What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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When people say 'I could care less'. I know what they mean, but it is absolutely not what they said. I hate it even more when I hear it in a song or a TV show/movie. That tells me it made its way past a whole slew of writers and editors. I hate it. It's 'I couldn't care less'. COULDN'T!!! Like you care so little that you couldn't care any less.
There's one song that has that phrase that I think you're okay with, Word Crimes by Weird Al:
Like "I could care less", that means you do care, at least a little
THANK YOU! I don't fucking get this at all. "I could care less." ..... So you care a bit? What?! This is so dumb.
I could care less
The person is actually threatening to care less than the status quo, when the other is asking them to care more.
On the other hand, people that tend to use that phrase probably aren't even thinking of any meaning (whether it is the correct or incorrect one)
it's weird because i could care less implies that you have a base level of knowledge that you wish you didn't have. But it also means that you could also just, care less than you currently do now, i hate that phrase.
This is one of the few times I can't help myself. I become that guy instantly.
"OH SO YOU DO CARE!?!? SO YOU COULD CARE LESS BECAUSE YOU DO CARE!?!?!? GOT 'EM!!"
Weird Al got upset enough at this that he put it in a song:
I hate these word crimes
Like I could care less
That means you do care
At least a littlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
(I'm really glad he did that parody because I find the tune really catchy and the original song is rapey.)