# I blame Friends
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 26, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295 "2005-07-26T20:47:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/1 "2005-07-26T20:47:18Z")
Yes, I know it isn’t new, but lately I have been hearing more and more people using “so” in that annoying Friends-type way. You know, “I am so not going to the movie with him.” “That is so not going to happen.”
You’d think only teenage girls would use this type of phrasing, but I hear it from otherwise intelligent adults, and I see it written online all the damn time.
Enough of the “so.” It makes you sound stupid!
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/2 "2005-07-26T20:50:10Z")
I have to concur. The usage preceeds the start of Friends but that show is definitely to blame.
Brace yourself for a bunch of lame posts where people use that phrase.
Haj
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### Author:  [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/3 "2005-07-26T20:51:32Z")
> [@hajario](#):
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> Brace yourself for a bunch of lame posts where people use that phrase.
That is so not going to happen.
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/4 "2005-07-26T20:53:01Z")
So.
How _you_ doin’? 😉
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/5 "2005-07-26T20:58:47Z")
I blame Friends, too. For everything.
It’s all the fault of Must See TV.
All of it.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/6 "2005-07-26T21:01:00Z")
Meh. Not a great rant, not an awful one. What to call it, what to call it?
Daniel
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/7 "2005-07-26T21:02:02Z")
This is _so_ MPSIMS.
Veb
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/8 "2005-07-26T21:03:58Z")
> [@TVeblen](#):
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> This is _so_ MPSIMS.
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> Veb
Could you _be_\* more of a moderator?
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/9 "2005-07-26T21:04:09Z")
> [@TVeblen](#):
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> This is _so_ MPSIMS.
>
> Veb
Could you _be_ more of a moderator?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/10 "2005-07-26T21:05:38Z")
I like it when used sparingly. And I’m neither teen-aged nor female.
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### Author:  [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/11 "2005-07-26T21:10:30Z")
So…and this is in the Pit why?
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/12 "2005-07-26T21:12:16Z")
Another annoying peace of popular linguistic idiocy is the simple declarative statements often missing pronouns, like this:
“Okay. Not a fun conversation!”
“Not having fun!”
Said with that whiney, self serving, attention getting, annoyed inflection in the voice. Really makes me want to slap the face off the fuckers.
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### Author:  [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/13 "2005-07-26T21:20:15Z")
Crap. I guess I should have put some more anger into it. haha.
I also hate “Whatever!”
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### Author:  [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/14 "2005-07-26T21:21:59Z")
I also blame ‘Friends’ for annoyingly generic ‘hip’ haircuts.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/15 "2005-07-26T21:35:27Z")
I blame friends for tuberculosis, while we’re at it.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/16 "2005-07-26T21:54:30Z")
I blame Friends for everything: 9/11, the Iraq war, the muffler falling off of my car, the heat wave, the extinction of the dinosaurs (Could I _be_ any more of a global catastrophe), Brad Pitt breaking up with Jennifer Aniston, the popularity of Will & Grace, everything.
_shakes fist_ CURSE YOU FRIENDS!!! :mad:
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/17 "2005-07-26T22:16:22Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#):
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> Crap. I guess I should have put some more anger into it. haha.
When come back, bring anger.
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### Author:  [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/18 "2005-07-26T23:30:34Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Another annoying peace of popular linguistic idiocy…
People in glass houses…
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/19 "2005-07-26T23:52:52Z")
> [@Xploder](#):
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> So…and this is in the Pit why?
That is _so_ more of a _Buffy_ism.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-blame-friends/314295/20 "2005-07-27T01:58:35Z")
You know I’m not a big fan of the whole friends vernacular either. But I still find myself using it from time to time. Especialy the SO bit.
It’s weird, it’s like they brain washed me or something.
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