Phrases you dont understand explained BOARDS STYLE!

Ghost Buster

You have to believe in something/ you need something to believe in...
My usual reply is 'yes, i believe in this table, its easy cos its definitely there".
What does phrase mean?
Add to this "The best made plans of mice and men". What plans do mice have exactly other than eat, **** and avoid the cat?

Penny Tration

Isn't it a bit early to be drinking?

smash

Go home OP, you're drunk!

dodderangler

Vodka in mornings will do that to ya

Ghost Buster

green_screen wrote: »

Isn't it a bit early to be drinking?

smash wrote: »

Go home OP, you're drunk!

You need these explained then?

Donkey Oaty

Ghost Buster wrote: »

What plans do mice have exactly other than eat, **** and avoid the cat?

Ones that gang aft agley.

sand678

i dont get the whole someones walking on your grave saying, i mean what the hell does that mean

kneemos

For all intensive purposes?..no idea.

Son Of A Vidic

green_screen wrote: »

Isn't it a bit early to be drinking?

Irish Meaning: Why didn't you tell me you were starting on the píss, ya sneaky feck.

Meaning outside of Ireland: You're an alcoholic.

myshirt

It's 'For all intents and purposes', not for all intensive purposes. Wtf?

catallus

The saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." always used to rub me up the wrong way until I was reading a tome of forgotten lore one day and it turns out it is a corruption of "Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach." and it was Aristotle who said it.

It is a sad indictment of society that such dumbing down occurs without a murmur of dissent.

blade1

myshirt wrote: »

It's 'For all intents and purposes', not for all intensive purposes. Wtf?

I thought it was for all in tents and porpoises.

eamonnq

catallus wrote: »

The saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

and those who can't teach, teach PE.

Tail Docker

eamonnq wrote: »

and those who can't teach, teach PE.

at a primary school..

Mr. CooL ICE

"Cuppa tea?"
"When in Rome"

QuietMan2010

"I could care less"

In my day it was "I couldn't care less".

Literally, if you "could care less", then actually you do care somewhat about it. But nowadays folk use it to mean they couldn't care less. What's that all about?

Tin Foil Hat

'I could care less' is American - and it's stoopid. It doesn't need explaining it needs correcting. This is usually a good way to do it.

Riddle101

sand678 wrote: »

i dont get the whole someones walking on your grave saying, i mean what the hell does that mean

My grandmother and mother say it when a shiver goes through their body. You know that weird chill people get, that goes through your body and makes you jump or shake a bit. It's kind've superstitious I suppose, maybe a figure of speech but that's generally what I think it means anyway.

Chet T16

Knowledge is power, France is bacon.