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Forumspeak, platitudes,cliches,anodynes and other annoying sayings
September 25 2013
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RHP User
12 years ago
I get annoyed with people who are obviously reciting something they misread and clearly haven't thought about what it means ... given it makes no sense the way they relay it.One example that springs to mind is " I could care less about what others think " ... really, well then perhaps you should - it is unhealthy to care too much about what others think ... I couldn't care less if you take the advice or not.I would use some of the examples you have provided for their euphemistic interpretations not so much to be taken as literal expressions. As always context is crucial.Light and the end of the tunnel - push on through the darkness, things can only get better.All good things come to he who waits - patience is a virtue and is often rewarded.Everything happens for a reason - This one is contentious as it is often used with the implication that a guiding hand or fatalism is at work while the literal interpretation is actually correct from a causality perspective.
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RHP User
12 years ago
"Everything will be ok." Who says? "There are plenty of fish in the sea." Sure, but maybe I'm aiming for a dolphin? Or nothing? "You will find someone." Ehh... I found a couple of someones. Why would I want to find just one? The word Karma in general. Good things will happen to good people. Not. "Money does not buy happiness". If you give it away it does. And finally: "You can't love anyone else until you love yourself". I've seen otherwise.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Que sera, sera. What will be, will be. Life is not what happens while you're busy making other plans. It's what you make of it. Fate, my arse.
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madotara69
12 years ago
You are wrong.Mado
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RHP User
12 years ago
And people say to it's ok good things come in small packages..... And I say Beware because so does poison - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
Is one of my favourite phrases. In moments of surrender, when I stop fighting life and decide to flow with it gracefully, que sera sera is the first phrase that comes to mind. It brings me peace as I recall again that acceptance of what is can be a form of real strength.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Platitudes, cliches etc... have used them... will probably use them again... whilst they may be half arsed and only semi useful they can also be better than saying nothing (sometimes), though conversely they could be more damaging than remaining silent.However, just like every explosive episode of Myth Busters it is OK to let them go boom at a distance where things are safe and no one is really going to get hurt.As for why use them? Partially parroting and partially because there is no way I could dump what goes through my brain in any better wording (seriously is a mess up there). And nope... none of them are deep beliefs... don't have many of those at all anymore.
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RHP User
12 years ago
The love of my life is just around the corner - Then why can I only see a straight road Women are more interested in the inner beauty - really, my profile pics show my inner beauty .. pfft I can't put a photo up, someone will recognise me - really, so if you do meet someone you will perform a Vulcan mind wipe after the date????? I'd love to meet you - then you never hear from them again lol I'm only here for the forums - so if Mr/Ms Perfect asks to meet you, they get a polite refusal???? yeah sure lol Mooks
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RHP User
12 years ago
I think people use platitudes because they don't want to acknowledge the state of mind you are in. I'm currently job hunting and seriously, if I hear one more time "it wasn't meant to be" I'm going to vomit and hopefully over anyone who says it. And yes, "something better around the corner", what corner? where? point me to it cos I could use that something better RIGHT NOW! "Patience is a virtue". Yeah? please explain? When I was in Ireland some years back I was travelling with a couple of Irish guys and they were really bagging Aussies out for our "she'll be right" saying. As one said, "if your mother is sick and then dies, she won't be right, she'll be fecking dead!"I know I have used them and probably still so but in my heightened state of pissed off-ness I can't think of any I use regularly.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I use to hate hearing the expression: I love a man in uniform! Just once I wanted a woman to say she wanted to see me out of uniform .... Mooks
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RHP User
12 years ago
Your last one made me spit coffee and I nearly literally pmsl.Always love how the uniform can be like honey for bees when you're working and obviously not available for anything more than flirting. The uniform thing is over-rated.I have an anti-quote for you about karma......"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life WERE fair and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe"
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RHP User
12 years ago
Money can't buy happiness....but it will buy wine....which is sort of the same thing isn't it?? :p- Posted from rhpmobile
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Paradisepair
12 years ago
Seems to be a bit of a mantra for me here... I have noticed I've said it a few times BUT it's true, and we should resist the urge to put down other peoples' choices around sex.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'Mesmerised' Que sera, sera. What will be, will be. Life is not what happens while you're busy making other plans. It's what you make of it. Fate, my arse. Yep, I'd Fête your arse
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RHP User
12 years ago
just be good friends.AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH !
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RHP User
12 years ago
In the aftermath of my father dying, organising the funeral etc., my brother and I often ended up at the same bar at the end of the day. The third or forth day in a row, the barman asked if we were in town for a particular reason. When I told him, his reply was 'I'm sorry'. In a loud and aggressive voice, I said 'So it your fault is it? I've been wondering who to blame.'. His reaction was worth it as well as the laugh my brother got out of it.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Same same but different! When my grandmother passed away my boss asked after the funeral "how did it go" I replied "we successfully buried her.....she didn't put up much of a fight" ........still laughing at the silence that followed. Bloody stupid idiot! .......some of us need to laugh to get through the tough times......- Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
While having treatment for Cancer. "Stay Positive'. I told one person. The next person to tell me that 'I said if I hear that one more time I'm going to stick it up your \\ - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
Mooka, If you had my sex life, you'd only be here for the forums too ;) Hp xo 💌 Not looking to meet, I'm just here to keep in touch with forum friends... Unless you're really cute...
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RHP User
12 years ago
SO there isn't really plenty of fish in the sea.
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RHP User
12 years ago
How can you suck at fishing up there inspirit ? Can't go wrong I would have thought ? 😎 Hp xo 💌 Because you're worth it...
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RHP User
12 years ago
gets a bit thin when you have made the same mistake over and over.I'm not judgmental - but I am going to express an opinion anyway.Beauty is within - but no one ever wants to look at my x-rays.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - just some have a lot more beholders than others.He/She wasn't worth it - then why are you feeling so bad?As one door closes another opens - but not when you are locked out.Don't blow your own trumpet - well if you can I say go for it.
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Coops27M
12 years ago
It's not you it's me is a crock i think. Hate it, grow some balls and admit you don't like them anymore :). I do like "The early bird catches the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese" hehe- Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
but I have a question for Coops...would that be the little baby cheeses
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RHP User
12 years ago
Chin Up - Tits Out ( . Y . )
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madotara69
12 years ago
Wildsong, let me explain.As the hitch hiker ran into the bushes and squatted to have a crap, then yelped. The kind priest that picked him up, called out, Patience....patience is a virtue....Mosses had patience my sonThe hitch hiker called out.... Well father.....Mosses would not have patience if he had his balls crushed in a rabbit trap.Does that help. he he.Mado
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RHP User
12 years ago
Is "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"I am not convinced.
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Cheekyarses
12 years ago
This is brilliant - priceless - this forum needs to be framed! Love it
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Coops27M
12 years ago
To be honest i've never really put much thinking into except on the surface... It could mean any number of things so you made me step back and ponder that one and if your inferring what i think you are , yes i suppose in a lot of cases they do get the little baby cheeses :). On the other hand there's a good chance i have no idea what your talking about hahaha- Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
Just because I was named after a Saint does not make me... 'holier than thou'. . 'NEXT!' Reminds me of Judge Judy lol... and then there's... . 'Done to death'... An announcement that should not be uttered until the 'recipient' of multiple little deaths is lying semi-unconcious awhirl in the aftermath. . Forum / Moral / Grammar/ Spelling / etc Police... Anyone seen in Uniform should be under contract to undress themselves in the sexiest style of the best quality stripper complete with snakes and the ubiqitous baton cum dildo. Giddyup! . Nite nite
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'madotara69' Wildsong, let me explain.As the hitch hiker ran into the bushes and squatted to have a crap, then yelped. The kind priest that picked him up, called out, Patience....patience is a virtue....Mosses had patience my sonThe hitch hiker called out.... Well father.....Mosses would not have patience if he had his balls crushed in a rabbit trap.Does that help. he he.Mado Just for this Mado, thanks for the laugh
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RHP User
12 years ago
...is because they didn't die in their sleep..Revenge is the aroma emitted from a rose petal, as it is crushed by a high heel shoe.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'Gayely' I'm not judgmental I think we are all judgemental about something. I'm very judgental when it comes to doing something that will hurt your partner very much, should the truth come out. And I don't just mean cheating, I meany any form of dishonesty that could/would cause tremendous grief when discovered. And I make no excuses for it. *Braces herself*
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