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“Never Say Never” And Other Stupid Sayings

Never say never, Cupcake!
Never say never, Cupcake!
Never say never, Cupcake!

Never say never, Cupcake!

I have a friend at work who I love dearly. She’s my work BFF, and our friendship has jumped the work fence and we’ve become friends outside of the workplace.

But something this friend of mine does has freaked me out a little: She’s started quoting Justin Bieber.

Now the situation isn’t completely horrific, it’s not heaps of different Bieber quotes, it’s just the same thing over and over again. “Never Say Never.” She applies it to so many things!

Me: “N, I don’t see myself getting married again”

N: “You know what Justin Bieber says: Never say never!”

Me: “I feel like I’m going to be stuck in this job forever. I’m never going to be able to do what I want”.

N: “Come on Cupcake, you know what Justin Bieber says: Never say never!”

Why does she do this to me? Of all the people she can quote she throws the Biebster at me. We have had such inspirational people in the world, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, and she’s quoting Bieber?

Then you’ve got saying that the “hip and cool” people use. Like “YOLO”. Really? For those not in the know, YOLO is You Only Live Once. And it get’s used for the stupidest things.

“I’m totally going to have another a donut. YOLO!!”

“I’m going to buy that pair of jeans. YOLO!!”

And what about sayings that just make zero sense?

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Um what? You earn the penny first, THEN you can save it. But in this day and age who has any pennies left after the bills are paid?

“When god closes a door, he opens a window”. This is not particularly helpful if you live on the 12th floor.

“The pen is mightier than the sword.” Or lightsaber. Maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi should have faced Darth Vader with a Bic.

Some of these sayings are just ridiculous, and get used completely out of context. You come out of the conversation even more confused than before.

What happened to just conversing, without the use of a saying, quote or cliche?

As for my colleague, I’ve been thinking of ways to get her back somehow. Maybe filling her office full of Bieber pics?

What sayings or quotes get thrown at you that drive you crazy? Anything you’d own up to saying?

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  • http://johnanthonyjames.com/ John James

    You friend is wrong, of course…

    Never Say Never was first used by Charles Dickens in The Pickwick Papers in 1837…

    So your friend should be saying, “As Charles Dickens wrote in Pickwick Papers, Never Say Never!”

    I didn’t realise Bieber was so well versed in the works of Dickens…!!

    • Maryann

      Everything old is new again. Sorry couldn’t resist!

  • https://kikiandtea.com/ Tamsin Howse

    Someone once told me “YOLO is carpe diem for the uneducated”… I haven’t been able to hear YOLO with a straight face since.

    • maree Talidu

      But Carpe Diem is about (obviously) seizing the day and making the best of it, not “I was so drunk I don’t know how I got home-YOLO!” I see Carpe Diem as being a positive thing. I see YOLO as you’re asking me to punch you. (Not YOU, sweet T! Only love for you!)

      • https://kikiandtea.com/ Tamsin Howse

        I thought the idea was still the same though, about seizing the day and making the most of life because you only live once (see what I did there?)

        • http://johnanthonyjames.com/ John James

          I think the difference is that Carpe Diem is more about doing something brave or positive… you don’t eat that second slice of chocolate cake and cry out Carpe Diem! No, you snigger and say YOLO (See WHAT I did there?! See… SEE!! I’m cool, like all the kids!!!)

      • http://www.facebook.com/jessica.k.chapman Jessica Chapman

        I love it when people use YOLO as a general warning like ‘Drive safe in the rain, YOLO.’ Now that’s taken a terrible saying and made it good

  • fender4eva

    Cuppy, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Stop using cliches… LOL ! LMAO ! ROFL ! 😉

  • carohutchison

    ‘If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger’ umm no, some bad stuff can actually be just bad.

    • maree Talidu

      A personal pet peeve: it may not have killed me but it sure as hell still hurts!

  • maree Talidu

    You literally beat me to it! I went to write a piece for KK&T today and thought I’d quickly check in here first and boy am I glad! MIne was on ‘YOLO’. I hate it, hatey hate hate hate. Less cos it’s annoying and more because people use it as an excuse to behave idiotically. Being that I teach teenagers, I hear it more like “I’m gonna get wasted on Friday night! YOLO!” or “I’m gonna get blind/legless. YOLO!” or me to a student “that’s a HUGE and pretty ugly hicky you have there” which is met with “yep, but I was drunk, and you know how it is. YOLO!” or gambling: “Yep I’ll put my pay check in- YOLO!”

    It’s like saying some stupid catchphrase wipes out stupid behaviour. “It’s ok, I’m going to be a total moron and I am aware of that, but have no regrets, cos well…. YOLO!”

    • http://johnanthonyjames.com/ John James

      I had never heard of YOLO until I read this post…

      I AM SO OLD!!!!

      • maree Talidu

        If it’s any consolation, I had to google it last year after I kept hearing it in the classroom/playground and I didn’t want to ask!

  • maree Talidu

    On another related note, I saw 2 girls wearing Bieber t-shirts this week that said ‘Bieber is my life’. And they weren’t taking the piss. I wanted to cry.

    • iamevilcupcake

      My friend Wyatt did a vid on the weekend, which he even shaved his beard off for. It’s hilarious and scary at the same time. He’s changed the words to Psy’s Gentlemen, to Bieber Fan. http://youtu.be/0k6zb7Kx1uY

  • vanessay

    God never gives us more than we can handle (often said to families, like ours with a disabled family member). Hate, hate, hate and hate that saying. If you can’t say anything more than a cliche then don’t say anything!
    I also doubt that Justin Bieber was the first person to say “never say never”,