"I Could Care Less"
 

Does this phrase annoy anyone else?

Example
"I could care less about that bastard"

This makes NO sense. I hear people saying it on tv and shows all the time, and it annoys me.

If you could care less about someone then that means that you don't fully disregard them, that you could actually care less about them, another words you still don't fully dislike or hate them.

"I couldn't care less about that bastard" is the correct phrase.


:finger: to that phrase.

Word.

It was probably originally meant to be sarcastic. It's just become such an ingrained saying that people say it without meaning for it to sound sarcastic.

I, too, become annoyed by things like this.
I also become annoyed when people say things like:

- Acrosst (instead of "across")
- Minus well (instead of "might as well")
- Excetera (instead of "et cetera")

- General dialects that outright say a word completely wrong. In my area, people don't say "nine", they say "non". They don't say "ninety five", they say "nonny fov". I know they know. I grew up here too and I can hear it. They have to be doing it on purpose, specifically to annoy me.
- Typical misspellings and bad grammar that YOU KNOW gets corrected, or at least is widely available in the correct format that people STILL refuse to integrate into their communication skill-set. If you are a college person in 2012 and you're still unaware of the proper usage of your and you're, or its and it's, you're simply stupid on purpose, and should just apply for welfare right now. Don't even try to finish your degree and pretend you actually want to be educated and get a job that will actually be able to support you and your family.

Moving on...
I couldn't care less for the people that do the following:

- Park their grocery carts and themselves in the middle of the aisle and stand there oblivious to the fact that other people exist. This also extends to anyone blocking a single path of entrance or egress because their cell-phone rang and they seemingly can't walk and complete a social transaction simultaneously.
When I see these people, I imagine them to be saying in their head, "ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. F*CK YOU. ME. ME. ME. ME. ME. ME..."
I understand that you're a selfish piece of oblivious and uncaring sh*t, but you're not just inconveniencing me, you're inconveniencing humanity itself. I couldn't care less if I have to stop for a minute and stare at the back of your head with an expression that could actually kill small rodents. What pisses me off is the fact that there are people like you that exist in the first place.
Every time I see another one of you, I feel a little less hope for the future of our species because you are either incapable of considering others, or simply unwilling to.

- People that don't use their turn signals. They tie into the above, but they simultaneously break the law, which is literally the ONLY reason I would ever consider becoming a patrol cop. I would become a patrol cop SPECIFICALLY to ruin the day of every last motherf*cker that didn't properly use a turn signal. Also, people with burnt brake lights and those who don't turn their headlights on in the fog would have similarly sh*tty commuting experiences while I am on the clock.

- People that complain about traffic speed cameras. YOU ARE LITERALLY COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEED AND RUN RED LIGHTS. KILL YOURSELF. I actually wish that there was a camera on every single intersection and stop sign in the entire United States. And I wish the penalty for running a light or stop sign was castration, or if you're a woman, you get your titties cut off. (pending proof that you weren't rushing to the hospital or being chased by a madman)
Driving on the streets is a privilege, not a right. Tighten it up.



I guess I should stop, but I have one final thing to add...

CO-WORKER... WHY DO YOU CLEAR YOUR THROAT EVERY 10 SECONDS WHILE WORKING SILENTLY FOR HOURS UPON END? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? GET IT OVER WITH AND HACK UP A LUNG. DRINK SOME WATER. DO F*CKING SOMETHING! ANTHING IS BETTER THAN SIMPLY GOING:

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I mean, I am tolerable of a lot of things, but when people say **** like that, I just flip inside.

I'm physically tolerant.
Mentally, not so much.

We have two threads devoted to bitching, ya know.

I hate it when I see people trying to be smart and they use "persay" or "per say"

like, really?

I could care less about this thread.

Thanks for helping contribute to a third! ;)

I'd like to add people who spell 'Rediculous' to this thread as people who should be shot.

Yes! That one bugs me too.

Another is when people say "hence why". "Hence" essentially means "that is why" all by itself, folks. When you add the "why" in there, you are then saying "that is why why". It sounds fucking ridiculous.

That one doesn't bother me. "I could care..." makes you think well what is the threshold that a person suddenly becomes caring, then it crosses the line back into the don't care zone by ending it with "... less about the bastard." The sentence begins with hope but ends terse grumpiness.

In a way I disagree. A person saying they don't care is expressing apathy not that they are not fully disliking or hating. To quote Elie Wiesel:

Phrases that bother me are the ones that are illogical statements, or mixed metaphors the ones that make me waste timing trying to figure out what the heck the person is trying tp say.
"Noone" It's actually "no one." Writing it without the space makes it look look like Olde English for "noon."
Agree to disagree. It can't be both.
The same difference. An endless loop of contradiction.
Not my cup of meat. I hate that one, it's either "it's not my cup of tea" or "one man's meat is another man's poison." No one has meat in their cup....no one.
From the gecko. It's "from the get-go." I'm sure a tiny lizard isn't starting trouble eg "I didn't like him from the gecko."


Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:

• We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
• You could have knocked me over with a fender.
• He was watching me like I was a hawk.
• I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
• He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
• They’re diabolically opposed.
• He received a decease and desist order.
• I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
• Take a flying hike.
• I shot the wind out of his saddle.
• He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
• A loose tongue spoils the broth.
• It’s all moth-eared.
• I can read him like the back of my book.
• From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
• It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
• He’s like a duck out of water.
• These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
• It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
• I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
• I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
• It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
• He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
• You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
• It sticks out like a sore throat.
• It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
• People are dying like hotcakes.
• He’s a little green behind the ears.
• You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
• We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
• The fan is gonna hit the roof.
• I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
• I'm sweating like a bullet.
• She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't gather moss.
• Don't get all of your eggs out of two bushes.
• It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
• Right there on the tip of my brain.
• A leopard can't change his stripes.
• A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

Holy sh*t, yes.

I even hate the people who say it that way, which is probably the reason they spell it that way. I hear it constantly here in the south of the U.S. The proper American English pronunciation of it has an "ih" sound and not an "ee" sound. (You would think they would make the connection to "ridicule", but no.) Both "i" letters should be pronounced the same (according to how we've come together and decided on how we should uniformly butcher the Queen's English as a general standard), so when I hear people saying "ree-dic-you-lus", I automatically know that they spell it wrong.

Well go ahead and bitch about it in the bitch thread!





I knew someone would do that. Argh!!!!(in an angry Southern Irish accent)






Also, to all Americans



It is called Aluminium, not Aluminum!


And COLOUR! Not Color.



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I could not care any less about the person, anothers i care so little about that person, that the not caring about that person has reached its not caring human limit.



Other mixed metaphors you care very little about, not could. Could is not definitive.

Actually, to be really pedantic (something in which I shine) it's no-one. You have to put in the hyphen. It's not one word, unless you're speaking of a choice as in, "no one contestant was better than the other". However I do agree that noone is nothing more than a surname, as far as I know.

Meh, could be this guy!
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...jrMMoNNdktq50Q

Oh admit it: you made all of those up, didn't you? People could NOT be so stupid. Unless you can show me at least one example where even one of those was used in a real context, I'm going to have to assume you're being super-ironic (don't you also hate it when people prefix the word "super" to things? Like, it really super-annoys me...!) :D

People saying FYI.

For your information is bad enough. But FYI? Makes my blood boil that one. (Apologies if that is a metaphor on anyone's list)

Well at least that metaphor makes sense.

We Americans actually have a different standard for English than you guys, understandably. It's considered correct to spell it as Aluminum here. In fact, the guy who discovered Aluminum actually named it that at one point, before changing it to Aluminium. The dictionary we used at the time still had the Aluminum entry and just became more ingrained. Then eventually, in 1925 actually, the American Chemical Society officially named it Aluminum, seeing as how it was becoming more commonly used, so that's what we say, since it's all up in our textbooks and all.

So, in that case, it isn't simply Americans completely not seeing the letters of the word they're pronouncing. We spell it, and say it, as Aluminum.


As far as colour vs color, I don't know much about the history behind that, but I do know that our official word for it is color, not colour. (Whether that makes as much sense as having a different voltage standard and measuring scale and temperature scale as the rest of the world, I don't know.)

So for that, I'll just quote something I picked up off a grammar website just now:

Hope that all at least introduces the idea that Americans aren't simply going to English class and refusing to accept spelling things with extra U's in them.

Yeah, I like to "keep it real"

Yes! Same with people who spell "definately".

That's Gorn, the slowest villian in Sci-fi ever.

This.
I always see people writing it as "defiantly" and I cringe w/ secondhand embarrassment for them

What about people who make **** threads?

I love a four star thread.

This is a pretty **** thread.

Oh, I don't know about that. When the Federal gov't takes 30% of my income every paycheck, I think driving on the streets paid for by those taxes is a right.

If you're paying 30% of your income to federal taxes you should probably look into hiring a better accountant.

Holy ****, someone who is not an idiot. This is one of my most hated phrases, along with "fixing to." Such as, "I'm fixing to get off work." No, no you are not. You're ABOUT to get off work.

Wow. If the government here takes 30% of your income for taxes, that means your net income has to be at least $140,000 annually. If you don't make that much then you're paying too much, I think. Or taxes in the US are just ridiculously high.

Thank you.

Also...

"I wanna axe you a question"

Ok, Lizzy Borden.

Never heard that one before, in fact most people over care say couldn't care less rather than could care less, I only hear "I could care less" on American shows.

Then, this shirt would send you into a frenzy?

http://rlv.zcache.com/can_i_axe_you_...9zv75e_400.jpg

Yeah, I'd never heard "could care less" either..Must be an American thing. Ahem.

Yes, a frenzy... ...of laughter!

I want one!

It is. Here's an interesting little article about it.

Hmmm fair enough. It would be strange for Americans to turn a British saying into something more ironic or sarcastic wouldn't it? Must just be the sloppy speakers thing...

I don't think it would be strange for Americans to turn a British saying into something more ironic or sarcastic, but in this case I definitely think it comes from sloppy speakers.

Every time I log onto the forum over the past couple of days this thread is always near the top & it always lists Janszoon as the last poster.

and yet I'm the one with a reputation for being a miserable irritable bastard.

No? Fair enough. I never believed the whole "Americans don't get irony" thing that does the rounds over here, but I didn't think you used it as much as we did. Most foreigners I meet complain about my sarcasm, but that's probably more down to me being a miserable individual...:wavey: