really, honestly mean it when I say it. I want to know. If I don’t care, I’ll say “hi”, “hey”, or “sup”. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/9 "2010-10-03T20:06:48Z")
Spunkbubble! ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/10 "2010-10-03T20:15:25Z")
So-and-so is “classy” or “a class act” Pretentious bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Rubik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Rubik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubik)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/11 "2010-10-03T20:37:35Z")
Do you love me? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/12 "2010-10-03T21:26:55Z")
Everything happens for a reason. When one door closes, another one opens. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. God never gives us more than we can bear. It’s only money. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/13 "2010-10-03T22:10:45Z")
Didn’t Fatal Platitudes go on a package tour with Eye of the Beholder, Darkness Before The Dawn, and Hardly Working? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/14 "2010-10-03T22:56:36Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Didn’t Fatal Platitudes go on a package tour with Eye of the Beholder, Darkness Before The Dawn, and Hardly Working? Heh. You know Josh from Darkness Before The Dawn used to play bass for Turbo Encabulator? He doesn’t like to tell people that because he was still with them when they signed that big record deal, but my cousin went to middle school with him. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/15 "2010-10-03T23:11:32Z")
Come on, everybody, it’s what’s you make it! ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/16 "2010-10-03T23:15:22Z")
It is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/17 "2010-10-03T23:15:30Z")
It is what it is. StG ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/18 "2010-10-03T23:16:55Z")
**Ruffian** - I was robbed! [hijack]Are you watching the World Equestrian games?[/hijack] StG ---
**Author:** ![Rubik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Rubik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubik)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/19 "2010-10-03T23:17:05Z")
I nearly shat myself, I better go to the toilet soonish… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-platitudes/555878/20 "2010-10-03T23:17:45Z")
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