“What’s A Word Or Phrase That Makes You Lose Respect For Someone?”: 48 Brutally Honest Answers

f**k em!

IT F*****G ISN'T.

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It's just a parent or a relative/friend/coworker. Can you just get over it already?

I'll hold your coat.

I hate this! Lost son to his own choice..... there is NO good reason coming out of this situation. Just. Shut. Up. If you can't think of what to say, send a Hallmark card!

Sounds similar to 'what doesn't k**l you makes you stronger'... yeah sure. someone losing his hand due to some stupid accident, sure, they are much stronger now...

Technically everything does happen for a reason - but the reason has nothing to do with a diety or any cosmic plan. My coffee tastes bad because I didn't have enough creamer. My mother also died from Alzheimer's. The reasons are medical in some unknown manner. Not because any god wanted her with them, maybe to make blintzes. Emalyn, there is no good reason; his reasons were probably complex and might be only understandable by him at the time. I'm so sorry you lost him. No parent should go through that. My heart goes out to you. (edited to fix typos)

I get it's hard to offer sympathy to someone who's recently had a loved one die. Personally, though, I'm of the opinion that if you think you can't, stick to "I'm sorry for your loss" and bring them food or something like that. Sounds generic, and I know everyone brings food. It *is* kind of generic (even if you do feel genuinely sorry), but at least it's better than actively offending the person, and they can freeze the food.

That word - "just". It's so often either a verbal grovel, or an attempt to evade the blame. Avoid it yourself (as much as possible) and avoid those who use it regularly, as well.

Yeah, it;s like "Just saying" as an excuse for being obnoxious.

My family does this a lot whenever they bring up the fact that I’ve failed every single exam this year. And they’ll on top of that tell me that I will never make it to my dream college or that my capacity is only to score 70-80% on a test

But for them, you have to walk in eggshells of course. That's not the same obviously

Just don't say "just".

You may not believe, but nevertheless it exists.

This is usually said by people who are too scared to admit they have undiagnosed issues that should be dealt with. We all need to find peace in this world some of us need help getting there. Finding a new life teacher and admitting you need help is a brave thing to do.

It's so much quicker than saying 'I'm a disgusting person who needs to make up excuses not to bother with feeling compassion.'

Good for you, buddy - maybe your brain is not evolved enough to understand.

Not believing in mental illness is a definite symptom of mental illness.

It also means "I'm an entitled idiot that wants you to give me stuff for free."

An 'Influencer' is just another marketing billboard ruining the view.

Let me subtly reword this: Manager. That word means that more than likely you don't know what you are talking about regarding what you are trying to get your employees to do. So, I have no respect for you. ;)

mine is Uranus. Oh, not a star sign?

We Geminis don't believe in astrology.

I do this but always in an extremely and obviously non-serious way.

Yeah, that god is a sadistic fvck.

I am an atheist. If God exists, why are there so many wrongs with the planet?

"My god it's been 2 weeks."~ my boss after my son died. F*** you Bridget.

If God doesn't give us more than we can handle then how come the sui-cide rate is so high?

"If God doesn't give me more than I can handle, when does He take take you back? Or are you a present from the other side?"

Good observation.

More like: "I miss the days when I could pretend that gay people and people of color didn't exist, and now you guys are making it harder for me to live in that comfortable make-believe world I used to live in."

"Woke", "social justice warrior", "politically correct", "bleeding heart", .. have always meant the same thing - "I have nothing to support my pig-ignorant nasty bigotry, so I'll fill the air with a meaningless phrase instead and hope it distracts people."

I think this word needs to die. Because sometimes when people criticize things as "woke", I agree. I saw a video of some young adults doing skits about bigotry, stereotypes of other ethnicities, and racism. Most of it was fine, but then apparently it's racist to mention a sunburn around a black person! That's so ridiculous. That's the kind of "woke" that I object to. Or, teaching white kindergarden students that they are privileged because they are white. That's not the right age or way to go about that. But the word has been weaponized, like so many other things in the last 10 years. Best just to stay away from it completely now.

Nobody I have ever met believes any of this trope. I'm from Bay Area, California.

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"I'm vegan"

Have asked AI twice about something then followed up by checking the result. Not only wrong but VERY wrong.

I went with duck duck go, now I go with go-ogle (actually: wikipedia)

Last year I had this complicated project for school that would account for 20% of my final grade so I went over the deadline to research things and exceeded the page limit by 30. I obviously lost marks for late submission so I asked everyone else how they managed to complete it on time and they all said that they used ChatGPT. -_-

"I asked Chat GPT.." Yeah, well I did actual reading with cited sources and followed up with in depth research. guess which one of us has a real understanding of the subject and who has a Quora answer.