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I’m just speaking in general… 

I’m just speaking in general… — a story telling tactic used by old southern people when they are actually reading you from head to toe; inside and out; and from womb to tomb. In many ways, this is worse than if they put both feet in your ass and yelled at you about your folly.

“I’m just speaking in general” has four parts: a detailed summary of your past character; a current analysis of your present actions based on things you did as a child; a detailed outcome of you actions based on probability and having seen your story played out in other people’s lives that they have seen with their own eyes; and, an admonition to change your ways if you don't want to end up like the person they are just “speaking in general about.
Boy, I ain’t got no hang ups; I’m too old to have hang ups. Hang ups is for young people — I’m just speaking in general… Oh I knew a boy like you: he was hard headed when he was a baby and he’s head headed now. You know what they say about hard headed people: A HARD HEAD MAKES A SOFT ASSSSSSSSSSS!!!! I’m just speaking in general. But, if you don’t want to end up like that; you better change your ways!!!!!!!!!

Speaker Mike Johnson 

The person nobody ever heard of before who gets promoted directly to the top job.
“My firm’s new CEO got promoted directly from an entry position. Literally, nobody knows who he is or how he got the job. He’s a total Speaker Mike Johnson.”
Speaker Mike Johnson by TK2000 October 28, 2023

The BioClock Speaking

An utterance, voice, thought or dream that comes as one ages, that, even though logically one does not want a baby, urges one to be fruitful and multiply.
Aging woman: I had a dream last night that I was nursing a baby, and now I can't stop thinking about it. I want a baby so bad now.

Friend: Don't worry... that's just the bioclock speaking and doesn't mean anything.

Aging woman: (thoughtfully) I'm ovulating today...

Friend: You know you don't want that. Do not heed when the voice of the bioclock speaks!

speaker city 

The company Vince Vaughn's character owns in the movie Old School. There are also tshirts for sale with the Speaker City logo from the movie.
Where did they get all those music supplies for the party in Old School?

Speaker City.
speaker city by TMurphster March 18, 2008

speaking of which 

'Speaking of which' can be used to refer to something that has just been said. Other similar phrases are: by the way, incidentally, apropos, with regard to...:
I won't be home when you get in from school tonight. Speaking of which, don't forget your keys.
speaking of which by giojio August 27, 2010

bitin speakers in the face 

The lyric “bath salt, bitin speakers in the face” is used in the song Lemon by N.E.R.D & Rihanna. It refers to a case in Florida a few years ago where a man was on bath salts and cannibalized another person, biting their face.
“Bath, bath salt, bitin speakers in the face