There's no smoke without fire

Samich

This makes no sense. Often there's smoke without a fire, and plenty of times there's even more smoke because there's no fire. :mad:

What other proverbs make no sense?

lord lucan

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

El Guapo!

Not a proverb but.........

I before e except after c.

Total bollox

Bell Butter

It's all well and good until someone get rode.

chin_grin

Dean09 wrote: »

Not a proverb but.........

I before e except after c.

Total bollox

How can I believe or conceive it to be true!?

whistlingtitan

But it does make sence ???? You can't have smoke without out fire burning/ or having been burning

Althou it's not really about fire but rumor

CardBordWindow

There's more than one way to skin a cat.


Why a cat? There's more than one way to skin any animal!

Feeona

'Barking dogs seldom bite'-I'll remember that nugget when I'm on my way to the hospital to have my face re-attached

whistlingtitan

lord lucan wrote: »

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

Ie be happy with what you got as chasing more you may end up with nothing

Dravokivich

CardBordWindow wrote: »

There's more than one way to skin a cat.


Why a cat? There's more than one way to skin any animal!

I don't care how many different ways there are, but could someone at least let me know the most efficient! :pac:

Feeona

lord lucan wrote: »

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

I might be wrong, but I think it means that you're better off holding a woman in your hand rather than putting both your hands in her bush.

I think.

whistlingtitan

CardBordWindow wrote: »

There's more than one way to skin a cat.


Why a cat? There's more than one way to skin any

Why not a cat

frag420

He took to it like a duck to water.................

So he flew in and glided along the water before dropping his legs, a quick flap of the wings for balance and then peacefully swim away. Try that in my office and they will skin you like a cat and cover you in plum sauce!!

whistlingtitan

Dravokivich wrote: »

CardBordWindow wrote: »

There's more than one way to skin a cat.


Why a cat? There's more than one way to skin any animal!

I don't care how many different ways there are, but could someone at least let me know the most efficient! :pac:

Working. From the tail up is fastest and easier

CardBordWindow

whistlingtitan wrote: »

Why not a cat

It's frowned upon these days.

studiorat

Man with hole in pocket feel cocky, but man with two hole not feel too cocky.

2 stroke

Keep it where you can see it or tie a knot in it.

Plazaman

You can't have your cake and eat it.


Why the fúck not? What good is cake if I can't eat it!!

What else am I meant to do with it, take it for a walk? Bring it for a swim?

December2012

"getting on like a house on fire"

Traumatically? Horrifically with disastrous consequences? How is this a good thing?

flutterflye

All of them.
They're all stupid.
And so are all metaphors.
Just say what you mean in plain English - none of this symbolism crap for me.
Thank you please.

Babooshka

Plazaman wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it.


Why the fúck not? What good is cake if I can't eat it!!

What else am I meant to do with it, take it for a walk? Bring it for a swim?

It doesn't mean you can't eat a piece of cake if you have one literally. It means you can't claim to have something if you have already consumed it. So if you've eaten your cake, you don't "have" cake any more.
One of those confucius type saying thingies, I think....

I wouldn't bring your cake for a swim though, soggy cake = bleurghhh

Mr.Crinklewood

lord lucan wrote: »

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

A cock in the bush is worth two in the hand.

Tell me this and tell me no more......

Whenever i hear this i have to restrain myself from punching them in the face.:mad:

A few more that you hear in Ireland....

You did in yer arse
She'd lie down in nettles for it
D'yaknowwhatimeanlike
I will in me fcuk
C'mere till i tell ya
Whatyacallit

flutterflye

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

A cock in the bush is worth two in the hand.

Would you honestly pick 1 penis and having sex, over having 2 penises, but never being able to have sex with them - only masturbate?

CardBordWindow

Babooshka wrote: »

It doesn't mean you can't eat a piece of cake if you have one literally. It means you can't claim to have something if you have already consumed it. So if you've eaten your cake, you don't "have" cake any more.
One of those confucius type saying thingies, I think....

I wouldn't bring your cake for a swim though, soggy cake = bleurghhh

Would the saying not be 'You can't eat your cake, and have it' so??

FatherLen

whistlingtitan wrote: »

But it does make sence ???? You can't have smoke without out fire burning/ or having been burning

Althou it's not really about fire but rumor

a lighter doesn't produce smoke...

Babooshka

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Would the saying not be 'You can't eat your cake, and have it' so??

Absolutely would sound better that way. But it's been around since the before 1600 and we all know they spoke arseways back then :pac:

steveLFC24

'It's raining cats and dogs' When the f**k has it ever rained cats and dogs

Hardonraging

lord lucan wrote: »

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

Having to put two in a bush, is always better than having one in the hand ..

naughtysmurf

Beware the naked man who offers you his shirt

El Guapo!

steveLFC24 wrote: »

'It's raining cats and dogs' When the f**k has it ever rained cats and dogs

Explosion at the animal shelter

hardCopy

FatherLen wrote: »

a lighter doesn't produce smoke...

That's why we don't say "There's no fire without smoke"

Mr.Crinklewood

flutterflye wrote: »

Would you honestly pick 1 penis and having sex, over having 2 penises, but never being able to have sex with them - only masturbate?

Yes.

Duggys Housemate

lord lucan wrote: »

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush! WTF?!!

Assuming you are looking for a bird, having caught one is better than continuing to look for more, even though there are two in a bush. I think it implies you can only capture two birds at once - otherwise one bird in the hand is really worth more than a billion birds - an infinite number of birds - not in the hand. It also assumes you are into bird hunting.

Plazaman wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it.

Why the fúck not? What good is cake if I can't eat it!!

What else am I meant to do with it, take it for a walk? Bring it for a swim?

That confused me for a while too, as in Irish-English - or general English? - having a cake is eating it. For instance, I had cereal for breakfast.

It means you cant keep it. You cant keep a cake and eat it. Why you would want to keep a cake, I don't know. They go off.

steveLFC24 wrote: »

'It's raining cats and dogs' When the f**k has it ever rained cats and dogs

It rains frogs for sure.

Hardonraging

RVP 11 wrote: »

Tell me this and tell me no more......

Whenever i hear this i have to restrain myself from punching them in the face.:mad:

A few more that you hear in Ireland....

You did in yer arse
She'd lie down in nettles for it
D'yaknowwhatimeanlike
I will in me fcuk
C'mere till i tell ya
Whatyacallit

Classic country expression dont be hating on us dawg !! T'fcuk !!!

Real Life

Babooshka wrote: »

It doesn't mean you can't eat a piece of cake if you have one literally. It means you can't claim to have something if you have already consumed it. So if you've eaten your cake, you don't "have" cake any more.
One of those confucius type saying thingies, I think....

I wouldn't bring your cake for a swim though, soggy cake = bleurghhh

if thats the case then people just use it in the wrong context

Babooshka

Real Life wrote: »

if thats the case then people just use it in the wrong context

Do they? It's meant to signify that you can't have it every way. So if you eat cake, then you no longer possess cake. The cake in itself is just a symbol, a representation of a situation, person or thing. Not that you would eat a person. They're not literal scenarios!

CardBordWindow

Babooshka wrote: »

Do they? It's meant to signify that you can't have it every way. So if you eat cake, then you no longer possess cake. The cake in itself is just a symbol, a representation of a situation, person or thing. Not that you would eat a person. They're not literal scenarios!

......unless you're on bath salts!

croker1

"Its like shooting fish in a barrell"

Why the **** would I ever be shooting fish in a barrell?
And if i ever did happen to find myself with a gun i doubt the first thing id do would be to collect some fish, put them in a barrell and shoot them?!

**** sake

faceman

"The exception that proves the rule"

How the hell can an exception prove a rule??

the purple tin

"the bigger they come the harder they fall" :rolleyes: I'll remember that when they're wiring my jaw together.

December2012

steveLFC24 wrote: »

'It's raining cats and dogs' When the f**k has it ever rained cats and dogs

That actually makes sense (putting my nerd hat on here!).:cool:

It goes back to when we had houses with thatch roofs and the animals would go up and sleep / lie / p'ss / claim dominion in the straw because hey, they're animals and straw is there thing.

Then it would rain, and the rain would be so strong or so persistent that it would knock the little sh'ts out of the straw in the roof.