Platitudes that should be banned

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"Cheaters never prosper."

In which utopia might this be?

And I also dislike "what doesn't kill you make you stronger", mostly because anyone who has told me this has led a very sheltered life.

More street-smart? Check. Suspicious? Check. Cynical? Check.

If it builds character, It's only after many, many years of misery. That being said, It's the misery which builds said character- not the event that created it.

I hate 'what goes around comes around'.

Firstly it's nonsense (along the same lines as cheaters and their purported lack of prosperity in the earlier mentioned trash platitude). Most 'wrong-doers' who habitually do wrong either must be very stupid masochists, or get away with it to such an extent that the profit of wrongdoing is greater than the consequences; there is ample evidence in my own observations that those who send around negativity, routinely profit without cost from doing so, and good sense suggests if some mystic mechanism did send around whatever went around, that human behavior would be somewhat different to that observed.

Also it implies that one is the cause of one's own victim-hood, if you did not do something really very terrible, why did rape come around to you? If you did enough good stuff it would have come back around to you by now, so you must deserve all the bad luck you get; so not only do you have rotten luck, but in and of itself, this proves you deserve rotten luck.

So why even get off your butt and improve yourself or your lot in life, just be nice and niceness will come around to you.

Talk about a way to ignore all injustice, blame victims, and convince everyone to sit on their backsides waiting for things to 'come around', all in one provably false platitude.

"Have your cake and eat it too," presumably meaning having things both ways. The correct version is "eat your cake and have it too," which, to me, has more to do with being prodigal and wasteful with one's resources and then expecting them to be there in the future. That version makes more sense.

Wow--- yesterday I almost really DID "cry over spilled milk".
I was driving my Oldsmobile and decided to buy some milk quickly at the gas station. i put the jug next to me and, on the way home, the jug rolled upside down. i literally bit my lip and hoped that the cap didn't come off--- imagine the smell THAT would create, and in a 38 year old car, as well. I guess even some of the goofiest phrases CAN happen, abeit rarely.

I hate it when someone tries to persuade me to follow some fad in music or play a game or participate in some mindless pursuit,
they always say: "You don't know what you're missing...." If I don't know I'm missing something, then I'm not missing it, Get it?

"I could care less."

Yes you could, and you could also think a bit harder about what you're saying. The original and correct form is "I couldn't care less", meaning that your level of caring is as low as possible as opposed to actually caring some amount in the incorrect version.

How about, "Time Heals All Wounds." No, it doesn't. I have suffered permanent psychological damage from certain individuals and certain acts in my childhood, which as far as I'm aware, haven't healed. Maybe I've gotten tired of hating those people or regretting those acts, but I don't feel anything like healing.

"How are you doing?"

This is one of the most pointless, meaningless phrases to ever be hideously overused. Besides, the speaker often couldn't care less.

Has anyone said, "Have a nice day!" yet? That phrase, politically correct or not, is worthless.