i just say "i dont give a *******" or " I dont give a rat's ass"

it really drives your point home.

especially when you yell it aloud in public

people take notice of the fact immediately and without question that "Hey... that guy just doenst give a sh*t"

:rock:

:har:

I remember listening to an anecdote that took place in N'yawlins, took me a while to figure out what was going on.

wait, you lot are whinging about having to pay for everyones healthcare?

welcome to the united kingdom...

granted you lot have a bigger population but surely that would work in your favour (i.e. you pay less)

How does the nation pay for obama's health care plan?

Look at de vid, the man himself explaining .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/us..._r=1&th&emc=th

Yet you use 'I tells ye' which is not present in any dialect of the English lexicon. If you are going to critique someone else's grammar, you had best be sure that yours is buttoned up.

Also, be advised that the sentence about the cows in one of your previous posts requires a semicolon, not a comma.

The "I tells ye" was a little tongue in cheek.
My grammar, is-far perfect: [and my spelling is worse - without my spell
checker}.
That said, there is a difference of magnitude between a normal grammar
mistake and the "I could care less" issue.

Imagine if "Gone with the wind" ended with "Frankly, my dear, I do give a
damn". It makes no sense!

Good lord another discussion breaks down into an english lesson :doh:

You're missing the point. It is considered poor 'netiquette' to critique one's forum grammar. Doing so is considered to be highly disrespectful.

If you look hard enough you can find someone who objects to just about anything, so who (besides the forum owner) gets makes the rules as to what is disrespectful and what's not?

I object to this ! :rock: :rotfl:

so the liar in chief intends to tell me that I wont see ANY tax increases over this.

I also have some ocean front property in Arizona you might be interested in Mr. Fish

It is cultural. This is, for the most part, an internet-wide folkway. I did not imply that disciplinary action was warranted, so I am not certain precisely what Neal has to do with any of this. It can be akin to calling someone ugly. You can't be arrested for it, but it is universally accepted as ungenerous behavior.

Well my point is that is not as universally accepted as you claim it is. As for what Neal has to do with this, only that as the board owner he gets to decide what is or is not objectionable on his website. That does not imply, nor did I mention, anything about disciplinary action.

Withdrawn

I got the joke. As for "I could care less", this might help:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm

It's like "gross", which in English originally paralleled the German and meant "great" or "large". At that time calling a person "gross" was simply another way of calling him obese. But since people were disgusted by the sight of an extrememly obese person, "gross" came to be synonymous with "disgusting", and English-speaking people commonly use it that way today.

Or take "great" itself. "Great" also originally meant large, but took the opposite tack from "gross" - it now is used to mean "very very good".