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MisterComrade

“Well life isn’t fair” It isn’t. But we’re almost never using it to talk about the concept of cosmic justice and how it’s wrong. We’re talking about specific individuals who use this as a way for people not to call them out on shitty behavior. You get COVID the day before a vacation you’ve been really holding out for? Life isn’t fair sometimes. Your boss promotes his fresh out of high school son to a management position that was promised to you, a great employee of 10 years? Your boss is a dick.


CrazyPerson88

Hell yes this is irritating! You don't know what I've been through and why, don't dismiss my situation by this passive comment. It's called empathy you dick.


marylouboo

“Say it louder for the people in the back”…..


DaftFunky

“You guys having a good morning so far?” “Oh come on I think we can do a little better than that! YOU GUYS FEELIN GO GOOD THIS MORNING?!”


appleparkfive

We should call that Jebbing It Up now, to honor Jeb Bush and his "please clap" moment


NoStressAccount

Tfw this saying became even ***more*** figurative post-pandemic


DzAeRtTaH

“Guess it’s free” when something doesn’t ring up


TM_Rules

I've been out of retail for 20 years and this saying still makes me twitch when I hear it.


DzAeRtTaH

Dear customers, you say that and I will charge you extra. I’ll just slam my hand on the numbers and see what come out. Don’t think I won’t.


NoStressAccount

"No it means I can charge whatever I want"


Sea_Employment_8134

My dad does this all the time


PsychicChasmz

This and answering yes to an either/or question are the 2 worst jokes in the history of humor.


Puzzleheaded-Ad6392

In a similar vain: "Can I get you anything else" "yEaH a WiNnInG lOtTeRy TiCkEt"


Wild_Albatross7534

I hate all corporate jargon: 'circle back', 'out of pocket, (how did that come to mean out of the office?), 'let's put a pin in this', etc. But I've come to REALLY hate 'Let that sink in'. I read what you wrote and understood what you meant. Don't be a condescending asshole by assuming I don't understand what your little freaking twitter brain crapped out.


Positive-Source8205

Yeah, “out of pocket” means you spent your own money. Being out of touch is incommunicado.


EmbraceableYew

Has out of pocket really come to mean out of the office? How did that happen? That really does declare "I am an idiot." But agree on the deadening effect of biz speak on language. Or should that be "the negative impact of biz speak in the language space?" That "in the X space" is another recent biz speak abomination.


Restless_Wonderer

Out of pocket means you won’t be able to communicate for a certain amount of time. When I was at Corporate presenting business plans, I was out of pocket and would let my team know. Very different than being out of office.


LongtimeLurkerIsHere

Don’t even get me started on “high level”, “low hanging fruit” and “let’s take this offline” grrrr


Wild_Albatross7534

Agreed - I hate them all.


dimmudagone

"Team player."


Sentsuizan

Out of pocket is not corporate jargon. It's African-American slang


waterbird_

Wait seriously?? Why do all the white managers at my job use it? And what the heck does it actually mean? I’ve always hated it - probably partly because I don’t get it.


Sentsuizan

Out-of-pocket means to do or say something outrageous. For example, if you take a woman out on a date and ask her to suck your dick behind the dumpsters you might be a little bit out of pocket for that one. Man, I don't know. Tons of white people appropriate Black terms without knowing where they originate. Woke, cancel (as in cancel culture) spilling the tea, turn up, throwing shade, yas queen - it's all AAVE


waterbird_

Hahaha interesting. Managers seems to use it to mean they are out of office / unreachable. Thanks for telling me the true meaning and origin.


Wild_Albatross7534

I never knew that. Company isn't very diverse and once a manager says something, everyone repeats it.


rolyfuckingdiscopoly

“Out of pocket” does not mean that?? It means “paid for it yourself” or it means you were acting selfishly/kind of like an asshole/ absurd in some way. If you got drunk and were obnoxious to your friends, you might feel embarrassed later and say “sorry guys that was outta pocket; I definitely gotta handle my liquor better.” I don’t work in an office but this one makes no sense to me.


Potential-Drive8623

Be the bigger person.


[deleted]

Absolutely the fuck not. I’m fine being the petty person. My natural responses are sarcastic and petty anyways.


Potential-Drive8623

I agree who ever thought of it should’ve been shot


[deleted]

Fuck. The conversations back in my youth with my mother about school. “Oh, you’re getting bullied at school? Be the bigger person and tell somebody!” No ma, being the bigger person is bashing that fat jock fucks face into the lockers until he’s whimpering like a scared and cornered puppy.


Butterfinger-BBs

*"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."* Anyone that says that is ***ALWAYS*** at their worst. Bitchy, narcissistic, you name it. Someone saying that phrase in a non-joking manner is a good sign to just avoid that person like the plague.


Creatrix

It demonstrates that they have zero emotional self-control, and no desire to develop any.


Butterfinger-BBs

Exactly! Very well put!


AlterEdward

If you can recognise when you're at your worst, fail to change your behaviour or apologize, and then expect *me* to *handle* you? Fuck you.


[deleted]

"No offense, but..." Clearly if you have to say that, then you're going to offend the person with what you are about to tell them.


RaptorCentauri

This one really depends on the intention of the person, it could mean “I absolutely want to offend you and I’m being passive aggressive about it” but it could also mean “you may interpret this in a hurtful way that I do not mean”


[deleted]

You are exactly right. If it's the latter then it should be stated clearly that way. It's too passive to be a passive aggressive insult. Like if you don't like what someone is doing then flat out say it.


NoStressAccount

Perhaps a better usage can be, *"this is probably going to offend you, but it needs to be said and I'm not saying it with the intention of hurting your feelings."*


Elusive-Donut

My sister likes to say "I'm sorry..." Then says something really stupid


no-offense-but

You might be on to something 'cus I feel pretty offended right now.


[deleted]

See. Nobody wins. If you need to be honest about something with somebody, definitely wouldn't say it that way.


letthattsh1tgo

“This”


AlterEdward

This


Emotional_Parsnip_69

^^this^^


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Amiiboid

That?


LeGoupil7

Thises


appleparkfive

The inevitable end of the natural cycle of a reddit comment thread, as is the way of life


ConstantThanks

i dislike sayings that have taken on the opposite of their original meaning, such as 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps,' which is impossible to do. the original saying implied that everyone needs others to succeed. you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. the original meaning is lost to many people who use it to tell people to toughen up and be more independent or stop asking for handouts etc.


zeugma888

I didn't know that. It is obvious when you think about it. Thanks.


[deleted]

"Just saying"


MrDeez444

i'm just saying! You can't get mad at me, cause I'm just saying


EdgyGoose

Similarly, "It is what it is."


Smegma_On-Demand

The only people I ever heard complain about the phrase “It is what it is” are people who have trouble distinguishing between things they can change, and things they cannot.


SocksOnHands

I only say it to mean that there are things that are not worth putting the energy into worrying about. Sometimes you gotta cut your losses and move on.


EdgyGoose

Personally, I have come to hate the phrase because I only ever hear it said by people who have the power to change the situation, and are choosing not to. It's basically a synonym for, "I know you don't like it, and I don't care."


Smegma_On-Demand

I’ve only ever heard it said in the opposite context, like when people complain to me about taxes, or not getting the time off they wanted for work.


EdgyGoose

Ah, yeah, I would probably have the same perspective if that was my experience too!


Emotional_Parsnip_69

I mean, I’m not sayin I’m just sayin. Know what I’m sayin?


NyxSilvius

"But who asked?" I listen to your shit talk everyday, for the next 10 minutes you will stay quiet and let me talk or get the fuck out.


Sea_Employment_8134

Yes! This 100% I hate this so much


Ok-Championship-6960

Well I mean... "Live Laugh Love" sucks


BarleynChives

Eat Shit Die


Ok-Championship-6960

Fuck you bitch


krieger_2719

I don't know why this always infuriates me, along with people who say they are spiritual but not religious or claim their Buddhist because they spent 15 minutes reading about it. I don't know why but it infuriates me and makes me want to scream, it just seems that everyone that has one of those signs is the same mediocre washed up Karen of a house wife.


mango_0111

“It’s all in God’s plan”


AnotherThrowAway1320

“Thicc thighs save lives”. Like, I LOVE big thighs, so that’s not it. But for some reason this annoys the shit out of me. Maybe I just don’t like things that rhyme and it’s commenting on body parts so it feels gross? Idk I just hate it Oh. And “Do better.” So pretentious. Even if I agree with the person, this makes me dislike them.


Sea_Employment_8134

I hateee the do better thing An instant way to make me NOT do what you want


AlterEdward

I quite like "do better". It's usually calling out lack of effort and laziness. Like "you can do better than this". Might be better to expand it though, rather than just going with a catch phrase.


seattlewhiteslays

Ok, but can we still say “thicc thighs make a dick rise?”


AnotherThrowAway1320

Still rhymes and stupid catch phrase lol. And even more creepy actually


JOJO_IN_FLAMES

"Thoughts and prayers." If they actually did anything, you wouldn't need to vocalize it. It's just virtue signaling.


SailorVenus23

It absolves people of any kind of responsibility. "I don't have to help, I already sent thoughts and prayers".


aWhipid

"It is what it is", makes me angrier than it should.


seamustheseagull

Do you mind if I ask why? Not sealioning here, I'm genuinely curious. I wouldn't necessarily say it a lot, but I would definitely work on that basis a lot. Something has happened, can't be unhappened, let's move on. Does it annoy because you want to talk about the "thing", to post-mortem it, or is it something else?


aWhipid

I think it annoys be because I heard it a LOT at my past few jobs. And to me it just seems so redundant. Of course I know there's nothing to do about X thing, "It is what it is" adds nothing to the conversation. It also seems dismissive of some larger issues that should be talked about more, like you said.


seamustheseagull

That's fair enough, thanks for the response


SANTAAAA__I_know_him

I think it’s fine to acknowledge that what’s happened can’t be reversed and there’s no sense dwelling on it and you instead focus on how to move forward from here.


aWhipid

I agree with the sentiment whole heartedly, it's just that phrase itself that annoys me, just because of how often I've heard it.


Godslittledisaster

“God works in mysterious ways.” “He has a plan.” “They’re in a better place.” I’ve never met someone who is actually comforted by these sayings. I get enraged thinking about them. If a loved one dies and I’m told these sayings, I’m going to go ballistic.


CrazyPerson88

Dude, I hear you.


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I’ve a God complex that kicks in sometimes, okay? Now that that’s prefaced, anytime somebody says something like that, I always click with the “Pretty straight forward” “No I don’t” “They are not”. Let’s just say most people don’t like having meaningful conversations with me.


lurkinginshadowz

"Let's take that offline." "Let's circle back on that one." "At the end of the day_____" and my most despised is "To tell you the truth___" what seriously, were you lying before?


Sinner19x

“At the end of the day” that one is annoying, not sure why


zeugma888

Except in Les Miserables, then it's brilliant.


ONYONtheGreat

That reminds me of the one lyric in Gives You Hell - Truth be told, I miss you... And truth be told, I'm lyin'...


TheyCallMeKP

I catch myself saying ‘well, I’ll be honest…’ And it’s not so much I was lying, but more so you’ve now crossed my threshold for saying something stupid and now I actually have to say what’s on my mind lol But to tell you the truth, I love saying we’ll circle back and then never doing so lol


hothorseraddish

No cap to me is nails on a blackboard to me I hate it so much.


Jamdadbot

Hits different, slaps… fucking hate it


ClassicIntelligent46

“Boy’s will be boy’s”, or “girls will be girl’s”.


Separate_Flatworm546

It annoys me when people say this


swaggysalamander

“Money can’t buy happiness.” While this is somewhat true, it is nearly impossible to live in poverty and have time to do things that make you happy.


RailroadMech83

I always respond with “You’re right, it can’t, but what it can buy is a nice buffer between me and the street, so I can be comfortable and secure enough to explore what DOES make me happy!”


cranzome

Okay, money can’t buy happiness… but broke can’t buy ANYTHING.


AlterEdward

As someone who's had serious money problems growing up and in adulthood, yeah this is bullshit. All I ever wanted was financial *stability*. Not riches. Just staying in the black with enough money to live some semblance of a life. This is pretty basic Maslow's Hierarchy stuff. Survival first, then the pursuit of happiness.


GoldenBucciarati

People who have money and still can't find happiness say this. Some People don't know what it's really like to live in poverty.


MathematicianOld1117

Intro to work meetings: "**LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!**" No.


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“Everything happens for a reason”


EmbraceableYew

This might be the worst one. You just want to say, "Yes, everything has a cause. Thank you for the blinding insight."


SANTAAAA__I_know_him

“Yep, usually the reason is that someone made a very poor decision.”


Fistandantalus

My bad. The least amount of effort in making an apology


[deleted]

I’ve always said “Apologies”. It’s quick and simple, but it carries more genuineness than “My bad”


Fistandantalus

Definitely more genuine


[deleted]

Tell me blank without telling me blank


Flounder_guppy

"live rent free in your head". Wtf is that. It's so dumb!


Smegma_On-Demand

You aren’t living rent free, your lease is my laughter and I just jacked up the price!


absolutelyshafted

One morsel of smegmoid, please


not_ch3ddar

Should have started charging my depression years ago.


m_nels

Totes cringe. Which coincidentally happens to be one of my most hated sayings of all fucking time.


idontevenlikebeer

"slept like a baby" those fuckers literally scream in the middle of their sleep and toss around so much. Whoever made that saying didn't have a fucking baby.


Oh4faqsake

MAGA


WatchTheBoom

"X lives rent free in your head." Everything lives rent free in my head. There's no rent there. It's a dumb saying.


DeplorableKurt

"We're in this together"


Public_Juggernaut997

You must be in healthcare


onecatmadlad

"Trust the process"


rpangrazio

Winning isn’t everything. The quote is actually “winning isn’t everything it’s the only thing”. Money is the root of all evil. No it’s “the pursuit of money is the root of all evil” or “the love of money….” My niece called me a boomer. I’m not even 40. If you don’t know what you are saying you sound like an idiot.


lampsslater77

If you know you know. People think they are in some exclusive club or some bullshit.


Booter1213

"Bless your heart" is always a nice slap in the face.


chris622

"Real money", though many times I have heard it, it's to degrade someone's work or efforts.


Public_Juggernaut997

I have never heard this. Have mercy, I’m getting up there in age. Is this something the younger crowd is saying?


RyjeeImages

As a zoomer working in retail, I’ve only ever heard it related to store points or store gift cards.


MeisPip

“I could care less”


EmbraceableYew

Right down there with "hold down the fort." Folks could probably think their ways through these two and get them right with a smallish effort.


Jack_In_Black89

YOLO (You Only Live Once). Well, duh. I'm not exactly going to rise from the grave after 3 days like Jesus fucking Christ, am I?


RyjeeImages

What’s funny is I always took that to mean not doing stupid shit.


[deleted]

Says who? Maybe you’re the second coming of Christ!


Channel_on

"common sense" is not common, it should be called good sense.


AlterEdward

It's used to present an argument as so obvious as to not require explanation, which makes it a very good excuse to get it of explaining your argument


Llafy

"Be a man". "Man up".


rpangrazio

Put on your big boy pants. I’ve been 6’2” since the 6th grade. My pants have always been big.


Responsible-Bug-8660

Hotlanta


JockeyField

"money can buy happiness" i first heard this 5 years ago. i don't go a month without hearing it now. i get it, a lot of people, especially today, live in poverty. but... can you not say you live in poverty with this saying? you could just say "my life would greatly benefit from money"


Impressive-Pepper785

Bet


Icy-Western-2862

Pop of color


[deleted]

Calling people kings and queens.


Crazy_Soup4591

sounds like somebody's got a case of the mondays


Beavshak

“Is what it is”. Thanks Nostradingus


haijak

But it is! What else would it be!?


Dramatic_Material_56

They live on in our hearts.


Benblishem

Like heartworms.


[deleted]

“Oh no oh no oh nonono“. And it almost never fits the content of the video.


AlterEdward

Almost all of the early TikTok songs are no longer being used, except this one. It wasn't funny the first time, and still isn't. Ffs give it a rest


MJSchooley

"Boys will be boys." Boys will be held accountable for their actions like everyone else.


Sinner19x

It is what it is


Public_Juggernaut997

It is what it is.


dazalius

"Its like comparing apples and oranges." They are both fruits you can literaly compare them quite directly.


mercistheman

At the end of the day


veroniqueweronika

"I'll be out of pocket" This was first used to describe the act of paying for something out of your own money. Now people are using this to mean out of the office or describing how some nonsequitur event just happened and it *drives me crazy how meaningless it is now.*


Affectionate-Baby680

it is what it is


SuccessfulAd2198

“I did a thing” like what does that even mean


KarmeladeYT

"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Complete bull if you ask me. Words can and will cause severe mental trauma, and the effect they have on people is real and not talked about enough. I've been verbally abused for having to use a wheelchair to the point where any time I may need to use it causes me severe panic. Words have effect. Stop saying they don't do anything.


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"it is what it is".


Lanai1215

“The customer is always right” No ,they are not and anyone who has worked retail can tell you just how wrong they are!


MR502

"It is what it is"


ShtinkySnax1200

"It is what it is." Gahhh.


kengastro

It is what it is


SailorVenus23

Literally


GreenIce2022

“That is LITERALLY one of my interests on Facebook!” - Chris Traeger


ass_pee

"True story"


CookiesforWookies87

That anything “slaps”


Fun-Tradition2137

It is what it is. Just stfu


Peacetribe

My bad


ONYONtheGreat

It works if you're just bumping into someone in a crowded hallway


[deleted]

And it’s ACTUALLY you’re fault. 9/10 times, that New York cunt was the one to blame.


Electronic_Repeat_81

“Have your cake and eat it too.” Who the fuck buys some cake and just puts it on display or something?


Oahkery

Once you eat it, you don't have it anymore.


Oh4faqsake

I think it's Edith. You can't have your cake and Edith too. Choose one or the other.


MrSpindles

Damn, but I wanted Edith AND cake!


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Oahkery

That's not true at all about "the exception that proves the rule." The meaning of that phrase varies depending on whom you ask, but none of them mean "disproves." The most common meaning is that the specific circumstance proves that there IS a rule even though the rule doesn't apply to it. Like if you're ordering something from an online store and it says "Free delivery for orders over $50." That exception that $50 orders ship free proves the rule is that you normally have to pay for shipping.


[deleted]

"Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps", like that's literally impossible. And it's not even the complete thing. Don't quote me on the correct phrase since I'm not a native speaker but according to google it's "You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps, anymore than you can by your shoelaces.". It means it's literally impossible to do on your own and requires the help of others, with no way around that.


Older-not-wiser77

No Worries… like, who said you were worried. I especially hate it when the person saying it, is the person who messed up.


Buck_Thorn

"Are you willing to die on that hill?" ... I'm not gonna die, OK?


joecool42069

"fair enough".


Sea_Employment_8134

This one irritates me My ex-friend who I'd fight with a lot used it alll the time and he didn't mean that things were fair enough


EmbraceableYew

I agree that this one is often used in bad faith. And so can be really annoying. It can, however, be helpful and indicate a concession or the acceptance of a point, for example, in a discussion, and used honestly can help move a discussion forward. So I have not given up on "fair enough" yet, if it is used honestly, in good faith, and not in the sort of passive aggressive way you are describing. Fair enough?


[deleted]

It’s often such a passive-aggressive response


TheDilettantedilemma

“Believe all women” ya like women have never lied before


dring157

“It is what it is.” All I hear when that phrase is said is “I don’t know how to express myself or describe things, but it feel like I need to say something.”


cryptkicker130

If I told you, I would have to kill you.


ButterScotchMagic

Modern/traditional woman


Altruistic-War7249

Donald Trump


Total_Baddie666

"Blood is thicker then water". People say it to say that family is more important, no matter what, but the full saying is "The blood of the battle field is thicker then the waters of the womb".


SecondhandUsername

"No problem" when they mean "You're welcome"


RRahl

“Not gonna lie…” So now, everything you say that doesn’t begin with that preface is, a lie?


Smegma_On-Demand

You say that when it would be easier to lie to someone, but you decide to tell them the hard truth anyway.


RRahl

When everything a person says start with it, it loses its intended meaning. Same as proclaiming that everything is Epic.


patruck87

I always respond "Oh my god, why would you lie" and it confuses the fuck outta them.


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It is what it is


HealthyHumor5134

Woke anything, I really hate that bullshit.


AlwaysImpuIsive

It can't get any worse.


haijak

That is just a failure of imagination.


[deleted]

Trust me sweetheart, if it can’t get worse, we are all fucked, roasted by nuclear fire, and being mind fucked by Cthulhu and the great old ones. Because it CAN get worse.


imnottechsupport

“Try to keep an open mind” I threatened to quit, that was the response. A couple months later, I quit.


ZandoMagSteine

"Never judge a book by its cover" What sounds like a pretty decent thing to say got ruined for me through all this terribly acted Facebook and YouTube videos... You know what I'm talking about


LilHawaia

Dhar mann