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Every once in a while, someone will say something meaningless. Usually I take it in stride, but less than an hour later it dawns on me: We have a lot of meaningless crap in our language.
A good example of what I mean is during CNN's commercial-ridden TV coverage of the Democrat National Convention, some pompous idiot said in regard to another political jerk-off, I finally realized that he has his own political views. Well, who doesn't? Have you ever met a public official who could not tell you what they believe would work best in any given situation? Even Terri Schiavo had political views before she became a vegetable. Then she joined the green party.
Watch your language. Has anyone ever told you to watch your language? How do they propose we do that? Language is abstract; it does not absorb or reflect any light. How the hell are we supposed to watch it? An electron microscope? Get the fuck back to grade school.
I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. You hear this a lot from those New Age cunts who spend their free time searching the internet for a magic spell that will make them lose 50 pounds (hint). How can you be spiritual, and not religious? You don't need a written doctrine or a deity to have a religion. Any belief system that makes supernatural claims is a religion. The only people who can get away with using this phrase are scientists who use the word "spiritual" as a metaphor for "curious about the universe."
Here's one that you probably hear a lot but never think about: You're pushing your luck. You can't punch justice or stab imagination, so why should you be able to push luck? It's just another empty phrase involving a concrete verb and an abstract concept.
Fight fire with fire. Let's take a bright idea (controlled burning to prevent fires from spreading) and make it sound like something you'd expect to hear in a Japanese cartoon.
It takes a special kind of idiot to spew the same bullshit over and over without thinking about what it means.
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