I am surprised no one yet has posted the infuriatingly worthless expression of affectless sympathy:
thoughts and prayers
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As a nonnative speaker, the first time I heard the expression was on Bojack Horseman and it confused the hell out of me.
Religious bs
Unsure if this counts as a quote but here goes.
If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best
Absolute fucking nonsense.
The worst part of this quote is that, in the original, she (Marilyn Monroe) actually framed her "worst":
>I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
So in the context it sounds more like "here are my flaws - take me or leave me, but you won't change me". Which sounds reasonable. But without that context it sounds more like "I'm entitled because I like to pretend that I'm above other people".
"Do or do not, there is no try"
The rallying cry of the kind of person who thinks every hobby has to become a side hustle.
I feel like that quote is better interpreted as "you haven't failed until/unless you give up." There is also value to "don't go into something without committing to it," but damn not everything has to be a fucking job.
Let's not let those people "have" Star Wars quotes. Same thing when Nazi trash in America tried to co-opt the "Ok" hand sign, Hawaiian shirts, etc. I was a bit dismayed by how fast people were willing to cede those things away. My take is: They can't have them, don't give up so easily.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
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I donβt see it anymore after leaving the hell that is Reddit, but I saw βPlay stupid games, win stupid prizesβ multiple times in every thread.
I haven't seen "fuck around and find out" since the old Reddit days, either.
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"We only use x% of our brain."
Simply not true as shown since years by neurology
This reminds me of the "you eat X amount of spiders in your sleep every year". It's also been debunked so many times and I see it popping up from time to time.
Even more ironic, this was created by some professor (?) to prove that starting fake viral facts was easy or something...
Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.
If you just add the words on average, suddenly it sounds more realistic, because who knows if there's a guy somewhere sleepwalking in a spider infested place
There are moments where people use more of their bran at once than they usually do.
We call these moments "seizures".
As an epileptic married to a monitor tech, we both had a good laugh when I shared this.
Thanks stranger.
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I don't know who has to hear this but
I don't know who has to hear this but
that's a phrase, not a quote.
Not see it. But I hear this one.
"it's always in the last place you look"
No shit Sherlock. Why would I keep looking after I found it?
I always thought that was the joke?
I must say, in retrospect it kind of seems obvious, but this has somehow blown my mind
One time I kept looking just to prove that statement wrong. I think I was 4yo.
What people really mean when they say this is
itβs in the last place you think to look
This again is a misnomer because, not just because you stop looking⦠but because people find it hard to admit things are lost. All part of the half serious, half ridiculous psuedo science of Findology (disclaimer: my own blog)
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Hard men create easy times.
Easy times create soft men.
Soft men create hard times.
Hard times create hard men.
Man creates dinosaurs
Dinosaurs eat man
Woman inherits the earth
Which is ironically said the most by soft men who grew up in easy times.
More cheese => more holes.
More holes => less cheese.
Therefore: More cheese => Less cheese
"You can't have your cake and eat it too". What is the flaming point of having cake if you can't eat it?
One time I baked a whole entire cake for myself. There was no occasion or anything I just wanted to have a cake and eat it too. It turns out cakes are really big and it's really hard for a single person to eat a cake faster than it turns all spongy and icky.
OMG. Came here to say that and it was the first one. I especially hate the way people say this as if the person wanting the "cake" was SO ridiculous Like, how dare he!
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"Life's not fair." It seems that more often than not the person saying it is in a position to make the situation fair. Usually it is people in positions of power saying it and it feels more like an excuse for their inaction.
"Don't be evil." -Google
Both hate and laugh it.
"You are your own worst enemy."
I hate it most when it's true.
"You dropped this king"
Idk why but I always cringe when I see that.
For me its the one that promoted me to write this, the futurama quote "you're are technically correct, the best kind of correct"
I hate how people use it over at forums, it is repeated ad nauseam, even if it doesn't make much sense. It's probably from people using it constantly that I hate the quote, and not something that has to do with the meaning.
"G stands for graphics, so it's gif with a hard g"
The only thing more meaningless than arguing about how to pronounce gif is using that as an argument, and yet it always gets repeated.
"P stands for photographic, so it's JPEG with an f sound" is the one that gets me
Not to mention itβs a made up rule that doesnβt apply to literally any other acronym (radar, sonar, NASA, NATO, scuba, etc.)
OK jif
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