Phrases that piss you off

[Kolby Jack]

Here's one of mine that's been popular for a bit:

Seriously using the phrase "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" just singles you out as a immature turd in my eyes. In Futurama, that line was a joke meant to show that Prof. Farnsworth was overreacting in a childish way towards a viewpoint that he couldn't tolerate (which he learned to tolerate by the end of the episode). It was never intended to be a legitimate response to creationism or ANYTHING ELSE.

Although I suppose if you say this solely to express your desire to live in space as an astronaut, that'd be the exception.

I'm sure some are thinking that nobody actually means things like this when they say it, likely due to the infeasibility of space travel, but it's just a simple expression of misanthropy. Any time someone spouts some misanthropic bullshit, all I can say is


What phrases are you tired of hearing?

 

[Parasondox]

"THEY HAVE RAPED MY CHILDHOOD!!"

First of all, go suck a lemon, because your childhood has not been tampered with since you grew into an adult.
Secondly, what ever you enjoyed as a child will still be there and won't be taken away from you. No one will take away your TMNT, no one will take away your Transformers and no one will take away the fond memories you have of a particular brand or IP growing up.

Sorry, allow me to explain. When ever something is rebooted or remade or adapted in a different way, too many people (fanboys) put on their rose tinted nostalgia glasses and whine about a re-imagining of their favourite childhood memory. Then often times when they look back at those episodes themselves, they try to deny so hard that they actually out grew it lie to themselves.

I loved Mighty Morphin Power Ranger as a kid. Great Saturday morning fun. I look back at it now and thought, "well I was different then and I admit I have grown out it", and that's the end of that. So when I heard that they will be remaking Power Rangers, I weren't against the idea. Why? Because I know I won't be the target audience. I'm in my 20's. They will be aiming at preteens and teens. So of course it may not appeal to me. I may enjoy it but I know it weren't targeted at me.

 

[IceForce]

I'll tell you what phrase DOESN'T piss me off:

"Am I the only one?"

If anything, it's everyone ELSE fixating on this one phrase, that pisses me off more than the phrase itself.

It's nothing more than a figure of speech. It's simply another way of asking "Does anyone else feel this way?", "Does anyone else think this?", "Is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing?", etc.

But for some reason, so so many people on this forum seem to have something of an allergic reaction to this simple figure of speech.
And it's ONLY this forum site that does this. Other forum sites I'm on never have any problem with this phrase.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'll tell you what phrase DOESN'T piss me off:

"Am I the only one?"

If anything, it's everyone ELSE fixating on this one phrase, that pisses me off more than the phrase itself.

It's nothing more than a figure of speech. It's simply another way of asking "Does anyone else feel this way?", "Does anyone else think this?", "Is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing?", etc.

But for some reason, so so many people on this forum seem to have something of an allergic reaction to this simple figure of speech.
And it's ONLY this forum site that does this. Other forum sites I'm on never have any problem with this phrase.

To be fair though, it seems to pop up a LOT on this forum. That probably amplified the issues people have with it. Plus people here tend to be a tad smarmier than most other forums I've seen.

 

[IceForce]

Alright, I thought of another phrase a bit more on topic. A phrase that DOES piss me off.

The "shitty lock" / "good key" analogy.

It just plays into sexist stereotypes, where a women who sleeps around is considered "slutty", whereas if a man does the same thing then that's perfectly fine.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Alright, I thought of another phrase a bit more on topic. A phrase that DOES piss me off.

The "shitty lock" / "good key" analogy.

It just plays into sexist stereotypes, where a women who sleeps around is considered "slutty", whereas if a man does the same thing then that's perfectly fine.

Argh, yes.

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"If you don't try, you won't succeed" or somesuch, used to imply that you will succeed if you do try. Which really isn't a given, and obviously trying and failing can be worse than not trying at all.

 

[Colour Scientist]

In a similar vein to yours, '... makes me lose faith in humanity' will always induce eye-rolling for me.

It's dramatic and it's always used in relation to shitty things, like something that happened in a television show or some terrible/embarrassing thing done by one individual.

I think the reason that it really bugs me is because it implies a kind of smug sense of superiority, as if the person saying it is above the foibles of humanity and it just a disappointed observer.

 

[Vault101]

It just plays into sexist stereotypes, where a women who sleeps around is considered "slutty", whereas if a man does the same thing then that's perfectly fine.

that and GENITALS DON'T WORK THAT WAY...god...

"If you don't try, you won't succeed" or somesuch, used to imply that you will succeed if you do try. Which really isn't a given, and obviously trying and failing can be worse than not trying at all.

I actually don't mind this one, i mean yeah success is not guaranteed but some things are worth trying at least, I like to write and I may never get published...but it would be even more pointless to stop writing

 

[Thaluikhain]

I actually don't mind this one, i mean yeah success is not guaranteed but some things are worth trying at least, I like to write and I may never get published...but it would be even more pointless to stop writing

Oh, sure, sometimes it can be used well, but then that applies to most sayings.

 

[BeeGeenie]

I've always disliked the phrase "just sayin'" or "I'm just being honest."

As if that somehow absolves you of any consequences of whatever dickish thing you just said.

 

[tippy2k2]

I'm not a "Fill in the Blank" BUT...

Anytime anyone has ever said this in the history of anything, they go on to explain a viewpoint completely in line with "Fill in the Blank"

For example:
I'm not sexist BUT (followed by an incredibly sexist viewpoint)
I'm not racist BUT (followed by an incredibly racist remark)
I'm not a homophobe BUT (followed by something incredibly homophobic)
I'm not a serial killer BUT I did just kill a bunch of people

You adding "But" to the middle of your sentence does not make whatever you're about to say less racist/sexist/homophobic/stupid

 

[Parasondox]

Alright, I thought of another phrase a bit more on topic. A phrase that DOES piss me off.

The "shitty lock" / "good key" analogy.

It just plays into sexist stereotypes, where a women who sleeps around is considered "slutty", whereas if a man does the same thing then that's perfectly fine.

I remember when a religious individual, who was once on my Facebook friends list and went to school with, once put that as his post. The replies to that post was shocking. Mostly from other men just agreeing by adding the word/phrases "Those slut..." and "Those slags are just..." and some how turned into an echo chamber of guys name calling girls and yet these are the same ones that had previous post about how they are gonna "bang" when they go out and "I get pussy on a weekly basis".


As I disagreed with them and said, "If you are going to choose to call women who decide for themselves that they sleep with different men a 'slag' or 'slut', then anyone can call a man who sleeps with different women each night a 'man whore' or a 'man slut'". Well you can guess, I didn't get much love for that. Just pointing out a double standard when it comes to that statement and also how ridiculous that phrase is. A bunch of misogynistic arses.

 

[shrekfan246]

I think the reason that it really bugs me is because it implies a kind of smug sense of superiority, as if the person saying it is above the foibles of humanity and it just a disappointed observer.

Implied?

I always thought it was a given that I was above the silly flawed concept of humanity and was just a disappointed observer! Now I have to explicitly spell it out? Geez, you humans are even more needy than I thought! D:

OT: None really 'piss me off', per se, but there are a few I twitch at whenever I see them.

"A whole 'nother" is prime among them; You're literally saying "A whole another", which makes no grammatical sense in any situation.

A lot of hyperbole and cynicism tends to make my butt clench too. Calling 30 FPS "unplayable", saying [Game X] was "ruined forever" because of [Thing], saying every game released by [Company] is automatically crap and thus inferring that anyone who enjoys said games must therefore be a blithering idiot, saying [New Game We Know Nothing About] looks terrible because of a minute and a half of promotional material, etc. etc.

As you might be able to extrapolate, I don't have a high opinion of the "gaming community" these days.

 

[happyninja42]

"That was God working through you."

Hate this when people dump their diety onto somebody's accomplishments, and co-opt the credit for the person's success to their god. Or when people say things like "You can't do *insert thing, usually overcoming an addiction* without His help" Um, sorry no, I quit my addictions just fine on my own, to say that the only way you can overcome challenges in your life is with God is an insult to everyone who actually did it on their own without your magical, invisible sky god.

I hear this a lot where I live, and it makes me chew the inside of my cheek to not say something.

 

[Scars Unseen]

In a similar vein to yours, '... makes me lose faith in humanity' will always induce eye-rolling for me.

It's dramatic and it's always used in relation to shitty things, like something that happened in a television show or some terrible/embarrassing thing done by one individual.

I think the reason that it really bugs me is because it implies a kind of smug sense of superiority, as if the person saying it is above the foibles of humanity and it just a disappointed observer.

XKCD had the best response to that. "Thanks. I'll let humanity know. I'm sure they'll be crushed."

Come to think of it, XKCD covers a lot of mine:

Spoiler: XKCD telling it like it is

 

[Barbas]

In a similar vein to yours, '... makes me lose faith in humanity' will always induce eye-rolling for me.

It's dramatic and it's always used in relation to shitty things, like something that happened in a television show or some terrible/embarrassing thing done by one individual.

I think the reason that it really bugs me is because it implies a kind of smug sense of superiority, as if the person saying it is above the foibles of humanity and it just a disappointed observer.

Maybe it doesn't imply any of those things at all. Maybe they just weren't thinking. That one used to make me feel remarkably tired and frustrated when I heard it, but now I just think that person must've been going through...something. There's a danger of over-thinking such things and becoming cynical ourselves, and its' a shame whenever a happy person's outlook takes that turn. A good friend once told me that "the thing about preconceptions is that they're so often bullshit". He'd probably say he's more of a fighter than a thinker, but he got the idea across pretty well. Those people just see the world differently, they've got different priorities. I can't really criticize them until I at least know why that is; I'm not so different from them in the end.

OT: The thing that really gets to me is when people say that there's nothing to the world, existence, life or the universe, or something in that vein. It's something I used to hear a lot, usually on social networks...which bewilders me now that I've had time to think about it. Here, in the one amazing place where people from all corners of the planet can speak as if they were sitting across from one-another in a room, people feel uninspired, alone or despondent?

It reminds me of this scene. I think the explanation's needlessly cruel, but I agree with what he says at the end: if that's what people think then it because they haven't seen or experienced enough of the world. I don't know why they have that outlook, so I can't blame them for it, but dismissing so much of the world as lifeless or mundane is one of the worst of human follies.

Spoiler: (NSFW) Adaptation - seminar scene.

 

[Queen Michael]

"Sir, please put your clothes back on." People keep telling me so, and it bugs the heck out of me every single time.

 

[Barbas]

"Sir, please put your clothes back on." People keep telling me so, and it bugs the heck out of me every single time.

Hehehe, I got a novelty Simpsons mug once that talked whenever you put it down on the table. "For once, maybe someone will call me "Sir" without adding "...you're making a scene".

OT: It actually kind of pissed me off after a while, though, which was a bit of a shame...