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You don't mean literally.
/pedant
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 23:18, archived)
No
I probably don't, but after spending the evening in the rain, being jumped on by twenty 8 year olds and playing parachute games with them, I'm beyond the point of caring....
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 23:22, archived)
Thank god I'm not the only one who gets annoyed at that.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 23:23, archived)
*sigh*
"Wipe its arse and cut its face off, then put it on my plate"

Note the speech marks, and the fact it's referring to a phrase that is a well known description of rare meat. So using 'literally' is for effect, exaggerating the meaning. In the same way people use hyperbole.
Or metaphors for that matter.

But more so, fuck off with your pissy elitism.
Language is not a science, you can bend it to convey meaning as you wish. Poetry, for example.
(, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 0:13, archived)