i am sparticus: Deep and meaningful

Deep and meaningful

I've just realised something... y'know when people say "y'know when you do this thing and this always happens? isn't that so true/weird!?", y'know the sort of expression that is popularised by tv sitcoms? Okay so maybe you don't know, so probably examples would be good...
Eg 1: "y'know when you're lying in bed at night and you start thinking about how small and insignificant you are and you get so frightened you start to cry? How weird is that??"
Or perhaps less extreme
Eg 2: "y'know when you are making toast, and you smell that wonderful bread smell, doesn't that make you want to dance? how true is that?"

Right I hope that's cleared things up, but basically my point is this, it seems to have become a social norm to do this thing. It used to be that these sort of observational humour/witicism things were only ever done by comedians, and were usually quite funny. However now everyone does them, everyday, and the thing that bugs me is that it has become seen as really rude when you don't turn round and say "me too, wow that's so true!".
Okay perhaps another example is in order...
Eg 2:"Y'know the other day I picked up this little baby yorkshire terrier and just had the sudden urge to see how far I could throw it!"
Now society seems to dicatate that we should always say something like
"Yeah that's so true, I've always wanted to do that "
If however we think that observation is actually not an accurate observation at all but the fevered workings of a chronically sick imagination, the only polite way of showing this is seen to be dampening our enthusiasm of our reply given. So if we disagree with the aformentioned observation, rather than saying
"I don't find that true, and throwing yorkshire terriers, while understandable is not the sort of thing I get sudden urges to do when I come within close proximity of said dogs"
We should say
"mmm, yeah"

Basically my point on the whole matter is, how stupid is this? surely if someone makes some lame and untrue observational wisecrack and then asks us to reinforce the truth of the statement, we should not feel awkward to turn round and say "no I've never found that to be the case".

I'm so going to resist the temptation to end this entry "how true is that?" because that would be far to lame and predictable, and for all I know it is only true for me, and everyone else has no problem telling people that they're observations are a) false and b) dumb. Which actually works out alright, because if my observations above are true, then all the comments will read "that's so true" and if my observations are wrong, they'll all read "that's so false, and dumb"... more likely I'll get no comments, but still

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