I've seen it when British people are at a swimming pool - either at home or on holiday - and when one wants to get in the pool there's always the standard "the water's freezing".
It's at this point another person in the pool will say the advice that makes sense later but at the time seems useless - "It's alright once you get in".
The funny thing is when a British person then finally enters the pool and whinges more at how apparently cold it is, they'll take about 3 or 4 strokes into the water (at which point their body adapts to the temperature) before sprouting the exact same advice to anyone else getting in the pool.
It drives me nuts; I just feeling like shouting "just jump in and stop whining!" (And please note I am a British person just in case anyone thinks I'm slagging anyone off).
I'd just say, "you get used to it after a few mins" because that literally and more accurately makes sense given that you don't necessarily get used to it immediately once you get in (unless it's not actually cold to the touch) and the acclomation can take a few minutes to become comfortable.
Mine is "That's good enough." Why settle for good enough if better is possible? If perfection is possible, then don't settle until you have perfection. If amazing is a good as is possible then, go for that - always go for the best, never settle for second, third, fourth or just "good enough" - it or you can always be better than "good enough."
Well I think it really depends on the context and the persons standards. For me I find myself saying this a lot (as oppose to obsessing for perfection) and if this were Christmas wrapping then it turns out I'm not as bad as I think and that it was/is indeed 'good enough' and 'will do'. On the other hand, this is something you never want to hear or say if you're dealing with the house electrics or a car etc as lives could be at risk. Sometimes there's no need to go beyond certain expectations because you're just wasting time better spent elsewhere.
1) The kinda things that annoy me is anything that involves my personally named 'inevitability factor' (i.e getting angry at someone and shouting at the, pointless when you know you're only going to apologize for it later- in which case why do it then?).
2) 'Irrelevant conversation'- grannies moaning about things they can't control and wouldn't dare actually try to do something about (so why bother).
3) People who go off on a pointless tangents from a main conversation (which consumes time and bores you to tears).
4) Jokes where people really try to make out they wanna see you or be your friend/lover (if you're like me and will never have love (not that I want it anymore) this is sometimes cruel).
5) People who say they'll get back to you or make a big thing of you both meeting up sometime (if perhaps because it's been years or since school) but never do....why waste your fu*ki*g breathe and get my hopes up then- jerk!!
6) "Plenty more fish in the sea". Bollo**s, if you're failing at love time after time again then it's not about the people, it's about you, stop offering false encouragement!!
7) "I could care less". A damn american sentence which makes no sense because if you 'could' care less, then you must care a little bit. If you 'couldn't' care less, then you don't care at all.
8) "Do I gotta" "Don't gotta be". This is just really bad english passed off under the american language.....eeesh!!
9) "Ain't". There's no such fu*ki*g word as 'Ain't'.
10) "Bear". In a sentence this may be a brit only saying for the less inelligent "I'm bear tired ya know". Bear somehowe means 'really' or 'very'.
These are just some for me.
