>Why are they bad? Because, you know, they're overused like to the point that many Americans, ummmm, don't use them to like "tell the listener that you haven't

>Why are they bad? Because, you know, they're overused like to the point that many Americans, ummmm, don't use them to like "tell the listener that you haven't finished speaking" anymore, you know, but instead they're like thrown randomly into, ahhh, sentences, even when the sentence is expressed fluidly, you know? Using these phrases all the time has somehow become cool, even though it makes people look like fucking idiots.