Corny phrases/advice that make your blood boil

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In my personal experience, I would disagree with the above. I have made a choice to be attracted to someone before. But for most people, yes, what you like is just what you like. However, I think this phrase is meant to mean more that.. different people find different things attractive. This can be in terms of sexual attraction or just in style/decorative tastes or food preferences. Basically, there is usually someone for every one/thing. Not all guys like the things you list. Some men like lean muscular women. Some men like heavy set women. There's infinite variations. I belive this phrase is meant to mean.. "Just because you don't like it doesn't mean someone else shouldn't" because their definition of beauty could be completely different.


Oh. My. God. That one INFURIATES me. That and 'tough, life isn't fair,' were two of my mom's favorite phrases to tell me. The 'get over yourself' was thrown in there any time I might be trying to express my opinion on a certain subject that was contrary to hers. For some reason she thinks that I have an inflated opinion of myself because I 'argue' with her by explaining my point of view. So she would attempt to take me down a peg by telling me to get over myself.

There was also 'because I said so,' 'you have no opinion,' and 'you'll get over it.'


If we're talking about corny, though, I'll have to go with "You just have to have faith." Uhm NO. People who claim that everything is fate (or god's will) piss me off really, really bad. You can believe whatever you want to. Doesn't mean its true or will happen. This can be used, conversely, as an excuse for failure "I guess it just wasn't meant to be"
Argh!

sometimes i find "corny" phrases amusing.

the other week , i was with a girl from my work in my car, and we were driving to a client site.

she was complaining about things. she could not pay her rent and groceries were all too expensive now and it was "dog eat dog" in the city etc.

i remained silent for most of the trip, but she eventually needed to hear what i had to say about what she said.

i said "well i guess that's just life in the big smoke".

i do not remember where i learned that saying, but it is all i could think of at the time, and then i went into a laughing problem that she did not understand.

whatever.

i also like "that's the way the cookie crumbles" when said as a response to someone lamenting over the collapse of their business.

it is late and my mind is tired.

^ Most of the time I love corny, too
Corny jokes are the best.

I think the idea is that if you eat the cake then you don't have it any more. It would be clearer if they just said "you can't have it both ways"

I always used to get cross at "teach not thy grandmother to suck eggs," because I can't imagine anybody in their right mind wanting to do that. But then I found out what it meant, i.e. "don't try to teach people what they already know perfectly well how to do." I can sympathise with that, as I've suffered at the hands of teachers who think I'm stupid just because they can't explain things clearly.
But I still don't see what was so useful about sucking eggs, or why older people might have been expected to be good at it.

The "advice" I hate the most is pretty much along the lines of "life isn't fair"....but usually it's more like "Hey, that's just how it is, deal with it and be grateful like everyone else" or "At least you have a job, some people don't."

Sorry, I will not accept that my sh***y job where I'm treated like s**t is a "blessing" just because someone else is worse off. I am laid off right now, but when I was at work, I always had a huge problem with the fact that the people in my department worked 10 times harder than everyone else but got paid the same. I would make my disagreement with this known at choice times in a way that didn't necessarily piss off my boss. But everyone else would just say "we're not supposed to know what the other people make anyway"....YEAH no kidding! Because they don't want you to know how bad they're f---ing you over! Like the OP said, injustice is not a rule, it can be fixed if people are actually in the right mentality to DO something about it! No successful person ever got anywhere by accepting what they have just because others are worse off.

Hmm.. well sometimes if you want to make easter eggs that will last, you poke a hole in both sides of the raw egg and then blow through them, to get the eggyness out so that you can keep them and they won't go bad.. they're really fragile, though. But you don't suck, you blow.. you don't want the raw egg go to in your mouth.. you want it to go in a pan or a bowl or something..

^ I'm not sure how this relates but my mom used to say 'go suck eggs' like.. go away.. or f*ck off. ??

This has got to be the worst lie children are told ever. Not only is not true, but it also tells the kids doing the abuse that they get a free pass because they're not really hurting anyone. Kinda falls under that "no harm, no foul" saying, which is another lousy one that gets used. Oops almost killed you. Just missed, oh well, no harm no foul. grrrrrrrrr

I laughed when reading your story---funny how we sometimes take figures of speech literally, such as the cake saying, and you actually had it literally happen, followed a literal rendering of the saying not because you thought you were supposed to but because it made more sense.

I've been confused over figures of speech before, but they make sense when someone explains them to me. The cake expression? I think it makes absolutely no sense really. I mean, you can describe what it means, but the point of a metaphor is that it has to corelate to something that is primarily true: a bird in the hand IS worth two in the bush, and you can apply it to other situations.

But I cannot imagine a situation where you can "have" cake and not eat it. I think an NT might use it to give them an image of why something can't be, but it just makes my head hurt to think of the stupidity of the expression.



I agree. I like it when I know they're corny.

If you could have your cake, but not eat it, that must mean it is either moldy/stale, or you have diabetes.

“The customer is always right”
-----this phrase may be useful but its not true, businesses ought to have more truthful as well as useful mantra.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
----In many examples, different results can only be achieved by repetition, because chance and training are involved. Yes, if you keep trying to walk on the ceiling over and over again and think that THIS time, it will work, you are insane. But it has nothing to do with repeating yourself. It has to do with the fact that the belief is insane.

Besides, it doesn't match up with "if at first you don't succeed, try try again" which although cliche, at least could be useful for some people, and is only a way to remind yourself to keep going (not that I personally find it useful).

“Everything happens for a reason.”
-----I do believe it in a religious/philosophical sense, but dumping all that meaning into a cliche seems shallow.

"I cried myself to sleep"
----I've spent long nights crying and ended up sleeping, but I just think the expression doesn't make sense. You can cry until you fall asleep but I don't think you cry yourself TO sleep. Maybe you can, but it's just gotten too cliche.

"Can I ask you a question?"
----Just ask it.

(I googled dumb cliches on google and found this awesome blog on the topic, from which I got some of the cliches I listed)
http://lifeisfunny.freethrills.com/inde ... e-phrases/

Actually, this depends on the length of the answer. I don't always have the time to answer a long drawn out question (explaining an entire concept), but a quick yes/no/maybe I might have time for. So this one isn't so bad for me.

"Keep your nose to the grindstone"

That's a cliche that doesn't make my blood boil but it does make my stomach turn. I know it's supposed to impart some corny advice about hard work paying off, but I can't help but picture it literally. Ewwww!


I would also prefer not to "keep my eyes peeled". I'd rather just look carefully and consistently, thank you. More Ewwwwww.

"you can't have your cake and eat it, too" was a hard one for me until I learned that "have" means "keep" in this case. so yeah, basically "you can't have it both ways".

WTF doesn't bother me. I use it a lot, and will continue to do so because I like it and it's easier to type than the way I really say it in real life, which I do, as an utterance of complete amazement over the stupidity of something.

"keep your eyes peeled" is disgusting.

christianity is full of trite sayings that get on my nerves. I won't start thinking about them because I'm already angry over something else.

"let it go", "move on", "be the bigger person" are all ways of saying to keep your mouth shut when someone has screwed you over and you need to talk about it but no one wants to bother listening. they're saying it's your problem instead of saying something like "I understand you're still angry about it, but I can't do anything for you or change the situation so it makes me sad/frustrated, so I'd rather talk about something that will make us both feel better".

I hate it when people say "be yourself" People don´t know how I really am, and if I acted like myself, then everyone would be really annoyed
People also say "it doesn´t matter what other people think" but it does matter to me, because I want friends and I want to be treated right