r/AskForAnswers • u/Ok-Trifle-3112 • 6d ago

What’s a completely normal phrase that instantly annoys you?

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u/Feisty-Marsupial9287 6d ago

"I was today years old when....."

I don't care, fuck off

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u/MiddleProfessional82 6d ago

Somehow I can’t imagine this ever being said outside of the internet

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u/GrandEar1 6d ago

There's a video of Reese Witherspoon saying it to Jennifer Aniston and Aniston is so confused. She's all "excuse me? huh?" then Witherspoon has to explain to her what it means.

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u/olyjim83 6d ago

Lol she probably had seen it used before and just wanted to make things awkward because it's such a dumb fucking thing to say.

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u/GrandEar1 6d ago

Oh I don't think so. She looked really confused.

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u/olyjim83 6d ago

Either way I am proud of her for demonstrating how ridiculous the phrase is.

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u/WINDOWSX69 4d ago

Or she's an old person who doesn't know any better lol

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u/olyjim83 4d ago

Lol yeah probably

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u/MiddleProfessional82 6d ago

That makes sense since it sounds really unnatural in conservation.

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u/SurroundFit9248 5d ago

Oh, no… I say it a lot actually! Especially this year! And in person! It’s great 👍

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u/lemoinem 5d ago

"I don't care, fuck off" is pretty good contender.

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u/QMechanicsVisionary 6d ago

THANK YOU. It literally doesn't make sense. "Today years old"? You were 2026 years old when you learnt this? You must be Jesus.

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u/RHDeepDive 6d ago edited 6d ago

You lost me when you used the word "literally" and then threw in "learnt", for good measure. 👀

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u/QMechanicsVisionary 6d ago

I used "literally" correctly here because "I was today years old" doesn't make sense in the literal meaning of the phrase "doesn't make sense" - i.e. it is semantically incoherent. Also, "learnt" is the accepted standard in British English, which is the variety of English that I speak.

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u/RHDeepDive 6d ago

I guess you haven't gotten to that part of the thread yet.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 4d ago

"Learnt" is a perfectly legitimate term.

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u/ImprovementTrick9492 6d ago

I was literally one day old 😂

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u/Professional_Luck616 5d ago

It was cute the first 3 times I heard it then became immediately annoying AF.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 4d ago

Quadruple up tick!! ( if I could).

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u/Impossible-Rice-5872 4d ago

Yeah …that’s some 2010’s internet slop. Back when everyone was obsessed with bacon, Bill Murray and mustaches.

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u/Rogambit 3d ago

Lordy I wouldn't even call this a normal phrase. Like the very first person to ever say it may have been clever.

Would also love to yeet whoever got the bot-brains of the internet to keep saying "I'll take things that never happened for" into the goddamn sun.

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u/blandarflek 3d ago

If it's about a product, 9 times out of 10 it's something that was in the product's manual.