Phrases I despise (excuse me while I go off on one)...
"I'm just doing my job"
This is the personal motto for every person who knows what they're doing is wrong or stupid, but thinks abdicating themselves of their own free will is an acceptable excuse.
"[insert product name here] is revolutionary"
Overthrowing a government is revolutionary, a bottle of shampoo is a bottle of shampoo, nothing more and probably a good deal fucking less than what you might expect from the bullshit pseudo science in the advert. Millions of people have lost their lives in revolution and there is nothing more insulting to their memory than that word being taken and used by some miseducated, overpaid marketing fuck in an Armani shirt who's closest experience to revolution is changing their fucking brand of aftershave.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about"
This phrase has to be the all time most ignorant, and most overused by authoritarian apologists the world over.
"You are what you eat"
Do I look like a ham sandwich?
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"
Unless it hacked off both your legs and left you waking up each night with flashbacks. You should not base your inner strength on the demonstratively false; those are not solid foundations.
"Anarchy reins" eg "...in New Orleans"
Say what? Did the anarchist party win the election? Do you even know what the word means?
"I'm just doing my job"
This is the personal motto for every person who knows what they're doing is wrong or stupid, but thinks abdicating themselves of their own free will is an acceptable excuse.
"[insert product name here] is revolutionary"
Overthrowing a government is revolutionary, a bottle of shampoo is a bottle of shampoo, nothing more and probably a good deal fucking less than what you might expect from the bullshit pseudo science in the advert. Millions of people have lost their lives in revolution and there is nothing more insulting to their memory than that word being taken and used by some miseducated, overpaid marketing fuck in an Armani shirt who's closest experience to revolution is changing their fucking brand of aftershave.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about"
This phrase has to be the all time most ignorant, and most overused by authoritarian apologists the world over.
"You are what you eat"
Do I look like a ham sandwich?
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger"
Unless it hacked off both your legs and left you waking up each night with flashbacks. You should not base your inner strength on the demonstratively false; those are not solid foundations.
"Anarchy reins" eg "...in New Orleans"
Say what? Did the anarchist party win the election? Do you even know what the word means?
Now Justine just looks at buildings and wears ponchos.x