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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago (38 children)

Is there any particular hate against 'live, laugh, love' that I am missing, besides the phrase just being a bit cheesy?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's plastered all over painted blocks of wood for $40 at mildly up-scale places (or places trying to appear up scale), along with other "gems" of wisdom.

It's not so much the cornyness, but the posh posturing and sheer stupidity of having vapid expressions on expensive blocks of wood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Vapid, banal expressions have some power. Whatever makes us go through life a little more positively is an asset in my book

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