I’ve always been interested in good quotes people have heard. This posts turns the tables on that.
Reddit asks the question. Here are a few of the answers:
- “I could care less”
- “That’s just your opinion.”
- “Just saying”
- “Same difference”
- ‘It is what it is.’
- “Stuck between a rock and a hard place”
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well reptiles laid eggs long before any birds evolved, so the egg came first.
- “Exact same.” or “Same exact.”
- “Going forward…” As opposed to what?
- “No offense, but… (insert offensive thing about person here) “
- “Flogging a dead horse” Dear God! What a horrid image!
- I always hated ‘Nice guys finish last’.
- “How ironic?” drives me insane for the sole reason that 90% of the time people say it it isn’t ironic…at all.
What’s the worst quote or saying you’ve heard?
“My bad” is easily the worst quote ever. God I hate that one.
I used to hate “Back in the day”, but every now and then I catch myself saying it.
“Whatever…”
“Very unique” always makes me cringe. Either something is unique or is isn’t. There are no degrees of uniqueness!
Another one that’s really getting on my nerves lately (especially in commercials) is, “Awkward…”
“I could care less” is the worst by far. (Very unique is pretty bad too)
I guess very unique means uniquer than unique.
THANKS for the “I could care less”, when I tried to explain it should be “I could not care less…” someone would say, “you don’t understand the sarcasm in that statement… ah, no I don’t…
no problem
“Oh, my heck!” Very strange. I have no idea what it means. It seems to be quite regional.
“fixin to”
“don’t worry about it” when, in fact, it is something i should be extremely worried about
Sustainable. Other than Tiger Woods’ marriage, is there anything out there that isn’t sustainable these days?
Infi,
I was going to submit the exact line. It seems that “You’re welcome” has been banned from the English language. Think about it, what do people say to you when you say “thanks”?
“That’s a good ideal.”
wrap my head around
Can I AX you a question? (instead of ask). IQ drop of 40 points right there.
The principal at my daughters school, supposedly an educated man, AX’s you a question.
The scary part is that most of the people who say “axe you” think that it’s correct. The only place it can be correct is in a horror movie: “I’m gonna axe you!”
Pre-book. How can you post-book something?
I can think of two that bother me: 1) “these ones” and “your” when “you’re” should be used.
The one that drives me crazy is “a whole nother.” There is no such word as “nother.” It should be either “a whole other” or “another whole.”
Paul I just wanna slap people when they say that
“To be fair……”
“Six of one, half a dozen of the other”
“Believe you me”
Keep #@&ing that chicken! Going forward…
I’m with you doc– i can’t stand when people use ‘ideal’ for ‘idea’.
another one: the girls at work say “well, shit the bed” and if they’re really upset
they add “and fall back into it”
never heard of it before. strange.
I don’t think the comments feature has enough space for me to even begin.
“That’s why we don’t do it that way.” (After we did it that way.)
P in B – To answer you question…Besides “no problem”, I get “of course”, “no problemo”, “yep”, “sure”, & “uh_huh”. I think “yeppers” is finally disappearing. “You’re welcome”…not so much.
Local to our area, I think, when agreeing with someone…
“So don’t I.”
“I do”.
LOL @ Scott (The man is a master)
I think one of the foremost ones for me is the use of I’m loving/liking/hating xxx instead of I love/like/hate. Makes me want to shout every time I hear it. (You can imagine how much “I’m hating” McDonald’s.)
Also “rocking” instead of “wearing”, as in “He’s rocking some mean Timberlands today”. Why?
Oh and (I’m disappointed to say that Lifehacker is constantly guilty of this one) “hit up” instead of “visit” – “hit up your local B&Q for parts”, “hit up the link for more details”.
And people calling their biceps their “guns”. Come on, please.
The infuriatingly redundant (and solely American it seems, sorry folks) “Go ahead and…” found in articles, tutorials (both filmed and written) and columns all over the place. “For some great water-wings, go ahead and click on the Firefox icon and then go ahead and hit up the I’m Loving Rocking These Bad Boys On My Guns link.”
See, you started me off. Tip o’ the iceberg folks, tip of the iceberg. I’m not known as The Autistic Pedant on four different forums for nothing you know.
I’ll stop now since I already rage-hissed some spittle onto my monitor…
I actually still say you’re welcome. Can you believe it? I’m from the mispronunciation capital of the United States,no one here has manners, and they have no clue how to drive, but I still say you’re welcome, if and when someone thanks me.
But Infi, just curious to where was the slap to be delivered?
My wife truly hates “I’m just saying!”. Her mom killed that phrase.
“Our president” BS I didnt vote for him. He’s all yours.
My wife drives me up the wall with, “At the end of the day,…” Before she’ll even complete what she’s going to say I jump in with, “The sun goes down.” I really grinds her gears…
And one of mine that gets onto her nerves is, “We’ll see…” I usually say it when there’s no way of knowing an outcome and I don’t mean it sarcastically…
I wasn’t aware of it but during our trip to Orlando a week or so ago, my brothe’rs family kept making fun of it when I was asked a question about whether I liked one thing or another I would answer, “It wasn’t bad” or “Not bad”. Apparently I do that a lot more than I was aware of. So it became a comedy routine on that trip.
BTW, the trip wasn’t bad.
rofl at Maffu. I feel you man.
I’m just livin’ the dream
“What time it is?” For some reason, the ghetto community seems to think that’s the right way to say it. I can’t stand it. The other day, some random kid I didn’t know asked me that and I looked at my watch, said, “I don’t know,” and walked away.
I also hate it when people say “I should really stop (doing or being something),” then immediately do that.
I hate the “It’s all good!” No moron, it’s not “all” good.
“off of”
“Ya know”,my sister whom i love dearly uses it to death. When we talk on the phone i want to get a piece of paper and make a tick mark to count her “ya know(s)”. Instead, i do that echo-American thing and start “ya know(ing)” her back. Sometimes anal is just that, anal. Sometimes it’s spittle on the monitor! Now that’s funny! Ax anyone.
chick the slap would be to where ever it would hurt the most,you can help me out if you want too
I have a couple of pet peeves…
“With all due respect” Isn’t that just code for… F@#% you, and your position?
I constantly hear people say that they want to “grow” their business. Sorry, but I grow vegetables, I’m growing old, etc…
I do want my business to grow, but I will continue to run it, AS it grows.
Where to begin????
Misused and mispronounced words drive me up a tree:
“It’s a mute point.” (No, it’s moot)
“Supposably…” (That isn’t even a word!)
And here in mid-Missouri, I frequently hear “Free gratis” – uh, people, gratis means free!! If I didn’t have to get to work, I’d probably come up with a bunch more!
But I have to admit, I kind of LIKE “my bad.” It lets me admit to a mistake without actually saying the words, “I was wrong!”
how about, “irregardless…”… not a word…it’s regardless…
“Let’s do this!”
Every action film made these days contains this line and it drives me up the wall. It needs an object/verb. That sentence would only be correct if the hero was demonstrating a funny walk, or pulling a face.
Now it’s creeping into popular usage and I hate it. “Let’s do it!” would be okay, but every time I hear let’s do this I feel like shouting “What?? Let’s do WHAT?” back at the screen.
Did I mention my ulcer?
Maffu, Take a tissue and wipe the screen off… then go take your meds… Let’s do this, OK? 🙂
“I wish I would have ….. ” instead of “I wish I had (done whatever)”. Even though it is a common grammatical error, and perhaps I should be used to it by now, hearing it makes me want to stick a pencil in my ear.
…and then there are the now common suffixes, “-ology” as in “methodology”, and “-ality” (commonality, functionality). Why did people start using these words? These words make me think that the speaker wants to sound more like a “grown-up” by using longer words, or something. I also can’t stand “on the ground”, as in: “We have a reporter on the ground in _____”. What? A pencil gets rammed into the other ear. “At the end of the day” and “moving forward” rank right up there, as well.
Even with pencils in both ears, I can still hear mispronunciations of the words “arctic” (as “ardic”) and “nuclear” (“nookewlar”! ….aaaagh!
I have to stop now 🙂
Infi, ’round these parts we’d call that a “bitchslappin” I’d love to help.
One of my least favorite of all time is “munt” instead of month, commonly used by the same people who “axe” too many questions. They also have “betrooms” instead of bedrooms and “bafrooms” instead of bathrooms, to me it just sounds uneducated, ignorant even.
Oh Toad, you just reminded me of another one where people think they sound more intelligent/polite/authoritative but actually just sound idiotic: People who say myself and yourself instead of me or you. “The reason I’m calling yourself…”
Arrrrgggghh!
Arrrrrrggh!
“Every cloud has a sliver lining”
“Its always darkest before the dawn”
Neither of these quotes make any degree of sense.
But my favorite quote will always be:
You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named “The Battle of Waterloo” and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces.