NOTE: This is satire, okay? Not meant to start an argument 
I’ll start you off…
“It is what it is”
Fuck you! A shrug is sufficient, asshole! That whole phrase cancels itself out, so stop using up my oxygen saying it, dammit!
“What goes around comes around”
Fuck you! If it goes around, it need not necessarily come around, but if it does, what makes you think it will be any different, YOU???
As always feel free to disagree and enlighten me.
Thanks
Quasi
I feel like bitch slapping anyone who responds with “Whatever.”
Meh.
Word.
“Life isn’t fair”, “no one said life would be fair”, and variants. These are invariably smugly used by those who are profiting from life’s unfairness as they pontificate to those who aren’t.
“I’ll get back to you about that”. No you won’t.
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I just got this one!
Q
I was just thinking about this today. I can’t stand it when someone says something to you and they later realize they were wrong, but instead of saying they were wrong they say “Oops, I lied, it’s $20 not $30” IMO, lying is intentional and meant to deceive usually with bad intent. You were wrong, you were mistaken, you were kidding etc, but you didn’t ‘lie’. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be later it could even be “I think it’s on channel 4, no I’m lying, it’s on channel 5”.
“He/She’s in a better place”
Where, Reno?
Q
“Taking that to its logical extreme…”
Every time I hear that phrase, it is followed with a straw-man attack, trying to pin some absurd belief upon me. It is an attack upon moderation.
I like cool weather. Taking that to its logical extreme, I must wish for an ice age.
Pfui! I wish this thread were in the pit, where I could get really extreme!
Ooh, “better place” and all of its variations make me want to send the sayers to that better place! As does any version of “only the good die young.” Nope, I’m pretty sure that a whole bunch of real bastards have died young.
My friends and family are probably tired of hearing "Life is what happens while you’re making other plans,"and but it’s a very apt saying in a lot of circumstances!
The “Better Place” thing?
I think a hug/handshake along with your strong memories of the person you are honoring will be sufficient to pay your respects. No words needed in real life, IMO.
Here of course, we must rely on our words of love and support, and I thank all of us that we’re such a close family.
Q
It is what it is. I actually like that one. It is the polite way of saying “The situation at hand isn’t changing regardless of what caused it so shut the fuck up and stop complaining about it”.
Oh, if “stupid [albeit well-meaning] things people say to you after you’ve lost a loved one” count, I’d like to submit “He’s watching over you now” and all variations thereof. Because the first thing that I think is, “Well, I sure hope he changes the channel while I’m in the crapper.”
Not so much. It is, on the face of it, redundant, which is the opposite of cancelling itself out.
It’s not even really redundant, though…it’s making a point that is, honestly, pretty transparent, but frequently needs to be said - it is what it is, it isn’t something else, it can’t be something else, so quitcherbitchin and roll with it.
My own…‘Do or do not, there is no try’.
In its original context, it’s perfectly valid - Yoda didn’t have time to try to work with Luke’s learning curve, so he wasn’t giving points for effort. It was do or die, pass or fail, and if Luke failed, by god, he was going to keep doing it until he passed.
Outside of the context of the movie, though…I’ve seen it used two improper ways.
First, the semi-reasonable one: Talking as though everything is a pass/fail situation. No learning, no testing abilities and boundries, no ‘ok, sure, I’ll let you give it a shot’. Not everything is life and death. Not everything should be life and death. There’s a place for ‘try’, and I’m pretty sure Yoda wasn’t saying there wasn’t - just the there and then wasn’t it.
Second, the WTF one: Calling failing to succeed at a bad thing morally equivalent to not trying in the first place. ‘He tried to kill me!’ ‘Do, or do not, there is no try. You’re free to go, sir.’ Pheh.
“To make a long story short” is often never used to make a long story short (as evidenced/supported by the most recent South Park episode).
Indeed, “it is what it is” is generally a response to complaints about an ideal situation. It’s basically saying “well, if anybody could make that situation into a different one, they would. But well, that’s impossible, you just have to go with it and make it turn out the best you can.”
Yes, it’s basically a tautology, but it’s a tautology with a meaning beyond its strict logical value. Which is more than you can say for a lot of similarly banal phrases at least.
I generally dislike “anybody can be rich. You can be any profession you want to be!” And the like. Going into what’s wrong with it would take much more time than I’m willing to rant on the phrase, though.
Absolutely. I hate this one. And besides, smug people who say this, shouldn’t we try to make it fair, where possible, instead of shrugging it off?
“Oh, you think that’s bad?” (and variants) that are immediately followed by pathetic attempts at one-upping.
“Well, it could be worse!” Yeah no fucking kidding. But just because I COULD have 2 kidney stones at once doesn’t make the one I have less painful, asshole.
Also, those bumper stickers that say, “God is my co-pilot” or “Jesus take the wheel.” I avoid driving anywhere NEAR somebody that thinks a deity has more control than their own 2 hands over their ability to stay between the lines. >:[
. . . Which *I *can’t stand. When did “feh” get a nose job and change its name to “meh?”
And I am going to deck the next cheerful idiot who tells me that “old age sure beats the alternative!” They have obviously never been to a nursing home.