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Jackhound Mom — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:37:08 GMT

"Sit There" before they describe what someone did?

Example: Don't "sit there" and lie. or She "sat there" and laughed.

Not everyone is in the seated position when they do something and if they are it has nothing to do with the remark or situation.

This saying drives me crazy

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ShowMe — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:41:08 GMT

@Jackhound Mom......I've never heard that..... What talk show are you talking about????

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butterfly123 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:42:02 GMT

@Jackhound Mom

Happy New Year to you, DH and Scooter 🎉

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kittyloo — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:48:00 GMT

@Jackhound Mom i understand exactly what you are saying. my guess saying a person "sat there" is easier than denoting a action. I think it's just as common to say "she stood there" and lied about it. Another thing is lets say you get called into the bosses office for a verbal correction. all very calm etc. usually when the person is retelling the incident to say co-workers, the boss is always described as "yelling". even though a voice was never raised.

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Ms tyrion2 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:48:01 GMT

It might be a regional thing.

I grew up in the Midwest and heard the phrase all the time.

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Jackhound Mom — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:52:59 GMT

@ShowMeI must confess, we started watching Wilco & Springer because of the lack afternoon entertainment. So not all guests are collage grads.

@butterfly123Happy New Year to you and DH!!! Thank you for writing and I have been MIA sense our illness after the granite install from H$((.

Scooter has a whole new sweater wardrobe as about all I felt like doing is some knitting.

Haven't been on the boards in weeks.

Happy New Year to you, your Positive posters and every poster

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Jackhound Mom — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:56:17 GMT

@Ms tyrion2 Me too, MI but I only heard 1 man say it who had worked in Army Recruiting with DH while we were in MI. I had never heard it and that was about 30 years ago until I heard on both shows this year.

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willdob3 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:02:51 GMT

@Jackhound Mom

I don’t watch talk shows but I’m familiar with the phrase and it makes perfect sense to me though it has nothing at all to do with actual sitting. Not sure where it came from but it doesn’t bother me at all to hear it IRL. I can see how one might get confused hearing it on TV.

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Ms tyrion2 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:05:45 GMT

@Jackhound Mom,

Phrases like:

Don't just sit there. Do something.

She was just sitting there minding her own business

She is sitting there pouting

All very much in common usage. I grew up with them.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:11:12 GMT

I don't see anything wrong with it. Phrases like that tend to be colloquialisms, so there might be part of the phrase that isn't literal, but the point is made.

As long as it's not poor grammar, which I hear/see so very much too often anymore (ugh), I'm ok with it.

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GingerPeach — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:48:55 GMT

@Jackhound Mom wrote:
"Sit There" before they describe what someone did?

Example: Don't "sit there" and lie. or She "sat there" and laughed.

Not everyone is in the seated position when they do something and if they are it has nothing to do with the remark or situation.

This saying drives me crazy

Can you give a more complete example, @Jackhound Mom? I have never noticed that phrase being out of place - whether used grammatically or ungrammatically.

It is not clear from the examples you gave that the people weren't actually sitting.

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occasionalrain — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:02:48 GMT

It's meant to indicate the location of the offending person when it happened. Sometimes it's indicated by the phrase, she laughed in my face. That the person was right in front of the speaker lends validity since it was observed and somehow makes the action more offensive.

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esmerelda — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:20:23 GMT

Maybe for the same reason law enforcement refers to a suspect as "gentleman"?

Sorry to go a bit O/T, but that one...that one really bothers me!

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blackhole99 — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:40:30 GMT

It never ceases to amaze me what bothers some people. What bothers me is that people think you have to graduate from college to be able to speak correctly. I think people should be able to speak correctly before they go to college.

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Ms tyrion2 — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 01:57:14 GMT

@esmerelda wrote:
Maybe for the same reason law enforcement refers to a suspect as "gentleman"?

Sorry to go a bit O/T, but that one...that one really bothers me!

It's that little ole thing called innocent until proven guilty.

An arrest is not proof of guilt. Far from it.

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esmerelda — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 02:02:56 GMT

@Ms tyrion2 wrote:
@esmerelda wrote:
Maybe for the same reason law enforcement refers to a suspect as "gentleman"?

Sorry to go a bit O/T, but that one...that one really bothers me!

It's that little ole thing called innocent until proven guilty.

An arrest is not proof of guilt. Far from it.

How does one identify a gentleman? Why not just "man"?

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occasionalrain — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 02:44:30 GMT

The same reason audiences are addressed as ladies and gentlemen rather than women and men.

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Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 06:04:16 GMT

@ShowMe wrote:
@Jackhound Mom......I've never heard that..... What talk show are you talking about????

@ShowMe

Hmm ..... I've never heard that, either.

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goldensrbest — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:31:33 GMT

May be i just am not understanding this at all,but to me i would take it as i want your attention before i explain ,so sit.

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ValuSkr — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:37:51 GMT

I haven't heard the phrase. I would say "she sat there" only if she was actually sitting there.