"Sayings, quotes, myth and superstition.

[xelasnave]

Can you think of a saying or quote that folk wheel out that is annoyingly wrong.

Is there a superstition you are exposed to that ticks you off and remain silent so as not to upset a loved one or friend?

Or perhaps a myth that defies being believable but nevertheless is preached as fact.

"What does not kill you makes you stronger"... My pet annoyance...why say this when clearly most things that near kill you leave you less than you were before...

Can we make a list?

Alex

[Robair]

The watched pot never boils drives me up the wall.
Mind your p and q's never made sense.
As a finance guru being asked to crunch the numbers also gives me conniptions.
Rob B

[AndrewJ]

Gday Alex
When pollies/bureaucrats use "The fact of the matter is"
( which really shld be "My opinion is" )
Andrew

[Larryp]

My (chinese) wife is very superstitious. She recently changed her mobile phone number because it ended with a low digit and someone told her that was bad luck. Apparently it should end with a high digit:shrug:

[JA]

4.2 kJ per kg per degree K will do it every-time :D

(Not that I'm being literal or that I don't concede some minor variation due to temp / pressure / altitude, but ... hey)

Best
JA

[rcheshire]

'Going forward'

In otherwords, the inconvenience of the past overlooked, we move onto the next, from which we shall move on, going forward.

Modern day parlance for 'brush it under the carpet.'

Was in vogue until overuse by a former PM.

[ChrisV]

I suppose after moving forward we can look forward to jobs and growth

This doesn't tics me, got it in a jumble sale somewhere in the late 70s. Still use it but obviously don't clean it much.

[FlashDrive]

Just a walk in the park ..... why don't they say ... it's easy ...

2 words instead or 6.

or ....

The Glass is half empty .... no it's not ...it's half full. :drink:

Col....

[Astrophe]

Yeah....or pollies who say....'having said that, let me say this'...gets me every time.

[el_draco]

Not necessarily so. If you don't get regular exposure to environmental stresses... viruses, bacteria etc... that make you crook, your immune system becomes pathetic and bugs that shouldn't get you suddenly become fatal... so there is some evidence to support this.

All the "anti-bacterial" crud on the market is actually really dangerous. :screwy:

[Allan_L]

Yeah good one Alex!

One that really gets my goat (whatever that means!!!)
is ...
having to say...
"Bless You!"
after somebody sneezes.
...and they get real upset if you don't say it >>> ??? :confused2: :confused2: :confused2:

[iborg]

I always thought it was high digits that were bad luck!


Sorry, just can't resist typing it. :scared3:


Philip

[xelasnave]

I have not seen this for a while maybe my wishing caused it to go away.

If someone spilt the salt from the salt shaker the custom was to take a pinch of salt and throw it over your left shoulder.

Why?

Because spilling the salt firstly was bad luck but throwing it over the shoulder was thought to throw it in the eye of the devil which brought you good luck.

Luck?

The non existent devil sits on your left shoulder?

So obvious it was nonsense ...why?

Alex

[JA]

Just "filler" until their brain can get in to gear for spin mode

Best
JA

[JA]

d' evil is always dere

Best
JA

[Shano592]

Jobs and Growth
Jobs and Growth
Jobs and Growth
Jobs and Growth
Jobs and Growth
Jobs and Growth

[Shano592]

The Scottish Play....
MacBeth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--HR7PWfp0

[N1]

Turning lame achievements into superlatives by saying (biggest, tallest, fastest etc....) "in Australasia/Southern Hemisphere" :P

[FlashDrive]

Love it .....:lol: ... how true .... ' spin mode.'

[FlashDrive]

Moving Forward
Moving Forward
Moving Forward
Moving Forward :rofl:

Col.....

[xelasnave]

We have a mandate!!!

Alex

[AstralTraveller]

I think that started when sneezing meant you were about to die from the plague.

BTW One day years ago a co-worker insisted on saying 'bless you' when I sneezed. I asked her not to but she just couldn't control herself. That lunchtime I had to run an errand and that was the only time I dropped my motorbike.

[graham.hobart]

it will all come out in the wash
better out than in

My personal bugbear in media is over use of the word Slammed.
Like so and so was slammed today or someone slammed something else, or slammed into.
And I used to hate "ring fenced" as in these finances were ring fenced.
Also "float a raft of ideas"
:shrug:
g

[Weird1]

Hey Flash
The Glass is half empty .... no it's not ...it's half full. :drink:

Regarding the half full, half empty glass it could be said that the glass is twice the size it needs to be.:thumbsup::lol:

Cheers Keith

[Astrophe]

Alex, I think the term, mandate, has a whole new meaning, these days:)

[Tropo-Bob]

Its an ancient Egyptian idea that your soul left your body when U sneezed and if someone blessed U, it made it easy for the soul to return.

[Tropo-Bob]

Yeah, it seems that if U vote for Party A, they think U are signing up for all their ideas, when in truth, U just think they are the more palatable option, in spite of some of their unattractive policies.

[Tropo-Bob]

From the days when the letters had to be arranged in the press, before printing. (What a sh*te of a job that would have been!!)

Anyway, p & q were often transposed, so the saying obviously meant; Be very careful.

[Allan_L]

So True! But they just don't get it...
oh well...part of their job description I guess...
Never let the truth get in the way of a good {"Mandate"} story.

[LewisM]

Hates:

When someone pronounces kilometer as "kilom-eter". I guess then we also have centim-eters, millim-eters... megat-onnes, kilog-rams...the total ignorance of the fact that
the word is a conjunction of a prefix - kilo (in this case) - and the measure- meter - . It REALLY crawls under my skin, but I grin and bear it.

Only the good die young

My Fellow Australians

Etc (in other words, you have no idea what you are saying)

Actually (another substitute word actually)

Ensuring Democracy (as sprouted by Americans - there is a complete farce if ever there was one! How about "Invasion for American Imperialism"...ensuring "democracy", one nation at a time...when that country has something of value anyway...oil...gold...diamonds...st rategic position...)

American Democracy (another falicy lol)

The Recession we had to have (sprouted by the Politician we unfortunately had to have)

[FlashDrive]

' lock down '

apparently when something is dramatic.... it's been put into ' lock down '

Col....

[Wavytone]

The Worlds Best Treasurer ... spouted repeatedly by a treasurer with no financial credentials to his name and who fiddled with the negative gearing laws to create a boom/bust cycle of epic proportions combined with 18% interest rates. And who subsequently emerged as one of the largest property owners in Woolahra.

Manipulating the market? Oh no, never...

[LewisM]

Or the use of acronyms in place of real words...unfortunately Australians are doing it a LOT these days - lazy mind.

[LewisM]

And collected cuckoo clocks...cuckoo cuckoo...

Look what he does now...

[LewisM]

Don't forget the 20% plus unemployment rate...

[LewisM]

We strayed in Poolitics again.

Back to Alex's original question....

[mynameiscd]

"Theres always someone in the world worse off than you."

Theres probably someone with no arms or legs and not even a head rolling down a steep hill of broken glass heading for a cliff thinking that same thought............

[Wavytone]

Ok... the BIG ONE - Gallipoli.:eyepop:

Just goes to show how many will dig so deeply to find positives in what was actually a total stuff-up resulting from the most appalling mismanagement.

Honourable mentions for lameness should be awarded to the big sheep, the big banana, the big prawn... and the rest of them.

[LewisM]

If you don't understand the true significance of Gallipoli, then I don't know how it would be possible to explain it to you.

It not only defined our fledgling nation, it defined a generation of men and it defined to the world our determination and steadfast loyalty, despite being a strategic failure (due mostly to the British hierarchy).

There is MUCH more significance to it than what the uneducated think. Even my 9 year old daughter truly understands what it means.

[xelasnave]

It is comforting that few here have been exposed to superstitious nonsense given none have been denounced.

Reading about the many superstitions that clouded our past recently it is great humans are getting past living under their influence.
Alex

[AstralTraveller]

Some years ago I read that Tsarist Russia's big strategic aim in the war was all-year access to the world's oceans for the Russian Navy [though after what the Japs did to them on 1905 you'd wonder why]. To do that they had to control the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles and that meant seizing Istanbul. Since then I've wondered who the Australian soldiers were really dying for. Overall it probably doesn't matter what stupid, greedy aim they were conned onto fighting for but I would still like to know the truth [alas, that is always the first casualty of war].

[AussieTrooper]

Nobody claims it as a victory. That's the point. The day is a commemoration, not a celebration.

[AussieTrooper]

Richmond always finish 9th.

[Tropo-Bob]

This is one for myths...

Once my hairdresser found I was interested in Astronomy, she proceeded to give me a detailed explanation on how the phases of the Moon effects when the best time is to have a hair cut. Apparently, more lush growth occurs when .. blah, blah.

She even showed me an Website on her phone as proof. There are several. Check a few out for yourself.

It is an interesting insight as to how people can develop their own constructions and food for thought on how they may benefit from this; most likely in monetary, social or psychological ways.

[xelasnave]

I just thought of another....

Hard work won't kill you.

I contend it can and was responsible somewhat for many folk not reaching the average life expectancy.

My experience was hard work sent me nuts.

Alex

[Dealy]

"Push the envelope"

Oooh I hate that saying.

[toc]

One I hate 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.