Mine's the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
I'm not a cow, sex is not a commodity, and if I marry someone--I don't owe them sex (or vice versa for that matter).
It is what it is. Hate that one.
Oh me too! GROAN!
My sister has that tattooed on her leg. Personally, I find the statement stupid.
Get 'er done!
A man said that on a first date once, as we walked into a restaurant. I was so glad I drove separately.
@Donotbelieve Me too! And I live here in hillbilly land where I hear it every-fucking-day.
“I’ll pray for you.” Really? Which god are you pleading with? You think s/he/it isn’t aware? Please don’t bother your god on my behalf.
The best reply I've heard so far to "I'll pray for you" is "I'll think for you". I use it all the time.
When someone says they'll pray for me I always want to respond "And I'll commit an act of divination for you". But I don't. It would be over their head and it's the same thing, divination.
@farmboy2017 How about, I'll cast a spell for ya!?
@GoldenDoll I love that ❣
When somebody that knows I am an atheist says that they will pray for me, I say, thanks for the condescending remark. Pray for my conversion, see where that gets you.
"Feminism is a cancer" "I'm not racist but...." "I'm a nationalist"
I'm getting pretty sick of conservatives constantly saying "ad hominem". Was there a conservatives meeting where their leaders all told them to use it at every opportunity? We get it you learned a big word.
One time before I married my husband someone asked him when we were going to get married. He replied, "Why buy the cow when I get the milk for free?" I replied back, "Did you just call me a cow??" ???
"Boys will be boys" I find it an excuse that perpetuates gender stereotypes and bad behavior
I hate that one too. Your gender doesn't excuse you from being an ass.
My father often used the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" I hated it then and I hate now.
Mom's phrase was "It takes two to tango," when cautioning me about premarital sex, in fact she drove me to this run down tenement in a nearby town one day and told me that is where I would wind up if I got a girl pregnant.
I was 20 when I finally lost my virginity, but it wasn't from lack of trying... summer of '65.
I did observe a ham radio friend of mine who really struggled because he found himself in a family way in a day when marriage was the only honorable thing to do. Yes, they struggled, but also got a college edulation, got to grow up with their kids, and are still happily married 55 years later! Maybe that's the exception...
At the end of the day.....basically....it is what it is.....thoughts and prayers.....
I try not to. Whenever I feel my eyes starting to roll I take a moment to practice kindness and putting myself in that person's shoes. I didn't always.
I wouldn't want anyone else's regard for or treatment of me to change on account of their attitude about some dumb verbal meme I said that rubbed them the wrong way. So I try not to do that to anyone else.
That doesn't mean I think I'm better than anyone, or look down on others for doing things differently. We're all in different places and it's all good with me as long as you're not being intentionally cruel.