Sayings that you hate?

[goldcanyonaz]

For me it's:

This too shall pass.

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. Dude.

[Capn Sunshine]

6. WHAT!!!!???!!?

Dude.

[kayakjohnny]

2. At the end of the day.

[jobycom]

55. Yeah. nt

[Deep13]

86. Yup. nt

[kayakjohnny]

3. Having said that.

[mix]

4. My bad, good to go, it's all good. nt

[kayakjohnny]

5. Ah yes, hate them all too. Those are terrible.

[driver8]

71. Arrrrrgh!! I absolutely hate that expression!! n/t

[kayakjohnny]

7. No problem.

Lots of young kids say this. Esp at the grocery store when I thank them for checking me out or bagging me. Of all things to say, "No problem"... I'm like, why should there be, I'm only thanking your little punk ass for helping me.

[pitohui]

35. isn't this just an english-ization of "de nada" (it's nothing, spanish for "you're welcome")

i don't have a problem w. "no problem," in fact, i use it myself

they are not literally saying they don't have a problem w. you, it's a form of saying "you're welcome" after you've said "thank you" -- it's just modern and cooler and more hip or maybe it was modern and cooler and more hip in 1982 anywaysssss... :-)

[jobycom]

57. And the French "de rien." nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. All of the above.

I especially loathe "at the end of the day." And if you threaten to "think outside the box" I might be tempted to tear out your spine and beat you with it.

[kayakjohnny]

12. Heeheehee....

And, "Ouch".

[CrawlingChaos]

9. It is what it is (nt)

[femmocrat]

44. That was my choice as well!

:hi:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. "God will never give you more than you can handle"

I'm a Christian, and my response to Christian friends who spout this one is "What kind of God would take you right up to a hair's width of your breaking point and HOLD YOU THERE?"

They tend to shut the hell up at that point.

[Ikonoklast]

11. To that I always answer

"Then how do you account for those whose souls have been broken by the burden placed on them by their god? Did he do it just to fuck with them? Or does he love them less, and just doesn't care if they are shattered by what life has done to them?"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Yes, he does. All the time.

Which, perhaps, leads to the following conundrum: Assuming there really is a god, why is he such a dick?

[HughBeaumont]

36. I think you really . . . REALLY have to kiss his ass to make it work.

At least that's my take on the whole thing. :)

[otherlander]

73. The appropriate response

would be to slap them in the face 34957234975642643 times and say, "Oh, so did God decide you could handle THAT?"

[hippywife]

14. It's all good.

Well, no...no it's NOT!

[El Supremo]

15. "Have a nice day."

[kayakjohnny]

16. When you say, "How's it going?" and they say .... "Oh, it's going".

What's that suppose to mean?

[astral]

78. me.

When people ask me "how's it going" and it's not going great, I just KNOW they don't want to hear about it. So I don't say it's going great 'cuz that would be a lie.

So I say its going . . . . this is when some says that to you and you know neither one of you is going to stop walking in your different directions just' cuz the question was asked.

HOW ARE YOU I AM FINE

[Xipe Totec]

17. I hate that one

Especially after a particularly malodorous emanation of flatulence

[LostInAnomie]

18. Everything happens for a reason.

It's the last resort of people that don't have anything rational to add to the conversation. It implies the same type of fatalism that most of the people that say it would be against.

[cynatnite]

19. Anywho...

I absolutely despise this word.

[Dr. Strange]

20. No, I won't go out with you.

Hated that one in high school.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. And its corollary, "We can still be friends."

I hated that one, too.

[hermaphroditos]

48. Ugh. That's the worst. [nm]

[flvegan]

46. Sorry, dude.

I hope I didn't hurt your feelings with that one.

[Dr. Strange]

70. It's too late for that now.

:cry:

[AsahinaKimi]

21. Wasn't this done already?

I seem to recall someone did this posting not long ago.

[tonysam]

22. What goes around comes around

What ever the hell that means.

[pitohui]

37. i enjoy most sayings, but cruel/smug sayings truly annoy me --you picked a good one

"what goes around comes around" or other sayings that imply the person is more karmic than thou, such as "god never gives you more than you can handle" -- fuck that noise!

if a saying makes you sound like you're trying to be younger than you are, that's a harmless vanity and it doesn't bother me

if a saying makes the person sound like they think they're better and more beloved of god than i am...yah...i got no use for that cliche and "what goes around comes around" and other karma-based crap sayings...hate em, just hate em

[tonysam]

42. It always sounds like the person using it is talking in circles. n/t

[bigwillq]

23. "Yes, we can"

:hide:

[El Supremo]

24. and "Change we can believe in"

[jobycom]

58. Oh come on, that's a proud phrase with a wonderful heritage.

[kayakjohnny]

25. I would tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.....

Yes, people still use that one. And I'm thinking that shit is 20 or 30 years old by now.

[El Supremo]

26. "Democrat Party"

[El Supremo]

27. "Up or down vote"

[NoPasaran]

28. "Speaks truth to power"

[kayakjohnny]

29. Yes, oh my goodness, yes to that one!

And power of course always says, "Fuck you and your truth. It doesn't mean shit since I have the power".

[Brickbat]

69. I opened this thread just to post that. I freaking HATE that phrase.

[GoCubsGo]

30. He/she "passed".

Passed what? Gas? A kidney stone? The football? The slow car that was in front of him/her? When someone dies, why can't people just say so without using some euphemism?

[jobycom]

59. That's just to ease the shock.

Either to people you're speaking to, or for yourself. I did that today, when talking about my father's health. I couldn't bring myself to say "When he dies," so I changed it at the last moment to "When he passes." I can handle reality, but sometimes you just don't like it to hit you quite so hard in the gut.

[KamaAina]

74. Or "We lost Grandma last Christmas".

Well, why don't you go out and look for her?

[JonLP24]

31. You are what you eat

Other then that I can't think of one. I use and like many of the sayings posted above. :)

[ChromeFoundry]

33. I will 'ping' you...

sheez, do I look like a network device or something to show up on a sonar?

[ChromeFoundry]

34. Sentences that start with "What's more, [...]" n/t

[BarenakedLady]

38. "You had to be there"

Yeah? Well I wasn't, so shut the fuck up about your stupid-assed story. It wasn't that funny anyway.

[HughBeaumont]

39. "Do what you love, the money will follow."

Uh, yeah, maybe if I loved investment banking. Anything artistic, or noble or doesn't involve headwalking or zero-sum economics? Er . .. not necessarily.

"Be happy with what you have" or it's dumber cousin "Be careful what you wish for". Riiiiiiiiight, because success, having it all . . . hell, let's just say "GETTING AHEAD IN THIS SEWER OF A LIFE" is only limited to the well-to-do and slobs like me shouldn't even TRY for anything other than the pittance we're handed.

[pitohui]

43. yes that is a particularly cruel and hateful saying

when it enjoyed wide currency in the late 1980s/early 90s new age era, then i knew a lot of people who decided to quit good jobs to "do what they loved"

the money didn't follow, and because you don't get your career back once you throw it away, most of those people are in pretty bad shape today, i can't think of anyone from that circle who ever got back to what they'd given up

no, honey, growing thyme and rosemary plants WON'T replace a job as a real estate broker, no, honey, throwing pots WON'T replace a job in an office

one of my friends finally said, you know, if i had understood that the good times wouldn't last forever and it would really be that hard to get back what i gave up, i wouldn't have done it

but most of them never admitted to anything, they just start avoiding you so you won't see them poor

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. I would not have a career either way.

Got a law degree, couldn't find a job.

Do artwork, can't seem to sell enough of it to make much money, even though people love my stuff.

[HughBeaumont]

40. "It's not you. It's me"

Translated: I would rather date a drooling bridge troll than you, you pizza-faced nerdster.

[Hayabusa]

41. "That's right, you didn't think!"

There were sometimes when I was young and did something stupid that I got in trouble over that I said that "I didn't think 'X' would happen." It was relatively minor issues, but enough to make people mad. Their response infuriates me now. Seriously, failing to think of every possible consequence doesn't mean that you didn't think the action through properly.

[bookworm65t]

45. He/she has gone to a better place

I here that at funeral homes, and I want to go Rambo onthe speaker's ass, but I keep my cool.

The listener obviously was not good enough to be around. Just what they want to hear.

[hermaphroditos]

47. "I could care less."

And "intensive purposes" drives me nuts as well. People learning phrases phonetically kill me, basically.

[Flying Dream Blues]

50. Yes, I just take it for granite that they know the meaning. After the

first time they say it wrong, I should probably go ahead and nip it in the butt and tell them. :evilgrin:

[hermaphroditos]

51. Your response really peaks my interest.

Unfortunately, these problems with English can't merely be fixed with duck tape. :P

[Doc_Technical]

49. "If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you."

I was having a debate with someone and they said this
in response to a question of mine.
I think this is supposed to mean that what they had
said is obvious to them and there is something wrong
with me if I don't agree.
The way I see it is that they were incapable of
justifying their position so this mindless
cliche is all they could say.

[deucemagnet]

52. Don't be like that!

Usually said after somebody insults you and you have the nerve to be offended. :grr:

[Iggo]

53. "Spot on."

Unless you speak with a hoity toity British accent, please stop using that.

Thank you.

[jonnyblitz]

83. yup that one plus "what say you" .

[victoryparty]

54. the "first annual"

[AllenVanAllen]

56. Heath care is a privledge....

x(

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. This little conversation stopper.....

Went over to see some neighbors in my little town to look at their christmas lights. They took over an abandoned nursing home and keep saying they are gonna turn it into a youth center, or something, but I don't think they have the money or the smarts to keep it in compliance with the state. One of the local cops says they didn't pay their bill so they sometimes have no water.

Well, this large guy who is obviously very bright starts talking to me and hubby. He says he has a couple of bachelor's degrees, and uses words like "Physiognomy" and "gestalt". Properly. I'm in total shock at hearing someone who seems to be educated in this little town.


Hubby has a B.S. and M.S. in Physics. This guy starts talking about some weird invention he wants to work on and I'm thinking "oh boy, one of those....".

Big guy starts talking to husbo about electronics etc. and says, "Newton was WRONG".

Screeching halt. I was listening and just kinda shocked. And I'm no physics major.

After we left we decided the education did not cover up the stupid completely. :wtf:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

62. why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Mom apparently telling me that if I have sex with a man, he won't marry me, because all men want is sex, according to her. :grr:

"You can fall in love with a rich one as well as a poor one". Grr, for some other reasons having to do with mom constantly telling me my dad did not work hard enough, when he worked two jobs for fifteen years, one of them rotating shift work, the other practicing law. :grr:

[Lindsey]

63. "Does that make sense" drives me crazy. "It is what it is"......

invoked a really good conversation between me and one of my best friends. I told him I was tired of everybody saying it-including me and him. We tried to find another saying that could take its place but we couldn't. So when people ask me things like "hows work" my only response is, "It is what it is.":shrug:

[Paper Roses]

64. "I'm lovin' it". There are others but this is the one I dislike the most. n/t

[tmyers09]

65. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"

I feel like I've heard this phrase so much the last few weeks, I wanna launch the baby and its fucking bathwater like a javelin.

[easttexaslefty]

66. "God doesn't give us more than we can handle"

I really, really hate that one

[LanternWaste]

67. "magic thinking", "truth to power", "is it fascism, yet?"

"magic thinking", "truth to power", "is it fascism, yet?"

Each one, as context had taught me, a clear indication of unilateral and myopic thought.




On edit-- American Anglophiles saying or spelling out "shite" or "arse".

[Terra Alta]

68. too blessed to be depressed.

It implies that people who suffer from depression(such as myself) aren't blessed. I used to work with a woman who wore a t-shirt with this saying on it all the time. I was going through a real rough time and it made me fume every time I saw her wearing it.

[la_chupa]

72. on your plate (nt)

[Tom_Foolery]

75. "Money isn't everything" or "money can't make you happy"...

Bullshit!! Money IS everything, and it sure as hell makes me a lot happier when I have it. It's usually rich people or idiots who spout this crap.

[LeftishBrit]

76. "We must make tough decisions."

"The far right sometimes have a valid viewpoint; we shouldn't dismiss them out of hand" or ANY variation on that theme.

On a different note: the use of such expressions as 'right-brained' and 'left-brained' to mean 'creative' and 'logical'. It is a complete myth that there is that sort of simplistic division between the two hemispheres of the brain, let alone that people's personalities can be classified in that way.

And on the same topic, "We only use ten percent of our brains". NOT true (even if people sometimes act that way)!

[Deep13]

77. "This too shall pass." Good expression for kidney stones. nt

[JCMach1]

79. When God gives you lemons... make lemonade!

:puke:

[Lucian]

80. "I don't know what I want in my life right now."

Saying from an ex-girlfriend. x(

[denbot]

81. It is what it is..

STFU!
:banghead:

[BlueIris]

82. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime.

And any other pseudo-intellectual "Asian" maxims.

[PBS Poll-435]

84. Keep fucking that chicken.

It was fun at first, but it has now become tired.


:yoiks:

[argyl]

85. When someone asks"How's (insert your name)?" instead of simply asking "How are you?"

So cutesy it makes me gag.

[santamargarita]

87. Bush was legitimately elected

:mad:

[Zavulon]

88. +1.

I hate "This too shall pass." I also hate "That which does not kill you makes you stonger," but here's the one that makes me scream:

"A little hard work never killed anyone."

Bullshit. Hard work kills people all the time.