I am staunchly against randomly murdering people with package bombs. But they put that poor man through hell with the MK Ultra stuff.

The big monsters that run our world turned a brilliant mind into a little monster. A massive tragedy from every angle

Sounds interesting, where did you watch it?

To me when someone says assless chaps it refers to the configuration of wearing chaps without anything underneath. Similar to "going commando" being a configuration of clothing meaning pants with no underwear.

Indeed, chaps by definition have no ass.

They’re assless pants, really.

Tangentially, I hate it that pulling someone’s pants down became popular and was called “pantsing.” You’re not putting pants ON the person…

The difference between pants and chaps is more than just the presence or absence of an ass. There's the whole area between the legs. You can have chaps with an ass in the same way you can have a shirt with sleeves.

Counterpoint, saying "assless" is fun, and saying "assless pants" would probably make most people confused

Chaps with asses are gentlemen.

Everything must have the Oxford comma! reeeeeeeeeee

You can't eat your cake and eat it too!

Weirdo. The rest of us mean that we are going to posses some amount of cake for a period of time.

I still don't think I fully understand, even as the unabomber put it. Can't eat it and have it? Like, I can't consume and expect the thing to remain, that it?

Side note: only in English, one can "understand", but nobody can "overstand" and anybody that "stand" is doing a wholly different thing.

no that was the butthole surfers

It’s not like that at all. “I could care less” is just wrong. The phrase is “I couldn’t care less.” “I could care less” is more like “one and the same” or “for all intensive purposes.”

If a phrase conveys the opposite of their literal meaning, and the speaker and the audience both know it, then it is pedantic. Choosing to derail whatever the topic is in favor of criticizing someone's understandability when everyone did understand them is pedantic.

I get it, I hate the way people use "literally". It's terrible, it's usually unneeded, and it just makes any actual correct use of literally have less impact. But I'm not gonna correct people who say it wrong, because I do know what they meant.

If they said "I could care less" and you're comfortable enough in your understanding of the conversation to know for a fact they actually mean they do not care about it, then they did make sense and you did understand them.

Just because you’re being pedantic doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong.

Idioms don't have to make literal sense. How do you feel about being "head over heels" about someone?

/c/badlinguistics

yes it really is

I'm not sure what part doesn't make sense about the original

It’s only pedantry if you force others to do it your way.

I see this one a lot, and it always says to me that people just use these phrases because other people use them, without ever thinking about what they mean.

I've always taken "I could care less" to be sarcastic. Like "It's technically possible, but quite unlikely."

Yeah if they cared enough to care less. Therefore they don't care enough to care less about something.

I leave a shit, there's no shit when I return, so presumably someone came and took a shit. What they did with that shit, I prefer not to know, but I'm not going to fault such a vital function.

It would actually be quite funny to say you're going to leave a shit, come to think of it.