sayings you just hate

[Icehearted]

That David Mitchell one states some pretty obvious ones, but I'd like to include "I ain't never". Technically, it suggests you have as implied by the usage of a double negative. Young people seem to say this a lot, knock it off.


Edit: Oh, and the "you know" segues (loosely termed) are a nuisance. If someone is explaining something and every other word is bridged with "you know" I feel like throttling them shouting "NO I DON'T KNOW!"

 

[HK_01]

'I could care less.' It means the exact opposite!!

 

[beeejay]

"It was literally X" It was never literally anything, in fact it was never metaphorically anything either, it just was.

 

[Caligulove]

"sheeple"

Maybe if I ever heard it said by someone that wasn't a pretentious asshole, it'd be alright. But that seems impossible

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Guesstimate, mostly. And "It's not the end of the world."

 

[LemonMelon]

It's not really a saying but when people say ANYWAYS instead of ANYWAY.
It makes a nerve in my frontal lobe twitch just enough to lose my love of humanity.

I've also never liked the word "ain't" or really any folksy saying involving it.

 

[strum4h]

"Irregardless" UHG.

 

[Blemontea]

"The Pen is mightier than the Sword"
try saying that back during the middle ages and not getting laughed at. i know what it means but it stupid at the same time. How can a simple pen beat a man in combat, the only man who probably could is Hawkeye

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just imagine its a pen instead of a paring knife.

 

[cke]

"[Insert significant number here] people can't be wrong."

There's a saying in Russian that roughly translates like this:
"There's got to be something great about shit. Those millions of flies can't be wrong"

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Any cell phone/internet lingo that is used in the spoken word. You are in real life now. You speak like a normal person should.

Also, people at my school use the work "scrub" to describe a poor player at a sport or something or someone of low quality.
Ex) "Oh man, I just got an C on this test."
"Wow, what a scrub. SCRUB!"

Makes me want to puke.

 

[Scuzzymcfi]

Just when characters in movies say, "You can't change your destiny!"

SHUT UP.

 

[Nedoras]

Beast, as in "you're a beast" or "that's totally beastin' yo". That word pisses me off to absolutely no end. Worst of all I hear it on a daily basis, and whenever I do hear it I just want to hit the person that says it in the face -_-

 

[Kermi]

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I know this has been said before, what what fucking good is cake I can't fucking eat? Fuck it. Keep your stupid cake. I hope it murders you in your sleep.

That saying simply means you can't have it both ways. Referring specifically to the cake though, if you have a cake and you eat it, you won't have a cake anymore, so you can't keep the cake and eat it too. Get it?

But the purpose of a cake is to eat it. By eating the cake you are having the cake.
It's a completely useless turn of phrase.

 

[Canid117]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

All those shitty modern slang sayings that make no sense kinda piss me off.

 

[Eren Murtaugh]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

Wow. We're on an agreement role. Fist bump for agreeing.

::bump::

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

THANK YOU! I'm glad I'm not the only one to be annoyed by that.

"If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" Well I'd imagine that my friends wouldn't be jumping off a cliff without a very good reason. So, yeah I think I might at least consider doing it.

Wow. I'm reading some of these sayings and agreeing with their posters ("I could care less" springs to mind), but some of you people seem to take saying too literally and aren't properly understanding their real meanings. Or your sarcasm is just too subtle for me to pick up.

 

[Vilhjalmir]

'Remember Reach' :| A) Obviously a PS3 owner, B) Just heard it one too many times I guess.

 

[ninja555]

The phrase "just sayin'". Just about the only combination of letters worse then Catcher in the Rye.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I know this has been said before, what what fucking good is cake I can't fucking eat? Fuck it. Keep your stupid cake. I hope it murders you in your sleep.

That saying simply means you can't have it both ways. Referring specifically to the cake though, if you have a cake and you eat it, you won't have a cake anymore, so you can't keep the cake and eat it too. Get it?

But the purpose of a cake is to eat it. By eating the cake you are having the cake.
It's a completely useless turn of phrase.

Yes I know the purpose of a cake is to eat it, but once you eat the cake it's gone, you won't have it anymore. So in that sense you can't have the cake and eat it too because once you eat the cake you won't have it anymore. It's really not that complicated once you think about it.
Besides the cake is irrelevant, the point of the saying is that you can't have it both ways.

 

[Elle-Jai]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

I agree, most annoying phrase!!

I don't mind most of the "nonsensical" sayings out there, I just loathe anyone who actually says "lol" or "meh" in person. Since LOL, a mere few years back, was meant to indicate actual laughter, don't say "lol" JUST FREAKING LAUGH!!!! Argh...