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20 Mar 2022, 10:45 am

babybird wrote:

I've never heard anyone say that time is marching on. I keep seeing a clock with boots where it's hands should be.

Maybe it's a Northern thing? I'm not sure I've heard anyone outside my family say it, come to think of it. But I hear it so much I just thought it was a common phrase.

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20 Mar 2022, 11:41 am

KaleidoscopicMagpie wrote:

babybird wrote:

I've never heard anyone say that time is marching on. I keep seeing a clock with boots where it's hands should be.

Maybe it's a Northern thing? I'm not sure I've heard anyone outside my family say it, come to think of it. But I hear it so much I just thought it was a common phrase.

My mum used to say it a lot. Didn't annoy me though.

I hate when people (particularly strangers) say "cheer up, it might never happen". It's quite sarcastic in a way. Smiling is not something I do when I am lost in my thoughts. Leave me alone, you don't know what's going on in my life, I'm not put on this earth to smile at you all the time, if you don't like it then look the other way.

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23 Mar 2022, 5:19 am

Not exactly a neurotypical saying as it's often used here, but the "if they don't like it then they weren't friends in the first place" cliche. It's not that simple to be that choosey, and sometimes it's actually easier to be friends than to not.

For example:-

Kid: Mum, I can't wear glasses, all my friends will rip on me
Mum: I'm sure your friends aren't as cruel as that
Kid: They are
Mum: Then they're not proper friends

It really doesn't help.

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23 Mar 2022, 6:43 am

"Everything happens for a reason"

"Trauma makes you stronger / what doesn't kill you makes you stronger / You wouldn't be the same person without the bad and it's actually a good thing it happened"

Especially in regards to sharing a past event. I know it's supposed to be encouraging, but it can come across as dismissive and as if the person I'm talking to is downplaying the situation or even trying to spin it into a positive. Yes, I improved as a person after the event, but that was in spite of it. The event was still a negative even if it later led to positive outcomes. I know it's well intended, but it does seem like a misplacement of credit.

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23 Mar 2022, 8:43 am

Lost dragon

You can't measure *strength*, unless it is physical strength

Anyone could say that anything made them stronger or weaker

Habituation versus desensitization

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23 Mar 2022, 8:10 pm

Magicklore wrote:

Personally I hate sayings like "It is what it is"...

As I read the post subject, I had in mind "That's how it is." So right there with you. I will use a good "it is what it is" in times of acceptance (something completely out of my control), but too often it is used to cover incompetence (something in that person's control).

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24 Mar 2022, 12:50 am

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naturalplastic wrote:

Most of these expressions are "fine by me"(speaking of cliche expressions).

The exception being "I could care less". Even that ...someone on WP finally explained it to me.

To me its a dumb version of "I couldnt care less". If you couldnt care less then...you dont care. But if you COULD care less then you must care a lot. But the WP person explained that the later means "you can choose whether or not to care about it ...so you choose not to care about it". I guess that makes sense. And indeed there used to be a variant. Saying simply "I could care". I once heard two guys arguing and one say "I could care...I could care joe" (implying that he has taken the other option to caring which is...not caring). But that was in summer camp when I was kid DECADES ago. Have never heard "I could care" since.

I only just realised what that meant now too.
Stupid . Yes. But it make since if someone said it to me now

okay, this now is triggering me. While I understand "can I ask you a question?" as a common phrase to which the answer must be: yes, you just did, so it looks like you are able to - "I could care less" is unacceptable. Can you? Will you?

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24 Mar 2022, 12:57 am

"You got this." Too glib.

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24 Mar 2022, 12:59 am

I can feel it in my chakras :lol:

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24 Mar 2022, 1:00 am

Joe90 wrote:

Kid: Mum, I can't wear glasses, all my friends will rip on me
Mum: I'm sure your friends aren't as cruel as that
Kid: They are
Mum: Then they're not proper friends

It really doesn't help.

I'm guilty of this :oops:

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24 Mar 2022, 1:06 am

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"Too bad, so sad."

"Suck it up, buttercup."

When they try to read your expression and say, "[Your name] is like, [bad description of what they think you're thinking]."

the rhyming ones make me furious.

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24 Mar 2022, 1:20 am

"it is what you make of it"

"Mind over matter"

"Be the bigger person"

"You can do anything you set your mind to "

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26 Mar 2022, 5:34 am

'I know.'

'I can.'

'you've done it before.'

'YOU can do it'

'your autistic, not Aspergers.

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26 Mar 2022, 5:38 am

When you say something and they respond with, "Yeah, no..." and go into their response. "Yeah, no"? It's like we're too afraid to just say no.

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26 Mar 2022, 7:05 am

Technic1 wrote:

'I know.'

'I can.'

'you've done it before.'

'YOU can do it'

'your autistic, not Aspergers.

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The karate instructor was like "why are you trembling?"

"Ativan side effects"

"I don't care. I've seen you not do it before. Stop it!"

Her statements correct but implications wrong

She implied that just because you did something before, it proves you could do it again

Wrong because when I was born I weighed eight pounds and I can't do that anymore. Doesn't matter how hard I tried

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26 Mar 2022, 4:22 pm

babybird wrote:

I've never heard anyone say that time is marching on. I keep seeing a clock with boots where it's hands should be.

Come to think of it I dont think I have heard that exact expression either.

But during the Thirties and Forties everyone in my parents' generation grew up getting some of their pre TV news from "the March of Time" newsreels in movie theaters - shown before the "main attraction" would come on.

The March of Time newsreels were still being spoofed in comedy media in my day during the Seventies and Eighties.

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