Sayings that annoy you

[nuba km]

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.
2. I am sure your pet dog is nice and friendly but any animal could hurt someone for even the most surprising reasons.

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.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

"Get a life!" I'm sure many of us have heard this one. It roughly translates to 'waaaah stop liking what you like and like getting wasted like me which will then validate how i spend my time'. There is no real way you can reply to 'Get a life". Trying to explain that you do have a life makes you come across as lame. Seemingly witty comebacks aren't witty to anyone else.

This! A million times this!!
Also I hate it when people say "Lol" or even write it! It sounds so fake and pretentious!! Darn I just wrote it, now I need to go wash my hands.

 

[Simonoly]

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.

 

[bluegate]

blablabla arrow to the knee
it's in the knee

Same as one can take a punch to the stomach, one could take an arrow to the knee, could one not?

 

[NightHawk21]

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.

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.

Some bones maybe, but you have to remember than following any serious injury there is also probably some muscle damage/decay. There is a reason that people with severe cases of broken bones have to get physiotherapy. Special mention of course goes to spinal cord injuries.

As for HIV/AIDS. It doesn't kill you. All it does is completely destroys your immune system after which you die from a secondary infection. As for how the saying should be used, you're probably right, but that's not how everyone uses it.

 

[communist dwarf]

I understand where your coming from but people around where I live (being Hillbilly hell) tend to only use one definition of a word, and most don't recognize that there may be other interpretations of a word. I suppose that it is still my fault in the end but it none the less bothers me.

Edit: This was a reply to whoever quoted me, can't remember what his name was cause I don't really know how to use these forums, or any at all really.

 

[laggyteabag]

Its relatively new (Or at least in my area)

"Are you Jelly/Jell?"

OH MY GOD! When did we all get so lazy that we cant even be bothered to say the whole word "Jealous" any more?

 

[teebeeohh]

blablabla arrow to the knee
it's in the knee

Same as one can take a punch to the stomach, one could take an arrow to the knee, could one not?

I didn't mean to imply that the grammar was wrong but the origin of the meme is the phrase muttered by the guards in skyrim. and they say "in the knee" so if the intention is to redicule that people should at least get the quote right.
unless this is a trolling is a art thing and i totally fell for it

 

[Vigormortis]

"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Another "no shit" saying. Yes, you are technically right. However, that does not mean that what you're saying is true either. It's pure conjecture. So stop trying to pass it off as truth.

While often misused its a legitimate and useful principle.

Kind of like someone saying, "You can't prove Big-foot doesn't exist. Therefore he must exist."

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)

I never said it wasn't. I was pointing out how often it's misused and that, in most cases, someone uses it as a way to prove their point is correct.

Although, I have to point out that your example may not be quite as fitting as you wanted. One of the most common places that that saying is egregiously misused is in court cases. I've seen plenty of prosecutors use that phrase to persuade the jury into convicting; even though the prosecutor didn't have any real evidence proving the defendant was guilty.

 

[Vigormortis]

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Fair enough. Under those circumstances I can understand why you'd hate the saying so much. It's very similar to why I dislike hearing "you only live once".


It's a shame it's so often misused. I know a LOT of people that should take the phrase to heart.

 

[theheroofaction]

in short
If there's a short version, then why did you tell me the long one Mr. Chat?

 

[Batou667]

I suspect these are mostly Brit-centric ones:

"At the end of the day..."
"I'm not being funny, but..."
"To be fair..."
"Fair play to him"

I'll also never understand why chavs mispronounce "asked" as "arksed" and "texts" as "textses".

 

[Colour Scientist]

'If a key opens many locks it's a Masterkey, if a lock is opened my many keys it's a shitty lock.'

Ugh, it pisses me off.

I don't waste my time with people who quote that idiotic fucking thing, especially when they're really smug afterwards. As if it's a really clever analogy they just came up with. No, you're just a douchebag.

 

[Shraggler]

Its relatively new (Or at least in my area)

"Are you Jelly/Jell?"

OH MY GOD! When did we all get so lazy that we cant even be bothered to say the whole word "Jealous" any more?

Yeah, I'm pretty much right there too. Any fucking word that has been cut down in this txt spk society is just going to far. I get the impression that people do this in order to sound unique or "cultured" around their hipster friends, but it really comes across as smug and empty.

 

[Goofguy]

I hate the whole "that's what she said" phenomenon. It's not bad when it is used VERY RARELY in those contexts where it works so well. When you start spouting it after every other sentence your friends say, you're a douche.

 

[triggrhappy94]

"Liberal Media"
(My normal responce Just because they don't support your views on putting a Mexican zapper on the border and turing gay people into soylent green, doesn't make them liberal.

There is a liberal media, but there's also moderate media. There's media spanning the whole spectrum. Just because they don't agree with you doesn't make them liberal or even communists or in-league with the devil.

 

[cactusjuice]

'The night is darkest just before the dawn.' GRRRRR! No, it fucking isn't! I'm sure humanity could come up with a better metaphor, one that actually works!

I was gonna post this it annoys the the piss out of me. The night is darkest in the the middle of the night and gradually brightens before dawn

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Definitely "What you don't know can't hurt you." Do I even have to explain this?

I don't ever really encounter it directly but in any form, it makes me an angry little guy.

"You're a troll"

Any time I see this phrase the population of homeless people near my house decreases dramatically.

Well, you have to be a bit fair with this one, dude. There are TRUCKLOADS of trolls on the internetz and they're everywhere.

 

[lacktheknack]

'I could care less'

Couldn't.

It's 'I couldnt care less'.

[HEADING=1]ALL MY HATE![/HEADING]

But I could. I care even less about your nitpicks.

OT: "They're just words..."

Thanks. You've just demeaned language as a whole.