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Trivial things that annoy you
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OldNotWIse wrote: »thats "totes amazeballs" to you
Quite so indeed, yes - totes all of our amazeballs, in fact. :cool:0 -
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Ihatecuddles wrote: »I told my boyfriend I have a moustache, his reply 'you're only noticing now??'
Asked him a few days ago when he noticed, he said our first date. 4 months ago. Dick.
Would you have felt better if, within a few minutes of first meeting you, he had come out with something along the lines of, "Whooooaaa, furken Magnum PI, I am totes outta here!! I thought the Wooly Mammoth was extinct!"?? 0 -
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Ihatecuddles wrote: »I told my boyfriend I have a moustache, his reply 'you're only noticing now??'
Asked him a few days ago when he noticed, he said our first date. 4 months ago. Dick.
You must be beautiful, as he is still with you, moustache and all.
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Would you have felt better if, within a few minutes of first meeting you, he had come out with something along the lines of, "Whooooaaa, furken Magnum PI, I am totes outta here!! I thought the Wooly Mammoth was extinct!"??
eh yeah. I would have cracked up laughing!!! To wait 4 months is just madness.0 -
Ihatecuddles wrote: »eh yeah. I would have cracked up laughing!!! To wait 4 months is just madness.
Fair play to you, you're good craic. I didn't mean to offend, BTW - just cracking a funny. 0 -
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kunst nugget wrote: »Interesting article about it here:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
I know it really should bother me but for some reason it doesn't. I always imagine a fat middle-aged Jewish woman from the Bronx saying it when I read it.
hummmmmm
so according to the article (or how I read it)
"I couldn't care less" is a statement of fact ie; "I care so little about this, it is impossible for me to care less about it"
"I could care less" is sarcasm.
But surely, a sarcastic statement requires a large, lofty expression such as "I really care about this" - the "less" element obscures the sarcastic (if that is the intention, which I dont believe) quality. Sarcasm requires a large, obvious, positive statement to be effective as sarcastic.
It's a slow day here
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OldNotWIse wrote: »hummmmmm
so according to the article (or how I read it)
"I couldn't care less" is a statement of fact ie; "I care so little about this, it is impossible for me to care less about it"
"I could care less" is sarcasm.
But surely, a sarcastic statement requires a large, lofty expression such as "I really care about this" - the "less" element obscures the sarcastic (if that is the intention, which I dont believe) quality. Sarcasm requires a large, obvious, positive statement to be effective as sarcastic.
It's a slow day here
Basically what it's saying is that it would seem to be a corruption of the phrase 'I couldn't care less' which, when written down, is completely illogical but when said with the right intonation gets the message across perfectly fine. When you think about the statements 'Tell me about it' and 'I should be so lucky' - they are not hugely lofty expressions but when said by the Yiddish, they carry enough sarcasm to let you know what they really mean.0 -
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OldNotWIse wrote: »This! I opened the paper after Norris's recent utterings to be greeted by "fannygate"
ffs
"Fannygate"... hah
Anyways;
http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-use/the-gate-suffix/
So yeah... it's an 'official' usage for scandals.0 -
"Fannygate"... hah
Anyways;
http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-use/the-gate-suffix/
So yeah... it's an 'official' usage for scandals.
Oh, this could turn into 'official usage for scandals' gate…0 -
OldNotWIse wrote: »hummmmmm
so according to the article (or how I read it)
"I couldn't care less" is a statement of fact ie; "I care so little about this, it is impossible for me to care less about it"
"I could care less" is sarcasm.
But surely, a sarcastic statement requires a large, lofty expression such as "I really care about this" - the "less" element obscures the sarcastic (if that is the intention, which I dont believe) quality. Sarcasm requires a large, obvious, positive statement to be effective as sarcastic.
It's a slow day here
I care, no, really, I dooo... 0 -
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It annoys me that MTV is called MTV when there's no music on it.
The M has meant "Mediocre" for the last 20 years!
You can't even use the term "MTV generation" any more because teenagers today have no idea what you're on about!
"I remember when this was all music..."
*blows dust off cd covers*
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The M has meant "Mediocre" for the last 20 years!
You can't even use the term "MTV generation" any more because teenagers today have no idea what you're on about!
"I remember when this was all music..."
*blows dust off cd covers*
Considering they are responsible for the programmes 'Geordie Shore', 'The Hills', 'Super Sweet 16' and 'Teen Mom' I would have thought 'MTV generation' would be more relevant now then at any other point in the last 25 years.0 -
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The M has meant "Mediocre" for the last 20 years!
You can't even use the term "MTV generation" any more because teenagers today have no idea what you're on about!
"I remember when this was all music..."
*blows dust off cd covers*
Muck TV is my pet name for it
And don't fret, there are others like you who still love that CD sound! Bloody compressed mp3 files, it just doesn't sound the same. I imagine this is how vinyl people felt when CDs came along.
Oh yeah, thread topic, the lack of CD usage annoys me, which is quite trivial.0
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