’)There is a growing movement of people using the term ‘long story short’ appropriately. In recent weeks there have been growing reports of long stories being shortened in order to save the listener’s time.
As is the norm, people use the phrase ‘long story short’ as a tool to make up for their boring blather and trick the ‘listener’ into thinking that the story was actually short; however, more and more people are becoming wise to this scheme and are refusing to listen to stories (which are inevitably stupid). As a response the blathering public has had to switch their approach, spewing their inane nonsense about the uninteresting minutia of their lives in short bursts. This has not reduced the amount of idiotic stories but has significantly cut down on the time spent listening to them.
Note: Human behavior is often interesting, sometimes amusing, but almost always idiotic. Please don’t subject others to what seems interesting to only you, like how your cat’s health problems is causing you sleepless nights, or by insisting to describe a half-hour situation comedy (which the listener has no interest in) scene-be-scene.
I quit listening at the word ABSOLUTELY too…….
And the other one, apsolutely.
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Another terrible phrase gaining popularity is “At the end of the day.” Hate that stupid comment. End of the day…Really?
At the end of the day is another way of saying – The bottom line or the conclusion. Its the take away for the listener.
I am sure you will certainly need take aways if you were ever in a long meeting, whether you make notes or not
How are they even related. This is idiotic. The content and length of the story have no relation.
Its like saying 100 people were made to give IQ tests. 50 were wearing pink pajamas and 50 red. The IQ score of the ones wearing red pajamas was 15 more that those wearing pink pajamas. Hence red pajamas increase your IQ, period.
hope this gets the message across or do you want me write this long story in short
Actually there is a study for seeing certain colors making you either more creative or think harder. I believe it is between red and blue; you might benefit from looking this up. Also the content and length of the story do have a relation. Though people may not want to listen to a long story…a long, boring story is about 10 times worse.
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