What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

mommykink@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 142 points –

Bonus points if it's usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

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I actually love this one, because it's technically correct but not in the way people who use it mean, so you can turn it around easily.

Yes, you did get cancer for a reason. Because you insisted on maintaining your suntan every winter. Or perhaps merely because you pissed off the wrong banana.

In my case, it was through no action of my own and merely bad luck. So the only "reason" would be bad luck or a shitty all-powerful deity.

That's the malicious banana. Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable

Hmmmm I do love to eat bananas 🤔 BRB, off to sue Chiquita