Certain phrases trip the neuron set in my head that starts my teeth to grind. One of them is this intellectually poor man's version of the simpler, more urbane, "I recommend...".
A brief list of behaviors Internet tells me I haven't lived until I've done:
- eaten beefaroni with a hello kitty spork
- been to the Mayan Beach Gardens
- eaten a "Bacon Explosion"
- seen a 3 yr old sing ABBA
- felt your way along a jungle path in utter darkness, rounding a corner and spotting a pack of hyenas in a pool of light twenty yards away, with no apparent fence between you.
- witnessed a gargantum fireworks display set to Bee Gees (Staying Alive), MJ, U2 and The Prodigy
- LARPed*
- exsperanced pantanal**
- caught one of those high hard ones
- screwed a Catholic girl
- tried to explain arcane primary procedures and nominating rules to an eleven-year-old watching his first Democratic National Convention on C-Span
- shaked your ass of to house music in Barcelona!
Oh my wasteland of an existence.
*I've done this one, and can say with authority that its absence doesn't bar you from life.
** Totally true.
2 comments:
I agree. There are lots of lazy, trite statement starters like, "You haven't lived until you've..." It's arrogant and offensive to say something like that. Even worse, I think, is beginning of reply to someone else's statement with, "That's nothing..."
Other statement starters that I'm tired of:
"Am I the only one who..."
"Is it just me, or..."
etc.
Man, I could do a series on this theme. I try to curtail use of the acrimony tag, though.
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