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I admit I'm increasingly grouchy at people (our own fans!!) Crapping on our team. Its been a long hard season. Some gooner is a hairs-breath from getting battered.
By the way 'could care less/more' are both correct and are well established in axiomatic English. We have had this discussed at length.
I agrée with this. It has been a hard season and it is tiring hearing so much negativity about our team.I admit I'm increasingly grouchy at people (our own fans!!) Crapping on our team. Its been a long hard season. Some gooner is a hairs-breath from getting battered.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether people are spurs fans or rival fans based on what they say!
‘Could Care Less’ Versus ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ - Quick and Dirty Tips
Language experts actually have theories about why people say they "could care less." Grammar Girl digs deep to find the root of the problem.
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The English top flight has been a stronger and more prestigious competition than its French counterpart since time immemorial, there's no two ways about that. It was a closer thing between Heysel and the founding of the PL, but never a crossing of the paths.
And obviously part of the story here is that PSG simply has no history at all prior to 1970, it's a uniquely young club.
But as to the way its fans interact with it, for it to be the only major top flight club in a capital city that dominates its national scene the way Paris does and to have only two league titles at the time of the Qatar takeover speaks to its niche and "small time" if you like nature.
PSG was a social institution of young people at the sociocultural margins of Paris. Qatar made it a brand synonymous with its glittering elite. And as you well say, the French love a protest, and have a very different relationship with the concept of wealth, and of foreign stardom, than Londoners do.
Those are the tensions Messi is caught up in. It's not the source of fun and engagement and honor to have him at the club the way it would be if he were at Spurs. We'd cunt him off in every game thread the second he gave the ball away of course, but it's different.
There still both correct know matter which minor celebrity gets "cranky" .As I said you are very late to this party. Race over to the sandwich thread the triangle debate still live...‘Could Care Less’ Versus ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ - Quick and Dirty Tips
Language experts actually have theories about why people say they "could care less." Grammar Girl digs deep to find the root of the problem.
Idioms don’t care about logic
People might not have any thought of sarcasm, positive/negative phrase pairs, or implied comparison when they use “I could care less,” but when they use it, it’s as a set idiom, something they’ve heard before and learned as a unit. We have plenty of idioms that serve us perfectly well, despite the gaps in logic that appear if you look at them too closely. Consider “head over heels” (shouldn’t it be heels over head?) or “have your cake and eat it too?” (shouldn’t it be eat your cake and have it too?) or “the exception proves the rule” (shouldn’t it be the exception invalidates the rule?). There are reasons these idioms developed the way they did, but we don’t have to know anything about those reasons, or the original meanings, to use them perfectly sensibly. Same goes for “I could care less,” which people only ever use to mean “I couldn’t care less,” never the opposite. It doesn’t cause legitimate confusion, though it does cause quite a bit of consternation. In any case, it’s here to stay.
There still both correct know matter which minor celebrity gets "cranky" .As I said you are very late to this party. Race over to the sandwich thread the triangle debate still live...
Idioms don’t care about logic
People might not have any thought of sarcasm, positive/negative phrase pairs, or implied comparison when they use “I could care less,” but when they use it, it’s as a set idiom, something they’ve heard before and learned as a unit. We have plenty of idioms that serve us perfectly well, despite the gaps in logic that appear if you look at them too closely. Consider “head over heels” (shouldn’t it be heels over head?) or “have your cake and eat it too?” (shouldn’t it be eat your cake and have it too?) or “the exception proves the rule” (shouldn’t it be the exception invalidates the rule?). There are reasons these idioms developed the way they did, but we don’t have to know anything about those reasons, or the original meanings, to use them perfectly sensibly. Same goes for “I could care less,” which people only ever use to mean “I couldn’t care less,” never the opposite. It doesn’t cause legitimate confusion, though it does cause quite a bit of consternation. In any case, it’s here to stay.
You said it right there, use it it perfect sensibly, in other words in a way that makes sense. Could care less and couldn’t care less mean two completely different things.
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You'll really defend anything as long is it's French won't you?
I can understand the urge, a bunch of English people on an English forum, we do tend to banter the French a lot.
However, there's not need to defend PSG. It's hardly remarkable that they win trophies in the French league. French teams have won 1 CL between them. Doesn't make PSG any more historic or "big".
Yep and both work just fine as a dismissal. We had this out ages ago. It was actually more intresting than the merits of PSG to be fair.
I imagine that sort of reasoning is why Kane isn't universally lauded like he is by Spurs fans.
I get what he means. But Haaland is so freakish I think you would. Kanes a much better footballer.
Boom!
Chubby Messi
A fan had Lionel Messi holding the World Cup inked on his back but the Argentine star's face is slightly out of proportion
Chubby Messi
A fan had Lionel Messi holding the World Cup inked on his back but the Argentine star's face is slightly out of proportion
The hands are pretty scary too.
Yeah. I'd rather watch Haaland over Cristiano Ronaldo because the man is a freak cheat code and seems less of a cunt.