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Old 24-07-2021, 08:22 AM
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Sayings and quotes that annoy..

Time for a grizzle..or perhaps just a rational observation of the high tolerance that nonsense enjoys in our world...I dont like quotes..like some "famous" person says something and all around fall down in worship of their wisdom..when in truth they talk dribble...but then you have various sayings that folk nod to and accept as profound and factual for no other reason than it was delivered in such a small parcell they feel they have understood and it somehow has made them wiser...do you have one that ticks you off..that is really opposite to the message..or perhaps a quote from someone that when you think about it is just dribble...

I will start .."What does not kill you makes you stronger"... Does anyone think about this..surely the exceptions destroy this nonsense rule?

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Old 24-07-2021, 08:29 AM
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"What does not kill you makes you stronger"

I consider more a comic line that words of wisdom.

I work for the Department of Defence on Army projects ... a common line they use which I absolutely loath ... "It is what it is"
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Old 24-07-2021, 09:06 AM
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Well I hate this one with a passion, and it is used by some over and over again.

You meet up with this person, family member i might add plus others and they say.

"What Do You Know" I mean how bloody stupid is that. I just shake my head and don't even answer

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Old 24-07-2021, 09:09 AM
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Thanks for your contribution Hans.
I must say I often point out that "things just are" but that is a lead into pointing out that it is ones own personal qualification that makes them say good or bad and then to question the need to judge most things.
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"What does not kill you makes you stronger"

I consider more a comic line that words of wisdom.

I work for the Department of Defence on Army projects ... a common line they use which I absolutely loath ... "It is what it is"
Yes Hans, I've had that response too....... many times, usually along the following lines
Me: Are you sure that measurement is correct?
Metrologist: It is what it is
The one that amused me the most in miltary/defence circles was ...... "fitted FOR, but NOT WITH"

One that's become too prominent for it's own good to the extent that it makes me smile (sometimes laugh inside) is the phrase (filler) "At the end of the day..."


Another one whilst not a phrase, but a construct that I would like to add is the recent tendency, perhaps within the last 5 years, for starting a response with the word, so. Depending on how it's used, it can sometimes come across as condescension.

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Old 24-07-2021, 09:49 AM
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I will start .."What does not kill you makes you stronger"... Does anyone think about this..surely the exceptions destroy this nonsense rule?

Alex
Literally NO, but in practice with some poetic license, I would say a baby yes , in the sense that experience in general, be it good or bad (within reasonable bounds), can prepare you for life in the sense that you know what to expect, or not expect and therefore can act accordingly.

Interesting topic Alex.

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Old 24-07-2021, 10:28 AM
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Literally NO, but in practice with some poetic license, I would say a baby yes , in the sense that experience in general, be it good or bad (within reasonable bounds), can prepare you for life in the sense that you know what to expect, or not expect and therefore can act accordingly.

Interesting topic Alex.

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Yes but it is your ability to take something broken and make something useful that should be praised...

Now here is another...if a cat sits on a hot stove he will never sit on another even a cold one...the cat here sits on the cold stove even after jumping on it hot one day...

But then I suppose one must ask can the observation of only one cat give rise to overall predictions... well of course it should not ...trials and sampling must be considered mandatory and yet the world of quantum physics seems to have its foundation reliant upon observation of only one hypothetical cat...it seems to me things get lax when involving cats in an example of expectations of reality...

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Old 24-07-2021, 10:47 AM
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Alex, if you were not in the room as a witness, would the cat be on the stove or not?🤔
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Old 24-07-2021, 10:58 AM
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savings especially "a $30 savings" or "daylight savings time"

The singular form of "saving" is "saving"

And when it comes to DST... <sigh> it doesn't "save" any daylight, it's always there, the clock just gets shifted
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Old 24-07-2021, 11:06 AM
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The one that amused me the most in miltary/defence circles was ...... "fitted FOR, but NOT WITH"
Yep JA, 21 years as an Instrument Fitter/Avionics Technician and I had never come across this term ... started working with the Army and I am introduced to a new vocabulary. As an example to explain this term to me an Army Mechanic said think of the Winch .. not every vehicle is fitted with one (due to cost and mission profile) but every vehicle has the capability to be fitted with one .. all the infrastructure (electrics, hydraulics etc) are installed.
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Alex, if you were not in the room as a witness, would the cat be on the stove or not?��
That raises an interesting question as in fact I did not see the cat jump on the hot stove and was told by someone that he had done that...at the time I thought nothing of it but clearly I should have asked for supporting testimony and records of the actual temperature together with some references to what is considered a hot stove.
But the anyoning fact about reality is that it goes on often without any humans to witness it as it unfolds.
In my view the necessity to introduce and propose that random is the order of the quantum world is no more than the inability of humans to follow every minor action that occurs opting to casually call such random..I contend there can be no random as surely what is absent is s full dissection of the event labled to be random..just far to casual.
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"Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach"
This one really annoys the S*&t out of me.
My comeback is "without a great teacher you never will do"
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Old 24-07-2021, 01:28 PM
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No empathy when someone says to you ....

'' suck it up mate '' ..... or

'' go tell someone who cares '' ....or

'' do I look like I care ''

or.... Politicians who repeatedly say ... '' jobs,jobs,jobs ..... ( at election time )

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Old 24-07-2021, 01:53 PM
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No empathy when someone says to you ....

'' suck it up mate '' ..... or

'' go tell someone who cares '' ....or

'' do I look like I care ''

or.... Politicians who repeatedly say ... '' jobs,jobs,jobs ..... ( at election time )

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Or for the politician who says all those quotes over the duration of his four year term.

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Old 24-07-2021, 07:18 PM
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Or for the politician who says all those quotes over the duration of his four year term.

How true that is ....!!
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Oh where do I begin?

I suspect it comes down to advertising copy writers who clearly failed English, yet those that use their non-skill set are too dumb to realize this.

Macca’s for having rasher bacon (it’s a rasher, aka, slice of bacon)
Being able to “shop in store” (do the mean shop in a store, or in case of the Zombie apocalypse??)
Things are always being “impacted” (not burnt, infected, delayed, flooded, etc. etc. )
Problems are always called “issues”
A simple yes has become “absolutely”
A final result has become “at the end of the day”
Nouns being used as verbs..particularly during the Olympics. “he should podium” (WTF!?)

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Macca’s for having rasher bacon (it’s a rasher, aka, slice of bacon)
Are you sure that is where the apostrophe goes Peter .

Good list though.

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Old 24-07-2021, 09:43 PM
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There shouldn't be an apostrophe.

My pet hates are "exactly right"; something can't be inexactly right can it,
it is simply either right or wrong.
The other is the use, which is becoming prevalent among the younger generation, of the Americanism "gotten".
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Are you sure that is where the apostrophe goes Peter .

Good list though.
I thought my intent was clear: it is a rasher of bacon.

The contraction "it's" I believe is correct.
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I was referring to the apostrophe in Macca's, and I am guessing that theodog was too.
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