Mine's the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
I'm not a cow, sex is not a commodity, and if I marry someone--I don't owe them sex (or vice versa for that matter).
'Wake up sheeple.'. UGH. First of all, why is it my responsibility to wake them up? Second, the smugness is fucking palpable.
Anything used way too often
Literally...ugh!
knocked it out of the park I've heard way too often at the moment
Rule of thumb
What does that even mean? Thumbs don't make rules
@LadyAlyxandrea - Some believe it was the width of the stick a man could beat his wife with under English law a while ago.- if it's the size of your thumb, it's ok. "Make sure you measure that stick before you beat your wife! Thumb-size? OK go ahead".
@GoldenDoll awful!!!
@TheInterlooper it HAS been debunked. As a DV survivor,
that doesnt change the long running inferrence of the phrase.
@LadyAlyxandrea although it's been debunked, it was inferred that a husband could beat his wife with a stick as long as it wasn't thicker than his thumb. As a DV survivor, It STILL leaves a bad feeling even though it was debunked.
@TheInterlooper so does lacking EMPATHY I'd imagine.
I hate the word 'nigger'. I understand its etymological roots but it's a word that comes packed with a sinister and horrible past.
But in terms of phrases I can't stand 'We are where we are' it's so glib and dismissive
That, and "It is what it is."
I agree. Sex is a shared experience and people are people, not cows. Women are not livestock as the bible would have us believe.
I despise the phrase “guard your eyes”. Women’s bodies are not a trap for men or vice versa. Respect for my fellow human tells me where my eyes should look, not fear of sinful traps.
“It’s always darkest just before the dawn.”
No, it’s not. Have you been outside before sunrise before?
“Everything happens for a reason”
"Everything happens for a reason"
Just quote back George Carlin to them. "Sometimes the reason is your a moron"
"There is a reason for everything." "It is what it is." "Give it to God."
It's a word, not a phrase that I despise. When men loudly and repeatedly say "f-ck" in public. This is crass and offensive. I wince, particularly with children and older women nearby.
Asking a strange man to stop loudly saying "f-ck" usually results in an angry verbal attack. ("You f-cking bitch!" Don't tell ME what to do!" ) Only one young man apologised.
Using the word "hater" to shut someone's opinion down, or if they point out a fact. You can't use the word hater just because someone has a difference of opinion or criticism. There is a time that this word is justified, but people use it in the wrong context a lot.
"It was just meant to be." Right after something terrible happens.
Go f*ck yourself.
It is what it is...while certainly true and very applicable at times, it has been done to death.
And "act like a lady" I'm female. I'm a lady no matter what.
In the words of Rodney Dangerfield "That's no lady, that's my wife."
Anything out of a Penguins fan's mouth.
Go Pens!
Go Predators!
There. I corrected it for you. Lol.
Like' being used throughout a conversation without apparent knowledge as to the correct use of the word. The other week I was on a bus hading North out of Aberdeen, when a large group of American female students joined the journey. All was well and good for about three seconds when the continula use of
like' was inserted into their conversations used as a verbal comma'. It was all I could do not to enter their banter, enquiring as to the exact similarity between
he & her' (he's like and she's like) or else the enjoyment when they like something.
"you know"
and the people that say that may say it dozens or even hundreds of times in just one conversation. And I keep thinking to myself, "I actually don't know."
@realneal54 You know, hearing 'you know" over and over is, you know boring.
Let’s do this.
“Woke” and the various forms of its usage.
I still like this one...