W e hear platitudes all the time. They are what many people resort to when they cannot come up with an original and worthwhile remark. In this post I shall share ten common platitudes with my own rather anarchic comments attached. ⦿ "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" Well if that truly is the case what was last Friday? And what will tomorrow be? I don't get it. It sounds like it is from the same bag of trite nonsense as "Live each day as if it was your last". Does that mean that every day I have to order the most expensive takeaway curry I can afford? Ridiculous! "Time is a great healer" Well, I had my front teeth knocked out when I was playing cricket in 1967. 56 years later they have not grown back so how much longer must I wait for time to do its healing? "Love means never having to say you're sorry" By accident I peed on the toilet seat and forgot to clean it up after washing my hands. When my wife grumbled a...