why the fuck are people saying this so much? it just started. I hate here it.

What can you say, Rev? It simply is what it is...

Just started there, huh? I have been hearing this stupid saying for years. I normally hear it when:
A. Someone is getting some horrible task shoved up their ass and they can't do anything about it.
B. Someone does not have a solution to a problem and doesn't want think of one (which is normal company policy here).

it's like "know what I mean" or "gider dun", ear sandpaper.

People who use this phrase should be doused in gasoline and lit ablaze.

I am what I am!

It is what it is > as you may or may not know

THAS JUS HOW AH ROLL YOU TRICKASS BUSTAH!


I never heard this expression until I started working at the place I work at now. This place is a fucking dead end and I'm dying to get out of here.

These two things are not coincidental. The words that people speak never have a strictly literal meaning, there is always something behind the veil that is put up by words that force the listener to think about something else. In the case of "it is what it is," the speaker is almost always stating, in the more literal stranslation, "I don't like this situation, but I'm too lazy or cheap to do anything about it."

I spend more time here at work doing shit for my other job than I do actually working for this company. I have a solution to this dead end job problem though, and it's to get the fuck out. I'm gonna look for jobs on craigslist right now.

It actually "knawmean?" popularized by Raekwon of the Wu Tang Clan.

The holocaust. It was what it was.

I'm a fan of "do wut it do."

nah m33n?

the announcers kept saying that during the Pats game... want to strangle them.

It's no worse than "backed hard/fully backed".

it's belichick's often used phrase in post game interviews.

yeah big sports term.

cest la vie

while useful in concisely responding to many of life's follies this phrase is mostly just lazy.