Stupid sayings etc

[lord bunberry]

Some guy just said to me. “Where did that rain come from”
It came from the clouds in the sky. Old people always say “old age doesn’t come itself or don’t get old son” what does that even mean?

[Scouse Hibee]

My favourite is “oh it’s that type of rain that gets you wet”
😂

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

"My bad"
"Oh my days"

[brianmc]

I think this is more a West coast one..."Halved in 2" WTF 🤭

[Onceinawhile]

Get knocked down 9 times, get up 10.

Aye???

[Logie Green]

Motherwell/St Mirren/Hamilton/Ross County etc is a hard place to go to. 🤦*♂️

[Scouse Hibee]

Hibs should be beating the likes of.......

[lord bunberry]

When commentators say he just about got the ball clear. No he did get the ball clear.

[Just_Jimmy]

My favourite is “oh it’s that type of rain that gets you wet”
[emoji23]Whilst I understand your sentiments. There is different types of rain and some really get into you and some don't.

"Just about offside". Nah he was or wasn't.

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[calumhibee1]

When commentators say he just about got the ball clear. No he did get the ball clear.

This absolutely does my tits in. Same if a penalty just sneaks in - “he’s just about scored that” or something along those lines.

[Pretty Boy]

When someone drops down dead at a wedding/football match/the cinema etc

'It's how he would have wanted to go.'

Probably not.

[Killiehibbie]

Some guy just said to me. “Where did that rain come from”
It came from the clouds in the sky. Old people always say “old age doesn’t come itself or don’t get old son” what does that even mean?



The problems that come with getting old, eyesight, hearing, hair, mind, aches and pains.

I'm away for my tramadol once I remember where I put them.

[danhibees1875]

"Cheap at half the price" :dunno:

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

If you keep that on you won't get the benefit of it when you go outside.

[Scouse Hibee]

[QUOTE=NORTHERNHIBBY;5974868]If you keep that on you won't get the benefit of it when you go outside.[

It’s factually correct

Wearing a coat indoors is likely to raise your average skin temperature, including the exposed parts. And while your coat will insulate your body from this temperature drop when you go outside, the air will feel colder, particularly on the exposed skin, than it would have done otherwise.

[Greentinted]

‘I was beside myself!!!’

Were ye aye? Talk ais through that one then...

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

[QUOTE=NORTHERNHIBBY;5974868]If you keep that on you won't get the benefit of it when you go outside.[

It’s factually correct

Wearing a coat indoors is likely to raise your average skin temperature, including the exposed parts. And while your coat will insulate your body from this temperature drop when you go outside, the air will feel colder, particularly on the exposed skin, than it would have done otherwise.


I can just hear my Granny saying those very words.

[Scouse Hibee]

[quote=scouse hibee;5974898]


i can just hear my granny saying those very words.

😂 Point taken 👍

[Seekyit]

It's not rocket science.

[weecounty hibby]

It is what it is

[patch1875]

Where did you see it last? When you can’t find something

[grunt]

Get knocked down 9 times, get up 10. Aye???


Where did you see it last? When you can’t find somethingBoth of these seem to be entirely reasonable and not stupid. Perhaps I am stupid for missing the point.

[lapsedhibee]

Where did you see it last? When you can’t find something

That's a reasonable question to start off a process of mentally or physically retracing your steps until you mentally or physically locate the missing object.

[Pretty Boy]

'Where did you see it last?' makes sense.

'It's always in the last place you look' on the other hand.......

[grunt]

'It's always in the last place you look' on the other hand.......But that's true as well? As soon as you find what you're looking for, you stop looking. So it always is in the last place you look. No?

[Pretty Boy]

But that's true as well? As soon as you find what you're looking for, you stop looking. So it always is in the last place you look. No?

Yes, I think that's what makes it stupid though. It's just stating the obvious. Of course something lost will be in the last place you look.

[grunt]

Yes, I think that's what makes it stupid though. It's just stating the obvious. Of course something lost will be in the last place you look.Yes I see what you mean.

[Billy Whizz]

You’re not yourself today

[RyeSloan]

You’re not yourself today

Not for letting this one in either! [emoji2957]

Yourself in this case is clearly being used as shorthand for ‘your usual self’.

As in someone is a bit off colour or in a bit of an odd mood.

[RyeSloan]

Yes, I think that's what makes it stupid though. It's just stating the obvious. Of course something lost will be in the last place you look.

The phrase is surely trying to covey that you looked in a ton of places first.

So the lost item could be in 101 different places and you find it in place 101 after searching the previous 100 first.

So yeah sure in a literal sense it’s a dumb phrase as it states the obvious but not in the above sense.

‘Why do you always find something in the last location it could possibly have been in after looking in all the other potential locations’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it [emoji2957]

[hfc rd]

“I can’t believe it”

[Mibbes Aye]

Not sure if it technically stupid, but sometimes as a child, I would have the main light and the bedside lamp on in my bedroom and if my mum came in she would say “It’s like Blackpool illuminations in here”.

I had never been to Blackpool at that stage but imagined the illuminations were much brighter and in a more vivid range of colours. Potentially flashing, also.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

It's raining cats and dogs.

[Frankhfc]

''Don't get you're knickers in a twist''

Wasn't wearing knickers ergo neither were they twisted.

:greengrin

[Pretty Boy]

Not sure if it makes sense or not but I hate when older people say:

'You young people don't know you're born'

It's just a throwaway line for the 60+ to hammer home once again how tough they believe they had it and how easy everyone has it now.

[Hermit Crab]

A swear down mate/bruv/man. Cringe stuff

[Hibbyradge]

Both of these seem to be entirely reasonable and not stupid. Perhaps I am stupid for missing the point.

If you get knocked down 9 times, you can only get up again 9 times, not 10.

[Hibbyradge]

"My bad"
"Oh my days"

My bad is just an American expression meaning my mistake. It could be argued that it's annoying, but it's not really stupid.

"Oh my days" is an alternative to "oh my god" or "oh my word" or "jings, crivens help ma boab" or "FFS".

Again, not really stupid.

IMHO, obvs. :wink:

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

My bad is just an American expression meaning my mistake. It could be argued that it's annoying, but it's not really stupid.

"Oh my days" is an alternative to "oh my god" or "oh my word" or "jings, crivens help ma boab" or "FFS".

Again, not really stupid.

IMHO, obvs. :wink:

Just list them under etc in the thread title in that case.

[Hibbyradge]

Just list them under etc in the thread title in that case.

:hilarious

Point taken.

Although the pedant in me would suggest that the "etc" referred to the word "stupid" rather than "sayings", but I won't let him say that. :greengrin

[Onceinawhile]

Both of these seem to be entirely reasonable and not stupid. Perhaps I am stupid for missing the point.

If I get knocked down once, I get up once.

If I get knocked down 9 times, I get up 9 times.

I understand the phrase is about conveying a spirit of not giving up, but it's wrongly phrased.

[grunt]

If you get knocked down 9 times, you can only get up again 9 times, not 10.


If I get knocked down once, I get up once.

If I get knocked down 9 times, I get up 9 times.

I understand the phrase is about conveying a spirit of not giving up, but it's wrongly phrased.You're obviously both right. I've spent all morning thinking about this one!! As you say, the point is that when you get up after the 9th knockdown, you are "up" for the 10th time (since you were up first before you were knocked down).

Think I'm going to have to have a lie down! (And then I'll get up).

[Hibbyradge]

Think I'm going to have to have a lie down! (And then I'll get up).

:greengrin

How many times though?

[lapsedhibee]

If I get knocked down once, I get up once.

If I get knocked down 9 times, I get up 9 times.

I understand the phrase is about conveying a spirit of not giving up, but it's wrongly phrased.

Bunch of literalist *******s on this thread. Getting knocked down 9 times and getting up 10 isn't any different from saying that you gave 111.1% in a match. It's just exaggerating for effect. By a ninth.

[Hibrandenburg]

:greengrin

How many times though?

Inevitably the latter one time less than the former. :greengrin

[pollution]

He/she got his/her just desserts.

It's deserts ie nothing! Really gets my goat!!

[Hibbyradge]

Inevitably the latter one time less than the former. :greengrin

Inevitably or hopefully? :greengrin

[Future17]

He/she got his/her just desserts.

It's deserts ie nothing! Really gets my goat!!

Understandable one that given the pronunciation. What a strange language English is.

[Scouse Hibee]

[QUOTE=pollution;5979530]He/she got his/her just desserts.

It's deserts ie nothing! Really gets my goat!![/

The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.

[One Day Soon]

****s

[Smartie]

"The proof is in the pudding".

No. It isn't.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

A stupid phrase itself but at least get it right.

[WeeRussell]

:hilarious

Point taken.

Although the pedant in me would suggest that the "etc" referred to the word "stupid" rather than "sayings", but I won't let him say that. :greengrin

In which case they are alternatives to stupid.. they are the etcs? Isn’t that what he’s saying.

Anyway.. I’ll throw my hat in the ring with:

“I was poorless” when someone tells you how funny they allegedly found something.

Come to think of it.. throwing your hat into a ring is a strange one as well!

[Speedy]

He/she got his/her just desserts.

It's deserts ie nothing! Really gets my goat!!

Do you have many animals or just goats?

[lapsedhibee]

Do you have many animals or just goats?

:greengrin

[Hibbyradge]

In which case they are alternatives to stupid.. they are the etcs? Isn’t that what he’s saying.

Anyway.. I’ll throw my hat in the ring with:

“I was poorless” when someone tells you how funny they allegedly found something.

Come to think of it.. throwing your hat into a ring is a strange one as well!

I take the etc to mean "sayings, expressions, maxims, slogans" etc which are stupid. Otherwise it would be "Stupid etc sayings". Or summat like that.

Throwing a hat into a ring used to indicate that you wanted to have a boxing match.

A bit like putting a 50p on a pool table, but with more blood and pain. Usually!

[Peevemor]

"Cheap at half the price" is one that has always annoyed me.

[pollution]

[QUOTE=pollution;5979530]He/she got his/her just desserts.

It's deserts ie nothing! Really gets my goat!![/

The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.


Good reply, I stand corrected.

[Pete]

"Cheap at half the price" is one that has always annoyed me.

Never really heard that one.

Is it not "cheap at twice the price", which makes sense?

[lord bunberry]

Bobs your uncle. What’s that all about?

[Future17]

Bobs your uncle. What’s that all about?

Your auntie's fondness for Boaby? :dunno:

[Scouse Hibee]

[QUOTE=lord bunberry;5981167]Bobs your uncle. What’s that all about?[/

In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle

[lord bunberry]

Your auntie's fondness for Boaby? :dunno:
Could be :greengrin

[lord bunberry]

[QUOTE=lord bunberry;5981167]Bobs your uncle. What’s that all about?[/

In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle
Did you google that? :greengrin

[Scouse Hibee]

[QUOTE=Scouse Hibee;5981206]
Did you google that? :greengrin

No I asked my uncle................Bob.

[lapsedhibee]

Never really heard that one.

Is it not "cheap at twice the price", which makes sense?

'Cheap at half the price' is just verbal filler, that people sometimes say when they've had a quote which they're not objecting to.

When they are objecting to a quote, they'll maybe ask you to 'sharpen your pencil' even if your quote was verbal, or in ink !!!!!!.

[Mixu62]

It is what it is


That's one an ex-colleague of mine used to say a lot, knowing it annoyed the hell out of our manager! One day he finally snapped!

Colleague: "Well it is what it is"
Manager: "No it's not!!"
Colleague and I: Well if it isn't what it is, then what is it?

Maybe you had to be there.

[lapsedhibee]

That's one an ex-colleague of mine used to say a lot, knowing it annoyed the hell out of our manager! One day he finally snapped!

Colleague: "Well it is what it is"
Manager: "No it's not!!"
Colleague and I: Well if it isn't what it is, then what is it?

Maybe you had to be there.

:greengrin

[lord bunberry]

How’s your father.

[heretoday]

I should coco.

[Frankhfc]

''Hows it hanging?''


What on earth has it got to do with anyone else what's going on downstairs. Far too personal a question :greengrin

[lord bunberry]

''Hows it hanging?''


What on earth has it got to do with anyone else what's going on downstairs. Far too personal a question :greengrin
True, buts one if my favourites.

[pollution]

True, buts one if my favourites.

I thought to myself

[hibby6270]

“Brexit means Brexit”
Does it really? :rolleyes:

That saying has now morphed into the even more ludicrous...
“Get Brexit done” :no way::grr:

[Greentinted]

“Ye missed yersel last night”

[heretoday]

"What people are saying to me on the doorsteps......"
Oh aye. When we're you last on a doorstep?
Do they even have doorsteps in Oxfordshire?

[Hibbyradge]

"Gaun yersel"

[Hibrandenburg]

"There's nothing worse than.....". Normally used in connection with something mildly irritating at most.

[Future17]

"There's nothing worse than.....". Normally used in connection with something mildly irritating at most.

I was going to post this previously. I worked with a guy who used "nothing worse" as a reaction to any minor complaint. Someone had a splinter one day and he said "nothing worse". Of course there's something worse; they could have been impaled by a 20 foot tree trunk.

[Peevemor]

I was going to post this previously. I worked with a guy who used "nothing worse" as a reaction to any minor complaint. Someone had a splinter one day and he said "nothing worse". Of course there's something worse; they could have been impaled by a 20 foot tree trunk.

Nothing worse.

[Future17]

Nothing worse.

:rolleyes::greengrin

[lord bunberry]

I was going to post this previously. I worked with a guy who used "nothing worse" as a reaction to any minor complaint. Someone had a splinter one day and he said "nothing worse". Of course there's something worse; they could have been impaled by a 20 foot tree trunk.
On the subject of minor things, it’s funny how people react to minor injuries. If you break your leg and are off work, everyone accuses you of milking it, but if you get a paper cut, everyone will sympathise with you.

[weecounty hibby]

On the subject of minor things, it’s funny how people react to minor injuries. If you break your leg and are off work, everyone accuses you of milking it, but if you get a paper cut, everyone will sympathise with you.

Nothing worse than a paper cut though. 😀

[Alfiembra]

“If I’m being honest” is another one.

So is everything you say not true?

[Smartie]

Nothing worse than a paper cut though. 😀

A broken leg is, if we’re being totally honest here.

[weecounty hibby]

A broken leg is, if we’re being totally honest here.

Haha touche!

[Mibbes Aye]

Nothing worse than a paper cut though. 😀

A hefty kick in the stanes?

[lord bunberry]

Nothing worse than a paper cut though. 😀

Haha indeed.

[lord bunberry]

A hefty kick in the stanes?

A splinter is worse than being decapitated in some folks eyes.

[oldbutdim]

A hefty kick in the stanes?

Not if the paper cut is in the same location.


Nothing worse.

[Future17]

A splinter is worse than being decapitated in some folks eyes.

To be fair, a splinter in the eye does sound painful. :greengrin

[Sudds_1]

To be fair, a splinter in the eye does sound painful. :greengrin

We had a young foreign student working with us a while ago who said she had a sphincter in her finger.....🤣🤣🤣

[wpj]

To be fair, sorry Future17, overused TBF 😎

[Hibbyradge]

"Morning love. Fancy a lumber?"

Not exactly a saying, but stupid nonetheless.

Sometimes :wink:

[Future17]

To be fair, sorry Future17, overused TBF 😎

Ha ha! No need to apologise as you're right! :greengrin

I'm aware of overusing it whilst speaking (along with similar nonsense like"if I'm honest") but I hadn't realised it had crept into my written communication too!