Common Sayings that Make You Crazy

[borzoiteeth]

"Anime/manga style."

Animation and comics are mediums and comes in many styles regardless of culture.

[lynestjules]

"That's what he/she said""

[NickRowler]

"Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve"

OK, but I am not Adam or Eve or Steven, so this has nothing to do with me.

[TimCaloweh]

"We'll fight fire with fire."

And be left with ash?

[ericsalinas149]

Adding "....asking for a friend" "AF" or "and it shows" to any comment. The tags don't make the original comments any funnier.

[Nail]

There's a russian riddle that botheres me. It goes like this: "The pear is hanging - you can not eat it". The answer is lightbulb...
Maybe the damn pear is hanging too high, or it's made of wax, or you're allegic... or have no teeth... It's just stupid.

[skicoak]

Whenever my government handler reads Salinger to me through the chip in my head....CRAZY!

Is Catcher in the Rye an assassination trigger?

[JRHoch]

It's never Eve and Mary, 'cause lesbians are too often ignored and it also doesn't rhyme.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Is it not about using controlled fires to create firebreaks? (Not sure, but that's what I've always assumed).

[TOTO]

"I’m the stuff men are made of."

I know that John Wayne, but I see myself as a Scottish Terrier!
So don't add fuel to my jealousy! Sob (TxT)

~~TOTO​

[Nail]

Slavic analog for this saying is: "To put a wedge out use another wedge" (roughly like that). So... it still makes little sense, although I kind of can imagine how it could work.

[TimCaloweh]

No it's about people retaliating from some form of action with a similar one. Creating a fuel reduced area is a firebreak designed to either slow the fire's momentum or keep the fire from reaching other areas so as to combat it in a fixed section. What you're referring to might be considered preparing for a fire with fire.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Yes I know what the figurative meaning is. I also know about controlled fires and how they work (I'm an ecologist - as scientist). I was merely meaning I think the figurative meaning comes from the controlled fire strategy, and after a quick check it may be that. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fight-fire-with-fire.html
I don't have time to check whether it's 100% sure.

[TimCaloweh]

Yeah, i've always theorized that the foresters coined the term into relevancy in those days but Shakespeare's work quietly changed the meaning to fighting methods with equally destructive methods.

But yeah, it would be better if people understood they should try to prevent disaster rather than fight in equal retaliation.

[JRHoch]

I have the sickening feeling I'm the dumbest person on this thread.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

"I work hard for this." (In some context) So do I and so do the billions people living here, people are perhaps working harder than you thought but they don't get what they deserve. The fact you work hard doesn't distinguish you from the rest, doesnt make you deserving of everything, and doesn't make you immune to criticism or misfortune.

"I have been through worse." Oh, I'm sorry, but maybe you deserve it for being unsympathetic asshole. You may have been through worse but I don't want something to do around that level.

"Back in my day..." unless you're telling a legit fact and not previous point disguised in nostalgia then screw yourself.

"I know you more than you know yourself" Lie, lie, lie. I can't wait to prove that they're terribly wrong.

[Mari]

I have a couple of finnish ones that my mom loves that make me just annoyed;

"Oh chicken cage of terror" (translates to something like "Oh my god that is terrible")
"I will show you where the place of the cupboard is" (This is pretty much a mom!exclusive one, if your mom is angry she will use this as a threat)
"As if made by simultaneusly running and peeing" (Means something was made in a rush and is of bad quality because of it)

[borzoiteeth]

"Back in my day..." unless you're telling a legit fact and not previous point disguised in nostalgia then screw yourself.

Oh I HATED this as a child and swore I'd never do that as an adult. I have a fear and loath of nostalgia designed conversations. In my experience they were always designed to shut down others.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Isn't it?
They think we doesn't deserve to complain or make changes because they had it worse.
Maybe they're low-key jealous of the current condition or when we actually do something to change it

[Mr_estella]

there are some phrases i hate, but are too political, so i won't start a flame war here, but i really hate stuff like "you don't like my movie because it has a women or black person or x minority" or stuff like that, that's a cheap way to justify bad movies and ignore bad critiques,
this one is exclusive for mexicans, here in México, the situation is very complicated, we elected a new president, and, well, the previous presidents were pretty darn corrupt, so this guy showed himself as the good guy, "i'll eliminate corruption, the good people is under a corrupt government" and that, so, now he is President, he has been screwing up a lot, but when someone says something about it, he, and his followers, just says "you are part of the power's mob" or, "we are not like the previous ones" and you know, stuff like that, they use it as an excuse and those who question him are the bad guys