Yes, how did you know?
I can’t figure out why web forms ask for city, state, and ZIP code. Seems to me they should just ask for the ZIP, and from that do a lookup and fill in the city and state on their own.
As long as they display it right then and there. I wouldn’t want a simple typo of 9 instead of 0 to send my stuff to Carson, WA instead of Trenton, NJ.
Do they make “ZIP Code” required and check any 5-digit value against US ZIPs, regardless of actual address entered? SOE used to do that; apparently they finally fixed it, but now they have moved to not letting you pay if your IP doesn’t match the country listed.
There’s also the ones that require “name” and “lastname” and which then don’t accept spaces in those fields.
I don’t understand why that scene in **Sleeping With The Enemy **was supposed to be scary. It made me feel all was right with the world. 
Regarding ‘it is what it is’, put me down in the ‘pointless and redundant’ camp.
Of course it is what it is. It’s always what it is.
If someone can produce a cite of something that is not what it is I’ll happily reverse the call.
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I just thought of something else I am picky about. I do not like people passing anything over my food or drink. I do not want anything possibly dropping off into/onto my comestibles. If I as you for a pillow, don’t pass it over my hospital table, there might be something yucky adhering to it that might dislodge and fall into my meal. No. Just NO.
So what do you say when something sucks and you hash out why it sucks and then come to the conclusion that it’s not going to change and you just have to live with it and move on?
Definitely does not qualify as irrational.
I don’t mind seeing “he or she” or even the singular he to represent male and female.
I cringe when people spell “separate” as “seperate”.
Genocides of people who are not lily-white. I get my panties in a bunch about all mass slaughters of human beings, whereas most people I know are perfectly okay with genocide if the people are not white in skin color. Not much I can do about it other than first complain about the mass slaughter of human beings in places with decidedly non-European named locations, then point out that it would elicit outrage from all if it happened to, well, white people. I then get race-splained that those situations are different and I have no idea what genocide is. Needless to say, I am something of a pariah at social gatherings of only white people.
I don’t know who first said it, but history is just one damned thing after another. Damned things are so very frequently genocidal.
Anyway, my white acquaintances tell me that this is a little thing. A little thing that I am irrationally picky about. Did I mention the more I know about peoples, the more I admire dogs?
I really hate “he or she” and “s/he”, and using he as default implies something that isn’t necessarily true (that the person is a man, when in fact the gender is unknown).
“They” is the best word we’ve got. My only problem with it is that it’s prevented us from agreeing upon a new pronoun. There are quite a few out there, but they’re not wildly used.
I say ‘that sucks’.
Based on your response, instead of saying ‘it is what it is’ you should be saying ‘It will always be what it is’.
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Why? A situation that is bad exhibits no evidence of suction. It does not draw any objects toward itself.
Words must always be taken absolutely literally and can never acquire any sort of metaphorical meaning, yes? That’s the only basis I can see for objecting to “It is what it is.” Why, then, do you not object to any other sort of idiomatic expression?
I cringe when I hear this expression spoken in decent company as a equal to “that stinks” or “that is unfortunate”
My reason is irrational: this phrase is one of those rare expressions that were highly offensive or obscene in my childhood but has lost its raunchy feel in the intervening decades.
I know that folks say “that sucks” in casual conversation these days without any raised eyebrows, but it would have definitely raised eyebrows in 1975 had it been spoken in similar circumstances.
“But it’s not like we can change it!” Or, “No choice but to move on!”, or, “Still have to accept it, regardless!”, “Better get right with it, anyway!”
“Oh well, what the hell!”
Though I fall on the side of “it is what it is” sometimes being a useful phrase in certain situations, I hope we can all agree that this is going too far:
I’ve never heard 2, but it would drive me crazy. 3 is an error that definitely irks me. 1 is, however, “legitimate” slang. I hate that phrase, but I would say it’s common enough, has a distinct meaning, and is not merely a corruption / error.