“Nice” and “Awesome”, RedWood! 
I like both those guys!
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“The late, great _____ _______”
Overused DJ phrase. WTF, man??? What if the guy was Hitler?
What? It rhymes? Oh… well go ahead then, 'cause rhyming’s important.
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“You gotta spend money to make money.”
I spent some time on the sales staff of my radio station, and this was the pep talk we goT
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I know, right?
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I don’t like this too much but I also dislike its opposite. There’s an internet ad out there, I forget for what, that say “mama always told you, ‘don’t spend money to make money’”. Actually, I’ve never heard anyone say that, least of all my mama. Many people have expressed that same idea, but it’s hardly a famous old wives advice.
Mrs coolbyrne and I use the one-two punch of “It is what it is” with “You just gotta keep on keepin’ on”. Both are wretched in their false bravery.
One I don’t hear too often, but still irritates me when I do hear it- “If you want things in your life to change, you have to change the things in your life”.
And the aforementioned, “When God closes a door, he opens a window.” Too bad the window’s on the 30th floor. Ah well, it is what it is! Just gotta keep on keepin’ on!
If I didn’t just delete over a hundred people from my Facebook yesterday (most of them being stupid girls from high school), I would have an entire laundry list right now.
The one that I really hate at the moment, that a lot of youngsters these days say: "You only live once. "Or “Live, laugh, love.” No. Fuck you.
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Ditto when I hear cancer survivors referred to as “heroes.” Really? Go look up the word hero.
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Hero is a word that’s constantly misused these days including frequently when the word should be victim.
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At work…
“I don’t find my job rewarding.”
Really? Too bad. You were hired to work. You work, we pay you; conversely you don’t work, we will fire you. You want self fulfillment, great–but you are here to work. Go study Maslow’s hierarchy.
Personal…
“Love conquers all”/“love is the most important thing”
No. It does/is not.
Water, food, warmth, shelter, safety, clothing you need to survive.
Hollywood/the media wants you to believe that self actualization is the most important thing in life. They are wrong. Send them to a relocation camp in southern Sudan for a year without resources, then ask them again.
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I can’t stand when someone deflects every question involving the word “why” with a “Why not?” It’s a childish, egotistical copout for people who don’t want to think things through or take a smidge of responsibility for anything.
The latest corporate cliche doing the rounds here is “reach out to” which I find teeth-grittingly loathsome; no-one ever talks to or emails anyone any more, they [del]retch over them[/del] reach out to them.
Not with you on that one. It comes of course from Computer Science, and basically means that you can’t get quality results if your input data is invalid. And there’d be a lot of folks who’d think that does apply to a person and what TV and other cultural artefacts they consume.
“I forget, Mum: what was it God does to me, again? Hates? Ignores? Condescends to?”
Yeah I like that one too. A similar expression I use is “such is life.” It’s a polite way of saying “Deal with it.” Which is something some people really need to hear. There’s really no point in complaining about things that can’t be changed. While most people do this to some degree, some people are more prone to it than others, and it can be quite annoying to have to constantly listen to crap like that.
You must be a hoot at parties.
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