Annoying things

[johnlambert]

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2 People who are willing to get off their 4rse to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.
3 When people say " you just want to have your cake and eat it too".
Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?
4 When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5 When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid �6 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor.
6 People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.


8 When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

[peppy]

Emz, where are you from ? You sounded a bit Derbyshire - ish when you said " me duck " x x

[helliebobs]

Ooooh is John still alive d'ya reckon???

[missrandom]

totally aggree with the have your cake thing, well yeah what else would you do with a cake?!?! ive never understood that one.

[Quizmonster]

Re 'How do you do?' John, it was originally just 'How do you?' and used as a greeting as far back as the 1400s. In this sense, 'How do you?' just means 'In what condition or state are you?'
You find the exact same sense in more modern phrases such as 'How are you doing?'...'I'm doing fine' and so on. There is no further question such as 'How am I doing what?' or 'What are you doing fine?'
Also, 'You can't eat your cake and have it' just means that, once you've eaten it, you don't have it any more!

[missrandom]

of course you cant have your cake and eat more. but it suggests you cant have a cake.....and then go ahead and eat the said cake??!?! i still dont get it quizmonster

[Electrochem]

You are rather late with that one. Billy Connolly did it yonks ago.

[Quizmonster]

Missrandom, 'You cannot eat your cake and have it' was already listed in these exact words as a proverb in the 1500s, so clearly it was around even before that. Perhaps, therefore, you are misunderstanding a somewhat old-fashioned use of English. It simply means that once (a) - the eating of the cake - is completed, then (b) - still having it - is excluded. Pretty straightforward, really, and there is no suggestion that you cannot have the cake in the first place, as you imply.

[missrandom]

i get you now!! thanks thats puzzled me for years and no-ones ever been able to explain it. Thanks quizmonster!

[styley]

Without a doubt............ON LINE F*"*KING POKER.