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Linnet (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} blue_linnet) wrote,@ 2004-06-03 02:40:00 |
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it was originally 10, but I got lazy
5 Most Annoying Phrases Ever
1. 'God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!' When I figure out how to make non-ugly icons, I'm going to make one riffing off this. Perhaps 'Then who *did* make Adam and Steve'. Or something more clever. We shall see.
2. 'What do you want me to say?' Not really to do with politics and fandom. More a personal hate. Especially after someone tells someone else how they feel about something, and the response is 'what do you want me to say'..grr, can you get more condescending and dismissive?
3. 'You're oppressing my rights to free speech!' There are apparently people out there who still have not figured out that free speech does *not* apply to a messageboard, and that deleting a trollish thread, while it may be ill-advised in some circumstances, is not oppressing anyone's First Amendment rights. (It is First Amendment, right? I'm not American, and am easily confused.) Also, it does not mean others don't have the right to say 'shut the hell up!'
4. 'You're just jealous!' While the parents may have had good intentions when they told their children that the bullies picked on them out of jealousy, this statement has now become an explanation for any kind of dislike. It also makes absolutely no sense. If I like one celebrity singer, but hate another, why am I only jealous of the second one? If someone is jealous of, er, say, Clay Aiken, which is why they hate him, why are they not also jealous of every other damn rich celebrity out there?
5. 'In times like these...' I got into a debate with my English teacher about this one. It's thrown around *all* the time. 'I don't want to raise my children in a world like this' and 'in times like these, we need pop music/religion/fluffy bunnies'. As if the world 100 years ago was perfect and wonderful. Yes, I really would rather raise my kids in a world where they had a better than fifty percent chance of dying before age five...at least there wasn't violence on TV and men kissing men in the streets! Also, people today are not any more violent than in the past. We just have better weapons.
5 Most Annoying Phrases Ever
1. 'God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!' When I figure out how to make non-ugly icons, I'm going to make one riffing off this. Perhaps 'Then who *did* make Adam and Steve'. Or something more clever. We shall see.
2. 'What do you want me to say?' Not really to do with politics and fandom. More a personal hate. Especially after someone tells someone else how they feel about something, and the response is 'what do you want me to say'..grr, can you get more condescending and dismissive?
3. 'You're oppressing my rights to free speech!' There are apparently people out there who still have not figured out that free speech does *not* apply to a messageboard, and that deleting a trollish thread, while it may be ill-advised in some circumstances, is not oppressing anyone's First Amendment rights. (It is First Amendment, right? I'm not American, and am easily confused.) Also, it does not mean others don't have the right to say 'shut the hell up!'
4. 'You're just jealous!' While the parents may have had good intentions when they told their children that the bullies picked on them out of jealousy, this statement has now become an explanation for any kind of dislike. It also makes absolutely no sense. If I like one celebrity singer, but hate another, why am I only jealous of the second one? If someone is jealous of, er, say, Clay Aiken, which is why they hate him, why are they not also jealous of every other damn rich celebrity out there?
5. 'In times like these...' I got into a debate with my English teacher about this one. It's thrown around *all* the time. 'I don't want to raise my children in a world like this' and 'in times like these, we need pop music/religion/fluffy bunnies'. As if the world 100 years ago was perfect and wonderful. Yes, I really would rather raise my kids in a world where they had a better than fifty percent chance of dying before age five...at least there wasn't violence on TV and men kissing men in the streets! Also, people today are not any more violent than in the past. We just have better weapons.
