No holes barred

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  • toolzz
    toolzz Posts: 163 Member
    A woman, who is far more intelligent than I by virtue of her degree (she's told me so) said it was a 'doggy dog" world out there...WTH would that mean???

    Did you ask her to spell it? She might have been trying to say doggy dogg world. Totally acceptable.

    no she meant dog eat dog...she also wrote mea cuppa in an email.....
  • wolf_tickets
    wolf_tickets Posts: 29 Member
    "Lack toast and tolerant." *facepalm*

    "self of steam" and "sue of side" are good ones.
  • nikkohli
    nikkohli Posts: 311 Member
    "It's a mute point."

    I know someone who says this ALL the time. It reminds me of that old Friends episode.
    "It's a moo point....you know, like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter" :laugh:
  • Pipsg1rl
    Pipsg1rl Posts: 1,414 Member
    "I could care less" irks me, however it's valid. For example if you care about your sister but she's doing dumb things you could "care a little less" about her based on her actions.

    "I couldn't care less" means that your sister's boyfriend's uncle who you don't know did something stupid. Since you DON'T care about him there is no less amount of care you have for him than Zero.

    Up and atom.
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    "For all intensive purposes."

    I get annoyed when someone writes, "your wrong." I also get annoyed when someone says "good" and they mean "well."

    "How are you today?"
    "I'm doing good!"
    **I'm screaming inside.**

    The first two. Not so much that last one. I just imagine that they are letting me know that they are putting positive vibes into the universe, random acts of kindness...that they are, in fact, doing good.

    I also giggle whenever someone says they have alot to do. So dirty and wrong. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

    Even if they are doing good and tell me about it, that doesn't answer my question.

    Maybe they really are telling you that they are doing good works...and maybe that is their polite way to avoid answering the other question. It is kind of a personal question...unless you're just looking for the generic "I'm fine" answer, in which case, you don't *really* care how they are doing...which is sort of insensitive. You're cold.

    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    As a child, I thought people were saying, "Do you, Jim, take Jane to be your waffley wedded wife?"

    My parents never provided me with a good enough explanation for why breakfast food was a part of the wedding ceremony.

    As I got older, I realized it couldn't be wafflely, so I thought and thought until I figured out that they were saying "Awfully."

    :embarassed:

    There is a funny wedding video when a guy accidentally says, "I take you to be my waffley wedded wife" So then he says, "And pancakey".
  • shireeniebeanie
    shireeniebeanie Posts: 293 Member
    A woman, who is far more intelligent than I by virtue of her degree (she's told me so) said it was a 'doggy dog" world out there...WTH would that mean???

    Did you ask her to spell it? She might have been trying to say doggy dogg world. Totally acceptable.

    For realz.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    :laugh:
    at least ONE is definitely barred.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    "No holes barred"

    This is speculation on my part but it seems likely. I think this is almost certainly a case of the "pornographication" of our culture. The wrestling phrase "no holds barred" is perfectly cromulent, at least as far as it goes, in describing how the wrestling match is to be conducted. Producers of adult entertainment picked up on this and replaced "holds" with "holes" to describe certain kinds of, ahem, "acts" as an promotional technique for their films. This usage has now almost come to usurp the original meaning.

    "I could care less"
    I always imagine that there is an implied "As if" preceding this statement which was originally left out for expedience. Common usage has rendered the statement to mean the opposite of this, like so:
    "I just got to level 87 of Candy Crymes!"
    "(As if) I could care less!"
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    "For all intensive purposes."

    I get annoyed when someone writes, "your wrong." I also get annoyed when someone says "good" and they mean "well."

    "How are you today?"
    "I'm doing good!"
    **I'm screaming inside.**

    The first two. Not so much that last one. I just imagine that they are letting me know that they are putting positive vibes into the universe, random acts of kindness...that they are, in fact, doing good.

    I also giggle whenever someone says they have alot to do. So dirty and wrong. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

    Even if they are doing good and tell me about it, that doesn't answer my question.

    Maybe they really are telling you that they are doing good works...and maybe that is their polite way to avoid answering the other question. It is kind of a personal question...unless you're just looking for the generic "I'm fine" answer, in which case, you don't *really* care how they are doing...which is sort of insensitive. You're cold.

    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:

    I'm annoyed when someone uses "good" as an adverb regardless of the circumstances.
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    :laugh:
    at least ONE is definitely barred.

    Left ear? Right nostril?
  • Vintage_Misery
    Vintage_Misery Posts: 10
    Bobbed Wire instead of Barbed Wire :blushing:
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    My nose is off limits!!!
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:

    I'm annoyed when someone uses "good" as an adverb regardless of the circumstances.

    Not that you're wrong, but I used to work with a guy that used 'irregardless' at least 5 times a day... it used to set my teeth on edge. Then I realized that life (mine anyway) is too short to sweat such minor details.
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:

    I'm annoyed when someone uses "good" as an adverb regardless of the circumstances.

    Not that you're wrong, but I used to work with a guy that used 'irregardless' at least 5 times a day... it used to set my teeth on edge. Then I realized that life (mine anyway) is too short to sweat such minor details.

    Yep I'm good.
  • JustFindingMe
    JustFindingMe Posts: 390 Member
    Conversate! ERGGGG!

    and

    When I was 5 years old " Liar Liar Pencil Fire ! "
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:

    I'm annoyed when someone uses "good" as an adverb regardless of the circumstances.

    Not that you're wrong, but I used to work with a guy that used 'irregardless' at least 5 times a day... it used to set my teeth on edge. Then I realized that life (mine anyway) is too short to sweat such minor details.

    Thank you for coming up with the answer to all of life's challenges! I had no idea that I could just ignore these things that annoy me! *sarcasm*

    Please consider that it may not be easy for some people to just forget the small things. People who have anxiety issues cannot do that as easily. I realize you may not have known that about me; but it is universally true that if someone wanted to just ignore something, then s/he would just do so without suggestion.

    I'm just trying to help you understand my perspective.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    My nose is off limits!!!
    :blushing: yikes...mine too.
    many holes barred :huh:
  • Forty6and2
    Forty6and2 Posts: 2,492 Member
    Irregardless

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  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    To be honest, I don't care how they are doing. It is just a greeting. I don't believe that most people who ask that question actually care about the truthful answer.

    If they are truly doing good, I want to hear about it. In that case, though, I would want to know specifics. They could say, "I've been rescuing kittens in my spare time." I would love to hear about that!

    So you're put off by the way someone responds to a question when you don't care about the answer? Irregardless, I have an easy solution, don't ask the question. Just say 'hello', 'good morning', etc.... 10 of one, half dozen of the other. :wink:

    I'm annoyed when someone uses "good" as an adverb regardless of the circumstances.

    Not that you're wrong, but I used to work with a guy that used 'irregardless' at least 5 times a day... it used to set my teeth on edge. Then I realized that life (mine anyway) is too short to sweat such minor details.

    Thank you for coming up with the answer to all of life's challenges! I had no idea that I could just ignore these things that annoy me! *sarcasm*

    Please consider that it may not be easy for some people to just forget the small things. People who have anxiety issues cannot do that as easily. I realize you may not have known that about me; but it is universally true that if someone wanted to just ignore something, then s/he would just do so without suggestion.

    I'm just trying to help you understand my perspective.

    And I was just sharing my perspective... we good bro?
  • VBnotbitter
    VBnotbitter Posts: 820 Member
    "I have a cute vagina"

    That's nice but your medical notes say you have acute angina
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Business speak, such as "interface" (you mean like talk to each other?), "network" (okay, so we're having lunch then?), "synergy" (a/k/a destroy shareholder value by combining two companies with entirely different styles and goals), and on that subject "culture" (yea, it's a frigg'n business just like 10 of the exact same businesses in this economy), and "downsize" (fire people).
  • jtm4210
    jtm4210 Posts: 108 Member
    I love this thread :laugh:

    A lovely intelligent lady I work with always says "pacific" for "specific", as in "I'm pacifically concerned about this patient" which isn't true as she can actually be quite feisty and argumentative...

    Oh, and there are way too many people who say "brought" instead of "bought". Argh!
  • OllyReeves
    OllyReeves Posts: 579 Member
    an ex of mine and her mother always used to say ' oh well he doesn't mix his words' instead of 'he doesn't mince his words' meaning he is a straight talking person.

    My colleague at work is unbelievably thick, and gets himself in all sorts of pickles trying to sound clever. Two from this morning so far:

    'give me thirty minutes and I will have it all tied up for yourself, lock stock and two smoking barrels'

    'Yes I'm afraid it's half a dozen of the others....'

    I must burn 50 calories a day cringing...
  • Nojoke81
    Nojoke81 Posts: 131
    6 of 1, half a dozen of the other:

    That each offended side has contributed equally to the situation.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    "I have a cute vagina"

    That's nice but your medical notes say you have acute angina

    This reminds me of a joke.

    This couple in their 80s who lived in a retirement home decided to get married. On their wedding night, the wife put on a sexy teddy and went into the bedroom where her new husband was waiting eagerly. She said to him, "I have to warn you, I have acute angina." He said, "Thank God for small favors, because those are the ugliest boobies I've ever seen!".
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,855 Member
    "I could care less."

    That one is my favorite :laugh:
    I could care less, but not much less.
  • Limeycat
    Limeycat Posts: 249 Member
    Hearing "He did it off his own back" drives me crazy - it's "BAT", FGS!

    Then there's "Talking ten to the dozen" to mean someone is speaking quickly - errrr, 10 is less than a dozen - or it was last time I checked

    And "I could of...", instead of "I could have..."

    Sorry to be such a pedant!
  • jwats8
    jwats8 Posts: 112
    No holes barred sounds a hell of lot more fun than holds

    LMBO!!
  • cincysweetheart
    cincysweetheart Posts: 892 Member
    unthaw

    supposably (OMG! I want to freaking scream when I hear this. My SIL says it. She's supposed to be an educated and intelligent person… but I have a hard time believing it whenever I hear her say this!)

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