Sayings you hate

[DirtDawg]

What you give is what you get.

"One reaps only as they sow."

Don't those two basically mean the same thing? 

That was my point.
 

[renaeden]

This has probably been griped about already:

It is what it is.

Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.

That's a tough one because it means something can't be changed, so the context is possibly in response to someone complaining. For example, if someone is complaining about things like traffic or the weather, I might totally be in the mood to join them in an empathetic gripe fest. If not, I might instead say, well it is what it is, which is a nice way of saying I don't feel like being pointlessly negative with them right now. I also might say it in a context when someone is trying to give me sympathy for an unfortunate situation which I'm not overly upset about or have already grown to accept. Though I do agree it's frustrating to be venting and basically be told to accept things and move along. I'm also sure there's some situations that can't be changed, when it would be thoughtless or even hurtful to say that in response.

Well I was in a doctor's waiting room when I overheard a two minute phone call. The woman who was talking said "it is what it is" four times in those two minutes. The fourth time, I kind of looked at her incredulously. Wtf?

[odeon]

"It is what it is" was uttered by the great philosopher D. J. Trump.

[renaeden]

^

[DirtDawg]

Also iterated (or stolen from someone wise) by Trump.   

Not a hate saying, but a formidable truth that cannot be unheard ...

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had."

I really wish I knew who that came from. It sounds almost Nietzschean.

[Gopher Gary]

This has probably been griped about already:

It is what it is.

Why even say this? It's like filling the air with empty words.

That's a tough one because it means something can't be changed, so the context is possibly in response to someone complaining. For example, if someone is complaining about things like traffic or the weather, I might totally be in the mood to join them in an empathetic gripe fest. If not, I might instead say, well it is what it is, which is a nice way of saying I don't feel like being pointlessly negative with them right now. I also might say it in a context when someone is trying to give me sympathy for an unfortunate situation which I'm not overly upset about or have already grown to accept. Though I do agree it's frustrating to be venting and basically be told to accept things and move along. I'm also sure there's some situations that can't be changed, when it would be thoughtless or even hurtful to say that in response.

Well I was in a doctor's waiting room when I overheard a two minute phone call. The woman who was talking said "it is what it is" four times in those two minutes. The fourth time, I kind of looked at her incredulously. Wtf?

Probably someone stuck in traffic and she didn't want to hear about it. 

[Genesis]

"It is what it is" was uttered by the great philosopher D. J. Trump.

 

[odeon]

Same guy who told people to drink bleach.

[Genesis]

Double Standards:

Scenario #1

Girl I liked in the past: I only like you as a friend

My response: Okay...

Scenario #2

My response: I only like you as a friend


Troll (whom I rejected politely) response: *insert random insult along the lines of assuming the guy is "gay"*

[renaeden]

I don't hate it but I'm seeing "reach out" everywhere.

[DirtDawg]

Five times smaller or twice as small.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING!!  It is half the size or one fifth the size!
Size can be defined; "small" cannot without first defining a scale of reference. "Smaller" (is even more troubling) which must be described with three quantities with a related function clearly defined, makes understanding even more demanding.

This common misuse grinds on my brain.

Small is not a quantity. To define small, you must have some relation to some quantity of established measurement, as opposed to another quantity, a function describing how they relate and a resulting understanding is created by a reference to a third quantity, similar to the simplest math equation.

To say something is smaller, you need to start with a quanitity, this can not be assumed, but must be defined.  Then a function of some sort to perform (plus, minus, times, squared, logarithmically projected), then a second quantity for the performance of the function to follow, resulting in a third quantity with which to compare and help to define what "small or smaller" might imply.


EVEN THEN ...
You can not say twice as small! It does not exist!!








I am not wrong!!

[Genesis]

Men don't cry -__-

[Arya Quinn]

Men don't cry -__-

This phrase has always been total bullshit.
Even the "manliest" of men weep at the ending to Terminator 2, for Christ's sake.

But in seriousness yeah, it's incredibly harmful.

[odeon]

I did, at the end of the Titanic. I wish they could have spared the boat. So unnecessary.

[odeon]

I've learned to absolutely loathe a word that's been used to start sentences with at work:

"Ultimately, ..."