The most useless advice in the English language: "Just get over it."

[Bucky]

I'm not saying that it's never apropos, just that it's generally a useless thing to say. Anyone who isn't getting over it when they need to get over it isn't getting over it for reasons other than the fact that they're not aware that it's something still needing to be gotten over.

I'm at a book store and I just hear a guy someone on the phone "So, just get over it" about three times. I do believe the young man is a douchebag.

[crim son]

1. That was and still is my STBE husband's stock phrase.

It's his answer to everything and I always HATED it. V. douchebag-esque.

[mix]

2. and it's used in the most f-uped ways, like

Indians, get over it! Jews get over it! Blacks get over it!

People who use it live in the eternal present.

[rug]

3. It is what it is.

[Bucky]

7. I dunno. That one's just barely Buddhist enough to get past annoying.

I mean, what else can you say to people complaining about the rain?

[rug]

10. Sit under a banyan tree?

:shrug:

[Shell Beau]

13. Haha! Exactly!

Started a thread on that!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I don't see what the problem is.

Deal with it.

[Haole Girl]

5. It ranks right up there with...

"CALM DOWN!"

[Bucky]

6. Or the old cliche of slapping people when they're crying hysterically.

Ugh. Who would even think up trying something like that in the first place?

[Haole Girl]

8. Like in the movies...

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

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. almost as useless as this infamous quote:

"Get the fuck over it."

[NYC_SKP]

11. "what-evur."

:eyes:


:rofl:

[Bucky]

16. Ugh, you remind me of DUers who type "Best ____ Evar!"

I do try to type the way I talk, but I also try not to talk like a pouting 13 year old.

[NYC_SKP]

17. You do realize...

...that "what-evur" was my contribution as a potential runner up to "most useless advice" in your OP and not an editorial response, right?

:P

I might get snarky occasionally, but never to you.

[madinmaryland]

12. Move along. Nothing to see here. nt

[Tom Kitten]

14. Dr. Laura's theme song

Got a problem? Get Over It! Used to hear it a lot when at work the neighboring factory had a radio blasting tuned in to Dr. Laura...

[petronius]

15. I think "grow a pair!" is slightly more useless, but yours is up there

And yeah, the dude you witnessed is a douche...

[lutefisk]

18. I think it's the modern version of "This too shall pass"

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2009/February/20090205160431jmnamdeirf0.8714563.html

[wickerwoman]

19. Except ruder

since "just get over it" implies you personally have some kind of flaw that is causing you to cling to the past, whereas "this too shall pass" is a broader philosophical statement.

[Duer 157099]

20. Which is why my usual advice is to dwell and linger and stew about things

(at least that's what I do)

Funny thing, when you advise someone to stew more than they already are, they somehow conclude on their own that it might be better to just get over it

Reverse psychology - except not intentional