Sayings you dont understand

[FuktLogik]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I have never been able to grasp this concept, I mean its sound on paper I suppose. But when you apply it in real life its really flawed logic, just because you have an enemy that has another enemy doesn't mean you and enemy of your enemy should be buddies. For all you know enemy of your enemy is also your enemy, but you guys both just happen to have a common enemy.

I'm pretty sure it refers to an individual who want's everything their way.

People seem to take sayings way too literally. You have to search deeper, and if it makes no sense whatsoever, it's likely a metaphor.

 

[4173]

"A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand."

What?

Wrong way. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Basically warning against risking a sure thing (the currently possessed bird, who presumably escapes while we hunt the birds in the bush) to go chasing after something we might not get (the two birds in the bush we have to hunt down and catch).

 

[King Toasty]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

 

[shadyh8er]

"A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand."

What?

It's the other way around; bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

As for the meaning: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-bird-in-the-hand.html

 

[Uber Evil]

"At the wrong place at the wrong time"

Never really got it. If your at the wrong place at the wrong time then you should be fine because its the wrong time. What it should be is,

Wrong place at the right time.

or

Right place at the wrong time.

Generally that is a negative statement, so you are at the place where it is happening, at the time it is happening, both of which cause the situation to be bad, ergo both are wrong.

 

[Eisenfaust]

Fight fire with fire-which im sure is awesome but impractical.

On the contrary. When fighting forest fires, especially when it could endanger homes, it's actually a very widespead method. You create a "border" of sorts by burning down a circle around the burning forest. Once the intentionally burnt area turns to ashes, the fire won't go any further, since ashes can't burn again.

plus, you can use dynamite to extinguish oil refinery fires... the flames from the explosion chew up all the oxygen so the main fire has nothing to combust with, and goes out

 

[Vangaurd227]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

I think i'm gonna be sick ;_;

 

[4173]

"Sells like hot cakes."

What are hot cakes and why do they sell well?

I'm guessing here. But I assume they sell better because they are warm and fresh, instead of possibly old and stale.

 

[King Toasty]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

I think i'm gonna be sick ;_;

You know what? I'mma make a DIY video for this. I'll send you a link.

Anything in Momento.

 

[Dango]

"Sells like hot cakes."

What are hot cakes and why do they sell well?

I'm guessing here. But I assume they sell better because they are warm and fresh, instead of possibly old and stale.

I always thought of hot cakes as being one thing, like "hotcakes", which I think is what the saying is actually talking about.

 

[Kimarous]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I have never been able to grasp this concept, I mean its sound on paper I suppose. But when you apply it in real life its really flawed logic, just because you have an enemy that has another enemy doesn't mean you and enemy of your enemy should be buddies. For all you know enemy of your enemy is also your enemy, but you guys both just happen to have a common enemy.

It may not be the most accurate statement when taken at face value, but the sentiment is that "People who share a common enemy will overcome that enemy if they work together".

To elaborate, I'm going to use an example I found in an older film about King Arthur. The various Angle tribes hate and fight among one another, but they are all harassed by the invading Saxons. Every time they try to fight the Saxons off, they lose. King Arthur suggests they unite against the Saxons, but doesn't succeed until using a variation of "The Sword in the Stone" to prove his point*. When the Saxons next attack, their combined forces drive them away. The once-divided Angles decide to set aside their differences and work together.

*The sword was under a large boulder. Whoever could retrieve the sword would be leader of all their armies. Each individual king, save Arthur, tries on their own and fails. Arthur suggests they all try to move the boulder together. They succeed, allowing Arthur to snatch up the sword himself, crediting their part in the whole operation. They begrudgingly lend him his forces to try it out.

 

[Vangaurd227]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

I think i'm gonna be sick ;_;

You know what? I'mma make a DIY video for this. I'll send you a link.

Anything in Momento.

Oh no no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[King Toasty]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

I think i'm gonna be sick ;_;

You know what? I'mma make a DIY video for this. I'll send you a link.

Anything in Momento.

Oh no no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I know, Momento was confusing.

 

[Vangaurd227]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

Scythes, butcher knives, hooks, bare hands, carefully-placed lasers, incineration, acid melting the inside flesh...
The list goes on.



OH. You don't want to know. Sorry.

OOOOH GAWD NO LALALALALALA NOT HEARING IT LALALALALALALA......[sub]*hides in the corner and starts crying*[/sub]

Biting, propellers, razors, dinosaurs or fire. All of them help.

It's really, a very versatile phrase.

I think i'm gonna be sick ;_;

You know what? I'mma make a DIY video for this. I'll send you a link.

Anything in Momento.

Oh no no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I know, Momento was confusing.

.....confusing indeed ;_;

 

[4173]

"Sells like hot cakes."

What are hot cakes and why do they sell well?

I'm guessing here. But I assume they sell better because they are warm and fresh, instead of possibly old and stale.

I always thought of hot cakes as being one thing, like "hotcakes", which I think is what the saying is actually talking about.

Old-timey pancakes then griddle cakes, then pancakes. Same reason why the hot ones sell better though, more pleasant to eat.

 

[HentMas]

"when life gives you lemmons make lemonade"

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

 

[randomman289]

"There's more then one way to skin a cat".......There is?!?!?! if so i really don't want to know how....

While I'm sure there is more than one method of separating a cat from it's skin, the expression means that there is more than one way to accomplish a specific task.

Actually...not quite. The expression was originally "there's more than one way to skin a catfish", since skinning your fish before you eat it is, while important, not something that requires great similarities in strategies. So people would skin catfish in all sorts of different ways. So the same task, no matter how important it is, probably has more than one way of being accomplished.

 

[zehydra]

saying "I guess" when conceding something.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Back in the olden days, there wasn't really such a thing as a basic lunch. You would have to spend forever over a stove cooking a proper meal, or go without. The sandwich was not invented until the 18th century, when the Earl of Sandwich demanded he have his meat between two slices of bread as he had no time to eat it otherwise. He grew fond of this as it let him do other things while eating, and thus the sandwich was born.

Bread has been a staple of peasant diet since long before this though, and that is because bread is relatively cheap to make and produce. So for the peasantry to be able to live off such a simple, versatile food, it was considered pretty great. That's just speculation, though, i can't say when this phrase properly entered circulation.

You can't be serious


Next thing you'll tell me is that there's a patron Saint of Waffle

Spoiler: Holy shit, he's not kidding!

It's him!

OT:A penny for your thoughts.

is it about the worth of the thought itself or the worth of the thought to the person listening to it?

edit: A stitch in time saves nine. no idea wtf this means.