It is what it is...

Sorry guys- I love it. To me it means stuff that you can't change so why waste the time/energy on it. The choice is adapt or lose your mind over it, so adapting is the preferred option.

Me too! Maybe "accept the things I cannot change" is a more serene and less annoying way to say it. 😀 But I like the short version.

I love it too. I totally think it is appropriate during many conversations. To me, it needs no explanation at all. It is what it is. Plain & simple.

"It is what it is" is like "whatever" to me....they are basically negative, defensive statements that lack courgage to make appropriate changes or attempts to find solutiuons to things.

Naw, not negative & definitely not defensive at all. At least not when I've used it. Sometimes one just has to accept what can't be changed. :wave:

A poorly timed "whatever" would get you a smack in the Scooterbug house. So dismissive and rude. Especially coming from a teenager at the end of a lecture. 😀

:lol: Just wait until you have your own kids. You'll probably say it without even realizing it! :lol:
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Reminds me of something I heard Paul Harvey say: He said that on a previous broadcast he had asserted that while mathematically two negatives equaled a positive, two positives never yielded a negative. One of his listeners emailed him and said, "Yeah, right."

love it

I can deal with all the annoying things people say, as long as they don't use little finger quotation marks!!! It is what it is and what it is, is a reason to amputate fingers!

I think the word "basically" is overused. :blink:

I think the word "basically" is overused. :blink:

yeah, I know, right!

Using ummmmm when people talk bothers me and I do it and I know others do it when they are thinking but ummmmmm it gets on my nerve.

And speaking from a scientific viewpoint, everything is always changing. So it is what it is, is really, it is what it was a minute ago, but now, it's something else...ummmmmmm....right?

It is what it is, in real estate terms, simply means that if buyers are willing to pay no more $425,000 for a house, and a seller won't sell for less than $525,000, the house is only worth $425,000, and no more, regardless of what the "seller" (real name - "owner') wants to get for it -- in other words, "it is what it is," and as Rick says, "and it ain't what it ain't."

It probably stems from Buddism, where a rock is simply a rock.

Excellent post ... probably belongs on the home page. :lol:

To me the word whatever and the Do you know what I mean pharse always drops the
IQ level of whoever said them. I thing to myself "BOY, this person is really stupid!"

To me the word whatever and the Do you know what I mean pharse always drops the
IQ level of whoever said them. I thing to myself "BOY, this person is really stupid!"

yeah, I know, right?

To me the word whatever and the Do you know what I mean pharse always drops the
IQ level of whoever said them. I thing to myself "BOY, this person is really stupid!"

pffft .... whatever :roll:
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Some of my favorite phrases are dissed in this thread. . . .I think I'll go somewhere else and play. . .

Some of my favorite phrases are dissed in this thread. . . .I think I'll go somewhere else and play. . .

What does dissed mean... Who says that? :funn:

What does dissed mean... Who says that? :funn:

"dissed" means what it means 😀

My current :bang:teeth-on-edge phrase:

It's All Good.

O REALLY???
When you've just shot someone's eye out and burnt their house down,
the quick "It's all good" sing-song, Like Toe-tully, makes everything excusable.

My current :bang:teeth-on-edge phrase:

It's All Good.

O REALLY???
When you've just shot someone's eye out and burnt their house down,
the quick "It's all good" sing-song, Like Toe-tully, makes everything excusable.

you made me think about "I'm Good" and "my bad"

Loved this commercial... So typical of men. :roll:


YouTube - Super Bowl 43 ad: Pepsi Max - "I'm Good"

:lolabove:

I've never seen that commercial before!

Now that is funny :floor:

OMG - I think I have seen this commercial and it is funny.

Dangitall, today I said, "It is what it is!" There should be punitive consequences.

I said it today too and afterward, everyone agreed, it was what it was.

I can deal with all the annoying things people say, as long as they don't use little finger quotation marks!!! It is what it is and what it is, is a reason to amputate fingers!

:floor::rolling:so true DL!!!!



Bob - how do you feel about...

"I heard that..." in a rather southern/country accent.. ???

It is what it is - well its just a common expression that has become even more common these days which means I'm tired of it already. but I think its okay in terms of what it means - it isn't negative or derogatory. It is what it is.

actually, my very favorite expressions can't be posted. ha ha. seriously. (I believe we had a recent thread about our favorite bad expressions).

:floor::rolling:so true DL!!!!



Bob - how do you feel about...

"I heard that..." in a rather southern/country accent.. ???

It is what it is - well its just a common expression that has become even more common these days which means I'm tired of it already. but I think its okay in terms of what it means - it isn't negative or derogatory. It is what it is.

actually, my very favorite expressions can't be posted. ha ha. seriously. (I believe we had a recent thread about our favorite bad expressions).

i would post the george carlin answer, but it's verbally effing filthy

i would post the george carlin answer, but it's verbally effing filthy

I'm just saying...:rolling:(another overused one lately)

A few of my favorite sayings that get under Bobby J's skin are~The hell you say~ and ~That dog'll hunt~

But the one that really gets him going is ~I'm just before...~ Used in a sentence it would go like this, Hey Bobby, stop cracking those eggs while I am standing in the kitchen, I'm just before having a panic attack.

I swear the boy secretly loves it when I talk Freeport.

A few of my favorite sayings that get under Bobby J's skin are~The hell you say~ and ~That dog'll hunt~

But the one that really gets him going is ~I'm just before...~ Used in a sentence it would go like this, Hey Bobby, stop cracking those eggs while I am standing in the kitchen, I'm just before having a panic attack.

I swear the boy secretly loves it when I talk Freeport.

:floor: i've heard the first two, but you got me with "just before."


you should start your own thread with talking Freeport. :wave:

I swear the boy secretly loves it when I talk Freeport.

Very hot!