"I'm not going to lie"

[Withdean Wanderer]

Why does everyone keep saying this? Not so much on here, but I keep hearing people saying this before giving their opinion. Where's it come from? Is it a quote from a tv programme or film or something?

And while I'm at it with the pointless quetions about strange phrases, has anyone genuinely ever spat tea over their keyboard? No, I thought not....

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Or how about situations where people start a sentence with "with respect..." before then saying something rather disrespectful?

 

[vegster]

I hate the Australian expression which is creeping in when asking an Aussie his opinion on things. Their answer is prefixed with " Look, ......." as if there is only one opinion that matters, and thats mine.

 

[Manny]

It only indicates to me that those people do actually lie normally.

 

[wehatepalace]

Why does everyone keep saying this? Not so much on here, but I keep hearing people saying this before giving their opinion. Where's it come from? Is it a quote from a tv programme or film or something

Gavin & Stacey, it was one of Nessa's sayings

 

[Northstander]

Gavin & Stacey, it was one of Nessa's sayings

THIS

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Gavin & Stacey, it was one of Nessa's sayings

That explains a lot. Haven't actually seen G&S, will get round to it at some point.

F*cking irritating hearing people keep saying it for no real reason!

 

[Stoo82]

I hate it when politicians say "Its the right thing to do". I have never heard so much blatant brainwashing. From all sides, but it did start with Mctwat.

 

[rool]

Why does everyone keep saying this? Not so much on here, but I keep hearing people saying this before giving their opinion. Where's it come from? Is it a quote from a tv programme or film or something?

And while I'm at it with the pointless quetions about strange phrases, has anyone genuinely ever spat tea over their keyboard? No, I thought not....

I've always understood it to mean that someone is going to tell you how it is, warts and all, rather than tell you what you would prefer to hear.

...and does anyone really roll on the floor laughing their arse off. I'd like to see that.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Honestly, I mean to say...

I once heard a member of the Albion staff say that Buckingham was about to deliver the stadium.

I think he meant "build" it. Only postmen and midwives deliver things. Anywhere else it's just bureaucratic waffle.

But, going forward, there will be plenty of other examples.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I hate it when politicians say "Its the right thing to do". I have never heard so much blatant brainwashing. From all sides, but it did start with Mctwat.

Agreed, a real pet hate of mine - but it started ages ago under Blair. He did it, and it was swiftly copied by other ministers. It is a way of presenting policies as some kind of moral imperative, without actually meeting any of the real counter-arguments head on.

 

[cannedheat]

That explains a lot. Haven't actually seen G&S, will get round to it at some point.

Don't bother,

 

[thebazillionaire]

"I'm not going to lie" has been round for alot longer than bloody Gavin & Stacy. However, still hideous, A little like conversations that have "and i was like....." about 20 times.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

"I'm not going to lie" has been round for alot longer than bloody Gavin & Stacy. However, still hideous, A little like conversations that have "and i was like....." about 20 times.

Definitely. But in the last 6 months I've noticed people saying it LOADS and couldn't work out why !

 

[NMH]

"oh - my - god" from teenage girls
Come on ladies no need to get religious, it's only an orgasm - and when you sleep with me it happens all the time.

 

[wehatepalace]

"I'm not going to lie" has been round for alot longer than bloody Gavin & Stacy. However, still hideous, A little like conversations that have "and i was like....." about 20 times.

Agreed, but you can't deny that it has become a lot more prominent in general since G & S

 

[Mr Banana]

I once heard a member of the Albion staff say that Buckingham was about to deliver the stadium.

I think he meant "build" it. Only postmen and midwives deliver things. Anywhere else it's just bureaucratic waffle.

Dynamite for the tempers of newspaper overlords, though. I was once almost literally dragged by my massive clown nose to the office of a production editor, her seething at a use of that word that wasn't even mine, and ever since then i've struck an unbreakable promise with myself to try and re-use it to deliver a similarly aggrieved adjournement to my boring everyday.

and the thread title, well, the nits i'm penned with for nine hours on each and every one of these numbered days drop it like it's hot, but they're fuckless saps who laugh at shapes and colours and kittens, and when they say they're not going to lie to me i always wish they would, i wish they'd make something up to further themselves from the featureless porkers they have been in my mind for the last two thousand years

 

[thebazillionaire]

Definitely. But in the last 6 months I've noticed people saying it LOADS and couldn't work out why !

Ah okay, well that's TV these days, people latch on to anything, it has obviously caught on far too much then. I remember cringing from 80's american tv every time i heard " Lets get outa here" just before an explosion.

 

[JonathanLivingstonSeagull]

if this kind of lazy cliche generally gets on your tits, you might enjoy reading this famous essay by george orwell. worth a look for any aspiring writers too:

George Orwell, 1946

 

[BensGrandad]

One that gets me is when people say 'I always speak my mind' nine times out of ten it means that they are going to say something insulting about someone usually the person they are speaking to.