Constant Use of Inane Sayings

[catcul]

You know these sayings. They might be good once in a while, but some people use them almost constantly.

I heard this sports commentator constantly use the phrase, "At the end of the day..." I'm not a violent person, but at the end of his commentary, I thought to myself, "At the end of the day, I want to kill you in your sleep." Don't worry, I wouldn't do that.

I believe I mentioned I really don't like Cage the Elephant. I won't mention the bands complete inability to sound better than a three-year-old banging on pots and pans, or the lead singer's voice reminding me of my neighbor's cat in heat, except the cat had a better singing voice.

I especially hate the song "No Rest for the Wicked" because the chorus is filled with one cliche after another. The grammar is terrible, too.

There ain't no rest for the wicked.
Money don't grow on trees.
I got bills to pay; i got mouths to feed.
There ain't noting in this world for free

[Andara Bledin]

I can't stand the song because the phrase in question, "no rest for the wicked," makes zero sense in the context given. I actually had to look up the lyrics eventually to confirm that they songwriter wasn't very bright. It's not even the right definition of "rest." It's supposed to be the same usage as in the phrase "rest in peace."

Here's on for you: Jump the shark. Even after knowing it's origin story, it's still an awful phrase.

[Gravekeeper]

I had a coworker that said Internet acronyms/image macros out loud.

Yeah.

[kamn]

I can't stand the song because the phrase in question, "no rest for the wicked," makes zero sense in the context given. I actually had to look up the lyrics eventually to confirm that they songwriter wasn't very bright. It's not even the right definition of "rest." It's supposed to be the same usage as in the phrase "rest in peace."

Even as/if he did use it the wrong way, the chorus and song makes sense. To me at least. Criminals giving reasoning for their behavior, they are strapped for cash.

To me the one inane saying that makes me see red is "the exception that proves the rule". Its pure contradiction in and of itself and people take it as truth.

[Nekojin]

To me the one inane saying that makes me see red is "the exception that proves the rule". Its pure contradiction in and of itself and people take it as truth.

Dictionary of Misinformation to the rescue! One of my prized possessions, it's a beat-up old paperback book printed in the 70s.

This is one of the most fatuous of proverbs, as usually applied. Quite clearly, an exception cannot prove a rule; quite the opposite, it disproves it. Originally, the expression made sense, because prove was used in its old-fashioned meaning: "test." (Latin probo, "I test," from which both probe and probate derive). And true enough, an exception certainly does test a rule.

"Proves," in, "the exception proves the rule," is what scholars call a linguistic fossil - that is, the survival of an older meaning or form of a word because it is preserved, like a fly in amber, by the surrounding context. "Proving ground," is another example - strictly, it's not the place where an automobile proves how good it is, but where it's tested to see if it is any good. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," is another example. Here, however, the older meaning survives at least enough so that the expression does still make some sense.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not taken in; In The Sign of Four he has Sherlock Holmes say to Dr. Watson, "I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."

There you go - your learnin' for the day.

[catcul]

I just come across another bad phrase, "I could care less." It should be, "I could not care less."

If you could care less, that means you care a little. I don't care at all, so I could not care less.

[Ginger Tea]

That's been banded about a lot recently, not the phrase but the above grammatical argument as it were, but both are valid to an extent.

I could care less, keep it up and I will.
Though the could not care less one is more apt, it's just under used for whatever reason got the other one in collective use.
Maybe it was said as couldn't care less and someone didn't catch the nt part, kinda like how I have to ask people if they said one five or five oh.

[Andara Bledin]

The use of "I could care less" is supposed to be somewhat satirical. Indicating that while caring less is possible, the caring is already well below the threshold where it matters.

It's a kind of shorthand for, "I could care less, but I already don't care enough to care." The problem usually comes in that, at least in face to face conversation, it's given the same inflection as "I couldn't care less." In text, I prefer to give people a little benefit of the doubt, since it's exceedingly difficult to hear inflection and see expression through that medium.

[violiav]

I can't stand "hot mess" and "ninja please". Mainly because whenever they're used they get used almost twenty times in a row.

[Gravekeeper]

The use of "I could care less" is supposed to be somewhat satirical. Indicating that while caring less is possible, the caring is already well below the threshold where it matters.

Ahem.

Reminded me of that, heh ;p

[Ginger Tea]

Never heard hot mess before, but I do like ninja please a more pg13 of the original.
I can see that on demotivational, it probably is already there in spades, I just don't go to ichcb that often.

[violiav]

Hot mess was all over the air waves (at least the ones I saw) a couple years ago. I got an OD of ninja please at a roller derby I went to last year. Almost every single sentence that came out of the announcers mouth had at least two instances of ninja please.

[Ginger Tea]

Ah the joys of living where meme's are left predominantly on the web and not reality.

I think the only times I've heard a meme spoken it's because it came out of my mouth.

On a side note, I originally pronounced it me me as in me 2 or more accurately me too, as they are basically people posting their take on whatever is hot at the moment.
Meme pronounced like Gene never crossed my mind.

And if I have to say it, I say Gif not Jif it's one letter off Gift.

[catcul]

I say Gif, not jif. GIF = Graphical Interface Format. Since the "G" in graphical is a hard "G," I pronounce it Gif. Jif is a brand name of peanut butter.

[Ginger Tea]

Without getting a dictionary out, I cant think of any soft j gi words apart from Ginger, granted it is also 4am UK time and my body clock has been thrown so out of whack with the heat and lack of a job to get up for.
Edit: giraffe and giroscope, but that is being redlined and telling me to use gyroscope, so yeah 4am and I was never good at spelling, so any gi soft j's I might think of might really be gy's.

Jif over here is a lemon juice brand sold in lemon shaped bottles and up until the early 2000 it was washing up liquid, or detergent of some kind now called cif.
Their rebranding advert was that Europeans could not say jif correctly so they rebranded, but most of us deep down think its cos someone used the wrong one on (don't forget the pancakes on) jif lemon day.

Some one called Nutella Nu Tella, seeing as it is a Nut based chocolate spread I found that an odd place to put the syllable break, but when only the spelling is sent abroad, we know that the sound can vary depending on who receives it.
Then again it might be me saying Nut ella wrong.