&gt;Why are they bad?<p>Because, you know, they&#x27;re overused like to the point that many Americans, ummmm, don&#x27;t use them to like &quot;tell the listener that you haven&#x27;t finished speaking&quot; anymore, you know, but instead they&#x27;re like thrown randomly into, ahhh, sentences, even when the sentence is expressed fluidly, you know?<p>Using these phrases all the time has somehow become cool, even though it makes people look like fucking idiots.