nonsensical things people say

“At this moment in time”. How about just saying “Now”

...love that one Lol. Have a good day when it's 6pm 😊

I agree with Patsy’s definition. “ It is what it is “ was my response to my recent cancer diagnosis. I can’t change it. I have to accept the situation. I am trying to make the best of it. Small pleasures whilst undergoing chemo radiotherapy.

Think happy thoughts.

Usually to someone with chronic depression. Oh that it was so easy.

Lizzie
I'm with you on this. I took some earrings to the desk in Next just before Christmas and the woman said exactly that. Why?

I think it's quite rude actually as if you should be buying more.

"He (or she) turned round and said" . A phrase frequently used by Mr GrowingOld. I can only assume the people he converses with are continually spinning around when they talk to him. To be fair, he is enough to get me running round in circles....

Youngest son says "can i potentially?" Whatever it is- like getting a lift home or borrowing cash, instead of just asking outright if he can!

Walking around the supermarket pushing a full trolley and you bump into a friend who asks "what are you doing here" !

Something that is really driving me barmy, though not a saying. My Gransnet Page is repeatedly reloading and crashing. It's so annoying. Is anyone else having this problem?

I am not sleeping just resting my eyes makes perfect sense to me due to my battle with insomnia. Wide awake but eyelids closed trying to rest my eyes that refuse to switch onto sleep mode and switch almost off stopping blinking wide open. So yep eyelids closed is truly eyes being rested, but that does not always mean closed eyes are asleep. I can lie still for hours behind closed eyelids that appear asleep. Yet behind them I am in a relaxed state yet fully awake and aware battling my brain/eye refusal to switch off completely to allow true proper sleep.

GreenGran78 Yes I was having the same issue with it crashing not that many minutes ago. It has stopped now. I closed it, reloaded and logged in and it stopped its closing nonsense. ☺

Walking home from the hospital where I’d spent 28 hours while my stroke victim husband (26 years passed) had been assessed for dementia after an episode in which he’d thrown a metal bar at my head and near killed me …. and having been told that he had mixed dementia and Alzheimer’s with Lewys…..not being able to afford a taxi …I was looking a little dejected possibly!! A useless piece of s••• sitting begging outside the shop I used to work in ( until my home workload became too much) said to me “ cheer up darling …nothings that bad!) . I was only stopped from hitting him with the can of soup I’d just gone in to buy., by an old work colleague who overheard the remark . I think I possibly would’ve near killed him with his fatuous remarks. If you can’t think of something pleasant or helpful to say ….stitch your mouth shit!

Or shut….or maybe not!

Only dead fish go with the flow."
Had that on my office wall.
On my office wall I had a picture of a woman collapsed across her desk saying ‘I love this place. I’m too old for a paper round, too young for a pension and too tired for an affair’

Not quite 50. I've been having trouble with accessing the site for a while. It happens almost every time. Sometimes I can correct it, but sometimes I just abandon trying to get in, as it repeatedly reloads or crashes. "These things are sent to try us".......another annoying saying 😀

My goodness Saggi what an awful time

HowVeryDareYou

How about when you bump into a neighbour in the doctor's and they ask "Hello, are you alright?" - that happens around here, anyway

The obvious answer, surely, is, "Would I be here if I were?"

"We want for nowt we've got"- its a broad yorkshire saying- ive not heard it since my gran died many years ago- it means if you've already got it (some item or other) then you dont want for it (require/need it) makes sense really- no of course you dont, because you've already blinking got it! 😅

Oldwoman70

Walking around the supermarket pushing a full trolley and you bump into a friend who asks "what are you doing here" !

Ah but I liked it when I was doing that in a different town and bumped into my Doctor who said ‘What are you doing in my neck of the woods?’ Made me feel I wasn’t just an unrecognisable patient.

When my own doctor actually says "how are you?" I reply with "im not well, thats why im here"! Or to the drs receptionist when i ring for an appt who says "what is it thats wrong with you?" I reply "I dont know, im not a doctor"🙄

I though 'setting teeth on edge' does mean being very irritated?..

*thought

And No Yammy- my gran was not "someone puffed up with self importance trying to make others feel small" becacause when you really know what the sentence means it is not saying the person's got more than you have is it? Its saying if you do already have it, then you dont need it.

Well, goodness, do we all have to be so picky? Surely it's the sentiment behind the words that counts? 'Enjoy!' to me is a lovely invitation to indulgence.

Maybe I'd better think twice before I wish anyone 'Good Morning' from now on!

I suppose 'Enjoy' is a shortened version of 'i hope you enjoy it' really.