Horror films - normally about posession or exorcism - which say they are based on true events. No they are not because it didn't happen, it's just the ravings of some religious nutter.
"If I had my time again I'd................"
That's never going to happen. You get one shot at it, make it count.
Besides, if you did get that chance to put a few big mistakes right you would only make some new ones, that's what we do - we're human and we screw up
"Lessons learned" - this normally gets fired off by the PR department when there has been a massive f*** up / embarrassing press story / etc to attempt to somehow get the company off the hook. It's become such a cliché and normally within a year or so a similar event occurs again proving the...
"Deal with it"
This seems to be used quite a lot. It seems to imply that the person making the comment has won the argument so move on; no you haven't and I won't deal with it because I don't need to
Last time I was in Brighton I witnessed that in a lot of queues, then I saw a bunch of Whitehawk chavs in their Yankees baseball caps (on back to front of course) and saw a load of Halloween tat in the stores. Felt like I was back in New York. Looks like the Americanisation of the UK is well...
I wish it were so, but IMO karma is just an illusion that helps people make sense of an unjust world. Decent, honest people die in appalling conditions every day whilst ex Nazi Commandants die comfortably of old age in their sleep in South America. I do have a conscience but I think that is...