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Old 03-08-2010, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Bayou City
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"Best practices"

"Everything happens for a reason"

"The vast majority"

And the particularly loathsome "You'll find the right person someday" Yeelch!
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Old 03-09-2010, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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"Best practices"

"Everything happens for a reason"

"The vast majority"

And the particularly loathsome "You'll find the right person someday" Yeelch!
YES! As I come up on 52, divorced from a jerk for ten years now, I still get people telling me "It's never too late! You never know what could happen!"
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Old 03-10-2010, 02:40 AM
 
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there are cliches that I know I'm overusing it, and it's just a habit.
Consider "you know what". Well, maybe you don't know, coz I haven't told you.
Or even worse, "guess what". Guess what, I don't want to guess :|

And yet I still use them quite frequently )
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Old 03-10-2010, 06:58 PM
 
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"May I ask you a question?"

Yes. One per day, and that was it. Check back with me tomorrow.
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Old 03-13-2010, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Lately, I've been hearing "everything is everything," apparently a variant of "it is what it is." And I find both varieties equally annoying.
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Old 03-13-2010, 08:26 AM
 
Location: GIlbert, AZ
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Lately, I've been hearing "everything is everything," apparently a variant of "it is what it is." And I find both varieties equally annoying.
never heard that one...what state are you in?
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Old 03-13-2010, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Coastal Georgia
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You need to. As in, "You need to go to the store and pick up some orange juice." Don't you feel just a small twinge of resentment when someone climbs up on that soapbox and tells you what you need to do?
My DH does this to me all the time, only he says WE need to, when I know darned well he means I need to.
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Old 03-13-2010, 08:49 PM
 
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"You have suck a pretty face." There's usually a "but" in there somewhere.
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Old 03-14-2010, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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"May I ask you a question?"
Someone once said that to me and I responded, "You just did." (They had no idea what I was talking about!)
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Old 03-15-2010, 09:10 AM
 
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Lately, I've been hearing "everything is everything," apparently a variant of "it is what it is." And I find both varieties equally annoying.
Just recently read that somewhere. I can't remember where, but it seems to be connected to some sort of New Agey-religious thought.
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