Celes's Yessir

“Just my luck” he said. “Just my luck.” What the horrible news my friend had just received, exactly, escapes me – I probably wouldn't be guessing too far away to make the assumption it was related to some Modern Warfare connection problem, though. It was just his luck – his luck alone; nobody else could compare the severity of a minor occasional necessity to /reconnect a server. Truth be told, there was nothing distinctive in this event at all: it stood side by side with every other time someone had said the same thing – with all the times even I had said it – but this time I lost concentration, complained, and received the inspiration for this here blog.

Pointless sayings. Stupid sayings. The kind of phrases where you don't even consider each word individually; they come as a package, unmeddled with. Sometimes these phrases don't make much sense as they are, let alone in their regular context. Even the phrases that are completely legitimate yet still so saturated in common speech that they're a bore to hear but always tipping the tongue to be said. I'll take my titular example further than just moaning; I (probably) wouldn't be mistaken in stating that everyone has said this saying at some point. Everyone. With that established, two of three words have quickly been judged pointless; in sheer irony (here I go) it's certainly not just your luck, it's apparently everyone else's too. And with the second part and finale of the excellent analysis: when does casual misfortune ever have anything to do with luck? You drop your cup, you forget your keys having reached the door, you can't join a server; half of the time (statistically proven) the situation has zero relevance to being unlucky.

So I'm probably inflating a near non-existent issue, but this is ignoring the scale and extent:

“God only knows,” “God only” officially said as one word and typically said by atheists.
“Who'd have guessed” – I don't know, David Blaine maybe.
“I could care less.” Then do so.
“I couldn't care less,” yet make the effort of this witty retort.
“You've gotta be kidding me;” can't argue with that assessment.
“All I'm saying is” which seems the most redundant introduction possible.
“At the end of the day” never experiences its evaluation at the end of the day, and the time has never changed anything.
“At this point in time” for specific clarification.
“Been there, done that”: no clever summary to follow, but who can genuinely say this doesn't the slightest bit upset them?
“Basically,” basically.
“The truth hurts,” which will never be a justification.
“To be perfectly honest” is a fortunate confirmation which wills me to believe the speaker much more than I previously did. Being honest.

Despite the list barely even started, with the possible extent of this paragraph essentially being pretty limitless I'll finish with everybody's favourite: “literally.” No explanation necessary.


Concluding my 3am effort, I'll drop a point to make something out of an otherwise objective-less rant: maybe we should all make a more reasonable effort to deter the everyday expressions, we should try and throw our vocabulary on shuffle, break the conformity and aim for a little spice of originality. “Chances are,” I was about to start this sentence, this little piece of writing is laced with the exact thing I've spent my early Saturday morning objecting to. I'd imagine that proves the point.