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Give me your banalities, your cliches your huddled platitudes yearning to make sense
Posted by Maladjusted • 10/13/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: cliches, dictionary of received ideas, flaubert, Gods, platitudes
[inspired by Rainhat's "Lamest Discussion" thread]
I first realised the immense coolness of Gustave Flaubert when I discovered that he'd written a Dictionnaire des idées reçues (dictionary of "received ideas"). The idea of the dictionary is to list all of the platitudes and cliches of his age thus emancipating the age from its need to trot them out at the slightest pretext.
Now I'm wondering: can the unstoppable B.C. collective intellect come up with its own dictionary of received ideas for our own epcoh?
Try to list as many things as you can think of that at once lack profundity and originality but that people constantly repeat as if they'd just had a conference call with all known gods:
Love,
Mal
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Goddamn it: why can't I type properly...
Read "epoch" for "epcoh" and ditch one of the uses of the word "age" in the first paragraph.
Oh, and is this going to be another of those threads where I have to reply to myself:
Hey, Mal, how are you? Brilliant thread you've got there. Ï wish my thread topics were as brillaint. Then I'd be more like you....
Nope. Still boring.
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oh mal with that goddamit, you just became the sexiest man in BC, sorry NP
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I'll start...
The world will end in 2012-
Merci, Deray.
Now the thread is one step closer to hegemony...
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I'm afraid that the vast majority of BC members wouldn't understand the first sentence, let alone the entire gist of what you are proposing here.
Perhaps if you put it into plain English, with a few grammatical errors and misspellings strewn about, it would illicit more interest and a more satisfactory response?
As for myself, I would add to this thread the following:
"_________ (insert name here) is such a douchebag!"
Most overused cliche on the interwebs.
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Oooh. Good one "O.B.". I must admit that as a non-American who never hears the word 'douchebag' spoken: I do find the term oddly delightful...
What about the great pleonasm:
[said as if conveying enormous moral force as well as sociological insight]:
"Everyone has their own opinion."-
Yes! Nothing profound at all, we wouldn't be human without our own opinions.
I like when people say:
"Back in the old days...."
They are usually insinuating that the "old days" were better when in reality each generation had its ups and downs and no one time period was better or worse, just different. Yet they say it as though they are looking down their nose at the current state of affairs. -
I especially enjoy using a certain word to put double emphasis toward the meaning of my expletives.
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Opinions are like _________; everyone has one.
Tax-and-spend liberals.
Any extracurricular activity for children is as good for their development as any other activity.
I just want my child "exposed" to [art, music, whatever] [as though they were "exposing" them to chicken pox, as an inoculation against ever catching it]
And just for the past US holiday: "Columbus discovered America."
The audience for the classics is dying out.
There are plenty from American politics--contact me privately for those as I have no intention of getting dragged into a discussion in public.
Classics are no longer relevant to society.
Learning a foreign language (or for that matter, exerting any academic effort at all) is hard.
Schools fail because they don't have enough [money, parental participation, good teachers].
More when I don't have to prepare for another meeting (have one in 10h)-
Dang! You googled those, admit it.
Oooh! That's one right there - ha!
"You Googled that, didn't you?" -
Geekchick: magnificent work. Those are pearls. You'll get to become editor of the dictonary at this work.
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Oh, and another one: the whole 19th-century idea of "countries." How romantic!
On the contrary, I did not Google those. Those jewels are straight from my own poor overworked feverish brain.
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(stolen from the sexy nun's thread here: www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/i-will-also-stay-on-bc )
EVERYONE'S DOING IT!
Best cliche ever. -
there ought to be a feature to merge the threads together -
"does God exist yes or no" I know this has absolutely no relevance except that it is repeated over and over on BC
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*snorts*
He does and he will smite us ALL if one more BC'er even thinks of questioning it.
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