Phrases that piss you off

[FPLOON]

"I love you."

That's a phrase that can piss off.

I seem to only hate that phrase if one side of the relationship is expecting the other side to say that phrase first... I'm sorry, but I thought actions speak louder than words? This phrase seems more like something expressed through actions and not just by saying this one phrase at "the right moment"...

*pauses* I think this is why I'm single, actually...

 

[Jacco]

So he's closed minded for wanting to believe he has free will, and for wanting to think that his accomplishments are his own doing, and not having the credit for them given to another?

They absolutely are someone dumping their deity into someone else's accomplishments by saying that;, because it's them essentially saying "You didn't do that, my god did that, you should be thanking him." You might be able to see how someone who's atheist or agnostic might be annoyed at losing credit for their accomplishments to something they don't even believe exists.

No. He's closed minded because he can't even comprehend that someone with different views might be a nice person giving him a complement. And it is not dumping their diety on him because of the intent behind their comment. So many people focus on the actual words and refuse to think about the meaning. As I explained in my comment, they are not meaning it in a "I'm taking your will away and giving it to God" way. They are meaning it in a "you are very special because this thing that I sincerely believe in is paying special attention to you" way.

This is the problem I have with modern atheism. Any mention of God in any context is a bad thing, as evidenced here.

 

[Jacco]

I understand that's how it sounds to a believer, but it has an altogether different implication to a non-believer. It sounds to a non-believer as if it's taking their accomplishment, and attributing it to something else.

A compliment should make the receiver feel good. It's not a well-judged compliment.

This is primarily an error of understanding, though. I recognise the intention.

But that's my entire point. However it sounds to someone with opposite beliefs should be irrelevant because you/they should know that the meaning is meant to be sincere. Whether you believe it or not, you should at least appreciate that the person is complementing you and that should make you feel good. As I said in another reply, it's the intent behind the complement that counts, not necessarily the complement itself.

 

[Flayer6669]

"I could care less." the words mean literally the opposite of "I couldn't care less."

David Mitchell makes the case quite nicely here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

exactly, there is no one phrase that pisses me off, what i can't stand is when people use a common phrase incorrectly. although in their defense trying to correct someone who says "i could care less" is wasted energy, as they have already voiced that they don't care lol even if spoken incorrectly you knew what they meant and they don't care about how they said it .

 

[Silvanus]

But that's my entire point. However it sounds to someone with opposite beliefs should be irrelevant because you/they should know that the meaning is meant to be sincere. Whether you believe it or not, you should at least appreciate that the person is complementing you and that should make you feel good. As I said in another reply, it's the intent behind the complement that counts, not necessarily the complement itself.

If that is so, then it's another reason people shouldn't use compliments that the intended receiver cannot really relate to.

A compliment should be for the receiver.

 

[Jacco]

But that's my entire point. However it sounds to someone with opposite beliefs should be irrelevant because you/they should know that the meaning is meant to be sincere. Whether you believe it or not, you should at least appreciate that the person is complementing you and that should make you feel good. As I said in another reply, it's the intent behind the complement that counts, not necessarily the complement itself.

If that is so, then it's another reason people shouldn't use compliments that the intended receiver cannot really relate to.

A compliment should be for the receiver.

I agree with you. In a perfect world, you would be correct. We we live in a decidedly imperfect world and as such, must react to it accordingly. People use their own experiences and beliefs to interact with others and for peaceful cooperation to take place, those others need to be able to relate to that, whether they agree or believe it or not.

 

[Silvanus]

I agree with you. In a perfect world, you would be correct. We we live in a decidedly imperfect world and as such, must react to it accordingly. People use their own experiences and beliefs to interact with others and for peaceful cooperation to take place, those others need to be able to relate to that, whether they agree or believe it or not.

The imperfectness of the world has not stopped me from complimenting others in a manner that focuses on them, and is not tied to my own worldview/ beliefs.

It reminds me a little of praying for an atheist (there was a high-profile example in a hospital a few years ago, IIRC). The sentiment may be clear to the prayer, but it means nothing to the pray-ee. As far as they are concerned, it is not actually for their benefit.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

"That's just the way it is."

In a similar vein. It means you are too lazy to have morality or principles with which to meaningfully combat a problem.

Oh, jeez, yes, same sentiment.
I mean, I'm not exactly the most active proponent for change, but I have a hard time accepting things as "the way they are."
Just like you said, I take those words as said by somebody who doesn't even want to try.

 

[MrPhyntch]

without your magical, invisible sky god.

This right here, the reduction of religion and the belief in a higher power to on par with a bearded old man who uses pixie dust blah blah blah. Religion is a deep and personal experience, and no it doesn't make logical sense, but if you've ever felt it, then you KNOW it can't be replaced by anything else. Religion defies all logic and explanation, and is one of the most meaningful experiences a person can have. To reduce it to a child with an imaginary friend is not only insulting to those who have real faith, but shows exactly how immature and intolerant you are. And while the flying spaghetti monster can be a good laugh from time to time, the people who actually believe that it is representative of religion piss me off like none other.

While on this topic, the whole notion of "Atheism is the logical alternative to religion". NO. Atheism is even less logical than religion. From an evidence standpoint, the religious have what amounts to hearsay ("I heard the almighty creator say..."), whereas Atheists lack that. Atheism amounts to the notion that there's no evidence for a religion, ergo, there is no higher power. This logic is faulty. Go back in time 600 years and tell physicians there that diseases are caused by tiny critters too small to see. You'll get laughed at and made a mockery of if not burned for blasphemy, because obviously there's nothing that small in existence, you can't see it! And yet it's true. Lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking; Atheism is based on a faulty principle.

The true "logical" alternative to religion is Agnosticism. Which most people write off today as people being lazy and indecisive.

What gets worse is when people who profess to be atheists then start making claims that we're in a "Plato's Cave" type of situation, meaning that we're just a smaller reality within a larger one (which, SHOCK!, modern science suggests could be true, from a certain point of view). The belief in a higher power of any kind is not Atheism. In fact, Atheism is the exact opposite of that.

 

[The Enquirer]

"I'm not racist but..."

Whatever comes next will simply be a racist remark.

 

[Blade1130]

One thing that bug the hell out of me, and I catch myself doing it occasionally too which makes it all the more frustrating...

I hate people who say: "I hate people who blank." So doing that blank suddenly makes them a horrible person and you can no longer stand them? This is especially annoying when its a follow up to someone else saying they do it. i.e. "I don't answer the phone if I don't have the number in my contacts." followed by "Oh I hate people who don't answer random numbers, then you always go to voicemail and that sucks." So that means you two hate each other then? You're never going to get along because one of you doesn't answer random numbers?

The phrase you were looking for was "I hate it when people blank." Gets the same point across in a much less insulting way.

Also "could care less" vs "couldn't care less". I understand certain phrases get shortened and abbreviated, and "couldn't care" is a little awkward to say, but that is the complete opposite meaning of its intention, how was that ever considered acceptable?

(And before you ask, yes that "mistake" was intentional)

 

[Jordy Hartog]

Well, a lot of the stuff people have said are also on my list, but the first thing that came to my mind was this:

Whenever a fandom makes up some bullshit pun-type-thing to describe their own fandom. Doesn't matter which fandom. Doesn't matter if I LIKE that thing in question. It annoys me every damn time. This includes but is not limited to:

-Brony
-Trekkie
-Lostie
-Gleek
-Whovian
-Sherlockian

The list goes on, but you get the idea. What's wrong with just LIKING something? Why do you have to pretend you're a member of some kind of fucking exclusive club?

Heh, I remember someone on Twitter once saying that "OMG Kurt Cobain is NOT better than Justin Bieber!!! He doesn't have the largest fanbase on Twitter in the world!" and the first thing that my mind came up with as a response was "Yeah, and thank fuck for that, because you just KNOW they'd come up with the most asinine possible name for themselves." It also took me a few months to figure out that a directioner wasn't some new TomTom thing.

As for phrases that royally piss me off:

"Just be thankful we saved your ass in WW2 or else you'd be speaking German right now!" The second World War ended nearly 70 fucking years ago for us. In fact, we're coming up on the moment that the last living person to serve in it will have died from old age. Thank you for casually rewriting 7 decades of history based solely on the idea that the only possible reason for that war ending was because the Americans graciously intervened. Also, you didn't help win the war, unless you were pushing 90 at this point, you either hadn't been born yet or were too young to have made any difference. Besides, I DO speak German.

Related, I also HATE it when American politicians start throwing the word Commie/Communist around in order to insult Liberal politicians. On a full political spectrum, liberalism falls on the right wing, the only reason it's on the left for you is because it's the only alternative to the further-to-the-right Conservatives.

"Fair and Balanced" Look, Fox, I get what you're doing, I really do. And more power to you, freedom of the press is one of the greatest things about western civilization. But you do NOT get to complain about blatant political bias of news networks when you're just doing the exact same in the other direction. That's not balanced, that's hypocritical. And just to clarify, it's not the fact that they're blatantly biased that bugs me, it;s th fact that they pretend not to be that is the problem.

But before we get too political, a few more general ones:

"Don't get me wrong, but" I'm guilty of this sometimes myself, but, well, isn't the main idea behind communication to be understood? If you don't want people to "get you wrong," then work on your phrasing to remove that ambiguity from what you're trying to say.

"Not all men do this." Often a response to someone pointing out blatant misogyny. What you're trying to say is "I don't do this." But it comes across as you trying to say that this isn't a problem because it's not universal to all members of a specific gender. Moreover, it comes across as a statement that it's not a problem at all and therefore shouldn't be addressed. This would be like a fire chief proclaiming that not all the rooms of a house aren't on fire anymore, so let's just pack up and leave because most of the house is put out.

"I'm not -ist, but" chances are that if you need to preface a statement this way, you're about to say some -ist shit. Expect to be called out on this.

"You're violating my first amendment rights." The first amendment to the US constitution means the goverment cannot arrest you simply for saying something. Nothing more. It does not protect you from consequences or even from breaking other laws by saying the wrong thing. Saying that you're going to kill the President ((or anyone else, for that matter) will still get you arrested.

 

[Jordy Hartog]

"She friendzoned me." No, she's not romantically interested in you, there's no conscious decision going on here. This isn't something she can control, so don't make her out to be the villain for the crime of not liking you despite the fact that you like her. There are many possible reasons why she's not interested in you, most of which cannot be influenced by either of you. Just because you want to bone her, doesn't mean she has any obligation to want to bone you. Think about what you're implying by saying that she "put you in the friendzone." You're implying that she did this out of malice (in which case she probably wouldn't want to be your friend), you're implying that she did something wrong, you're implying that she should not be allowed to refuse when you want to have a relationship with her that goes beyond friendship.

You're implying that her being your friend is a bad thing.

You're implying that you don't actually like this girl/woman, but only like the idea of having sex with her.


Chances are, none of the things I mentioned are a part of what you're trying to convey, so please use different words that do not come with these implications.

 

[Jordy Hartog]

1.Any meme. or picture thats been captioned with something the poster thinks is witty or clever. think for yourself you sheep!

2. "i could care less" Americans tend to use this one, but they mean i couldn't care less. now i can forgive the genocide of the letter C in their crusade to turn them all into S's and Z's, i dont even mind the spelling changes that make the word sound wrong like color BUT "i could care less" is simply bad language. all it means is you do care , a bit or a lot but you do care.

3. similar to 2, "hold down the fort" why? were not date rapists, its not going to blow away is it? it should simply be "hold the fort"

It's quite funny to me that you tell people to think for themselves only to then pick the exact two phrases that were mentioned in a David Mitchell video posted earlier.

 

[Lady Larunai]

"She friendzoned me." No, she's not romantically interested in you, there's no conscious decision going on here. This isn't something she can control, so don't make her out to be the villain for the crime of not liking you despite the fact that you like her. There are many possible reasons why she's not interested in you, most of which cannot be influenced by either of you. Just because you want to bone her, doesn't mean she has any obligation to want to bone you. Think about what you're implying by saying that she "put you in the friendzone." You're implying that she did this out of malice (in which case she probably wouldn't want to be your friend), you're implying that she did something wrong, you're implying that she should not be allowed to refuse when you want to have a relationship with her that goes beyond friendship.

You're implying that her being your friend is a bad thing.

You're implying that you don't actually like this girl/woman, but only like the idea of having sex with her.


Chances are, none of the things I mentioned are a part of what you're trying to convey, so please use different words that do not come with these implications.

The assumption that "friendzoning" or complaining having it done to you means a guy is sad because he won't get sex.

Good old sexism

 

[Pink Gregory]

I am becoming increasingly wearisome of the word 'sucks'

No, I'm not going to give a reason.

 

[Candidus]

"Two wrongs don't make a right", in reference to retaliation against something, often with regards violence. YOU might believe that motive and circumstance don't really alter the position of violence/retaliation on the wrong/right spectrum. OTHERS such as I will disagree with you. Please do take note: unless someone agrees with your fundamental beliefs about violence/retaliation, then that statement is totally fucking meaningless.

 

[Directionless]

"I have lost faith in humanity"/"Faith in humanity restored"

It's always struck me as such an enormous claim, but it is only ever used on the most trivial shit. It just annoys the shit out of me. I know it's meant to be hyperbolic, but i swear to god the majority of the time people use it they are actually being genuine.

 

[Shiftygiant]

"Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs"

If this was a cooking instruction, fine, bit simple but fine, but the context of 'Yeah, those people suffer but for the greater good' it's insulting. It's one of those things that people say to try an sound smart when justifying, but comes off incredibly dickish.

 

[pearcinator]

I am becoming increasingly wearisome of the word 'sucks'

No, I'm not going to give a reason.

You're argument sucks.

On-topic;
I can't really think of phrases that piss me off that much but I don't like it when something I write is picked apart and criticized. For example, a few months ago there was someone arguing with me based on the emotion of 'anger' in relation to boycotting. I was saying that boycotting something is a passive way of being angry at it but this guy said that boycotting has nothing to do with anger at all. Just absolute petty shit.

Two people with opposite opinions, there's no 'winner'. It just ends in a bitter stalemate when one doesn't care anymore (which the other might see as a victory but they haven't really won anyone over). "Semantics" as a whole piss me off the most.