Can apply for a variety of situations such as someone accidentally bumping into me, me accidentally bumping into them, or making a little mistake on something. Sometimes I'll even instinctively say it to inanimate objects that I knock over!
"Upright and conscious" is my goto response to casual questions. I also preference almost every sentence with some modulation of "Yeah", meaning everything from "Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly" to "Yeah, bro you sure you wanna do this?" to "yeahh so the cops are here and I told you so""
“Alive and vertical” is my variation on that first one there. Sometimes I use “very low baseline” as an afterthought, because some folks seem confused by it.
I also say “I know English wasn’t my first language, but I could have sworn this made sense. Maybe we’re speaking different English.” I speak English just fine, without any trace of accent (beyond Chicago), but that makes people take a step back and pay attention to what I said or wrote.
I tend to reply that I'm going "reasonable" mostly copying a dead friend who used to say it when asked. He died in his 90s of natural causes but was a really interesting fella. Homosexual, Jewish, Holocaust survivor, antiquities dealer.
Eeeeeee! Is pretty great for when I need to let people know I need them to make room for me but I'm too frazzled to speak properly.
Words are hard, I'll go again any time I speak gibberish instead of English
I am also forever yelling corner! I yell corner at the grocery store. I say corner when I am alone in my apartment. Yesterday I called out door! as I was opening the front door of my workplace into the empty parking lot.
I'm glad you made me think to look up the video. Now I know I've been saying this for 11 years, in front of many coworkers and other acquaintances, without any explanation.
In my native language I always say "[it] is logical" because we don't have a word or phrase that means "makes sense" and I'm pretty sure literally nobody other than me does this.
I say a lot of "facts" that come to my head that I think I'm remembering correctly and are relevant to the scenario/conversation. But I never know if I'm actually saying anything correct or if it just sounds convincing but isn't true like ChatGPT.
Some of my coworkers can get amused or annoyed with it and some like to respond things like "I'm never going to quote you on anything ever" lmao.
"it's fine"... It's very versatile for self reassurance.
Working on something and find yourself letting perfect be the enemy of good? Just stop, it's fine.
Making some mountain out of a molehill? Stop worrying about it, it's fine....
Before I get too carried away with examples, I'll just stop there, it's fine