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I hate hate hate it when they say that

7/21/2019

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Maybe they don’t mean it that way, or perhaps they do, but there are some statements that I hear repeatedly and they just rub me the wrong way. If you were writing a blog, you could be whining about this stuff, too…
 
  1. People say, "Be careful," right after you needed to be careful.
  2. People say "That's a great question" immediately before they don't answer it.
  3. For some reason, I consider it fighting words when someone says, "Let me play devil's advocate." Usually, that statement means, "I'm about to dismiss your idea without offering anything valuable to replace it." 
  4. When a person says, “I'll be frank,” doesn’t it make you wonder if they were lying to you previously?
  5. By the time someone says, "To make a long story short," it's much too late.
  6. I hate it when someone assures me that “nothing is etched in stone here,” because they always sound more uncertain than accommodating. 
  7. When people say, “It’s not about the money,” it doesn’t mean it’s about the money. It means the money is a proxy for something else that’s even more important than money.
  8. What the hell does it mean when somebody says, “I don’t disagree?” Do they agree, do they have no opinion, have they never given your idea any thought whatsoever, or did they blank out while you were talking and they have no idea what you said?
 
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4 Comments
David Spitulnik
7/21/2019 10:34:13 am

Add.

“To be honest” or “to be perfectly honest”

I stop the conversation and ask what they have been until that time.

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Sue Katte
7/21/2019 11:36:57 am

Not to pick on Millennials and Gen Xers, but I kind of hate it when they say, "I know, right?" or end just about any statement with "right?"
Also hate, "Do you know what I mean?", implying you may be incapable of simple comprehension of the obvious.
"To be perfectly honest," however, I have probably uttered most of your list of annoying phrases many times, myself!
~Sue

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John Tallman
7/21/2019 01:05:38 pm

"It was in the last place I looked" If you found it in the first place you looked, were you going to keep looking in other places?

and

The phrase "very unique". As I understand it, by definition, something either is or isn't unique.

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David Brimm
7/22/2019 09:39:10 am

"I hear what you're saying?" No, they are not.

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