"It is what it is."

it is not in the same universe of awful as "it's all good".

i've never loved you more. i must confess i've said it a few times but stopped. xp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_that_I_am

You leave Popeye out of this!

it's definitely more than a few years old. actually, i can never hate this phrase because i've never heard anybody use it and because it is the name of one of my favorite derrick may songs.

que sera sera

This seems like a more polite way of saying, "Quite your bitching. It ain't going to change nothin'."

Or a stupider way of saying, "Musn't grumble, dear."

Or a more opaque way of saying, "Dang, will you look at that, will you?"

Or a more circular way of saying, "It is."

enfore, May 02, 2002
As Mr May said: I begun to understand that I had a new thing going on. You can say that It Is What It Is forced dancemusic into a unknown area back in -88.
Together with Beyond the dance (on the b-side) he constructed his typically organic sound.
The track is meltdown of all of the the complex feelings of humanity.
The last 30 seconds of the track is frustating of life!
If you only can take one dancerecord with you to the stars, It Is What It Is will be the best choice. Enfore.

"It's a small world"

NO IT'S NOT. IT'S REALLY REALLY REALLY BIG. AIRBUS A380 IS A VERY BIG AEROPLANE AND GUESS WHAT, THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN THAT THING. BUMPING INTO SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN YOUR STREET DOES NOT MEAN THE WORLD HAS SHRUNK SUDDENLY SO STOP. SAYING. IT.

I loves me a tautology

http://altrap.com/coverart/tekis.jpg

Banned, apparently.

i say this all the time.

it is not in the same universe of awful as "it's all good".

"it's all good" is actually pretty useful and nuanced and one of those miracles of slang shorthand that makes me really happy. Dude.

i prefer "right on."

uttered initially by athletes on the losing side of a contest,

The thing is that it's perfect for situations like this where you want to acknowledge that something sucks but don't really have anything else to say about it. You can complain that it's meaningless but a lot of the time conversations need meaningless placeholders like that. Obviously it does get annoying though.

psychic brainmeld:

i was out talking to jody/jeff/ned about this while this thread was started.

I would take "It is what it is" "It's all good" AND "It's a small world" if we could just get rid of fucking "I threw up a little in my mouth."

mordy otm

I'm just glad "same difference" took its last breath.

Do you guys live in a frat quad or something? xpost

"I threw up a little in my mouth" is a "snarky hipster" remark. I hear it all the time.

Quoting Austin Powers 3 = hipstre?

http://ask.metafilter.com/28532/What-happened-after-you-were-gagged-with-that-spoon

I heard some fat lady say in the supermarket today "I can't cough, or I'll pee"...

Ewwww.

yeah wtf @ jw

ppl who say "i just threw up a little bit in my mouth" are girls who think they're clever

or dumb sorority girls when they see like an unattractive guy

I used to see it on this one message board and no matter how many times one individual had previously said it, the other posters would always be like "ROFTLMAO!"

it actually happened to me when i found out who the new king of ilx is but i kept quiet about it.

^banished from kingdom

it isn't what it is.

waht it is?

hating hippies is boring, you guys

I wish people would start proclaiming "IT'S IT" instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsETamxkT9E

"It is what it is" is really useful for the way it's used in reality competition shows, when they hit the time limit and they have to hand in the crappy steak or the dress without the intended collar. Cutaway from frustrated shots at the scene of the action to interview with the contestant: "What're you gonna do? It is what it is." In this use, it's not exactly nonsense: it is (that is, it stands as, will be entered into the historical record as) what it is (...at this exact moment in time). Given more time, it would be what it would be. But it is what it is. I've done all I can do.

I am in architecture school right now, so we need these kinds of phrases.

^^^^ bomb architecture school

i was out talking to jody/jeff/ned about this while this thread was started.

Yeah, what the hell! I was initially thinking this thread was started by one of the other folks there!

http://www.nndb.com/people/003/000022934/yogi-berra.jpg

"it isn't until it is."

i hate "it is what it is," especially when used to deflect a question.

i love "what it is" so much.

Sports jive is what it is.

Because of the wang > It is what it is.

Or, in some cases, it is what it is because of the wang.

It's a wang, it is.

what is it what it is that it has in its pocketses

gabbneb OTM.

I only hear “It is what it is” at work where it’s used consistently to describe bad decisions made by upper management.
It’s not as fate-driven as que sera sera. IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE (but we’ve decided to screw around some more and do "this").

I’m imagining some backwater yahoo going all, “stop working yourself up over this racism thing, dude: it is what it is.”

Y'all need to relax.

http://www.hotsouphardcore.com/chino3.jpg

Y'all need to relax.

Rox = rite. Do y'alls also go 'round correcting others' spelling and pronunciation and shit like that like you had caught a case of the burgers of the ass? I mean, I know it's irritating and all to hear people using phrases on the banned list against all the rules, but there are more important things in life to worry about, like whether the retarded woman at work's horse-laugh is 100db or 110db.

Or whether she whitens her teeth!

Yeah, def. And the answer on that one is a most positively definite ENN OHH BABY!

Oh, wait this isn't about me I take back revealing that secret detail, K?

it is what it isn't

it is/is it

innit

My Ph.D. advisor always used to say "It is what it is." It's actually a very useful phrase to have at hand in mathematics, where it unpacks to mean "Yes, I do know what this thing is, yes, if we had an extra hour to spend computing it, we could describe it more explicitly, so it's not a mystery or anything; or maybe we couldn't; but the point is that, while I need to mention this thing in order to proceed with my argument, we don't actually need to _know_ what it is, so let's just say "it is what it is" and get on with the main point."

http://www.7digital.com/shops/assets/sleeveart/5016958016128_182.JPEG

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/17/matt-garza-passed-on-a-52-million-offer-because-it-is-what-it-is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrFIK7GWxHI