People who start sentences with "I mean,". It makes you sound like a contrarian or pedantic prick.
I mean, the other turn of phrase I hate is "living my/your/our/their best life". It's just cringe to me for some reason.
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Agree, they are rarely clarifying what they mean. Useless filler like "literally"
I'll be honest, I'll be honest
Oh there's one I hate to no end.
To make a superlative, in Spain there's this sentence that it has become popular:
[whatever adjective]? not, the next thing
Tall? Not, the next thing
Difficult? Not, the next thing
Expensive? Not, the next thing
Blue? Not, the next thing
What the fuck is the next thing?
It was uninspired 15 years ago, now is just infuriating when you hear it five times in the same conversation.
when I hear the phrase "rustles my jimmies" it really, well...
Everyone started saying “That really grinds my gears” for a couple of years and then it just went away again.
I've heard that one since I was a kid, but yeah it did kinda drop off.
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"Not gonna lie..." Uh, good, I guess
Y'all
“It is what it is.”
It infuriates me because it is usually said by a person so mentally lazy that they are causing problems for others. You can’t say it is what it is unless you can tell me what ‘it’ is!
It’s not ‘acceptance’, it’s spiritual bypassing at best and it makes me want to puke.
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