Listening to: Joss Stone - Torn and Tattered
Mood: Slightly fractious, but mostly satisfied.

I was thinking of all the times I've heard someone say "we're just two different people," and I've decided it's a redundant statement.

Who else can be you? Not really anyone. Not exactly.

So come up with something better than that if you ever disagree with me on something, because I think that's one of many cheap ways out. It doesn't support any argument because it isn't directly related to any conflict: it's just presupposed that in a conflict there are two opposing sides which are not the same, right? It doesn't validate any emotion because there are no emotions contingent solely on the fact that X is not equal to Y.

And it's utterly trite, and the worst kind of trite: it's extremely commonly used and it really doesn't have any substantial, core fact.

It just makes you sound dumb.