You know what really grinds my gears?
It's when people don't understand the phrase "have my cake and eat it too."
So once and for all, I need to clear it up for everyone who reads this site:
The phrase is not referring to someone owning a piece of cake and then being denied the right to eat said piece of cake. It is instead referring to the impossibility of having a piece of cake ready to be eaten and also eating that piece of cake. You either have it, or it's in your belly (or somewhere in between), it can't be both at the same time.
14 comments:
who died and made you dictator of the world?
Seriously, how do you know?
Wow, I'm sorry you don't have a life.
.. the poster is right.
I agree with anon3.
PChis is right. That's what the phrase is supposed to mean. I always figured that other people knew that, too.
I always thought the phrase would be better worded as "You can't eat your cake and have it too"
That makes more sense.
Another more appropriate phrase would be "You can't have the pristine unmarked snow and build your snowman, too." Or, getting all Matrix Reloaded, you can't save the world and your girlfriend, too.
I'm with you, Pchis
I can interperate that phrase however I damn well want to and I want to interperate it as having a cake and being denied the right to eat it. Wanna fight?
Interperate it?
God forbid. At least you're not going going to interpret.
^ at least you're not going going going to interpret it.
hahaha this is fun
Whoa. I never got that phrase before.
The joys of idiomatic english...
OOOO i always though it meant "have your cake" in the sexual way
Rrowwr
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