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    Shangri-La

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    At the end of the day
    We are where we are
    He/she/it ticks all the right boxes
    Don't be a hater

    Basically any trite "management speak" that came out of some evil yank business school and has infected the planet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panicattacka View Post
    At the end of the day
    We are where we are
    He/she/it ticks all the right boxes
    Don't be a hater

    Basically any trite "management speak" that came out of some evil yank business school and has infected the planet
    Hahaha! At the end of the day... that's a classic! For some reason that became popular here a couple of years ago. I had a conversation with a guy recently he must have said that 20 times in the conversation. I was doing all I could do not to start laughing my head off.

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    "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone"

    "Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can, seldom found in a woman but never in a man" < my grandma used to say this one all the time but i dont like it cause it implies that men are never EVER patient about anything, am I reading too much into it? idk
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    It's not the size but what you do with it...

    You have a lovely personality but...

    It's not you, it's me (translation being it's definitely you )
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    "It is what it is" not only drives me mad it makes no sense whatsoever.
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    I don't know as to whether this also counts but 'text speak' also does my nut in, though I don't tend to notice it so much now compared to back in the 2000s when it seemed to be en masse.

    Even in the 90s, before mobile phones became fully 'mainstream' devices (and inadvertently texting), the titles of quite a few pop hits back then were sensationally stylised in what later became 'text speak', e.g, 'U Got 2 Let The Music', 'U Sure Do', 'C U When You Get There', and quite a few others.

    I also think the ending of certain words (plural) with 'Z' instead of 'S' (e.g, Boyz), has become well hackneyed, lazy and meaningless, and makes me want to throw a paddy!!

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    It's where platitudes cross over into sayings (or may be they're the same)? One we Kiwis and Aussies have when someone asks us a question is 'yeah nah' ... I do it myself, it's become automatic, a space filler while you think about your reply and it covers both bases at the same time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pulisa View Post
    I absolutely loathe them. Some of my worst are:

    "Think positively" (respect to FMP but in my case it's best to think realistically)
    Now, here's something allied to that:

    The Nocebo effect.

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    One of the worst examples of a platitude (and insult) was the Cameron "austerity" era mantra of:

    "People who work hard and want to get on in life..."

    Most people work hard simply to exist but this platitude was alluding and aspiring to some dream while austerity measures were ripping the heart out of the country.

    I even doubt whether many Tory voters believed this barefaced rot
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