Sayings you dont understand
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I smell a summer (user of 4chan) .Kimarous said:
Seriously, the words on 4chan that appear in colour, like "newt grinch" and "candy ass" are in fact, cover ups from a swear filter. In this case, Candy ass, means fag.
If someone genuinly called you a candyass, and you've never heard of 4chan, please write back to me and tell me about it. Just write a short message on the back of a £50 note and mail to me.
But it's so much more fun (and a hell of a lot more efficient) to fight fires with high-velocity explosives.Kakulukia said:
OT: "There's plenty more fish in the sea."
Yeah, that would be a great help to me if I wanted to date fish.
"You can't polish a turd."
Mythbusters proved otherwise.
Apologies if this has already been posted,
New and Improved.
That phrase simply doesn't work.
If something is:
New - it has never been thought of before. It must be an original - something new.
Improved - An improvement is the refining of an EXISTING product - something that isn't new, and may have been around for a while.
So, if something is both new and improved, it is both simultaneously new (Original) and improved (a refined version of an existing product).
Who came up with "new and improved" ? They must be trolling all of us.
New and Improved.
That phrase simply doesn't work.
If something is:
New - it has never been thought of before. It must be an original - something new.
Improved - An improvement is the refining of an EXISTING product - something that isn't new, and may have been around for a while.
So, if something is both new and improved, it is both simultaneously new (Original) and improved (a refined version of an existing product).
Who came up with "new and improved" ? They must be trolling all of us.
It's from an ancient legal term "the exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted" (exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis). It means that if there is an exception to something it means that there is a rule that demands the opposite.TheDarkEricDraven said:
Say I say the all people called Alice are allowed to not wear hats. That is an exception to a rule that people must wear hats.
The loss of "in cases not excepted" does leads to confusion and misuse of the term.
A bit off topic, but 'Alls well that ends well' is supposed to be a kind of optimistic, happy feeling thing, whereas 'The end justifies the means' is some kind of evil way of saying that you sacrifice anything for your own end, though when you think about it, they both mean the same thing - that if everything has worked out by the end of the day, then the events of the day don't matter.
Forests are made up of large numbers of trees, so basically it means that you can't see the bigger picture because you're obsessing over the small details.Xartyve2 said:
Just think of any problem where the solution is quite simple, but people are overthinking the answer, leading themselves into believing that the solution is very obscure when in fact it is incredibly easy. If you watch Scrubs then JD's 'dime and nickel' riddle with the Janitor is a good example.Xartyve2 said:
New things aren't necessarily better. For instance, if I were to take regular Coke and make a cheaper version of it called "Economic Cola" with less expensive ingredients then the taste would be similar and you couldn't really argue that it's not Coke, but the new cheaper Economic Cola is hardly an improvement over the regular.ToxicOranges said:
"New and improved" is mostly one of those buzz phrases they use in Top Shop or whatnot and you shouldn't honestly read too much into that
Well, there is an old way to differentiate between optimists and pessimists. If you fill a glass half-way with water then optimists will say that the glass is half-full and pessimists will say that the glass is half-empty. My guess is, "Mr Glass Half-full" is supposed to mean the person is overly pessimistic, but in that case they're using it wrong.KB Rocker said:
Oh, personally I've always wondered what's in The Escapist's basement.
This one always baffles me. Other than that, I generally get most sayings. One commonly misspoken saying repeatedly gets me, though. "I could care less".TheDarkEricDraven said:
It's "couldn't care less"! "Could care less" implies you care!
If it's an exception, then there is a rule, is what it means. If there is only ONE thing that is different, then that means all the rest is following the rule. If there was no rule things would be all over the place, and not with just one thing that's different.TheDarkEricDraven said:
I struggled with that one too. The French equivalent is "to have the butter and the butter's money", which is easier to understand. The English expression means to eat your cake and still have it complete even though you've eaten it.supersupersuperguy said:
It's the other way around. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. That means a bird you already have is better than two that might still escape.King Toasty said:
You obsess so much on individual trees that you don't notice they make up a forest. I think it would count if someone proposed to you and you didn't notice what they said because you were too busy correcting their grammar.Xartyve2 said: