"it's fine"... It's very versatile for self reassurance. Working on something and find yourself letting perfect be the enemy of good? Just stop, it's fine. Making some mountain out of a molehill? Stop worrying about it, it's fine.... Before I get too carried away with examples, I'll just stop there, it's fine
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Fuck? Kinda my favourite.
Haha me too fucking love it
Just remembered a few more:
When someone asks "how's it going," I'll either respond "it goes" or "relentlessly," depending on how relentlessly it goes.
In response to a question in a field in which I have little expertise, I shall respond with "I'm not a botanist."
When multiple small things go wrong in quick succession, I may quip "Mondays, right?" only if the day is not Monday.
My response to "how are you?" Translates to "preferably well"
I tend to reply that I'm going "reasonable" mostly copying a dead friend who used to say it when asked. He died in his 90s of natural causes but was a really interesting fella. Homosexual, Jewish, Holocaust survivor, antiquities dealer.
"I'm full of good ideas ;)" as a response to someone using a suggestion of mine and saying it helped.
I started saying it to boost my own confidence, I think. But it's true!
"Bro." Started saying it ironically and accidentally rewired my brain.
"Oop, sorry"
Can apply for a variety of situations such as someone accidentally bumping into me, me accidentally bumping into them, or making a little mistake on something. Sometimes I'll even instinctively say it to inanimate objects that I knock over!
Hi canadian poster!
"First of all..."
I said it so many times while drunk once that my brother made a song mocking me. That was a wild night.
Hell yeah, brother!
Keep on truckin
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
"What day is it?"
If I'm alone I'll just randomly ask myself now and then.
Nice one :)
¼*⅓ chance of getting it right.
.. Does that equal 1/7? My phone doesn't have a shortcut for it.
Getting it right is the wrong philosophy. As the saying goes, live every day like it's Monday.
"Upright and conscious" is my goto response to casual questions. I also preference almost every sentence with some modulation of "Yeah", meaning everything from "Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly" to "Yeah, bro you sure you wanna do this?" to "yeahh so the cops are here and I told you so""
“Alive and vertical” is my variation on that first one there. Sometimes I use “very low baseline” as an afterthought, because some folks seem confused by it.
I also say “I know English wasn’t my first language, but I could have sworn this made sense. Maybe we’re speaking different English.” I speak English just fine, without any trace of accent (beyond Chicago), but that makes people take a step back and pay attention to what I said or wrote.
"Santa polenta!"
= saint cornmeal mush
When something annoying or bad happens.
It's a service I provide free of charge.
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Thanks, sorry!
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Right on!
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Eeeeeee! Is pretty great for when I need to let people know I need them to make room for me but I'm too frazzled to speak properly.
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Words are hard, I'll go again any time I speak gibberish instead of English
I am also forever yelling corner! I yell corner at the grocery store. I say corner when I am alone in my apartment. Yesterday I called out door! as I was opening the front door of my workplace into the empty parking lot.
Fam, you are invited to my next party.
So are you professionally cute, or are you just cute for fun?
Those ones are delightful!! I approve
"Don't quote me on that."
I say a lot of "facts" that come to my head that I think I'm remembering correctly and are relevant to the scenario/conversation. But I never know if I'm actually saying anything correct or if it just sounds convincing but isn't true like ChatGPT.
Some of my coworkers can get amused or annoyed with it and some like to respond things like "I'm never going to quote you on anything ever" lmao.
I like to say 'lick dick in the shade' for some reason
Haha that's a new one!
I'm glad you made me think to look up the video. Now I know I've been saying this for 11 years, in front of many coworkers and other acquaintances, without any explanation.
:D
Different strokes for different folks!
I'm gonna use that on my wife (she suffered a few strokes nine years ago)
This is great, mind if I borrow it? 😂
In my native language I always say "[it] is logical" because we don't have a word or phrase that means "makes sense" and I'm pretty sure literally nobody other than me does this.