I Don't Like It When People Say ... sayings people trot out that make you angry ...

Irritating to hear people say "I could care less". It's "I couldn't care less."

Also I've heard some very educated people say "For all intensive purposes." Huh?
Try "For all intents and purposes."
 
People who start a sentence with “Tell me to mind my own business but .......”.

instead of just minding their own business in the first place !
 
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I'm often hearing this lately from the younger generation...
"Okay, let's do this damn thing".

I guess it's catchy. I don't like it but caught myself getting ready to take the dogs for another walk,
smiled at their excitement, and mindlessly said, "okay, let's do this damn thing"
 
The effort of connecting with everything "self", connecting with their food,
connecting with the universe, connecting with their inner self.
Trying to connect with their body, their mindfulness, their self-awareness.

Just do the damn thing :laugh:
 
I really dislike the misuse of "whenever." It's very prevalent in millennial-speak.

If a date is unique, or the date or time is known, use "when." When I go on vacation, I want to rent a cabana.

"Whenever" is best used for repeated events, or events where the date or time is uncertain. If you can substitute "every time that" or "whatever time that..." in your sentence, then the use of "whenever" is correct. Whenever I get in the shower, the phone rings.
 
Hi, Lolly….I noticed you put hate in your subject...(It's OK with me)….Standing in line in a store to pay my bill, I was talking with a young lady
in the long line....Some people were grumbling about the 2 ladies by the desk arguing with the Cashier....It was going very slow and people were
getting perturbed....So back to the HATE SUBJECT.... I try not to use it too often, but the lady that was talking to me made a stupid remark....
And I told her I hate when people act like that....She got on my case and told me, please don't use that word.....(I told her, I hear it everyday)
I didn't talk to her for the next 15 min. waiting in line....
 
peppermint said:
Hi, Lolly….I noticed you put hate in your subject...(It's OK with me)….Standing in line in a store to pay my bill, I was talking with a young lady
in the long line....Some people were grumbling about the 2 ladies by the desk arguing with the Cashier....It was going very slow and people were
getting perturbed....So back to the HATE SUBJECT.... I try not to use it too often, but the lady that was talking to me made a stupid remark....
And I told her I hate when people act like that....She got on my case and told me, please don't use that word.....(I told her, I hear it everyday)
I didn't talk to her for the next 15 min. waiting in line....
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In my personal rulebook, it is quite acceptable to hate THINGS (big fat green tomato worms, loud arguments, bad traffic, long lines, etc.), but it is not ok to hate PEOPLE. It is also OK to sometimes hate the things people DO (like drinking the last of the milk and putting the container back in the fridge), but not to hate the people who do them.

Thus said my mother, many, many years ago.
 
My daughters boyfriends parents sold their home in upstate NY and relocated to Arizona.
They came back to NY in July and we invited them for dinner as it looked at the time that our kids would be tying the knot.
I asked the hubby how he liked living there and his abswer was"Pat,it doesn't make a lot of difference if its -10 or 110,you still dont want to be outside...
They returned to NY the following summer and are still here as far as I know.
 
Is "hate" supposed to be a bad word? There are some things that it's perfectly logical to hate. Including some human activities.
 
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