caring less [Archive] - Graphic Design Forum

captain spanky

03-07-2007, 03:57 PM

i personally care about everyone, everything and every...er...stuff but it has been known that, on occasion, the level of my caring has been lower than a previous plane.

On these rare occasions, i have stated that i 'couldn't care less' about said thing/situation/person, which i believe is a widely used britland term.

While speaking to an american aquaintance about pigeons, i was told that he 'could care less about the filthy vermin'... i thought 'wooo he must like pigeons too' ...apparently not.

Britlanders and Americaniums are so different in so many different ways it makes me wonder if we all landed on the planet at the same time or if the Americaniums arrived later after stopping for a 'cawfee'

time for my pills now.

balou

03-07-2007, 04:02 PM

He doesn't like us anymore!

Now Cap'n, stop stereotyping us or we'll have to all come over there for a "spot of tea and crumpets" and straighten you out.

;)

mac.FINN

03-07-2007, 04:05 PM

I know what you mean Cap, I've always used the term "Couldn't care less",
but "Could care less" seems to be the widely accepted way of saying here. There was a whole thread before on common errors in speech that people just accept because no one can be bothered to say it correctly.

But whatever, I could care less what people say.

captain spanky

03-07-2007, 04:07 PM

sorry, i couldn't hear you.. i was eating my tiny cucumber sandwiches. :D

PS: A colleague has just asked me: Is it true that american girls love a british accent?

mac.FINN

03-07-2007, 04:12 PM

Well not being American or a Girl I'll say yes.

Girls swoon over pretty much any foreign accent. Which is why I pretend to be Irish all the time. Laddy.

balou

03-07-2007, 04:23 PM

Yes. *swoons*

But not the heavy cockney/Eastenders kind.

Virgo Nightingale

03-07-2007, 04:28 PM

I couldn't care less about an accent, as long as I can understand what the hell you're saying. :D

morea

03-07-2007, 05:04 PM

Girls swoon over pretty much any foreign accent. Which is why I pretend to be Irish all the time. Laddy.

ooh, are you really Irish?

*swoon*

mac.FINN

03-07-2007, 05:06 PM

I know you swoon for the Canadian accents too Mo. You just can't resist eh.

morea

03-07-2007, 05:10 PM

lol, I doan know whatcher talkin' aboot, ya hoser. :D

Navian

03-07-2007, 07:52 PM

"Well not being American.."

Lol, might want to go look at an atlas Mac. Because, Canada is located in North "AMERICA". :D You are an American, well a Candian-American. :p

Riya

03-07-2007, 08:11 PM

It annoys me when people don't pay attention to what they are saying. They just use these phrases without ever thinking about what they mean.
And yes, British accents are hot.

The_Black_Knight

03-07-2007, 08:49 PM

Lol, might want to go look at an atlas Mac. Because, Canada is located in North "AMERICA". :D You are an American, well a Candian-American. :pI guess that makes me a "United Statesian-American."

Navian

03-07-2007, 08:53 PM

Well I was thinking about that after I posted TBK, and I came up with: United States Citizens (or US Citizen).

budafist

03-07-2007, 09:27 PM

"Could care less" means that someone cares too much doesn't it?

Couldn't care less means that you don't care.

Right? RIGHT??!!??

Riya

03-07-2007, 09:34 PM

That's what it means, but it's not how people use it.

"You keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think that word means."

morea

03-07-2007, 09:36 PM

inconceivable! :eek:

Jackimalyn

03-07-2007, 09:36 PM

wroiite.

mac.FINN

03-07-2007, 10:38 PM

Well I was thinking about that after I posted TBK, and I came up with: United States Citizens (or US Citizen).

But then I'm a Canadian Citizen aren't I?

So you're saying that a Brazilian isn't a Brazilan but an American too
and a Swede is really just a European,
is a Russian just an Asian?
You go to a bar in Ireland and announce there's no Irish men just a bunch of Europeans

I may infact be North-American; but I am definately not an American.

Red Kittie Kat

03-08-2007, 12:29 AM

PS: A colleague has just asked me: Is it true that american girls love a british accent?

This girl does :D

Now when can I come over for some bangers and mash ... or spotted dick?

;)

Red Kittie Kat

03-08-2007, 12:30 AM

btw .. I have a friend from scotland, Ireland and a few from the london area and all those accents just make me a little weak in the knees ;)

fredrich

03-08-2007, 01:12 AM

is a Russian just an Asian?

Since Russia is in both Europe and Asia, that one is a bit difficult. ;)

In general, I think people see a british accent as "smarter" than an american. Of course, a real grimey cockney accent makes me think of pub fights with toothless football supporters. But especially Irish and Scottish are funny accents of the english language, they make you feel welcome just by listening to them.

The dialects in different parts of my country are very different from each other, at least the way we hear it. I don't have to travel further than about 500 km north of where I live to have relatively severe difficulties in actually understanding what a local person is saying to me. It's weird, but true, and most of us like to make fun of each other.

budafist

03-08-2007, 02:08 AM

What am I then? Australasian?

03-08-2007, 02:17 AM

sorry, i couldn't hear you.. i was eating my tiny cucumber sandwiches. :D

PS: A colleague has just asked me: Is it true that american girls love a british accent?

Yes. I was once engaged to a limey. Looking back, 99% of the reason I do believe I fell for him was the fact that he sounded just like john lennon. *swoon*

Samakimoto Graphics

03-08-2007, 07:15 AM

It's a matter of semantics... He say's "potato" you say "potato".:)

I thought I was alone...I can never understand what an Irishman and a Scottsman were saying yet they're speaking English!...Conversation consists of many "pardon,...please say that again" from me.

Yes buda, I believe that's it...

budafist

03-08-2007, 08:01 AM

Does being an Australasian mean I get to say blimey and corker and yobbo and rack off!?

Virgo Nightingale

03-08-2007, 02:31 PM

Now when can I come over for some bangers and mash ... or spotted dick?
Kittie, usually a spotted dick is indicative of a venereal disease. Despite the seemingly strong gravitational pull exerted by the sexy accent, you may want to stay clear of that one!;)

Samakimoto Graphics

03-08-2007, 02:44 PM

Kittie, usually a spotted dick is indicative of a venereal disease. Despite the seemingly strong gravitational pull exerted by the sexy accent, you may want to stay clear of that one!;)

Perhaps Kittie meant "Sporty dick" :D .

mac.FINN

03-08-2007, 02:49 PM

No Spotted Dick is an English Dish.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg/240px-Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg

seamas

03-08-2007, 03:05 PM

I once read a book on the English language, written by an Englishman, where he used the topics phase to point out an oddity in the English language that does not exist in any other language.

He illustrated that the following four statements mean precisely the same thing:

I couldn't care less.
I could care less.
I couldn't care more.
I could care more.

They are each perfectly correct.

Virgo Nightingale

03-08-2007, 05:09 PM

No Spotted Dick is an English Dish.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg/240px-Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg
Well, that's got to be just about the weirdest name for a food product I've ever heard. Aside from "headcheese.":D

fredrich

03-08-2007, 07:20 PM

Does being an Australasian mean I get to say blimey and corker and yobbo and rack off!?

Not to mention "hey, mate" and the late great Steve Irwin's "crikey!"

Something that has fascinated me for a long time, is the fact that people actually are named Dick and Gaylord in USA. Is this a huge practical joke or what? It's funny and understandable with misunderstanding names and terms when they cross language barriers, but dick, gay and lord is perfectly understandable english words.

Btw, Daddy Yankee's song "Rompe" means "ass" over here. :D

Red Kittie Kat

03-08-2007, 07:35 PM

No Spotted Dick is an English Dish.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg/240px-Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg

Mac to my rescue .... my hero!!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/101.gif

Samakimoto Graphics

03-09-2007, 08:25 AM

No Spotted Dick is an English Dish.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg/240px-Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg

Well!...ROTFLMFFAO!!

urstwile

03-14-2007, 11:52 PM

Wow, that's crazy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Dick

DesignStudio

03-15-2007, 01:12 AM

Lol, might want to go look at an atlas Mac. Because, Canada is located in North "AMERICA". :D You are an American, well a Candian-American. :p

navian is right. technically, the country everyone refers to as "america" is really called "the united states of america" or "the united states". which is why everything is refered to in terms of US for our government, not in terms of america. "the president of the united states, the united states senate, etc. all of north america, central america, and south america are technically part of the americas, and anyone in any of those countries could be considered american in that sense. if i had more ambition i'd draw a ven diagram. all u.s. citizens are american, but not all americans are u.s. citizens.