It's I *couldn't* care less

I could care less.

Gah! You beat me to the punch. But I'm glad someone did :-)



OP is a failed grammar Nazi. Epic face plant.

Maybe they could care less but dont feel the need to.

You seem a bit uptight.

I could only care a little less.

Yeah this one irritates the shit out of me when I hear it or read it. The problem is because of the internet, this stupidity is coming back across the waters and some English people are now starting to say it, this shit has a habit of proliferating in useage.

I keep hearing English people in cafes and restaurants and on tv now using Americanisms such as 'Can I get me a such and such', where as once upon a time, us English people would have only ever said 'Could/May I have a such and such'.

For all those that think OP is just a grammar Nazi - grammar can be really important, you can end up saying the opposite of what you actually mean if you're not careful, and one day it might get you in a heap of bother.

Both are not correct ffs. OP is exactly right.

I always say "I could care less". I have honestly never been at a point where I couldn't care less. No one has. It's very hard to reach such extremes.

Besides, "I could care less" sounds sarcastic.

When you jump all over little things like this it just makes it look like you've got a stick up your ass.

The English language is going down the toilet. Speaking and writing correctly is a lost art.

My pet peeve is that so freaking many people say "could of" and "should of" instead of "could have" and "should have" that it's almost becoming accepted.

You're hearing "could've" and "should've" you dumbasses.

OMG think about what it is that you are actually saying.

Think about the meaning of those words.

This phrase is almost always exclusively used when one is trying to imply that they don't give a flying fuck about something.

So why do so many people insist on using this phrase which implies that by saying 'could' actually implies they do care somewhat.

Lazy fuckwits that can't be bothered to drop an apostrophe and two extra letters onto the end of a word.

I laugh when you fucktards say it, its the mark of how unintelligent you actually are.

Yes that is pretty annoying also. Though I have been guilty of that myself in the written form, even though I know its incorrect, and its always because my typing fingers have a mind of their own. It's the same with your / you're / their / there / they're, I know full well when and how they're supposed to be used but sometimes my fingers have typed it before my brain has had a chance to engage. The perils of being a fast typist.

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But I really could care less, though. The point of not being able to care less, is to not care at all, and you can only reach that point when you're dead.

Saying "I could care less" implies that you care so little, that you won't even bother not caring. Plus, "I could care less" just sounds better.

It's not a little thing though. People say it everyday, and its not just that it's technically wrong - they're actually saying the precise opposite of what they actually mean.

this is so important to me, because if I didn't read this today, I would have died not ever knowing this.

I have a raging boner right now. (I don't but just for the purposes of this post go with it.)

Are you telling me that you actually care about that lol?

Damn straight. Bugs the hell out of me. Don't people have even a nodding acquaintance with their own language? It's mental laziness.

I could NOT care less. But I mean that sarcastically, so I actually do care. A LOT (sarcasm) .

Yep actually some of my fellow countrymen are the worst offenders, so it's not exclusive to Americans - though for now 'I could care less' doesn't yet appear to be a mainstream phrase in England, thankfully.

This is where we take things deeper. We must now define "caring". Since everything is connected, eveything has a relationship with everything else, and everything affects everything. So on some level, everything cares about everything.

Somehow, I have to care about your boner. I read about your boner, I'm talking about your boner, but I don't really mind not doing either of those things. See, we can't really say what we feel, or what those feelings are.

Anyways, I'm glad that my race is still sexually healthy enough to achieve erection. I CARE.

For a not caring person saying "i could care less" makes perfect sense.

My imaginary boner came about by thinking about your Mom. Do you still care?

"I could care less" makes perfect sense only when you actually care about something.

wasted joke i'm afraid.

Let's get back to interesting stuff, like nucuelar war

You mean "nucular" war?

But what if you could care less? And you wanted everyone to know?

you need to read your English lesson over again because that couldn't make any less sense.

you typed it out with such arrogance I doubt you even understand how stupid your statement sounds.