"We only use ten percent of our brains."
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
That and the "Alpha Male" garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn't about people.
"Everything happens for a reason"
The cancer disagrees.
Or worse: "it's all part of God's plan!" every time something bad happens. "So... God's a sadist, or what? Cuz his plan is shit."
God did ruin Job’s life over a bet with Satan so maybe this is less of a plan and more of a downward spiral gambling addiction
Or the related one: "I'd like to thank God for coming through this surgery."
What about the doctors, nurses, and various other staff members?
As a surgical tech, I have to bite my tongue when this pops up. Like... bitch, your god sent you to the OR in the first place - you should be pissed!
I actually love this one, because it's technically correct but not in the way people who use it mean, so you can turn it around easily.
Yes, you did get cancer for a reason. Because you insisted on maintaining your suntan every winter. Or perhaps merely because you pissed off the wrong banana.
“They’re just one bad apple” in reference to (more often than not) shitty cops, but also for most malcontents in a position of public trust. This a misappropriation of the aphorism “one bad apple spoils the bunch” which is literally saying that if there’s one bad actor in a group, the entire group is comprised.
"Customer is always right" isn't a trump card for customers to win disputes with the staff. When it comes to matters of preference, yes, the customer is always right. Ketchup on ice cream? Great. Down jacket and shorts? Sure thing! If it makes you happy and you're paying for it then you're always right.
In most other matters though, customers are usually wrong. The idea that random people off the street know more about the products and the way a business should be run than the actual people selling said products and running said business is absolutely ridiculous.
"if you can't handle me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best".
You're basically excusing bad behavior. And never taking accountability. People are wrong. Mostly when they are so blindly following some perception of greatness rather than caring for those around you.
"Survival of the fittest" when used to indicate the stongest should survive. Instead of the one best suited for (fitting) the situation.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
That is not the definition of insanity
do or do not, there is no try
Fuck you. That was meant for a Jedi master not your fucking IT systems admin
"Agree to disagree." No, dipshit, you're just wrong.
I do not agree to disagree, because we're not arguing about opinions. Your belief is simply, objectively incorrect. Or mine is, which is something that I would be willing to accept. If I were wrong, you'd be able to convince me that I'm wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn't have an accurate understanding of reality.
It's always the dipshits that fall back on "Well, we will have to agree to disagree," usually right after they've been presented with enough evidence to change the mind of a rational person. Fuck that, I do not agree to disagree.
Agree to disagree is for things like "what ice cream flavor is best", not for things like "2+2=4".
If I were wrong, you'd be able to convince me that I'm wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn't have an accurate understanding of reality.
I had an ex like you.
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Especially when used by people claiming to have done just that.
Especially when you consider that it was coined to refer to literally impossible action. It's not meant to be about self-reliance or whatever, it's something that cannot be done.
THIS! A million times this!! It's literally implying the opposite of their intent in that you have to have someone else HELP YOU because you OBVIOUSLY can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps!
One way to use this phrase correctly would be "No one can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, we all need some help along the way."!
Whenever "woke" is brought up.
Please give me your definition of woke, because so far it's been different for everyone I've talked to.
Anything described as "just common sense." No, it's knowledge/awareness that you picked up from your particular environment. Not everyone has had the same exposure as you.
I've found that "common sense" just means "things that I believe, but I can't explain why".
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. And as far as I can tell Einstein never said it but it's always attributed to Einstein
"They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!" Apparently, the quote originates from like a late 1800s textbook or something, and it was a logic problem: "Why cannot a man pull himself up by his own bootstraps?" It's not possible, 'cause physics.
Occam's razor, because it seem it is often used wrong by using it for just shutting down possible explanations. Typically noone mentions, that this is about guessing probabilities without prior knowledge and not a way to completely ignore an explanation.
"make it was simple as possible"
Super annoying, because the people who use this always forget the second half, which makes the saying useful.
"Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler" it is effectively a re-stating of Occam's razor.
I live in the US and follow rugby.
"Rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen, soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans."
So cringe. Different sports are different. I can like both, I can even play both, and neither suffers a loss.
"think of how stupid the average person is, and then think half of them are dumber than that"
So heavily overused.
"Galileo too was ostracized for his beliefs, but he was right"
Yeah but he did science, not that new age bullshit you think are an expert in.
"I took the road less traveled." Which in the original poem means pretty much the opposite of what people are trying to say.
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