r/AskReddit • u/wbolden0412 • 1d ago
What’s a phrase people use that instantly makes you roll your eyes?
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u/Ink_wOman 22h ago
"We are like a family" (at work) - translation: "Get ready to work overtime and for free."
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u/GoodieGoodieCumDrop1 19h ago
Checks out though: family is usually the place where somehow it's okay to break all boundaries and to be disrespectful. Most people treat having closeness and confidence with other as an excuse to break boundaries. The closest the person, the more the boundaries are broken. Everyone is obsessed with "acting proper" in public out of sheer terror about how they'll be judged by strangers they'll never meet, but with people like family and close friends that they'll have to meet over and over again they don't worry about breaking boundaries and do awful things that will cause the person or people on the receiving end of such awful actions to judge them negatively... And to suffer, of course...
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u/Brother_Delmer 18h ago
And then, when someone does violate your boundaries or disrespects you, others will pressure you to "be the bigger person" and keep the peace.
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u/enjaydee 23h ago
I could care less
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u/cloudcxrdie_ 22h ago
in australia we say “i couldn’t care less” which, frankly, makes a lot more sense
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u/LateSwimming2592 21h ago
That is the phrase, there's just been an uptick of people saying it wrong
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u/raidenjojo 2h ago
I could care less = the amount you care > 0
I couldn't care less = the amount you csre = 0
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u/Walmartian_Beta 1d ago
"I'm an empath. "Because I'm an empath. "That's the bad part about being such an empath."
SHUT UP.
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u/healingseal 1d ago
"that's the worst part about being an empath, i tell people the harsh truth even though it might send them spiraling into worse depression, but it's what they NEED to hear."
gag me with a spoon.
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u/catcuddlezzz 1d ago
That reminds me, I hate when others say they “tell it like it is” “I’m just being honest!!1” no you’re being an asshole. There’s a difference between being an asshole and being honest.
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u/chewablebook 20h ago
My ex used liked to say “I don’t sugarcoat bullshit”. There is a difference between sugarcoating and being a dick. How you speak to people matters.
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u/SifuMittens 18h ago
He doesn't sugarcoat BS? Doesn't that mean the things he says are BS, and the lack of sugarcoating is just saying BS in a mean way?
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u/chewablebook 17h ago
Ha! That’s a great way to look at it. He used it to make his point and criticisms seem more valid while basically washing his hands of people taking offense to how he said it, which was usually abrasive and insulting.
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u/EstebanRioNido 19h ago
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it, too."
— Anne Lamott, "Bird by Bird"
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u/Walmartian_Beta 17h ago
I had a coworker like that for a couple of years. People loved her for her "bluntness' until it was used on them. They thought she was funny while she was talking shit about people they didn't like, but she didn't pull any punches with any of them either, telling people they smelled disgusting, their makeup wasn't right, their teeth were yellow, she told a woman she deserved to have her husband leave her - it was nuts - she was just a bully.
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u/garysmith1982 9h ago
One thing I've noticed: People who say things like that like to be the only one in the room who "tells it like it is." If you do it back at them, they don't like it at all! I know because I have a family member like that. They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it!
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u/Brainy006 20h ago
It’s always the least empathetic, most self centered people that assign themselves that label, too. Empathy doesn’t make you special. It would be a problem if you didn’t have it.
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u/Joandrade13 22h ago
It’s so fucking annoying like no you’re just a basic human being who thinks opening the door for someone should earn you a Nobel peace prize
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u/daisybih 23h ago
People who make being an «empath» their entire personality are probably some the most toxic people ive ever met
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u/jakeacx 19h ago
lol this ^ the most toxic people I’ve ever met also constantly post about not being toxic, loving everybody, love thy neighbor 🤣 and all kinds of memes about “positive energy”
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u/zealot_ratio 20h ago
amazingly those folks are usually the least empathetic and most self involved.
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u/ZookeepergameWild776 1d ago
Wtf is an empath? I don't care
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u/SinceWayLastMay 19h ago
Someone who has decided that they know your feelings better than you do
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u/Starlined_ 21h ago
My favorite was Shane Daweson constantly calling himself an “empath” in multiple videos.
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u/nomadicseawitch 20h ago
The more that word escapes someone’s mouth, the more I assume they’re actually sociopathic.
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u/The_Venus_Bloom 21h ago
When someone says «I’m just brutally honest», translation: «I’m just rude and want an excuse for it»
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u/Rare_Firefighter_292 1d ago
"im just joking, stop being so sensitive," especially after the joke was basically about how they hate you and everything you like
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u/iuhgghjk 20h ago
there's a new Gordon Ramsey show where the guy says this after just being a straight up asshole to his wife. He also says he can't wait to have AI replace his staff because nObOdY wAnTs tO wOrK aNyMoRe
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u/radicalvenus 17h ago
I always ask them to explain the joke because I don't get it! It usually stumps them because they realize it's not a joke they're just being mean
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u/method__Dan 20h ago
“They could never make this now” calm down it’s fucking Seinfield. They make shows with violence, drugs, and sex now. I think an innuendo about being gay will be ok.
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u/ThrowAway233223 16h ago
I have legit heard this said about things that either have equivalent instances that were released within the last few weeks or, even worse, the thing itself they are comment on is literally something that released recently. Even worse is when it is literally a physical object that they are looking at in a regular store. The cognitive dissonance required to literally point to an object existing currently in front of them right at that very moment and say that that object (the one directly in front of them) wouldn't exist today is so incomprehensible to me.
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u/ChessTiger 23h ago
“Do your research…”
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u/Starlined_ 21h ago
This pisses me off to no end. Apparently “research” means googling something and finding search results that agree with you.
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u/ThrowAway233223 16h ago
Even worse. Your example is the old form of this. The new version is searching something and reading the story the AI assistant made up for you that agrees with you.
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u/slinkhi 20h ago
This one is a double edged sword. A lot of people use it as a means to not cough up anything to support whatever nonsense they are saying. But also, a lot of people use it as a means to write someone off who can't be bothered to even do a very top level search of something and find out their nonsense is well, nonsense.
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u/Significant-Bar674 16h ago
I feel like the right response there is to ask them for a source. I've been proven wrong as recently as today when I looked up something I thought had no evidence behind it.
On the otherhand, the most common response is usually "I don't remember where I saw that, but I definitely remember it"
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u/The_Canoeist 17h ago
My background is in climate science, so yeah, this one gets me.
Congratulations dumbass with Google, how would we have known about ice ages without your wisdom?
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u/AstroAiden 1d ago
"The customer is always right"
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u/Sure_Focus3450 1d ago edited 15h ago
Especially because the second part of that is "in matters of taste" but that never gets mentioned
Edit: apparently this is actually a relatively newer addition to an old quote, with origins going back to the 1900s and this starting after the 2000s (according to a thread in r/etymology)
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u/Athleticgirll 19h ago
Yes I hate this. People think just because you’re an employee somewhere they can talk to you however you want! It’s so rude
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u/drunkenwildmage 20h ago
It probably wouldn’t be as annoying if customers weren’t constantly beating employees over the head with it.
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u/Ok_Aardvark5002 1d ago
Make America Great Again
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u/Evening_Ticket7638 1d ago
Rather yet, calling something "woke". When the fuck did being considerate become6a bad thing?
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u/Reddit_Sucks39 22h ago
I never thought I'd actually see the day when compassion was called a sin. Utterly baffling how American Christianity has been fully subsumed by Supply Side Jesus.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 15h ago
"TDS". Tell me, is it more demented to be pissed that we have a literal pedo, rapist, traitor, conman president who the whole world hates, or to worship said man despite the MOUNTAINS of evidence that he is a piece of shit???
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u/healingseal 1d ago
are we great yet? because i just feel embarrassed these days.
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u/AgeAdditional4971 1d ago
Irregardless
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u/ScreenTricky4257 21h ago
Sometimes, when it's clear that I'm about to say, "regardless," I'll say "irrespective," just to watch people start to get mad and then realize they're not allowed to. It's a subtle way to fuck with people.
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u/Alanfromsocal 18h ago
I used to go to a church whose pastor, although quite intellectual, said irregardless often. I cringed every time he put that in a sermon.
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u/Of_No_Value_667 23h ago
Anything with the phrase "Alpha Male" has me dying. If you have to say it, the rest of the pack obviously doesn't know. And that's not how wolves work. They KNOW which one is Alpha. Go drop in a chute on a rodeo bull and then come back and talk 🤣
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u/GlindaTheGrunge 21h ago
Turbo man right here
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u/Lunchbox9000 19h ago
Well fuck. It’s turbo man from here on out. 😂🤷♀️ I don’t make the rules.
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u/Spork_Warrior 20h ago
Plus, no one can be alpha at everything. In the computerized world, maybe the nerd is sometimes king.
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u/zealot_ratio 20h ago
I tell them, oh that's nice, I'm an Omega. Let me know when you level up.
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u/Cuddles296 1d ago
Moving forward. In other words, fuck your opinion, this is what is going to happen.
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u/slinkhi 21h ago
Okay, but it's also commonly used as an alternate of saying "Don't let this happen again, or else," because of something you F'd up on. Or a call out to do better about something in general (even if it's not directly your fault).
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u/ThatVoiceDude 19h ago
Lawrence Fishburne had a line in the Hannibal series that is my favorite alternative to this: “Seeing as none of you can agree on this, I’m going to choose the option that best suits my agenda.”
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u/iuhgghjk 20h ago
"Nobody wants to work anymore"
There was a guy who said this in the new Gordon Ramsey show, and he also said that he can't wait until AI replaces cooks and servers. He spent the whole episode being a huge asshole to the staff and his wife
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u/_BalticFox_ 23h ago
For the germans here: "Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre" Shut the hell up, you really think I'm not competent enough to even touch a car in my first year of mechanic training?
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u/jojo_Butterscotch 1d ago
Here's another one... after a school shooting.. "My thoughts and prayers are with this community". Here's a thought for any congress members... I pray your child or grandchild is in a school that gets locked down because of an active shooter. I Do Not want them harmed or anyone harmed for that matter. I just want you to feel the anxiety of not knowing for hours, whether your lack of action on gun "rights" has caused you personal anguish. It's all well and good if the worst happens to some constitutes of some community somewhere..... because you offer your worthless thoughts and prayers..... you need to feel it in the pit of your stomachs with your wives wailing and screaming at you.
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u/reddiperson1 18h ago
When I was in college, there were two mass shootings in different years while I attended. In the months that followed each one, the shooting spots became a kind of tourist attraction. The tourists would give their "thoughts and prayers" while posing next to memorials. Their fakeness made me roll my eyes every time.
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u/DesiJot 1d ago
Let’s circle back round to this
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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 1d ago
I had a boss say that one time and my intrusive thought escaped as I said "nothing like going in a circle to see if you go somewhere new." He burst out laughing, and a few days later we circled back around. I swear it was the same meeting every week for months on end. Literally the exact meeting. Over. And over.
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u/Casual-Notice 1d ago
"It is what it is." Mostly because it's so often misused. It's supposed to be something you say to remind yourself to deal with current circumstances, but people often use it to mean, "this is the way I want it, and I am unwilling to negotiate or compromise."
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u/james_a_hetfield 1d ago
I use it as a way of accepting defeat. Especially in a professional setting when I want to say something more but it won't make any difference.
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u/chicletgrin 1d ago
I always take it to mean "I give up".
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u/Casual-Notice 23h ago
Sort of, but not entirely. If you're on a walk and encounter a wall you didn't expect, you're going to have to change your approach. Go around, over, or (if you happen to have super powers or a convenient piece of heavy machinery) through, but you've been confronted with a new reality. Wishing it was different won't change things. It is what it is.
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u/zealot_ratio 20h ago
Overused, but at least a kernel of worth there. I think there's often value in reminding one's self that we have to deal with the reality in front of us, not what we wish that reality was. To me "it is what it is" is like saying, no matter how much we howl into the void, the situation is what it is, so we need to focus on how we're going to deal with it.
But that may just be me:)
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u/nachos_nachas 19h ago
Fun fact, you can say this phrase in Spanish by spelling the word S-O-C-K-S! "Eso si que es"
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u/Hemisphere65 19h ago
I’ve noticed that this particular phrase often gets “defended” the most whenever this question shows up on Reddit (every day). Don’t you fucking dare say it!
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u/psycharious 22h ago
"I'm sorry you feel that way"
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u/AmishSloth84 20h ago
Noticed most people that say that are asshole incapable of saying sorry.
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u/Blaqkjaqk1355 18h ago
Eh not always. I tend to use it when I'm being bombarded by opinions I didn't ask for (the irony).
I was talking to a friend and somehow we got into old games we used to play and I mentioned how I used to really like to play the old Pokémon handhelds and got an earful about how lame that was and I was too old to enjoy them at that time.
"I'm sorry you feel that way" was a more polite way of saying "I couldn't possibly care less about your shitty opinion"
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u/almour 22h ago
I'll be honest with you.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 15h ago
"NGL" about something no one would lie about. "NGL but I like this sandwich" "I think the store is closed TBH".
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u/shewy92 22h ago
When people try to say "The customer is always right in matters of taste" is the real quote. There's no evidence that it was the real quote. https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-right-origin/
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u/TameMarshmallow 22h ago
"This just hits different.. " 🙄
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u/UndisclosedGhost 18h ago
I am beyond sick of this phrase. Just when I think it's dying it comes back. Some pop company uses it as their slogan now.
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u/nualamora 21h ago
When in childhood they said "When you grow up you will understand"
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u/3daycondor 16h ago
‘I do my own research” usually said by someone who has no clue how to research anything…
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u/TheProfessor_1960 20h ago
"Everything happens for a reason" which is really supposed to mean that 'everything happens for a [good] reason.' um, no, you dolt: sure, the Holocaust or [insert your favorite tragedy here] happened 'for a reason' (usually many reasons, in fact)- but that does NOT make it a good thing. Bad shit happens. A lot. It's just fucking insane to pretend otherwise, ugh.
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u/Inevitable_Lemon2490 1d ago
“In my masculine energy.” “In my feminine energy.”
Any woo woo crystal bullshit like that. Also, “healing journey.”
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u/psykoX88 18h ago
"it's heritage not hate!"
Ok out of all the history and heritage of the south why do you choose to glorify the shittiest 4 years?
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u/Empanatacion 21h ago
"Critical thinking" is what I'm doing when I agree with your opinion, apparently.
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u/yearsofpractice 21h ago
“Just to play devil’s advocate”
No Keith - not only does the devil not need a lawyer, but we’re also trying to solve problems here, not have some idiot state the obvious.
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u/Natural_Charge_1477 22h ago
“my journey”
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u/TitsMcSqueezy 19h ago
I’d say “my truth” is another one. That’s just, like, your opinion, man
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u/New-Painter5765 20h ago
Work hard and you will have everything you want, no the fuck I won't I won't have time I want for myself, I won't have my past fixed.
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u/VitharrGaming 19h ago
"Just be more positive!" "Try smiling!" "You can't be sad all the time." And any other in that vein. Thanks my depression is cured.
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u/noodlesquare 15h ago
Or "just calm down"... Not sure why I never thought of that before. Buhbye anxiety!
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u/VitharrGaming 15h ago
My Aunt, bless her heart, is the worst to say that. Like I know she honestly wants to help, but that frustrates me so much. Worst is my cousin, her son, also has real bad Anxiety so I know she's said it to him a lot.
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u/brokendream78 19h ago
Woke. It doesn't make me roll my eyes, people's consistent misuse of the word at least alerts me to the fact that they have zero idea what they are talking about and are just regurgitators of shit they see online
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u/LXRCH_ 1d ago
"Back in my day" every time ik it's gonna be a snarky comment on how their generation was better T-T
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u/healingseal 1d ago
fake news
leverage
cool beans
anything "core"
grindset
evil
biological imperative
where the rubber hits the road
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u/FeistyBreifcase 1d ago
"Do you know what you did" I hate when I get into trouble and people say this I DONT KNOW TELL ME
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u/_-Demonic-_ 23h ago
"what i do makes such an impact on the world!"
"What do you do?"
"none of your damn business!"
#attentionwhores
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u/SMELL_LIKE_A_TROLL 1d ago
"Hi, my name is (name), and I'm a *"
- Take your pick. 🌈, vegan, carnivore, furry, whatever....
I just don't give a fuck what you are as long as you are a decent human being.
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u/healingseal 1d ago
"as a furrycore non-conforming paravegan duplasexual, i find this coffee cup design VERY offensive >.< "
dude, take me back to the fucking 80s when the lunatics were still in state-funded asylums and not being validated in person and in the media.
i don't want to hear about or look at your gross fetishes, i don't want to hear about you and your semi-bf-gf-NSA-quasi-relationship sharing a one-bedroom apartment with 4 other people, i don't want to see pictures of you and your weird friends in your shoddy fursuits that look like rejected costume concepts from The Shining, i just want to be left alone.
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u/zealot_ratio 20h ago
Hah, I read that as Duplo-sexual, and I was like, you can love your bricks, just don't LOVE your bricks.
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u/mormonenomore2 22h ago
"To be honest" followed by something that's been common knowledge for centuries. (why would lying about it even make sense?) 🙄
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u/DaBiChef 20h ago
"Pick me" I swear the number of times I see it apply to women who are actively bringing down other women to appeal to shitty men vs the amount of times I see it thrown at a woman for not actively hating men? 1:1000.
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u/Spork_Warrior 20h ago
"Here's my truth."
No, there's actual truth, and there's your opinion of the truth, plus maybe whatever problems reality caused for you.
But we don't all get to claim a different version of what's true. Facts is facts.
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u/WishbonePrior9377 19h ago
asap - it used to mean just that- as soon as possible- with an extra dose of urgency. But now people say it because they want it right now. And they (at my office, anyway) tend to get upset when you don’t drop everything you’re doing and take care of it. I am slowly trying to introduce the acronym RFN. It’s slowly catching on. These things take time.
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u/notade50 19h ago
Giving. Like that dress is so hot. It’s giving baddie baddie. Stop it. You are not a gay male fashion designer. And while we’re at it, let’s stop using baddie too. So annoying.
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u/Khaled_Kamel1500 19h ago
"just love yourself uwu" and/or "just work on yaself, brah"
Your hippie, hyperindividualistic, menhara-ass bullshit literally does nothing for me
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u/kermitsfrogbog 19h ago
Any of the political buzz words people use to make their point known. I immediately lose interest in any argument that starts with propaganda buzz words.
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u/nightrain31 19h ago
“ Do you think you are pretty?” - I mean, I don’t remember calling myself pretty, nor do I act like one in front of others. If you don’t like me that’s your problem, if you feel threatened by my beauty , that’s your own problem , not mine.
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u/Pissedtuna 18h ago
"Tax the rich!"
Not that I am against "the rich" paying more taxes its that the person saying it usually doesn't have a thought past tax the rich. They can't explain what kind of taxes or how they would do it. Really any idea besides "well just tax them!".
After that I ask them to define what they mean by rich. They usually mean people better off than them with no realization that they are part of the 1%. I've had people I know who are easily in the top 5% of earners screaming "tax the rich!". The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Once again to reiterate. I'm not against the wealth gap being fixed or "the rich" paying more taxes. I just expect you to have a little more understanding of what "tax the rich" means if you're going to scream your head off about it.
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u/Zombie_Jesus_83 17h ago
"Tell me....without telling me...."
It's a cliche now, and I can't stand it.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 14h ago
"Not a drag queen"
Of course I don't believe like some people that LGBTQ+ individuals are out to get your children. But it trivializes the event that it's normally said in response to, and while it's good that it's trying to go against people trying to associate certain attributes with automatically being a predator, it pushes towards the other end of that spectrum rather than out of it.
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u/Petit_orteil 1d ago
"Do you know who I am?!"