I overhear quite a few of you undereducated, oversexed proles use the inaccurate phrase, "I could care less," increasingly often these days. With this loathsome phrase, you establish that you could care less, but you do not reject the possibility that you could also care more. So you really aren't saying much of anything at all (which probably suits many of you just fine), except perhaps that you don't know if you even have an opinion, that you have very little, if any, self-respect, that you are unstable and fearful, that you are a slob and, in short, a cloying weasel with no dignity whatsoever. What you mean to say is that you "couldn't care less." Now this is a phrase that states a position with conviction, because when you "couldn't care less," you really don't care at all. It says, yes, I know where I stand, and, furthermore, I know what I'm talking about. It says, I'm an individual of confidence, I'm a leader of men, yea, verily, life itself doth burst forth from me, my very existence affirms life, and rumors of my sexual prowess are not completely unfounded. So if you find that you "could care less," remember, ye heathen, speak not, for the rest of us really "couldn't care less."
This particular point has been quite a large bug in my butt for quite some time. I'm so glad someone else feels the same, and can vent our collective spleen so eloquently. Vive le frustration!
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