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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago)
"I know what I like and I like what I know", I mean.
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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago)
It can be condescending and know-it-all
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 March 2013 14:01 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago)
Okay. Thanks for helping clarify, folks.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 15 March 2013 14:54 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago)