Nope, I'm not buying that. It's simply a bastardisation for an already existing saying that has come into popular use (in just America it seems), such as "hold down the fort" rather than "hold the fort". You don't just liken it to another phrase that has an almost similar backwards meaning, when the circumstances are different. As far as I know "tell me about it" doesn't have a so-called 'correct' saying that existed before hand.

>> ^Kreegath:

"I could care less" is a correctly worded saying, though. Pointing to it as incorrect is not pedantic, it's misunderstanding how sayings work. "Could care less" means "couldn't care less", just like "tell me about it" means that you already know what's been said and DON'T need to be told about it. This particular idiom has been around atleast since the 40's, so it's no new phenomenon.
You could make similar complaints about phrases like "that's the shit", which means that the thing in question is amazing, but read literally it would appear to be likened to feces, which by most definitions is an unquestionably bad thing. It's understood, however, in the context of that saying. I'm sure you can come up with dozens of similar phrases that have a sarcastic tone, or are implicitly understood to have a meaning contrary to what they literally say.

>> ^legacy0100:

Hoooolllleeeeyyyyy shiiiiiiit


Okay, what did I do wrong THIS time, ant?

Was it the 'holy' part? I'm sorry Ant but I happen to be a firm believer of Divinity of feces!!! It fertilizes the earth and help plants germinate! It acts as catalyst of new plant life. Hence why Shit, can be 'holy'

Let's skip over the lawlessness and millions of "the 99%'s" taxpayer dollars wasted arresting the rabble and cleaning up the feces, and get to the point:

The housing/economic collapse is the result of idiot carter and liberals deciding in the 70s that "everyone" should have a house whether they can afford one or not. The same sh1t law, the "Community Reinvestment Act" was strengthened by idiot clinton.

What did these fking idiots think the banks would do when ORDERED to lend money to anybody, and don't worry, big govt has your backs and will make everything "risk-free"?

Well here we are, and true to form, the banks, complicit in this socialist scheme, got a nice payout from the taxpayers.

I want to kill the thieving motherfkers as much as anyone, but why blame the banks when it was government that created this "fairness" bullsh1te to buy votes, and enriched banks with promises of "no-risk" investments and threats if they didn't comply?

In essence, the occupoopers are demanding government institute fairness at gunpoint, as a reaction to a needless crisis caused by...government fairness at gunpoint.

And your customers soon will be like "WAITER! That is not the 2011 Shitter Briond i ordered, bring me a new bottle!"

>> ^ponceleon:

I'm going to open a feces restaurant in NYC and the tagline will be "You can really taste the feces!" I'll charge $150 a plate and people will be lined up around the block because it will be exclusive and you'll have to wait five weeks for a reservation.

I'm going to open a feces restaurant in NYC and the tagline will be "You can really taste the feces!" I'll charge $150 a plate and people will be lined up around the block because it will be exclusive and you'll have to wait five weeks for a reservation.

And yet, it still seems to be what the home viewers want to hear =P.
>> ^EMPIRE:

And... is Oprah becoming even more of a moron every passing day?
"I actually do believe that when you loved somebody and they've loved you, that you end up with an angel who's name that you know"
First of all, the last part of that sentence doesn't even make sense.
Secondly... WTF is she on? Who told you that Oprah? Was it god? Was it the angels? Was that on the bible? Are you the prophet now? Or was it Tom Cruise who told you that?
Sheesh... I can't stand this kind of stupid. You know what I mean. This new age-spiritual-the-secret-celestine-prophecy-astrology type of fucking utter feces.
Even Mike Tyson went: "I don't know Oprah..."

"No, I am not smearing feces on the wall. It's an experiment."

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Let's take a deep breath and take it down a notch. @quantumushroom that is a borderline racist comment, please refrain. @GenjiKilpatrick I sense your frustration but that's an inappropriate way to respond and an ad hom, so please refrain. This an official warning. Thanks.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Yeah QuantumDickface, since her surname is Sanchez she obviously unloads the van full of pregnant undocumented immigrants at every polling station in Orange County in order to rig every election she's run for.
So @dag, if I heard from an anonymous source that @quantumushroom is clearly a racist & moronic meatbag filled to the brim with human feces..
..it's not technically breaking the AD HOM rule since it's only hearsay, right?
>> ^quantumushroom:
The biggest obstacle to job creation is the obama regime itself. No sane business is going to produce anything when there's no demand from consumers and this lawless excuse of a government stands ready to seize all the profits.

Sanchez - proof that Mexican illegals vote in American elections.

Yeah QuantumDickface, since her surname is Sanchez she obviously unloads the van full of pregnant undocumented immigrants at every polling station in Orange County in order to rig every election she's run for.

So @dag, if I heard from an anonymous source that @quantumushroom is clearly a racist & moronic meatbag filled to the brim with human feces..

..it's not technically breaking the AD HOM rule since it's only hearsay, right?

>> ^quantumushroom:

The biggest obstacle to job creation is the obama regime itself. No sane business is going to produce anything when there's no demand from consumers and this lawless excuse of a government stands ready to seize all the profits.

Sanchez - proof that Mexican illegals vote in American elections.

Ya know how much Rat Feces can be in that thing according to the FDA? Probably a good pound and a half.

>> ^budzos:

What does this clip have to do with a frothy mixture of lube and feces?


I'm not sure bro, but whoever that guy is he's got santorum of the mouth.

What does this clip have to do with a frothy mixture of lube and feces?

Now this is water with feces floating in it. This is not part of the experiment, these just float around the space station for the last few weeks that toilet 3 has been broken.

>> ^budzos:
It's also a compound term. Gorillas are now well-known to create their own compound term from two previously unrelated concepts, which is fairly definitive example of linguistic cognition. Funnily enough the compound terms created for things the gorillas dislike usually involve feces.


Note to the keepers, no German porn DVDs

>> ^bareboards2:

My favorite Koko story....
"They" say that gorillas don't actually use language, they are mimics and learn "make this sign, get this".
The scientists were concerned about Koko's mental health, so they put a rhesus monkey in with her, for company. Koko did NOT like the monkey -- loud, stole her food, etc. She would sign "feces monkey" when she saw it -- in other words, called the monkey a "shit." She made that up to describe her feelings.
We are an egocentric species, thinking we are so different....


It's also a compound term. Gorillas are now well-known to create their own compound term from two previously unrelated concepts, which is fairly definitive example of linguistic cognition. Funnily enough the compound terms created for things the gorillas dislike usually involve feces.