I hate that saying

[Serioli]

I cringe when I hear "at the end of the day", it's incredibly overused...by people like Jeremy Kyle.

Blatantly interrupt them by saying 'you go to bed'

Him: 'At the end of the day w-'
Me: 'You go to bed'

 

[Dogstile]

'To each his own.' Nope, just accept that your method is wrong, and mine is correct

"Its Just My Opinion, To Each Their Own" - There are many reasons this is incorrect.

Now this is just my opinion, but I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If I disagree with you, I'm not going to change my opinion to suit you unless you fully convince me that yours is correct. This is not possible with anything accept tangible facts, and even those are open to interpretation.

Everything I have said is my opinion on the matter and I don't claim it to be fact. If you disagree then to each his own.

I actually agree with you - What im referring to isnt ones right to hold an opinion, its people who chauvinistically cling on to opinions which are undeniably wrong by claiming that they have a right to it.

People have a right to be silly. I don't see why people get angry over it.

OP: In fact, I don't see how any of you get so annoyed at these phrase's. I mean, seriously? Someone said a phrase because its the way they talk, its not offensive and it /annoys/ you? Seriously, what the hell?

 

[JLML]

Everything said by everyone, with the exception of everything said by "that person." More or less.

PLEASE STOP BELIEVING YOU KNOW ME, YOU DON'T! If you knew me you'd know that the only one that I actually care enough about to actually listen to is that person! <--- pretty much what's in my head when someone acts like they actually KNOW and UNDERSTAND me. I can say for sure that there's only one single person in the world that actually know and understand me at all, and not even that person understand me fully.

But enough about that, I'll come up with a real saying annoys the shit out of me...

Ok, I got one. "Love conquers all." It sure as hell haven't conquered the 10 000 km that are in the way.

And of course "if I had a *insert the lowest form of your currency here* for every time I heard that (I'd be rich)" No, even if you heard someone say it 1 million times, you wouldn't be "rich." Example: 1 million cents = 10 000 Euro. You're not rich, you can't even buy a new car. At least not an expensive one. And how many times do you think you'll hear a saying in a lifetime? a few thousand times? congratulations, you can buy a new game or something. Rich? I think not.

 

[Eri]

Are there any sayings that just make you rage? Whenever I speak of revenge on my mortal foes, it infuriates me when someone says "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind!" Yeah, well, that may be so, but If I'm going to be half blind, I'm sure as hell going to take one of their eyes with me. So, what sayings have you raging when heard?

The point of that saying is to try to teach people not to seek revenge, because revenge is NEVER productive, and is usually unnecessary for one's happiness.

I can tell you if someone kicked me in the nuts, Kicking them back would certainly make me alot happier.

 

[lacktheknack]

"I hate..."

Honestly, people are focusing too much on the negative.

 

[Harkwell]

"We'll head them off at the pass!"
"Head them off at the pass? I HATE that clique."
*Shoots Taggart in the foot*

 

[WolfThomas]

I don't get that from a language point of view, I see what you mean but those words don't work like that. It's not actually proving anything, it's just a rule that you shouldn't in one out of seven occasions so really the rule is the exception.

Basically it's the fact that an exception that is stated serves to establish the existence of a rule that applies to cases not covered by the exception. If you look at wikipedia, of course taking it with a grain of salt, it dates back to Cicero.

Fowler's Modern English Usage gives the following example:

"Special leave is given for men to be out of barracks tonight till 11.00 p.m."; "The exception proves the rule" means that this special leave implies a rule requiring men, except when an exception is made, to be in earlier.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

when people have to pronounce sing like "sinGUH" with a really hard G or "even" like "ivin" that really bugs me.

 

[tricky_tree]

'To each his own.' Nope, just accept that your method is wrong, and mine is correct

"Its Just My Opinion, To Each Their Own" - There are many reasons this is incorrect.

Now this is just my opinion, but I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If I disagree with you, I'm not going to change my opinion to suit you unless you fully convince me that yours is correct. This is not possible with anything accept tangible facts, and even those are open to interpretation.

Everything I have said is my opinion on the matter and I don't claim it to be fact. If you disagree then to each his own.

Yes but in most cases these phrases are used (to me atleast) when the other person knows they are in the wrong but will not admit so. Whenever I encouter it, it is always used a get out of jail free card.

 

[Burningsok]

Are there any sayings that just make you rage? Whenever I speak of revenge on my mortal foes, it infuriates me when someone says "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind!" Yeah, well, that may be so, but If I'm going to be half blind, I'm sure as hell going to take one of their eyes with me. So, what sayings have you raging when heard?

Yeah but what are you gonna do with that eye, he still has another eye. Yeah Ik it sounds like I'm taking this quote literally. Think about this if you fight back someone is gonna lose both eyes. Now there is an exception to this quote, as for people like terrorist, there just gonna take both eyes no matter what so it makes sense to fight back and at least survive with one eye.

 

[Carlston]

Sports casters mostly because their popular usage is wrong from the get go.

Ironic/irony. Deals with opposites not coincidence. If a diabetic going to get insulin is hit by a truck carrying sugar it is coincidence. If it was carrying insulin that's irony. A state of affairs opposite for the desired intent and in mockery of the appropriate result.

Prodigal. Does not mean wandering,running away and returning. it means recklessly wasteful.

Sour grapes. Is not jealousy. It is about rationalizing failure. Can't reach the grapes, well they'd been sour anyway. Sports writers and others you can't force something wrong to be right by saying it over and over.

 

[maninahat]

Irregardless.
ITS NOT A REAL WORD.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless


Webster disagrees.

Yet Oxford and Encarta agree.
It's tautology at its finest; "irregardless" and "regardless" mean exactly the same thing. The former seems to be a combination of "irrespective" and "regardless" creating a whole new word that creates a double-negative.

Plus, Mirriam-Webster, though accepting that it is a word, actually encourages people to "just use regardless".

 

[maninahat]

"The exception that proves the rule."

I hate this saying because people who say clearly don't understand that it means the exact opposite of what they think. It should be;

"The exception that proofs the rule."

Pardon me, but what?

It's a scientific phrase. A scientific proof is a document compiling all the information on a given experimental procedure. The hypothesis, the test, the materials needed, the method, the kind of results and how the interpret the data. The proof would be presented to other scientists who would then try and break the experiment any way they can. If they find something that shows the experiment isn't consistent enough of many tests then it is rejected, if they can't it becomes an accepted theorem.

Later on with new information, technology and techniques old information is revisited and a new crop of scientists try to break the experiment again. If these new circumstances showed that the experiment is unsound it would be declared "The exception that proofs the rule" and it would be rejected and the whole idea rethought. In essence the rule is wrong so we need to remake it, not the rule is always right except for that one thing.

I'm aware. I was trying to be a jerkass. I'm still counting this as a success.

Specifically, to "proof" something is to "test" something, as one would traditionally "proof" fresh iron and steel to see if it is up to engineering standards.

 

[Mythbhavd]

"Would Of" as in, "If I'd had the money, I would of gone."
"Should Of"
"Could Of"

All of those are bad. It's Would/Should/Could have or a contraction of them: would've/could've/should've.

Also, might could, use to could (or eustacud), may could, might can...and so forth.

 

[Dr.Sean]

'Same difference'.

It makes.
No.
Sense.

People who use that saying should be shipped off to the Gulags/Aushwitz in a metal box.

 

[snowman6251]

"Cool Beans".

No. Beans are not cool.

 

[Eri]

others you can't force something wrong to be right by saying it over and over.

I've tried saying this multiple times, but most people say "no youre wrong! If it gets used wrong enough, it is correct!" No. No it's not.

 

[StonkThis]

"God bless you"
When people say that when I sneeze, I want to punch them. Not everyone is religious or of that religion...

Dude, calm down. I'm not even religious and I say that. Why would you even get offended regardless, they are wanting their god to bless you. Even not being religious, it wouldn't hurt.

It just annoys me. Maybe I don't want their god to bless me. It's hard to explain why I hate it so much.

It's not even religious anymore. It's just good manners.

It's still religious, but people usually don't think of it that way because that's the way most people were raised.

 

[Carlston]

others you can't force something wrong to be right by saying it over and over.

I've tried saying this multiple times, but most people say "no youre wrong! If it gets used wrong enough, it is correct!" No. No it's not.

Why the term popular usage pisses me off.
What it means is "We screwed the phrase up so many times in the past, we just don't want to correct ourselves and seems like ignorant tards."

Eh