Americans - I'm looking at you, now.
The phrase is "I couldn't care less", as in, "I COULD NOT CARE LESS". It means you don't care. If you say "I could care less", it means you do care. If you use it to mean the opposite, you are a fuckwit.

"Snap" means "me too", or "the same". As in the card game Snap. At a pinch it can mean food, roughly synonymous with "grub" or the Scottish "scran". It does not mean "shit". If you use it in this way, you are a fuckwit.

That's all for now.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:01, 14 replies)

this
is one of my hates. It's basic logic.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:05, closed)

The "could care less" thing
is appalling. I couldn't understand why somebody could be so stupid to actually say that. Then I found out their nationality.

Ooh this fits the prejudice QOTW as well!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:05, closed)

I agree with you so much on the first one.
It's especially sad when it makes it into real media by people who should know better.

The second one is more to do with Americans being culturally very polite. They say 'darn' instead of 'damn', etc. When my brother and I were in Texas and he told me his wallet had been stolen (it got returned to the lost property of the venue we were in, minus $70), I exclaimed 'bugger!' and four people turned around in shock. Americans are just like that.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:06, closed)

When in San Francisco, one of my friends said "...and then he dropped the f-bomb" and everyone was really shocked
I said, "You mean he said fuck?" and there was much intake of breath. Thinking quickly, I followed up with "It's lucky he didn't say cunt, then."
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:08, closed)

Hahahahaha
I want to make sex with you and love your babies.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:11, closed)

:D

( Bob Todd whee, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:15, closed)

extra good job you werent in Canada then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWAjn2a3rA
(Matty73, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:50, closed)

I think I managed to embarrass my friend from the other side of the Atlantic in that respect
It was an early live recording of the jazz band we used to play in, and she had it on a CD or some sort of mp3 player when she went over to visit her relatives in the States.

"Oh, is that your band? Well, put it on, let's hear it."
So the recording started playing and everyone sat down to dinner, with my friend unaware that, after one distinctly shaky-sounding number, the microphones had picked up me talking to the audience between songs and announcing
"Sorry, we kind of buggered that one up..."
The Irish side of the family thought it was hilarious. The Americans...less so.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:39, closed)

Don't know where you were when this happened
But where I live in America people use words like 'damn', 'goddamn', 'fuck' and 'son of a bitch' quite often.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 18:50, closed)

Fuckwit really pisses me off.
(TexasPete enjoyed being sexually molested by your Father on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:09, closed)

Actually it works quite well saying "I could care less".
It means you're so nice, that you do indeed care, but that it is so awful that even someone as nice as you could be forced to care less about it.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 16:10, closed)

I use both, and stand by it.
I choose my words carefully, I check my emotions - if I've hit the bottom of the barrel of my caring and can't scrape up anything at all - it's a total zero verging on the negative, I say "I couldn't care less."
Because I can't, I'm 100% not caring and could not "not care" any more =)

Sometimes it's not quite that bad though, sometimes my humanity and innate compassion or mild morbid curiosity makes me care just a tiny little bit...

And then I say, usually with an expressive shrug and facial expression

"I could care less..."

Cause it's technically true (and I value my accuracy when expressing my emotions =)) but at the same time I try to imply clearly that it'd be pretty damn hard for me to actually care any less, and only by the grace of the tiniest of exceptions have they avoided being any lower on my care meter and reaching absolute zero.

All that being said?

The fuckers who get it wrong piss me off too.

...

I think we might just have to accept that Snap has different meanings for our two cultures =)

The only use I know of in America came from a shortened version of the phrase "oh my but that was a snappy retort" and is usually associated with lead up "awwwww" as they build drama and suspense, a head weave (both motion and hair...) and final releasing snapping of the fingers for emphasis (or possibly because the people who use it are so used to moving their lips when working out words that physical movement is just linked to their vocabulary and unavoidable.)
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:16, closed)

gah,i just posted the COuld Care Less one having not got back far enough to see this.

Sorry for the dup, but i agree, it IS fucking annoying.


my bad ;)
(Matty73, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:48, closed)

Maybe it's short for...
I could care less, if I tried really, really hard. But you're a cunt, so I'm not going to bother.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:44, closed)