Stupid Phrases

[Layz92]

In movies asking masked people and assassins "who are you". Also police yelling halt, stop or freeze at a person legging it. At no point in history has that worked (other than in The Mask where it was done awesomely). Also "but" when it is preceded by something like "Now, I'm not racist..." or "Now, I'm not Sexist...". It is nearly always followed by something exactly that. Occasionally I use that sought of phrase correctly when I say something like "This isn't to be sexist or anything but generally speaking men can drink more alcohol than women" (which is true it isn't prejudice)

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Alot of my friends say CBF (Can't Be Fucked) and when where in a group everyone else sees it as a good excuse. IT PISSES ME OFF!

 

[EeveeElectro]

'I know, right?' You're agreeing with them and asking if they agree with their answer.
'I turned round and said...'
'At the end of the day...'
'Butter wouldn't melt...'

The bad thing is, I use half of them as well.

I also hate it when people get all defensive, 'I am what I am and you can't change me!!!!'
They should get over themselves.

 

[Yarggg]

Some of the ones that I like are:

I never apologize.
I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.

if you have noticed this notice you will have noticed that this notice is not worth noticing.

dont look at me in that tone of voice .

 

[BarbaricGoose]

This also brings to mind phrases like, "This is pointless."

Comments like that are just a waste of perfectly good...pixels.

Are you referring to my rant, or the phrases I mentioned therein?

'Cause I could see how you may think my rant was pointless, but then, what in this thread isn't? If you're not referring to my rant, yes, I totally agree with you. Anyone who takes the time to write "QQ" is not worth their weight in salt.

And I hate them.

 

[StrangerMouse]

"It's not over 'till it's over." OF COURSE IT ISN'T!

 

[DarthFennec]

"Same difference". What the hell does that even mean? Logically, you're taking two differences and comparing them. And a difference is another kind of comparison (namely, a subtraction). So what you're really saying is "These two things are different in the same way that these other two things are different". Like 4 and 3 and then 13 and 12 have the same difference. That makes four things that you're comparing. But normally, people use it to compare what they just said to what you just corrected them with, which makes only two things. You don't pick this up, but what they really mean is "The difference between what I just said and what you just said doesn't matter, because it's equal to itself". That's what I think, but I never understood the phrase well so I'm probably wrong. If you want to correct me with a better theory in that case, please do.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

"Mabey"

F*CKING YES OR NO!

 

[TwiggyDwyer]

I hate the whole "gangsta" talk as in "Dawg" "Boi" etc.

but one maybe my dad over used this one but i hate "it's so close but so far away"

 

[Distorted Stu]

"Bad times"
E.g - Oh i went to school this morning, bad times.

Its been used more and more recently lately. Please explain what is so bad about right now!

 

[shadyh8er]

I don't want to say that this phrase NEVER precedes an intelligent statement, but it rarely does:
"Y'know what I'm sayin'?"
It's like they knew their statement was too obscure, so they actually have to ask if you understood what they said. Now if they were explaining something complicated like AP Calculus or something, that's slightly more forgivable, but anything else, just drop it!

 

[child of lileth]

It annoys me when people put IMO in when they say stuff. I just find it unnecessary and I think it makes people look like dicks.

That. I was hanging out with someone that was talking with me about a game, and he said, "in my opinion", at the end of his thoughts on the game. I had to stop and think for a second, just because I seriously couldn't believe someone said that in real life.

 

[Tartarga]

"Thats so freaking cash."
What does that even mean? Are they talking about Johnny Cash, because that doesn't make any sense.

 

[Xojins]

The saying "having your cake and eating it too." An episode of Zero Punctuation pointed out why that saying makes no sense, so I've hated the phrase since I saw it.

[sub]Cookie for whoever knows which episode that was in[/sub]

 

[joshuaayt]

When people misunderstand exactly what a 'theory' is in science, and spend most of the biology lesson disrupting the class saying, "But, miss, it's just a THEORY"
Believe in what you will, but don't trivialise the matter, for god's sake.

 

[Righteous One]

The most annoying phrase ever, and most nonsensical.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game."

 

[Yossarian1507]

"I wish, I only had problems like that..."

... As a response to some trivial thought like 'I wonder if I could force 3 elephants into the jar of peanut butter' (yeah, I know this makes no sense, but that was the first example I thought of), when it's definitely told for laughs.

Oh yeah, I'm so mature, and have some serious problems, unlike you...

Pisses me to no end...

 

[cardboard pirate]

I hate it when people say something is "bananas"
or for a while when people were saying redonculous
I threatend a punch to the face of many of my friends for thoes.