"It Is What It Is" Actually Is

For everyone who's had trouble coming up with actual reasons to explain the way certain things are, that annoying go-to saying has finally become a truism: It really is what it is!

Other newly proven phrases include:

• No means no
• The past is the past
• This is that which that is this such that this is
• I'd never do this on the first date but you're totally special, baby
  

Popeye's a genius!