Are you/were you immune to cliches?

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I was... not so much now that I learned to take them seriously when someone says them; they have legitimate thoughts and feelings that they're trying to express and jsut because a saying has been used over and over doesn't make it illegitimate... I used to not really be impacted by something someone said unless they came up with an original way to say it, showing that they thought it out and took the time to say it in their own words, or came up with it independently, showing they didn't just take it from someone so that they'd have something to say.

immune to them ?
what are they supposed to do ?

Cliche posts tend to dominate WrongPlanet. The majority of stuff on any forum is pointless drivel. I guess that makes me even more rigid than you are, because I can't stand to even read most of it.

In real life... there's less of the unoriginal blabber; but still to the degree that I flip the 'block crap' switch.

I hate cliches. People say them and feel so proud to have contributed in such a magnificent way.

"Be a man!" etc.


What's priceless is the look on their face if you say, "well what on earth do you even mean by that??" They have no idea... it's just what's said in those circumstances. It seems to make other little-brained people feel better.... why not me too?

I try my best not to use cliches, but I'm definately not perfect.

I dislike cliches, especially the same one used over and over. Some people rely on cliches and buzz phrases when their imagination fails them.

Smalltalk is by and large a conditioned pattern of clichés and cliché responses. Much of NT life is highly scripted, and the NT need only take on the role and let the script determine the course of his or her life.

thank you