to say please stop saying this for the love of God

[vandrew4]

"not your circus, not your monkey" please please just stop

DH says 'it is what it is' an awful lot

Similar to "we are where we are"

Where else would we be.

I love the circus and monkeys but cannot bear the boiling piss or grinding gears.

I am rather partial to not my circus, but then my great uncle was a house trainer for PT Barnum poor claim to fame

I suspect in the circus saying it is regarding one particularly annoying/misbehaving monkey out of the troop, rather than the circus consisting of just one monkey. I know fun was a bit thin on the ground in the eastern bloc but even that may be stretching it!

Anyway, I have decided you can all fuck off to the far side of fuck. Gavel.

The thing about flat screen t.v.(I mean who doesn't have one these days ) and goats and people on Benefits its really unfunny and unoriginal

I never did understand the relevance goat thing, I am fine with that though.

I hate this one so much. I hated it when it was the go to line on TLL on lj and I hate it on here.

I want people to stop saying trust your gut/trust your instinct. It's generally not great advice but given the enormous rates of anxiety amongst MNettters it isn't helping anyone.

This is the circus it refers to