sayings you just hate

[Blemontea]

"The Pen is mightier than the Sword"
try saying that back during the middle ages and not getting laughed at. i know what it means but it stupid at the same time. How can a simple pen beat a man in combat, the only man who probably could is Hawkeye

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just imagine its a pen instead of a paring knife.

 

[cke]

"[Insert significant number here] people can't be wrong."

There's a saying in Russian that roughly translates like this:
"There's got to be something great about shit. Those millions of flies can't be wrong"

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Any cell phone/internet lingo that is used in the spoken word. You are in real life now. You speak like a normal person should.

Also, people at my school use the work "scrub" to describe a poor player at a sport or something or someone of low quality.
Ex) "Oh man, I just got an C on this test."
"Wow, what a scrub. SCRUB!"

Makes me want to puke.

 

[Scuzzymcfi]

Just when characters in movies say, "You can't change your destiny!"

SHUT UP.

 

[Nedoras]

Beast, as in "you're a beast" or "that's totally beastin' yo". That word pisses me off to absolutely no end. Worst of all I hear it on a daily basis, and whenever I do hear it I just want to hit the person that says it in the face -_-

 

[Kermi]

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I know this has been said before, what what fucking good is cake I can't fucking eat? Fuck it. Keep your stupid cake. I hope it murders you in your sleep.

That saying simply means you can't have it both ways. Referring specifically to the cake though, if you have a cake and you eat it, you won't have a cake anymore, so you can't keep the cake and eat it too. Get it?

But the purpose of a cake is to eat it. By eating the cake you are having the cake.
It's a completely useless turn of phrase.

 

[Canid117]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

All those shitty modern slang sayings that make no sense kinda piss me off.

 

[Eren Murtaugh]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

Wow. We're on an agreement role. Fist bump for agreeing.

::bump::

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

THANK YOU! I'm glad I'm not the only one to be annoyed by that.

"If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" Well I'd imagine that my friends wouldn't be jumping off a cliff without a very good reason. So, yeah I think I might at least consider doing it.

Wow. I'm reading some of these sayings and agreeing with their posters ("I could care less" springs to mind), but some of you people seem to take saying too literally and aren't properly understanding their real meanings. Or your sarcasm is just too subtle for me to pick up.

 

[Vilhjalmir]

'Remember Reach' :| A) Obviously a PS3 owner, B) Just heard it one too many times I guess.

 

[ninja555]

The phrase "just sayin'". Just about the only combination of letters worse then Catcher in the Rye.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I know this has been said before, what what fucking good is cake I can't fucking eat? Fuck it. Keep your stupid cake. I hope it murders you in your sleep.

That saying simply means you can't have it both ways. Referring specifically to the cake though, if you have a cake and you eat it, you won't have a cake anymore, so you can't keep the cake and eat it too. Get it?

But the purpose of a cake is to eat it. By eating the cake you are having the cake.
It's a completely useless turn of phrase.

Yes I know the purpose of a cake is to eat it, but once you eat the cake it's gone, you won't have it anymore. So in that sense you can't have the cake and eat it too because once you eat the cake you won't have it anymore. It's really not that complicated once you think about it.
Besides the cake is irrelevant, the point of the saying is that you can't have it both ways.

 

[Elle-Jai]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

I agree, most annoying phrase!!

I don't mind most of the "nonsensical" sayings out there, I just loathe anyone who actually says "lol" or "meh" in person. Since LOL, a mere few years back, was meant to indicate actual laughter, don't say "lol" JUST FREAKING LAUGH!!!! Argh...

 

[TheAbominableDan]

Intensive Purposes.

It's not the goddamned phrase. It's Intents and Purposes.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Is there a saying you hate. is it because it is stupid, out of date or just doesn't make sense. well then start ranting for I will find it amusing hahahahaha.

I hate the saying 'there is no smoke without fire' because people use it just to defend gossip
e.g.
"John funk is actually a satanic unicorn that is trying to take over the world"
"that's a lie"
"there's no smoke without fire"

Your hate is righteous, but you forgot to name one reason: It's not true. Aren't there smoke machines around that can create smoke without putting stuff on fire?

actually smoke machines use the mist from dry ice and a fan.

That's like saying that all trains run on Steam power... different smoke machines use different gases and materials to produce a smoke effect.

at the end of the day it's not smoke due to that smoke is basically gas ash and I don't know of any smoke machine which makes actual smoke not a white gas which forms a layer on the floor.

I get your point I'm just picky

 

[unoleian]

'Everything happens for a reason."

Dammit, no it doesn't! Shit just happens. We append a reason later when it suits our convenience!!!

 

[Kermi]

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

I know this has been said before, what what fucking good is cake I can't fucking eat? Fuck it. Keep your stupid cake. I hope it murders you in your sleep.

That saying simply means you can't have it both ways. Referring specifically to the cake though, if you have a cake and you eat it, you won't have a cake anymore, so you can't keep the cake and eat it too. Get it?

But the purpose of a cake is to eat it. By eating the cake you are having the cake.
It's a completely useless turn of phrase.

Yes I know the purpose of a cake is to eat it, but once you eat the cake it's gone, you won't have it anymore. So in that sense you can't have the cake and eat it too because once you eat the cake you won't have it anymore. It's really not that complicated once you think about it.
Besides the cake is irrelevant, the point of the saying is that you can't have it both ways.

No, the phrase is saying you can't have the thing you want and use it for it's intended purpose. Maybe metaphorically you can translate that into some "can't have it both ways" bullshit, and I agree that's the intention. My point is the phrase is worthless. We only know what it means because of the context it's used in.

If you tripped over and broke your nose, and I said "I fly kites in the summertime" you'd look at me like I was a lunatic. If everybody said that whenever someone fell down and broke their nose, we'd be arguing right now that "I fly kites in the summertime" is an appropriate thing to say telling someone to watch what they're doing if they don't want their nose broken.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Anyone who says that anything is "Made of Win" "Epic" or Lulzworthy" is essentially saying "I'm a brain dead fucktard and I'm ruining the English language, feel free to ignore me."

Also to anybody who uses the term "Va Jay Jay", Words can't describe how much I hate you.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

'Same difference'.

It. Makes. No. Sense. RARGH!

I agree, most annoying phrase!!

I don't mind most of the "nonsensical" sayings out there, I just loathe anyone who actually says "lol" or "meh" in person. Since LOL, a mere few years back, was meant to indicate actual laughter, don't say "lol" JUST FREAKING LAUGH!!!! Argh...

This. This! A thousand bitter millenia, this. Any msm speak that somehow crawled from the primordial ooze of highscool... like when soomeone I know ran across the road instead of walking...
'Oh, cba to walk.'
Can't be arsed to walk. Say it. Speak the Queen's English before you are summarily executed for being terminally stupid!
Besides, running takes more effort...

 

[Joshdemon]

When people say "literally" when they mean "figuratively".
e.g.: "I literally died." You evidently didn't. Get out of my pizzeria.
"Guestimate"
"Chillax"
P.S. I don't care if i made any perceived spelling errors on fake combinations of legitimate words.