• Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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      4 months ago

      Off topic, but… Can we retire this idiom? It’s in this thread like 3 times and it’s always used by people uncomfortable by the fact that someone they don’t like made a good point.

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        4 months ago

        it also exists in multiple different cultures with very different languages, so it seems it is not going away anytime soon

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          4 months ago

          I think people intend it to be a clever undercutting of the person they dislike. But it stopped being clever ages ago. When does something become a cliche? Because it just sounds petty now.

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        4 months ago

        It’s not about “someone I don’t like”, it’s that this guys opinions are pretty much always beyond total shit.