"Been there, done that!"

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I cannot put my finger on why this phrase bugs the holy bejesus out of me, but it does.

Thoughts?

Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:56 (twelve years ago)

Because it's usually uttered by people who also say "I like what I like and I like what I know"

pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:57 (twelve years ago)

"I know what I like and I like what I know", I mean.

pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:57 (twelve years ago)

you mean the phrase or the people who say it?

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:59 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKY8NKKgjo

Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:00 (twelve years ago)

It can be condescending and know-it-all

curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 14:01 (twelve years ago)

Yeah. That's pretty much it. And both my father in law and mother in law say it ALL THE TIME.

Ugh.

Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:07 (twelve years ago)

Okay. Thanks for helping clarify, folks.

Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:54 (twelve years ago)

That song is the only way to hear this phrase from this point forward.

and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:01 (twelve years ago)

I suppose I say this sometimes, but only as an expression commiseration with other people over minor mishaps. Would never use it as a brag of any sort.

acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:05 (twelve years ago)

there's a missing 'of' in that first sentence

acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:06 (twelve years ago)

"Been there, done that, got the t-shirt."

ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

This phrase can only be said ironically, and by now it is such cheap irony as to be worthless.

Aimless, Friday, 15 March 2013 17:30 (twelve years ago)


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