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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"The one I don't get is "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I mean, what's the point in having cake if you can't bloody well eat it?   "
Actually - the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'. Which makes more sense. Over time it got switched around. |
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By *livia_KWoman
over a year ago
South London |
"The one I don't get is "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I mean, what's the point in having cake if you can't bloody well eat it?
Actually - the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'. Which makes more sense. Over time it got switched around."
Well I don't get that one either |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My nan says "you've never sucked the milk"...I've asked countless people over the years, including my nan, it still never makes sense. You've never lived, is my nans explanation ;D
Why not just say that
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"The one I don't get is "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I mean, what's the point in having cake if you can't bloody well eat it?
Actually - the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'. Which makes more sense. Over time it got switched around.
Well I don't get that one either "
If you eat your cake you won't have it any more. So you cannot eat your cake and still have it.
I hate this one too:
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
(Sorry W.B.Yeats) |
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By *livia_KWoman
over a year ago
South London |
"The one I don't get is "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I mean, what's the point in having cake if you can't bloody well eat it?
Actually - the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'. Which makes more sense. Over time it got switched around.
Well I don't get that one either
If you eat your cake you won't have it any more. So you cannot eat your cake and still have it.
I hate this one too:
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
(Sorry W.B.Yeats)"
Oh now I get it! Duh. Well then I'd just get more cake because I love cake and once I start eating it I find it hard to stop  |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"The one I don't get is "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I mean, what's the point in having cake if you can't bloody well eat it?
Actually - the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'. Which makes more sense. Over time it got switched around.
Well I don't get that one either
If you eat your cake you won't have it any more. So you cannot eat your cake and still have it.
I hate this one too:
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
(Sorry W.B.Yeats)
Oh now I get it! Duh. Well then I'd just get more cake because I love cake and once I start eating it I find it hard to stop "
But that is the point of the metaphor - once you have had all there is you can have no more. In other words - no point wanting what you cannot have. |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Low hanging fruit
There is no I in team
Helicopter view
Customer centric
Grrrr time to play bullshit bingo"
Or a popular one after a training day at work - 'Are you a mood hoover?'
It's all bollocks! |
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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago
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"Low hanging fruit
There is no I in team
Helicopter view
Customer centric
Grrrr time to play bullshit bingo
Or a popular one after a training day at work - 'Are you a mood hoover?' What is that supposed to mean? Bloody hell.
It's all bollocks!"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There is no I in Team. No, but there is a person that the team would be lesser without.
Think outside the Box. I'm in a box?
At the end of the day... Quote from every person who knows the answer to everything.
Low hanging fruit. Like my balls?
Plenty more fish in the sea. If I wanted fish, I'd care.
Can't have your cake and eat it. Well you wont get any fucking cake if you carry on with that attitude.
The way the cookie crumbles. From somebody who's clearly been eating some seriously fucking dodgy biscuits.
It's like it was meant to be. Shudder... |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Money does'nt grow on trees. Even worse when you tell someone it does and they say how ?"
Bank notes are not made of paper though - well not from trees. They are made of cotton fibre and linen. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"' hit The ground running ' ...eh ? "
Hit the ground running is to do with parachuting, it's the way you should land to reduce the risk of damaging your legs. So if in a situation you hit the ground running it means your either lucky, successful or got away with it, similar to the saying "landed on your feet" |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
""I'm entitled to my opinion"
Actually nope. And it isn't a license to spout BS."
You are entitled to HOLD an opinion - but not necessarily entitled to voice it. Lots of people confuse that one. |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"In Jurrasic Park where Richard Attenborough keeps saying "spared no expense", really gets on my nerves.
"Gets on my nerves" is another. "
I hate 'at the end of the day' which, at the end of the day, is the saying I most use and hate myself for.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In Jurrasic Park where Richard Attenborough keeps saying "spared no expense", really gets on my nerves.
"Gets on my nerves" is another.
I hate 'at the end of the day' which, at the end of the day, is the saying I most use and hate myself for. "
And when people use the word "literally" incorrectly. "He literally fucked me so hard, my legs fell off". No he didn't. I mean, no I didn't. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You should have thought of that before you did it
Irritates the death out of me"
Sorry, I even did it knowing that it would irritate the majority. It's something David Cameron would most probably say after screwing the country over, a pet hate of mine too |
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