I hate people who speak in clichés

I once accidentally a cliche.

I barely this post.

H8ers gotta h8

Hate it for you.

I think clichéd speech - and more importantly, trite ideas, tastes and opinions - are the most effective social lubricant we have.

A lot of us (and I mean participants in a more or less sophisticated community such as SDMB) will call someone “boring” if they only like what a lot of other people like. If this applies to you, however, you are probably in a minority. Most people will find the conventional person both fun and safe. The one who only likes what they, themselves, like is more “boring” to society at large.

For that reason, I think, the intelligent person who doesn’t want life to be a constant battle with loneliness would be wise to cultivate as much of a conventional side as they can tolerate, and learn to express it to others without evident irony or reservation.

“Be yourself” is good advice only for the average joe or jane. Most Dopers diverge from the average.

Just chillax, k?

(What we need are some new cliches!)

I always liked W.C. Fields’ variation: “There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”

Of course, if it were really all good, she’d be smitten by a just God and would be unable to sin further. But, it isn’t all good. She’s still there.

I prefer alcohol.

I know dat’s right! :cool:

sniff - sniff

(BUGAO!)

Basic utterance of generalized approval and optimism.

But… what if it is all good? What’s wrong with that, then? :wink:

I think he’s asking when “fuck” will lose its literal meaning.

That’s close. What I was really suggesting is that especially in movies, TV and even stage productions, the shock value of the word is waning with each usage. Before long, little kids will be saying it in class without being corrected and some sermons may start including it as the “meaningless intensifier” it already is to most Dopers and football players. :smiley:

The salient issue is: what word will replace it?

belgium

I want to understand these jokes, care to explain?

They no verb

Oh, I what you there.

Now that’s an idea we can slide to the colonel. Let’s throw some brain-hair in the chowder bowl and see if we can get a Sparky Eugene worthy of arousing the moose.

Pure brilliance.