Dear Americans

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:34 am

A friendly message from the Queen:

by **Symmetry** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:57 am

by **Nobunaga** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 6:43 am

Hilarious.

I've often wondered about the phrase, "I could care less", thinking, that makes no sense at all. Alas I was right to wonder.

Peep Show's on Netflix, I was happy to discover.

by **Frigidus** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:14 pm

Yeah, I'm with him. Also, stop saying irregardless. I hate that. So in Britain you guys pronounce herb with a hard 'H'?

by **DoomYoshi** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:40 pm

I'm having difficulty believing that pedant and pedophile don't share a root word.

by **Symmetry** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:26 pm

DoomYoshi wrote:I'm having difficulty believing that pedant and pedophile don't share a root word.

It helps if you employ British spelling-"paedophile"

by **Symmetry** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:28 pm

Frigidus wrote:So in Britain you guys pronounce herb with an 'H'?

Fixed, and yes.

by **crispybits** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:58 pm

Symmetry wrote:
Frigidus wrote:So in Britain you guys pronounce herb with an 'H'?

Fixed, and yes.

Unless you're a cockney anyway

'ere boss, 'Arry said 'e's 'avin' a bad 'allucination!

by **TA1LGUNN3R** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:07 pm

"I could care less" still implies that you shouldn't care as much as you do (as in I need to stop caring because this is ridiculous), therefore it's still effective as a phrase.

Sym wrote:It helps if you employ British spelling-"paedophile"

I thought it was Peter File.

-TG

by **notyou2** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:09 pm

I think "I could care less" is Yiddish.

by **Army of GOD** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:10 pm

Yeah, cockney rhyming slang makes a fuckton of sense too.

by **saxitoxin** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:21 pm

that reminded me of this -

http://donyougorouninrountorero.com/

by **john9blue** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:36 pm

why was this addressed at americans?

i mean, other than the free views and inevitable anti-america circlejerk that they wanted to provoke.

do dumb people in the UK not say "could care less"?

by **crispybits** on Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:38 pm

Nope - even our stupid people are better educated than that ;-)

by **oVo** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:50 am

Ha Ha Ha!
our stupid people are better than your stupid people

by **Maugena** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:35 am

I was actually thinking about the phrase the other day, strangely.
Though I'm pretty sure I've just about always used "couldn't".
I never really gave any thought to the holding the fort phrase, though.
Didn't really use it much nor did I care.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:04 am

Maugena wrote:I was actually thinking about the phrase the other day, strangely.
Though I'm pretty sure I've just about always used "couldn't".
I never really gave any thought to the holding the fort phrase, though.
Didn't really use it much nor did I care.

Eh, could care less about it.

by **Ray Rider** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:04 am

I'm with the Queen on this one; it's been an annoyance to me as well when people say "I could care less."

by **tkr4lf** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:08 am

The "irregardless" bit is what annoys me the most. That's not a fucking word.

by **Maugena** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:31 am

tkr4lf wrote:That's not a fucking word.

by **chang50** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:33 am

crispybits wrote:Nope - even our stupid people are better educated than that

Cheered me up no end pal,even funnier than the clip.. :lol:

by **aage** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:46 am

Same thing, 5 month later by an American. Apparently they do care.

by **keiths31** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:18 pm

aage wrote:

Same thing, 5 month later by an American. Apparently they do care.

An Alanis reference 20 years too late...is quite lame.

by **Timminz** on Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:51 pm

keiths31 wrote:
aage wrote:

Same thing, 5 month later by an American. Apparently they do care.

An Alanis reference 20 years too late...is quite lame.

Oddly enough, it is rather ironic for someone to write a song titled "Ironic" without knowing what the word means.