Can you have your cake and eat it?

faceman

Well can you? Give examples in your replies pls.

muletide

I thought you were heading out for the night ?

faceman

Was supposed to but the burd is watching big brother. Its still on and faceman not happy.

Nalz

dont think so, unless you puek your caca milis back up!!!
Ah no seriously I dunno, nothin springs to mind (other than why ya askin?)

joe_chicken

I don't know why people get so confused about this... it's really not that hard...


No, you can't have your cake and eat it.... well.... as far as the meaning behind the expression goes anyway

If you have it, then you've eaten it... so no...

ThrownAway

joe_chicken wrote:

I don't know why people get so confused about this... it's really not that hard...


No, you can't have your cake and eat it.... well.... as far as the meaning behind the expression goes anyway

''You have the cake and it''
''You have your cake and eat it''

That's where people get confused if it's your cake then the term have would automatically mean to eat it.

joe_chicken

Ok...

You're sitting at home with a lovely big cake... it looks lovely... with those little flowery things and maybe some pink icing.

...You have a cake

Then you eat it...

... You don't have a cake

So the answer is NO, you cannot have your cake AND eat it... it's impossible

Unless having it in your stomach counts, but for the sake of the meaning of this expression... it doesnt

ThrownAway

I think we've the same point but we explained it differently

faceman

im lost, who's cake was eaten?

Nalz

ah ffs, if you eat your cake you wont have it anymore...

ya know it, ya know
ya know it, ya know
ya know it, ya know
Loose...what a band.

Scraggs

Well you can make your bed and lie in it!

simu

Yes. Just replicate it first.

Dave!

Steps...

1. get a cake
2. eat the cake
3. cake is no longer present

therefore, if you eat the cake, then you not longer have it (in your hands, anyway. poo doesn't count).

azezil

but before it turns to poo you're holding the cake inside of you THUS you CAN have your cake and eat it! *\o/*

Dooom

Cloning wouldn't work, because it'd being in the whole multiple cake idea. Which would in turn result in the eating of said cake(s) for all eternity.

Diarmiud

Of course you can have your cake and eat it. Some of it is going to be digested and incorporated into your body, so it still will be present. Sheesh!

grimloch

Yes.

http://picard.ytmnd.com/

Doctor DooM

What happens if you eat only half of your cake?

(Which is a tremendous waste of precious cakealitic resources, but anywho)

Black Swan

I play for pay. In other words, I enjoy acting and someone now pays me to do it, whereas, awhile back I volunteered to act without pay.

Dooom

So..you pretend to eat cake and you get payed to do it? Or do you have to eat the cake aswell?

Black Swan

Diarmiud wrote:

Of course you can have your cake and eat it. Some of it is going to be digested and incorporated into your body, so it still will be present. Sheesh!

Humour?:D

Doctor DooM

Whassat got to do with the price of haddock?


I thought this was a literal thing... I get paid to play music. I guess that counts as possessing a cake and at the sametime, masticating it. If you want to go down that route.

Diarmiud

Humour? Ahm, yes, there is a possiblity that the molecules of the cake could become part of the various body humours. Bile, gastric acids, etc.

Inciidently, does the thread title become irrelevant when translated ino Irish? There is no verb for "to have" as gaelige, so technically one coould only eat theiir caca mileas.

Doctor DooM

That makes me pretty upset for the gaelgoiri.

We should set up a charity

Dooom

Could you not use "to own" or "to belong to" instead of "to have"?

I always knew that purple monkey as going to get it's revenge on the invisible pineapple.

Black Swan

Pillowman: A practical man? The chemical composition of cake and how it's absorbed into the body? How about the more touchy feely things in life, like a met a phor?

Diarmiud

Spike wrote:

Could you not use "to own" or "to belong to" instead of "to have"?

I always knew that purple monkey as going to get it's revenge on the invisible pineapple.

To answer your question, Ta (damn, no word for yes!)

Nil (damn, no word for no!), noone gains revenge on that obscure friut.

Doctor DooM

Fear the pineapple.

Diarmiud

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Pillowman: A practical man? The chemical composition of cake and how it's absorbed into the body? How about the more touchy feely things in life, like a met a phor?

Hmmm...the cchicken and the egg solved their connundrum by making love. Therefore, the "have" should seduce "eat" and see which comes out on top?

Black Swan

Diarmiud wrote:

Hmmm...the cchicken and the egg solved their connundrum by making love. Therefore, the "have" should seduce "eat" and see which comes out on top?

Whoa! Now you are talking metaphors!

Doctor DooM

Diarmiud wrote:

Hmmm...the cchicken and the egg solved their connundrum by making love. Therefore, the "have" should seduce "eat" and see which comes out on top?

Easy.

they'd have hideous offspring called "heat."

Or "eve".

Diarmiud

SDooM wrote:

Easy.

they'd have hideous offspring called "heat."

Or "eve".

Well, that is the solution so. Dont eat it, or have it, just heat it. (I'm puttiing out fires everywhere)

Doctor DooM

Job done, lock the thread.

Rhyme

No, but... you can have you cake and then eat it

Diarmiud

That "then" is an unwelcome interloper. Begone, I say!

Doctor DooM

Yeah. That "then" is, like, soooo off topic.

Diarmiud

That reminds me of seperate issue. Could one haave a "topic" and eat it?

Doctor DooM

Snap it in half? And never eat the second half? I believe I said that about the cake.

Dooom

So..have and eat.
Haveeat.
Haveat.
Have at.
Have at you!
So that's where than phrase comes from. Word.

Doctor DooM

Thats the best argument ever.

Varlet!!!

abetarrush

No cake for me

Im on a new diet

Doomspell

*points and laughs at abetarrush*

I mean you poor thing.....wait! I'm on a diet, fcuk!