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"That's just your opinion" Really? Not even going to try to argue with me eh? Gonna whip this cliche out to avoid having to defend your point with any sort of effort above that of wringing out a damp sponge? The only other "I'm afraid of arguments" cliche I hate more is "You're a troll" Any time I see this phrase the population of homeless people near my house decreases dramatically. | |
"Yolo" grinds my gears to no fucking limit. Saying "you only live once" doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's "yolo" that bothers me. I can't stand stupid abbreviations like that. | |
YOLO | |
If you've ever been up all night, surely you've experienced a cloudy night where it is far, far brighter at 1am than it is at 5am. It isn't true on cloudless nights, but in the middle of winter I've seen many a time where I'd look out the window and be able to see clearly at 1 or 2am, and then it become darker as it gets closer to dawn. Edit: Always with a red tinge to the sky, if I remember correctly. | |
I can't say I find it annoying, but "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is a frustrating line. I can think of at least 5 ways I'd like to make these people "stronger" starting with a couple broken bones and finishing off with a nice needle full of HIV. | |
Gay as a derogatory remark. | |
"Cheer up!" Especially when delivered by people who aren't just happy, but permanently giddy in a way that makes me think they got there using medication. Tell you what: I promise, no matter how happy you are, no matter how much your giddiness pisses me off, I will never ever tell you how to feel. Now you extend me the same courtesy. Any of those insipid, overwrought cliches about love: "You'll meet someone someday," "There's someone out there for everyone," and so forth. You do not know any such thing. If you want me to feel better about being alone, congratulations, you have achieved it -- by making me glad I'm not with someone who insults my intelligence with ill-conceived platitudes. "It takes all kinds." No. No, it does not take all kinds. We certainly have all kinds, but that is not the same thing at all. Please explain to me how serial killers and pedophiles make the world go 'round. "It's what's inside that counts." Tell you what: Why don't you talk to that woman over there, the four hundred pound one with the uni-brow and the face like a bulldog's ass, who at the age of thirty-five has never been laid, never known real companionship, whose only function is to be "befriended" by some skinny attractive woman so that woman has someone to point to when she says, "I'll go out with you if you get a date for my friend here"..........Yeah, go explain to her that it's what's inside that counts.
Read this in a book once. It's been a while, so I'm paraphrasing. Newcomer to Hell contemplates the enormous Gates. | |
But, in all honesty, anything is physically possible. Not everything is physically probable, however. Have you heard the joke about the Physicist in the bar? Every day he goes to a bar for lunch and orders two drinks, setting the second at the seat next to him. He never drinks the second. Finally the bartender asks him why he doesn't go and ask out any of the numerous girls in the bar instead of waiting for somebody who has never shown. The physicist replies, "The odds of an attractive woman materializing on the chair and falling in love with me instantly are better than any of those girls going out with me." Physically possible, but not at all probable. Sayings that annoy me? Pretty much anything said by any player in most LoL matches. It truly Grinds my Gears to read some of the things these people say. Why can't we all just get along? | |
Burn can be used as a synonym for wasting, so they're not wrong in their usage of that phrase. Sorry to burst your bubble. | |
actually, broken bones CAN make you stronger, lol. I believe it's the bone becomes denser due to calcium deposits in the fractured area. | |
Except polio...zing! | |
"There's no I in team." I HATE that addage. Fortunately, Red vs. Blue provided a response that I've used with great effectiveness. "There's no U in team either. So if I'm not on the team and you're not on the team, then there is no god damn team. The team sucks!" Alternatively, "There's no 'We' in team either." | |
Whenever someone says "I'm sorry" for something that isn't their fault. For example when a family member dies, everyone feels that it is apparently their fault, so they have to apologize for my Grandfather having cancer. If you did something THEN apologize but in the mean time just giving proper sympathies is just fine. I also hate it when people will go to you and ask "Do you have anything better to do?" Well if I did I SURE as hell wouldn't be here listening to you. | |
"World of Warcraft is dead." People tell that one since day two of WoW, because you know "In beta, everything was better!". But so far nobody was able to tell me what exactly that phrase is supposed to mean | |
"Long story short..." The story that follows is almost never, EVER, short... | |
When bones knit, they are reinforced to be stronger than they were before. And HIV becomes AIDS, which doesn't work with your challenge. The saying applies to situations where you're still alive after the threat has passed. AIDS ultimately kills you by increasing weakness over time, leaving no chance for the infected to get stronger. Run the other three ways by us. Maybe one of them will sufficiently contradict that saying. | |
The definition of the word sorry is not just apologetic. It also means feelings of pity or sympathy (thus feeling "sorry" for yourself). So when people say "I'm sorry" in that context, they're not actually apologizing. Many people don't seem to know this, and it bugs the hell out of me when I say it and someone says "well you don't have to apologize". It's always embarrassing because it's not like I can say "actually, that word has multiple definitions and you're misinterpreting my statement. " | |
That's a perfectly sound expression. You are just hearing it badly. | |
"If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about" This little doozy is usually trotted out on talk shows ect, usually by some fat smug-looking housewife, who then crosses her arms and leans back with a look on her face that suggests she believes she's just won the argument. This one relates to CCTV, monitoring of e-mails or any other way government decides we need less civil liberties in order to 'protect' us. | |
"My bad." I hate that phrase so, so much.... | |
Same with a lot of things people have said in this thread, I think. Because of the fact that I so often hear people using it in an annoying way, I now feel annoyed whenever I hear it. | |
What really bothers me about YOLO is that people use it as an excuse to drink until they puke and behave like total assholes. You only live once, THEREFORE, you should do something meaningful with your life, not inject so much of a volatile substance that your body has to forcibly eject it from your stomach to prevent death... Sigh.. I hate being told to grow up... Especially when it's usually said just because my ideals just aren't the same as theirs or because I don't enjoy "grown up things", like going out for drinks and stuff.
People aren't ACTUALLY apologizing when they say that. Hell, I say it just because I know I should say SOMETHING but don't know what to say to express sympathy. I'm pretty sure that's why everyone says it. | |
"Piracy isn't theft." Get off your fuck face word play. GRRRRrrrRRRrrrRRRRrrRRRrr. (Purr kitty, purr..) | |
Glad to see someone else who enjoyed Carlin's comedy, most people I know don't know who he is. Sayings that I can do without: "It can't get any worse." Um..Yes...yes it can, I could cite tons of examples where things got worse, but I don't have 2 hours, instead I will just say: reality tv and world war II. "Look on the bright side." I'll look where I please, thank you, asshat. Things have only two sides, and each is always either light and dark? Maybe both are dark, maybe you've never seen a three dimensional object...This? This is a baseball bat...start running. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." So, I can decide what I want to do? I have free will? You don't say... thank you for informing me. Well, I'm a guy, and I "gotta" hit you with this brick... "Time heals all wounds." No, sometimes time creates wounds, people die of old age, you call that healing? Well, depending on who they are, I might agree. And by the way, sometimes some people deserve whatever grudge someone has against them forever. A lot of time has passed since Hitler's death, are people not sore at him anymore? They are still pissed? I guess you were wrong... | |
"It's what's on the inside that counts!" | |
That, and one thats very similar. "If you don't love yourself, then nobody else will!" 0.0 What bullsh*t is this? | |
Strange, I don't mind strangers asking me to smile. After all, they're not saying it to piss you off, they're saying it to try and make you feel better but *shrug.*
I always thought it was 'If you can't love yourself, how can others love you?' Makes more sense than that honestly. | |
I get what the saying is meant to mean (thanks), however it is far too often misappropriated - albeit from my own, limited perspective - as some kind of 'get out' clause to shift the blame from the provider of the broken tools to the person trying to do the best they can with said tools. Its original meaning might be a useful message, but the constant misuse of it has soured my opinion of it as a whole. EDIT: Although I appreciate that I didn't convey my reasoning for disliking it in my original post. | |
I hate "Do you mind?" Becaue if you say no to do you mind, it means yes, say yes and it means no. It's just a quick phrase that throws me off balance in a conversation. | |
"Haters gonna hate!" and "People only hate you because they're jealous of you!" Both are said so often by teenage girls. The first one just shits me. The second one shits me because you have some fucking useless people using it as a justification of people a useless cunt. | |
when I tell people that I have a dog phobia and that's why I back away from their dog and then they say 'he/she wouldn't hurt anyone' 1. its a phobia, a irrational fear it has nothing to do with fearing pain. also when people think I hate dogs because I have a phobia of them, I like dogs I am just scared of them in person. | |
This! A million times this!! | |
Sentences that begin with either: "If I won the lottery....." or "You're one of those people....". Although not strictly 'sayings' they do annoy the crap out of me. | |
Same as one can take a punch to the stomach, one could take an arrow to the knee, could one not? | |
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While often misused its a legitimate and useful principle.
Nothing like that at all. It is a sound legal and scientific principle when used correctly. (for example even if a murder suspect cannot be placed at the scene, unless there is sufficient evidence proving them to be elsewhere then its still possible to convict)