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05/19/24 9:03:26 AM
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GrandConjuraton
05/19/24 9:43:03 AM
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"It was the least I could do" makes it sound like you didn't care enough to put more effort into doing whatever it was that you actually did, which seems strange to me.

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tankboy
05/19/24 9:51:47 AM
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It's a false modesty, to avoid agreeing that you did something special.
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R1masher
05/19/24 9:52:58 AM
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I appreciate you passive aggressive narcissism, instead of just saying thank you so I can say youre welcome now I have to be thankful that you appreciate me get that corn out of my face

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GrandConjuraton
05/19/24 9:58:26 AM
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tankboy posted...
It's a false modesty, to avoid agreeing that you did something special.
I get how it's used, but it feels phony.

R1masher posted...
I appreciate you passive aggressive narcissism, instead of just saying thank you so I can say youre welcome now I have to be thankful that you appreciate me get that corn out of my face
I agree with this one somewhat, but I guess it depends on the context. If you don't have something that's actively deserving of thanks, appreciate definitely makes sense to me.

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emblem-man
05/19/24 9:59:01 AM
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R1masher posted...
I appreciate you passive aggressive narcissism, instead of just saying thank you so I can say youre welcome now I have to be thankful that you appreciate me get that corn out of my face
Is it the "you" part?

I started saying "I appreciate it" when someone does something nice to me, especially strangers, coworkers. I've found that it makes people more happy than "thank you"

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Cemith
05/19/24 10:01:01 AM
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R1masher posted...
I appreciate you passive aggressive narcissism, instead of just saying thank you so I can say youre welcome now I have to be thankful that you appreciate me get that corn out of my face

I don't agree with this. I say this to my friends all the time because I think they're great people.

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Vicious_Dios
05/19/24 10:01:01 AM
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Have time, will travel.

Bless your heart.

And how!


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Xatrion
05/19/24 10:03:43 AM
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"Life is short"

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Whiterun_Guard_
05/19/24 10:05:43 AM
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"Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

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OriginalPlain2
05/19/24 10:05:58 AM
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have a nice day

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LordOfTheCats
05/19/24 10:08:32 AM
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"You can't have your cake and eat it too" never sat right with me. What's the point in having cake if you can't eat it?

I eventually learned that the original saying was, "You can't eat your cake and have it too", which makes a lot more sense and gets the message across better. I have no idea why it was changed.
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ablegator
05/19/24 10:09:26 AM
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Thank you

really? Makes me so angry.

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SHRlKE
05/19/24 10:10:50 AM
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Could care less to mean you couldnt care less.

Literally when its use to not mean literally.

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GrandConjuraton
05/19/24 10:10:57 AM
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LordOfTheCats posted...
"You can't have your cake and eat it too" never sat right with me. What's the point in having cake if you can't eat it?

I eventually learned that the original saying was, "You can't eat your cake and have it too", which makes a lot more sense and gets the message across better. I have no idea why it was changed.
This has also been a big one for me. Even when I was little, I knew the expression simply just didn't make sense.

That being said, the original saying DOES make more sense. It not being used that way anymore is weird, >.<

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Choco
05/19/24 10:12:20 AM
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"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" what the FUCK are you talking about

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UnholyMudcrab
05/19/24 10:14:57 AM
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Choco posted...
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" what the FUCK are you talking about
Besser ein Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach

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Choco
05/19/24 10:15:53 AM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Besser ein Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach
this one is also dumb and insane why does every language have crazy people who try to grab birds

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wackyteen
05/19/24 10:18:38 AM
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GrandConjuraton posted...
This has also been a big one for me. Even when I was little, I knew the expression simply just didn't make sense.

That being said, the original saying DOES make more sense. It not being used that way anymore is weird, >.<
Both make sense.

You can't have your cake and eat it too because if you eat your cake, you no longer have your cake.

The original saying carries the meaning more front loaded though.

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wackyteen
05/19/24 10:21:22 AM
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Choco posted...
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" what the FUCK are you talking about
It isn't about birds.

It's about what you have is worth as much/more than what you don't have (even if that amount you don't have is a higher amount)

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SHRlKE
05/19/24 10:23:44 AM
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Choco posted...
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" what the FUCK are you talking about

This one makes sense but I dont think its ever explained to people when they are younger.

It basically means its often better to have the guarantee of one quantity of a thing in your possession than have the chance to obtain two you dont have.

I guess if youre hunting its better to have one badger you can take back to camp you already own than the possibility of catching two badgers that may both run away.

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GrandConjuraton
05/19/24 10:25:41 AM
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wackyteen posted...
Both make sense.

You can't have your cake and eat it too because if you eat your cake, you no longer have your cake.

The original saying carries the meaning more front loaded though.
Well, I'll put it a different way. The expression more commonly used today didn't make sense to me because the meaning wasn't explicit; I always took it as "here's your cake, but you can't enjoy it". It's not until seeing the original meaning that I can get the intended meaning for how it's used now.

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UnholyMudcrab
05/19/24 10:27:11 AM
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GrandConjuraton posted...
Well, I'll put it a different way. The expression more commonly used today didn't make sense to me because the meaning wasn't explicit; I always took it as "here's your cake, but you can't enjoy it". It's not until seeing the original meaning that I can get the intended meaning for how it's used now.
It certainly doesn't help that "having cake" almost always just means eating it in the first place.

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SwayM
05/19/24 10:38:20 AM
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I hate Show up and how its used in a therapy / clinical way.

like you need to show up for your child

Just a cringy way of saying care more and give a shit.

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Joelypoely
05/19/24 10:49:42 AM
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"_____ fits the bill"

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wackyteen
05/19/24 10:51:01 AM
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SwayM posted...
I hate Show up and how its used in a therapy / clinical way.

like you need to show up for your child

Just a cringy way of saying care more and give a shit.

You can not care and not give a shit and still show up.

Sometimes the least you need to do for someone is show up/be there. Because your absence takes away so much. Even if you're there and being a detriment, at least you took the time to be present instead of fucking off somewhere else.

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lolife67
05/19/24 11:00:56 AM
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wackyteen posted...
Both make sense.

You can't have your cake and eat it too because if you eat your cake, you no longer have your cake.

The original saying carries the meaning more front loaded though.
Lol exactly. There's absolutely no difference in either saying, so why they'd be confused by one and not the other is beyond me.
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05/20/24 5:04:15 PM
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Cemith
05/20/24 7:07:29 PM
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I didn't realize how much beef I had with this sentence until you typed it out.

It's like saying five 2-year-olds have equal experience to the ten year old. It is clearly meaningless

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Ratchetrockon
05/20/24 7:08:29 PM
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apple of my eye

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TMOG
05/20/24 7:09:05 PM
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"The customer is always right"

No you idiot you're wrong, and saying this won't change the price and/or stock levels
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Cemith
05/20/24 7:10:01 PM
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TMOG posted...
"The customer is always right"

No you idiot you're wrong, and saying this won't change the price and/or stock levels

It's not even the full quote. And even the full quote isn't about customers being intrinsically right about everything. It's about supply and demand.

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Notti
05/23/24 3:36:55 AM
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LordOfTheCats posted...
"You can't have your cake and eat it too" never sat right with me. What's the point in having cake if you can't eat it?

I eventually learned that the original saying was, "You can't eat your cake and have it too", which makes a lot more sense and gets the message across better. I have no idea why it was changed.


I prefer "and keep it too" to be even clearer

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Kradek
05/23/24 4:17:59 AM
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"I could care less"

Oh yeah, how could you care less? Do you need to be paid to care less?

Obviously it's couldn't care less.

Also when atheists/anti-theists still use religious terminology that denotes any deity, e.g. "god damnit", "holy shit", "Jesus Christ!", "Oh my god". It just goes to show how strongly ingrained Judeo-Christianity is within even the very basic English we all learn growing up just by existing and hearing others use it. I myself only don't use that terminology because as a child I wanted to intentionally work on "thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain", so my vocabulary intentionally developed without it. I do still use "damn" and "hell", though.

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ai123
05/23/24 4:18:36 AM
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tankboy posted...
It's a false modesty, to avoid agreeing that you did something special.
It's also said so that the person receiving help doesn't feel bad because the other has had to make an effort, alter their plans, or whatever.

It downplays the obligation, and can be a kind thing to say.

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Karovorak
05/23/24 4:26:13 AM
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Yeah, went into this topic to talk about the cake too.

If I want to have some cake, I want it so I can eat it. I'm not going to put it on a pedestal so I can watch it in admiration.

Other thing:

"Chances are 50/50, it either happens, or it doesn't"

If I hear that, everything in me cringes in pure anger.

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Kradek
05/23/24 4:26:53 AM
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Karovorak posted...
Yeah, went into this topic to talk about the cake too.

If I want to have some cake, I want it so I can eat it. I'm not going to put it on a pedestal so I can watch it in admiration.

Ha, yeah, that would have been my alternative to bring up.

Like...why can't I have my cate and eat it too? Isn't that the whole point of getting a cake? To eat it?

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ai123
05/23/24 4:29:17 AM
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Kradek posted...
Ha, yeah, that would have been my alternative to bring up.

Like...why can't I have my cate and eat it too? Isn't that the whole point of getting a cake? To eat it?
You can have your cake.
You can eat your cake.
But you can't do both: once you have eaten your cake, you no longer have it.

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Kradek
05/23/24 4:30:41 AM
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ai123 posted...
You can have your cake.
You can eat your cake.
But you can't do both: once you have eaten your cake, you no longer have it.

But I can only eat my cake because I have it.

No cake = No eating of cake

There can't be an effect without a cause.

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YugiNoob
05/23/24 4:33:24 AM
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Things are getting too spicy for the pepper!

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Cartoon_Quoter
05/23/24 4:35:06 AM
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State 1: You buy a cake. You now have 1 cake. You now have eaten 0 cake.
State 2: You eat a cake. You now have 0 cake. You now have eaten 1 cake.


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Kradek
05/23/24 4:39:37 AM
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Cartoon_Quoter posted...
State 1: You buy a cake. You now have 1 cake. You now have eaten 0 cake.
State 2: You eat a cake. You now have 0 cake. You now have eaten 1 cake.

But once again, "you can't have you cake and eat it, too". You can only even eat said cake because you have it. If you can never have your cake then you can also never eat it as you need to have said cake in order to imbibe, meaning that it's either both or neither.

You can have your cake and eat it, too, or you can't have your cake and also cannot eat it, because there is no cake, the cake is a lie.

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ai123
05/23/24 4:41:06 AM
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Kradek posted...
But I can only eat my cake because I had it. [past tense].

No cake = No eating of cake

There can't be an effect without a cause.
Fixed.

Because if you eat your cake, you can no longer have that cake. The cake is gone.

You can't have a cake and have eaten that cake simultaneously.

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trappedunderice
05/23/24 4:42:46 AM
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Most of these aren't even commonly said
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Kradek
05/23/24 4:43:01 AM
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ai123 posted...
But if you eat your cake, you can no longer have that cake. The cake is gone.

You can't have a cake and eat a cake simultaneously.

Well yes, but that is the state of all food. This expression is just basically "this is how having food works".

Also, you could eat only a portion of said cake. If I only eat half of the cake and leave the rest to rot, then I've both eaten the cake and retained the cake.

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Kradek
05/23/24 4:44:04 AM
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R1masher posted...
I appreciate you passive aggressive narcissism, instead of just saying thank you so I can say youre welcome now I have to be thankful that you appreciate me get that corn out of my face

It honestly bothers me that this is what bothers you because I say this and genuinely mean it, so it feels like a personal attack even though I know it's not.

Choco posted...
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" what the FUCK are you talking about

It's better to have a lesser amount of a certain thing than to have a greater amount of an uncertain thing.

Think about it like this, having $100 in your hands is more real than thinking about what it'd be like to have thousands in your hand.

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ai123
05/23/24 4:46:31 AM
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Kradek posted...
Well yes, but that is the state of all food. This expression is just basically "this is how having food works".

Yes. The phrase takes the commonly understood process of how food works, and uses it as a metaphor. It is rarely, if ever used to refer to actual cake.

Also, you could eat only a portion of said cake. If I only eat half of the cake and leave the rest to rot, then I've both eaten the cake and retained the cake.

That's a part cake. You have transformed the object. You no longer have the cake.

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