for my heart to sink every time I read the following phrases:

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"I'm not racist but..." (bound to be followed by outrageous racism)

"Political correctness gone mad!" (will be followed by either something totally made up or exaggerated, or totally reasonable, eg selling Eid cards in shops)

Any mention of human rights in any kind of rightwing outlet. As if rights for humans is some kind of controversy.

"The university of life" this is only ever used by people too thick to go to university.

Any more for any more? :o

Cold/hot enough for you?

What does that mean??

'Is s/he a good baby?' - how can a newborn be naughty??!!

Oh yes, "I'm not being funny but" is a good one. It's normally followed by something gobsmackingly offensive.

'Political correctness gawn maaad' is the killer phrase. I've never heard anyone I respect in RL ever use this term.

all of the above, although I may have actually used the University of Life one though but I'm sure I meant it ironicly. and yes, I was too thick to go to unversity.
Actually, "I was being ironic" is another one I can't stand
I would probably really piss myself off if I wasn't me.

I hate it when people say "essentially" a lot, for no reason. It used to be "basically" didn't it? But now everyone says: "essentially."

"Essentially, I'm a twat."

where it used to be:

"Basically, I'm a twat."

Odd.

I was too thick to go to University too - or was it due to dirt poor parents and an inbuilt fear of debt? Could be all three.
I sometimes use 'in all honesty' but I do actually try to be honest diplomatically if I can (I hope!)
This made me feel sad: just saw a comment on a friend's Facebook: her friend said, "I laugh at Muslims, when they tell me they're followers of the religion of peace. And I laugh hard."
I replied directly to him (my friend's friend, if you will) that if we all went around tarring everyone with the same brush there'd be a lot of sticky people about.
The thing is, my friend's original status update had merely been a humourous rhyme with no racial content at all!!

"Issues to be addressed".... far too woolly and used for everything from a leaky pipe to knife-crime.

"At the end of the day".... just .... aaarrgggh!

Too thick to go to university- I mean that they are trying to belittle other people's acheivements. I don't have a degree, but would never dream of trying to pretend that 50 years working in an office or whatever is at all comparable. Valuable in different ways maybe, but not academically.

I hate the phras "real women" - it is usually used to belittle people who are naturally skinny. I'm pretty average size wise, but my size 6/8 sister gets this all the time - shops don't do her size because they only sell to "real women".

"spending quality time"

does that mean all other time spent is not this so called "quality time" grrrr

Is s/he a good baby is my all time hate too
duhh?

Redundant use of "in my opinion, I personally feel.." as it's normally used in the same way as "I'm entitled to my opinion" i.e. the person is going to say something ignorant as hell but somehow feel they've given themselves immunity by stating that it's their opinion and somehow that means it has to be respected. Bollox does it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but nobody is entitled to have that opinion respected, that has to be earned.

Also hate the implications and romanticising that certain sections make about working class people as compared to middle or upper-class people. Not in a sense to bash working class peoplebut the implication often made that somehow their life is "the real world etc." and that they have a monopoly on hardship and hard-work and that somehow middle/upper class people are just deluded molly-coddled imbeciles. Essentially the plethora of reverse snobbery phrases which seem to be accepted by and large.

well, not being funny or anything,and don't take this the wrong way, but essentially, if I'm honest, the issues than needs to be addressed are the nanny state and 'elf and safety, cos it's political correctness gone mad and we're all going to hell in a handbasket. No offence.

Gah, I hate "I'm a bit mad/weird/strange". Generally spoken by the most tedious arse in the room.

Yeah that 'real women' really pisses me off too. I am a size 10 and i work very hard to keep myself slim, i also have 2 children and stretch marks! I AM a REAL WOMAN! GRRRR

I absolutely hate it when anyone who is obviously not a Nazi gets called a Nazi eg: "breastfeeding Nazi"

An appalling insult to the person (who is usually just someone who cares deeply about an important cause) and trivialises Nazism at the same time.

"People either love me or hate me" - usually spoken by those who make it all to easy to hate "

"It is what it is"

"Well that's just my opinion" - well seeing as you're the one who just wrote/said it, we can pretty much take that for granted can't we.

Any article that talks about "old fashioned values," as if our country needs to readopt sexism, racism and every other 'ism' in order to become the great nation it once was.

""The university of life" this is only ever used by people too thick to go to university."

How rude. In the case of my mother, for example, it was because her intensely chauvinistic father refused to allow her to do academic subjects and channelled her into taking secretarial courses, followed by leaving school at 16 to become a secretary. In later years, she became a local councillor and was frequently asked by various of the other councillors (and oeople she met) which University she had gone to - so she usually replied "the University of Life". She wasn't thick by any stretch of the imagination - just disadvantaged at a young age and never able to redress it (for whatever reason)

"Er, whatever happened to freedom of speech?!?!" usually written in response to either a) someone disagreeing with them, as if disagreement was actually a form of censorship, or b) written in response to someone's grossly offensive remark (often racist, sexist, xenophobic etc) being deleted or even criticised.

NO WE DON'T HAVE A RULE PROTECTING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THIS COUNTRY (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#United_Kingdom here for instance). That is America. Move there, please. But even there you may be surprised to learn that people are still allowed to disagree with you, criticise your views (FoS is not just for you you see, sadly), and/or edit your comments from their blog/newspaper's website if they see fit.

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