Cliche sayings that grind your gears!

[Mummommy]

Am I the only one who finds cliche sayings e.g. Facebook quotes Instagram quotes highly annoying. I feel like a lot of people used them to self soothe but I can’t help but find them extremely annoying especially the super obvious ones.

Some of the many that annoy me are:
I am working on me.
If they don’t accept you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best.

What cliche quotes or sayings grind your gears?

“If you know you know”.

Well fucking OBVIOUSLY.

Also - and yes this is a bit off piste (cliché alert!) - but people shoehorning in completely irrelevant info about someone's sexuality / identity totally out of context. E.g. 'This quote about badgers by amazing bisexual icon David Bowie.'

WTAF does his bisexuality have to do with his views on badgers or planes or how many sprouts he liked to eat at his Christmas dinner?

Could this by any chance be about YOU, the quoter, wanting to shoehorn your own sexual preferences into a public conversation where YOU are just one more square on the Zoom screen and feel an overwhelming narcissistic need to focus attention on YOU rather than David Bowie???

Oh yes definitely ‘at the end of the day’www.tiktok.com/@itvjeremykyle/video/6928475218193239301?lang=en

Happy mummy happy baby.
I know it is meant to be for mothers worried about putting their baby down so they can go for a shower, or mothers who worry they should never go out and have a nice time without their children. But I always think of mothers in a pub I used to see. Tiny kids stuck in buggies for hours, shoved coke and crisps to shut them up, while their mum got pissed with her friends.

It is what it is

Any shite about settling/not travelling/not "hustling" (ugh) a 12-hour work day/staying in your comfort zone.

Yes, goals and ambitions are good - but sometimes people just want to enjoy their life without constantly straining for the Next Stage.

No fool like an old fool.

Makes me rage every time. People thinking they’re clever or witty.

Beat me to it!

I hate when people say 'an ex is an ex for a reason ', meaning you shouldn't be friends with an ex.

Yes, but that's like saying you can't be friends with anyone you wouldn't date.
If someone has treated you badly or was abusive, or you just don't want to be friends, fair enough.

But other timed you're not compatible as a couple but make great friends. It may be differences relating to holiday choices, parenting, not compatible in bed that doesn't necessarily mean you have to fall out with someone. It's such a stupid cliche. And for the record I'm not friends with any of my exes, it isn't personal. I just think it's a really uneducated thing to say.

I’m waiting for all the , in the blink of an eye, quotes.

And just like that ......
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"lived experience"

Often used to counter actual peer reviewed research involving a large data set.

"Making memories"

Usually accompanying some smug exotic holiday photo on Facebook.

"Did you mean to be so rude"

Yes, that is why I called you a twat over your behaviour

"Life hack"

Often some perfectly sensible bit of advice has been around for ever but presented as somethin revolutionary

"It's always in the last place you look"

Well, quite, I am not going to continue looking for 'it' after I have found it am I?

If they don’t accept you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best.

Hate this one. Why should I compromise my boundaries and put up with toxic behaviour? The only person I knew to use this (funny, on fb) didn't have a 'best' anyway.

"Making memories".

I love the bones of him - ugh.
He's the spit of his <insert relative> - ugh.
I say it how I see it - ugh. You're just rude.

Self soothe. It gives me visions of someone rocking in a corner until they've calmed down.

Definitely!

Fix each other’s crowns
vomit !!

Living my best life
You do you
Making memories
Boys will be boys
What can you do

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The quote is very true, but totally over used on here to the point that I groan now everytime I see it.

I don't get annoyed by cliches because I am a glass-half-full kinda person.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Everything happens for a reason.
It is what it is.

"boils my piss"

i hate hate hate it!

I love the bones of him - ugh.

Awful.

Not a cliché as such, but a colleague uses "keep me in the loop" a lot and I really wish she wouldn't.