Actually, this should actually go into the thread, "things people smugly point out even though they're wrong".

It can be seen as a contraction of "I guess it's possible that I could care less about that", or it could just be sarcastic like "I should be so lucky". Trying to apply logic to idioms like this is a recipe for failure - words strung together into phrases often convey a meaning different to the logical interpretation of the words individually.

Besides language is something that evolves though different uses, and if people use "I could care less" to mean that they don't care, and there isn't ambiguity in it's meaning, then that IS what it means. OMG flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

And even if everything I just wrote was nonsense, at the very least this belongs in "common knowledge way too many people are proud to know" thread.

Yep..the title of this thread is Things You Assume Everyone Knows About, But Apparently Don't....and most people think that the Yanks won (if you are American) and the Brits/Canucks won (if you are Canadian)

I posted a standard rebuttal a Canadian would make if he was responding to a Yank...and Shinola jumped at the bait.

You see what I did there?

this is unfortunately going to get worse before it gets better... I teach high school math... basically you don't want to even know about some of these people's math abilities.

FFS here's the fifty states song. Impress your friends in future prop bets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZIOFrdyeY

This version isn't the one I knew and kinda sucks imo. We sang it with much more feeling with a fantastic beginning...Alllllaaaaaa....BAMA, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas...etc.

Yea wow this version really blows. My version's ending was brilliant, there was like a slow build "West Virgina, Wis-con-sin.........wyOOOOOMIIIIINNNGGGGGGGGGGGG".

Edit: And there was more after that.

another thing that I think is obvious / common knowledge but that a surprising number of people don't know:

cow = female bull

Yeah this version is not great. It's the same lyrics (for the states anyway), but the singing is sort of lame. Much gayer than what I was taught. We also had verses: "When I was small I studied US Geography...." and then you'd sing it double time after the initial run.

please correct this sentence.

"After the song was over, everyone returned to their seat"

This thread is a travesty.

The only saving grace is the verizon link. Props.

Is it supposed to be "everyone returned to his or her seat."?

Those are some serious airbags

their seats?

blech

What if you know them all to be male?

when I went to the US about 10 years ago, people asked me if we have cars or electricity in germany.
and I knew 48 states

vermont wtf???

so.. which one do you have?

depends. if I can get gas, I put it in my car, but my neighbors use it for their generator. you can get both, but not at the same time

That Pink Floyd of The Wall fame was a four man band, not a lone musician.

That the names of the songs are Rock & Roll and Last Child, not Been A Long Time & Home Sweet Home (yes, I'm old, but all three of these were rampant even back in the day).

Of course, I used to like a song called You Don't Have To Go, or maybe it's called Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh, so there you are.

Not once during any of the 39 episodes of the Original Star Trek series did Captain James T. Kirk say "Beam me up Scotty". Any Sci Fi nerd knows that.

"After the song was over, everyone returned to his seat."

Yes, I would say or write it that way, in any context in which it was not apparent that the people involved were predominantly or exclusively female -- unless I had a specific audience in mind and was particularly, unusually concerned about someone's reaction. No, I do not think it is sexist, I think it is how the language works.

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

This.

what if it was musical chairs and there were only 2 people left?

edit: to me when I hear "returned to his seat" it sounds like everyone is trying to get into some poor guy's seat.

I would assume most people know on a multi-lane freeway that the left lane is for folks who drive faster and the right lane is for the slower drivers but experience has shown that to be far from common knowledge

I knew her as an SBB girl but didn't learn her last name for years - all their SBB girl pics are now dominated by that body type.

RB