I dont let my emotions control me like that, but I know what you mean. :)
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"It is what it is" when describing a bad situation.
No, that's defeatist as hell, it will be whatever it will be when I've given it everything I can to make it better.
I have come to dislike this saying quite a lot. I have heard friends, family, the general populace utter this saying so often for the last 4-5 years It's become grating to hear.
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"What I think she was trying to say is that- 🤓☝️" Stop trying to put words in my mouth or speak on my behalf when I am right here to put my point across to everyone.
That followed by those public event speakers that brush off the first round of goodmornings and then say "SAy iT lOuDeR! wHeRes yOuR eNeRgY! DIdNt yOu aLl eAt bReAkfAst?! 🤪" Idk what it is about hearing this sentence early in the morning that inspires so much hatred in me. You could have the most riveting, inspiring and thought provoking presentation in the world and have done lots of commendable deeds but if that string of words exits mouth before showing all of it, I automatically dislike you and whatever you have to say next.
I think what youre trying to say is that you want to communicate your own ideas in the way you wish to and not funneled through another mind.
Also yes anyone in public speaking wanting more of a response is annoying.
How do I leave a 50/50 downvote and upvote for this lol. The downvote is for that banger of an opening sentence and the upvote is in agreement to those kinds of public speakers being annoying.
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"to make a long story short" - especially when used multiple times in one story and/or as a mindless audiospace filler to hold control of the conversation while assembling more thoughts/words... without knowing both the long and short version it literally adds nothing to the communication, it literally makes the story longer every time you use it (wasting my time), it's probably the longest socially acceptable way to say that (one could just say: "in short"), and it's got just enough word-scramble verbal complexity to occupy the higher order English parsing logic.
Perfect chance to interrupt their story:
“Please make your long story short.”
I've seen/heard a few Americans (old and young) saying something like "it has been a minute" to indicate "it has been a long time". What the hell is that? How did that start? Please someone enlighten me
It's just a euphemism, it's a sentence made funny by how much it understates the reality of the situation
That one's been around long enough I doubt anyone really knows its origin. It does follow a pattern of using the minute to describe various amounts of time.
For instance, a 'New York minute' means extremely quickly and a 'hot minute' is a long time, but much less than just 'it's been a minute'.
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"Not gonna lie..." Uh, good, I guess
People who start sentences with "I mean,". It makes you sound like a contrarian or pedantic prick.
I mean, the other turn of phrase I hate is "living my/your/our/their best life". It's just cringe to me for some reason.
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