The meaning of this is that once you have eaten your cake, it is gone. You cannot eat your cake and still have it.Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
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The meaning of this is that once you have eaten your cake, it is gone. You cannot eat your cake and still have it.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
The most untrue saying, which I remember rehearsing as a very little kid...
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"To be honest"
- I say it all the time.
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people saying "lol" irl
i do it :/
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I've always gone to school with a small group of pretty nice kids and haven't had to deal with a whole lot of name calling or whatever.
At the same time I've never been beaten black and blue... thankfully.
I wasn't trying to really compare different the two by calling it a bad saying, but psychological damage is commonly known to be caused by both physical and emotional pain, which is what makes the phrase so archaic.
The point I was trying to make was not whether physical or emotional pain, such as name calling, hurts more; just that they both hurt.
The latter can be especially hurtful to a young child.
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"103.24% of people love miley cyrus. if you're one of the -12% that eats waffles, post this in your sig." and anything of the like
gotta love made-up statistics.
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You're right. I'm sure crack addicts know that crack is bad for them. Better not try to help them with their addiction, they might want to curb stomp me.Yeah, that bothers me as well.
Personally I don't smoke, but whenever I see someone giving grief to a smoker about how it's "Bad for them" etc, it just unsettles me.
I mean.. they smoke. Obviously they're going to realize that's it bad for them, unless they've lived under a rock their whole lives.
Why bother pestering them about it?
I'm sure North Korea knows that starting a Nuclear War is bad. We better not sanction because Mr. Il will want to curb stomp our asses.
Not saying all, but some of us have a moral/religious conviction to trying to stop the rest of society from doing stupid things. If you want to curb stomp us, well we might try to stop that too.
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It's easy to forget that nicotine is a drug and is addictive. When it comes to these things, people like to kid themselves about the harm they are really doing to themselves. I think it's good to remind them. Most smokers don't think about how bad it is for them. They know, but they don't like to think about it, because they want their nicotine hit, because they're addicted.Yeah, that bothers me as well.
Personally I don't smoke, but whenever I see someone giving grief to a smoker about how it's "Bad for them" etc, it just unsettles me.
I mean.. they smoke. Obviously they're going to realize that's it bad for them, unless they've lived under a rock their whole lives.
Why bother pestering them about it?
I'm not saying you should be rude and harrass people about it all the time, but like Mr.FNB said above (rather inelegantly), you're really doing them, and people around them, a favour by reminding them just how deadly it is.
I get pretty pissed off with my g/f about it sometimes. She gets upset when I remind her how bad it is, but she refuses to beleive that she's addicted, or that it's really a drug. She says she doesn't care about the health effects and pretends that it's all fine, like I wont care when they finally kill her.
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I'm gonna go ahead and say "*****".
People who feel it's acceptable to use this phrase are very dumb. It's racist. Unless you're in a one-on-one conversation with a black person you know well, and it's jocular racism that's ok by them, it's unacceptable to have as vocabulary.
Especially when girls who aren't black say it. That's the worst. That goes back to girls who think they're ghetto though.
This isn't really a saying, but when someone says two totally different things, and then ect.
"Comedy, horror ect."
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....but that doesn't make sense! Comedy and horror aren't completely different. They're both genres (like drama, thriller, musical etc).
Also: I just noticed that you misspelled 'etc'. It's an abreviation of 'Et cetera', which is the Latin for 'And so on'. When pronounced, the abbreviation should be pronounced as the full wording. You should never say E.T.C out loud, any more than you would say M.R. for Mister.
I know, I was trying to think of a good example. Like when you name two bands, but their completely different styles, then you say etc and the reader doesn't know what you mean.
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I've never felt so close to you before. Those first two get me every single time. The worst part is when you try to explain it to people.
"You mean you could not care less, right?"
"No, I could. It doesn't matter to me."
It's usually said in a condescending tone to top it off, as if you're the idiot that doesn't know what they're talking about.
On top of that, I absolute despise anyone who uses the word "pronto" more than once in a blue moon, especially for dramatic effect; I can't stand it when people greet you with the word, "yo"; and I have a personal vendetta against people who use cutesy words like "fantabulous".
I especially despise people that groan unnecessarily loud out of frustration. Rolling your eyes and growling out, "UGGGHHHHHHHHHH", does nothing but make you look like a pretentious shit in my eyes. I'm sick and tired of all of the valley girls out here that are incapable of handling their problems in any other way.
To finish things off, I'm also bothered when people use words like "heck", "gosh", and "effing". If you're not going to curse, don't half-*** it and use substitutes as if by some odd technicality the phrase "eff this" is any different than if you had used the word "****". The intent behind the words is STILL THE SAME. You're still cursing, you're just looking like a child while doing it.
Quoted for truth. Excuse me for taking care of my body, right? >_>
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"I like x better than x." I don't know if it's gramatically incorrect, but it just doesn't sound right to me. If someone were to say "I like cake better than pie," doesn't this imply that you are more proficient/skillful at liking cake than liking pie? If this is the case, how is it even possible to be more skillful at liking?
"I like cake more than pie" sounds correct to me, but i almost always see 'better' instead of 'more'.
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i understand watch your coming from but i think when we say i like cake "Better" than pie means cake is better tasting i guess just a mental thing. but your grammatically correct
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Alright lets get one thing straight.
I made this account
IN
A
HURRY
Okay?
And by the way, you're grounded.
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I am extremely irritated when people say that something is "based off" something else. Something can only be "based on" something else, for obvious literal reasons. I don't know where this started, or why, but it's just silly.
The worst thing is that people don't seem to be doing it intentionally. People seem to think that "based off" is an actual phrase.
RAAARGGHH!
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