Unacceptable platitude #1

"At least I admit my faults."

How is this supposed to help me?  I already know that you're an idiot.  Acknowledging your stupidity has no value to me.

At least I admit my faults?  At least?  This platitude is in no way an acknowledged means defending one's position, nor is the passive-aggressive implication that I fail to admit to my faults any form of accepted counterattack.

Maybe I have no faults.

Maybe one as admittedly flawed as you has no business assessing the potential faults in another human being.

Besides, I wasn't looking for a confession.  I was hoping that instead of admitting to your faults, you would get rid of them, or at least no display them so prominently in my presence.