"Wait...that phrase didn't make any sense!"

[kingcom]

"the bee's knees"

Wait... What?

Because the bees knees is how it collects pollen. To cross-pollinate, so our entire ecosystem stays alive. So yes, it is a compliment.

 

[kingcom]

Well, I got ninja'd on the first page, but "I could care less" was mine as well.

Spoiler: I really don't know how it attained such widespread use.

Umm, no thats sarcasm. You see when you say "i could care less", your being sarcastic about your care level. In that, my caring is slow low that, while i could care less its still so low that it doesnt influence me.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

I have seen people use STUF instead of STFU. While it is hilarious, I really do not understand why they do that. Of course, it could be just a frequent typo.

 

[fulano]

"He/she is too green."

Meaning someone who is a novice. That I don' understand.

 

[Logic 0]

Dead as a doorknob, why or how can you be as dead as a inanamate object.

 

[Kimarous]

"He/she is too green."

Meaning someone who is a novice. That I don' understand.

Unripe plants typically start out green before changing into their ripenned colour. Bananas, for example.

In other words, the person has not yet ripenned into their role yet.

 

[fulano]

"He/she is too green."

Meaning someone who is a novice. That I don' understand.

Unripe plants typically start out green before changing into their ripenned colour. Bananas, for example.

In other words, the person has not yet ripenned into their role yet.

But that implies that someone will inevitably, well, rot, which is deppressing. There's nothing you can do about it and... ...ah, fuck it! I'll take it. Makes sense...kind of.

 

[Zero-Vash]

I understand what "back to the grind" means (I believe. As in get back to the same old routine). But why does "grind" refer to something repetitive?

 

[Citrus]

Well, I got ninja'd on the first page, but "I could care less" was mine as well.

Spoiler: I really don't know how it attained such widespread use.

Umm, no thats sarcasm. You see when you say "i could care less", your being sarcastic about your care level. In that, my caring is slow low that, while i could care less its still so low that it doesnt influence me.

Umm, no, that's improper English. Everybody I've heard use it just didn't stop to think about what it actually meant (and most have actually thanked me when I pointed it out to them). As for you suggesting it's sarcasm or irony, I'll just link you here [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldcare.html] because I can't be arsed to explain it myself.

 

[Deviltongue]

Mind your p's and q's i dislike both of these letters so why should i mind them

Back when they used old printing presses(The ones where they had to switch the letters by hand), people would sometimes get the lower case p's and q's mixed up since all the letters were backwards. That's where the phrase came from. YOU JUST GOT LEARNED!!!

I thought the P's and Q's referred to pints and quarts. (of alcohol)

so when the customers in a tavern were getting drunk and disorderly, the owner or barkeep would tell them to mind their pints and quarts.

but I could be wrong.

According to the wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_your_p's_and_q's#Origin_theories we're both right.

 

[ObsessiveSketch]

"Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

I love that saying. I dare you to decipher it.

 

[kingcom]

Well, I got ninja'd on the first page, but "I could care less" was mine as well.

Spoiler: I really don't know how it attained such widespread use.

Umm, no thats sarcasm. You see when you say "i could care less", your being sarcastic about your care level. In that, my caring is slow low that, while i could care less its still so low that it doesnt influence me.

Umm, no, that's improper English. Everybody I've heard use it just didn't stop to think about what it actually meant (and most have actually thanked me when I pointed it out to them). As for you suggesting it's sarcasm or irony, I'll just link you here [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldcare.html] because I can't be arsed to explain it myself.

Well i strongly disagree, it can be a sarcastic statement just as any other can be, all depends on the tone of voice. The implication is that you CAN care less but your level of caring is so low that it doesnt make a different on your thought process.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

But has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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"BECAUSE I SAID SO"

- Mother.....

oh god yes, don't if I ask you why I should do something TELL ME WHY DAMMIT!

 

[Aerodyamic]

The dolphin gargles under midnight, monkey weasel toaster fuck. Eleven tastes like purple, but orange suggests better erections than polyps. Otherwise, tonsillectomy beyond doom's rectal sphere, and lounge-chaise the battens.

Also, fornicopia.

Spoiler: Don't look.

Yes, I just made that shit up. GIMME COOKIE.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

A friend of mine once said: "If the teacher would just give us the answer, we would be smarter."
I swear I spent 15 minutes on that.

I agree.

I find it insulting they think that if I can't answer these hard ass questions I wasn't listening to the teacher.

course I was, And I absorbed it. you however have just now given me the hardest damn question of this type.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

any question that requires a "yes or no" answer, god I hate those kind of questions.

worst case scenario:

asker: *asks yes or no question*
Me: Yes... I mean no, wait yes? oh fuck off.

 

[Kimarous]

A friend of mine once said: "If the teacher would just give us the answer, we would be smarter."
I swear I spent 15 minutes on that.

I agree.

I find it insulting they think that if I can't answer these hard ass questions I wasn't listening to the teacher.

course I was, And I absorbed it. you however have just now given me the hardest damn question of this type.

What really ticks me off is when they provide you with a problem but don't explain the specific method of solving this problem.

This is especially annoying in fiction. Forgive the particular example, but in Naruto, the titular character is being tutored a new technique by a mysterious mentor. Said technique is more or less a perpetually spinning ball, so he needs to learn how to spin his mystical chakra energy correctly. He fails this task several times until the teacher finally asks which direction he was spinning it. Turns out that he was spinning it the wrong way; the direction he was supposed to go was to the rotation of the sworl of his hair. THEN WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE? That isn't "challenging" him; that's just withholding crucial details!

 

[CptJackRabbit]

Mind your p's and q's i dislike both of these letters so why should i mind them

Not sure if someone already pointed it out, (yes, I didnt read the whole thread, im a terrible person) comes from the phrase "Mind your own pints and quarts." it was when barfly's would get rowdy.


I hate the parental question of "If all your friends were jumping off of a cliff, would you do it too?" I never knew the answer. I mean I would first want to know why everyone was jumping off of a cliff... there would have to be a reason, right? Even if it is ritualistic suicide or something... maybe they are jumping to the world's largest trampoline. Why are they jumping, dammit!

 

[CMDR Zero C]

"I'm just telling it like it is!"

yeah, but you can do that without being a dick.

 

[CMDR Zero C]

A friend of mine once said: "If the teacher would just give us the answer, we would be smarter."
I swear I spent 15 minutes on that.

I agree.

I find it insulting they think that if I can't answer these hard ass questions I wasn't listening to the teacher.

course I was, And I absorbed it. you however have just now given me the hardest damn question of this type.

What really ticks me off is when they provide you with a problem but don't explain the specific method of solving this problem.

This is especially annoying in fiction. Forgive the particular example, but in Naruto, the titular character is being tutored a new technique by a mysterious mentor. Said technique is more or less a perpetually spinning ball, so he needs to learn how to spin his mystical chakra energy correctly. He fails this task several times until the teacher finally asks which direction he was spinning it. Turns out that he was spinning it the wrong way; the direction he was supposed to go was to the rotation of the sworl of his hair. THEN WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE? That isn't "challenging" him; that's just withholding crucial details!

I hear ya.
I was helping my niece with her homework, there was a multiple choice question: A picture of a pot (cooking pot) with no other information given. The question was how much water would it take to fill the pot to the point you could make soup. ??? Well that depends, how big is the pot (that wasn't there).
To my Niece: "In my day the answer would be, not enough information given."