Awkward has become one of those words I started to hate over time cuz 90% of the time it’s used wrong and then even when it’s used right it’s overused because of that 90% of people using it wrong!!!
The company I keep doesn’t make that mistake. In exchange, some of them continuously fuck up the phrase “I couldn’t care less.”
Suitora
Well, “I could care less” is still correct. It comes from the phrase, “I could care less, but I don’t.”
Totoriter
That’s not effective, though. If you say “I could care less, but I don’t,” you’re still saying that you care. Which defeats the purpose. So no, it’s not correct, unless you’re using it in a different context, in which case it’s not related to “couldn’t care less”.
3oranges
Or unless it’s supposed to be sarcastic. Which it usually is.
Totoriter
Hmmm…saying it in a sarcastic tone just sounds stupid, in my opinion. It’s like a round about way of saying “pfft, yeah, I totally care.” if you’re speaking sarcastically. it’s just confusing and it makes you sound stupid to people who have good grammar and say “couldn’t care less”.
Robin
If “I could care less” would be a meaningful phrase, it would be an instance of understatement, and understatement and sarcasm don’t go together very well.
“I could care less” is nothing more than a corruption of “I couldn’t care less”. I think it will become one of those phrases that no-one knows what they mean or where they come from and people just use the phrase and understand each other, if it isn’t already. (Complete with false etymologies, like any good “stone phrase” (I can’t find the English translation of “versteende uitdrukking”, so a literal translation it is.))
JustCheetoDust
The full statement is correct, but that bastardized truncated version isn’t for people who aren’t aware of the history of that phrase…or Brits, if John Cleese and David Mitchell are to be taken seriously on the matter.
Reminds me of the Scrubs episode, where JD has just had awkward sex and tries to think of something to say that will diffuse the tension. He settles on “Great job, buddy!”
209 thoughts on “Wiggin’”
cmd1095
What is Billie doing in this bed!?!? SPEAK BILLIE!
coolhandluke
the gravatar. too perfect
TrueVCU
Wiggin’ Out level: maximum
JessWitt
The telling sign is seeing the whites of his eyes.
Plasma Mongoose
Also seeing gums is never a good sign in a Willis comic.
etybolik
Wiggin’ Out level: Walky.
K. Ivan Ruppert
“What is Billie doing in this bed!?!? SPEAK BILLIE!”
Faking people out for a Slipshine comic that will never come.
TrueVCU
It is the cruelest of teasers
Jen Aside
so this is a habit then =I
Camachri
By the sound of it, a habit that predates drinking. We’re seeing heretofore-undiscovered levels of Billie here!
Tunaro
Way to stay cool there, Walk.
Aizat
At least he’s staying cool. Others would be a tad shocked waking up next to Billie.
Ivan
She’s Mad-a-tonic.
Aizat
I think she’s pining for the fjords….whatever that means.
Chris
Yeah, I’m starting to freak out a little that she hasn’t moved or blinked. But surely Willis wouldn’t…
Aizat
Maybe she saw an Angel.
Anarchy 101
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T BLINK!!
Deanatay
She’s either so angry that she can’t speak, or else she’s mastered the technique of sleeping with her eyes open.
TJ Baltimore
I just re-watched that yesterday!
Chris
+1!
Or I suppose she could be transfixed on that poster.
Nono
You mean stop Walky from Wiigiin’ out.
Yotomoe
Damnit Nono.
Beat me to it.
newllend
There’s always next year.
Ivan
or wigglin’ IN…
4th Dimension
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE . . .
Lord Geovanni
mice seem to do that alot
Deanatay
Better than stopping Wiggy from Walking out.
Plasma Mongoose
AWKWARDNESS!
Yotomoe
Awkward has become one of those words I started to hate over time cuz 90% of the time it’s used wrong and then even when it’s used right it’s overused because of that 90% of people using it wrong!!!
Doctor_Who
How ironic.
(Yes, I did that on purpose)
Big Drahma
Literally awkward.
Betty Anne
You won. Here’s your Internet.
gwalla
Don’t you think?
Aizat
Yeah, awkward is like being the only guy in a class full of women or wearing a suit during Casual Fridays or eating in public during fasting month.
RAZ
Which will get you a free trip around town
Aizat
Free trip? Usually, in my country, you get to ride on a van for that.
RAZ
the trip doesn’t have to be pleasant (it will however, be quite shameful)
Aizat
So does the van trip downtown.
JustCheetoDust
The company I keep doesn’t make that mistake. In exchange, some of them continuously fuck up the phrase “I couldn’t care less.”
Suitora
Well, “I could care less” is still correct. It comes from the phrase, “I could care less, but I don’t.”
Totoriter
That’s not effective, though. If you say “I could care less, but I don’t,” you’re still saying that you care. Which defeats the purpose. So no, it’s not correct, unless you’re using it in a different context, in which case it’s not related to “couldn’t care less”.
3oranges
Or unless it’s supposed to be sarcastic. Which it usually is.
Totoriter
Hmmm…saying it in a sarcastic tone just sounds stupid, in my opinion. It’s like a round about way of saying “pfft, yeah, I totally care.” if you’re speaking sarcastically. it’s just confusing and it makes you sound stupid to people who have good grammar and say “couldn’t care less”.
Robin
If “I could care less” would be a meaningful phrase, it would be an instance of understatement, and understatement and sarcasm don’t go together very well.
“I could care less” is nothing more than a corruption of “I couldn’t care less”. I think it will become one of those phrases that no-one knows what they mean or where they come from and people just use the phrase and understand each other, if it isn’t already. (Complete with false etymologies, like any good “stone phrase” (I can’t find the English translation of “versteende uitdrukking”, so a literal translation it is.))
JustCheetoDust
The full statement is correct, but that
bastardizedtruncated version isn’t for people who aren’t aware of the history of that phrase…or Brits, if John Cleese and David Mitchell are to be taken seriously on the matter.xKiv
I could care less, but it’s not worth the effort.
Plasma Mongoose
How about JARRING?
Camachri
The juxtaposition of proper-awkwardness vs actual awkwardness is an irony few can appreciate.
MarcinMN
No problem. Just get some Old Tyme clothes (top hats, monocles, etc), dress up, and then the awkward zone is defeated.
JustCheetoDust
You forgot about the beer.
Catullus
I would guess Billie has the beer taken care of already.
TrueVCU
Dorothy is nowhere to be seen.
I assure you, the awkward has not yet BEGUN
dailybrad
Hope there weren’t any sleep hands going on.
advancecasette
SAY WORDS, DAMN YOU
coolhandluke
English. Do you speak it!
Aizat
Elvish, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Wack'd
Mani?
Jerden
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
sps48
What?
Aizat
SAY WHAT AGAIN! SAY WHAT AGAIN!
coolhandluke
what?
newllend
Your creeping me out just buy just laying there.
JWLM
Well, actually, its you’re sells that are laying buy me.
Pantheon the Mantheon
Well played.
I don't know what to put here.
billie looks so cute
Shade
This here is what we call ‘history’.
Opus the Poet
Yes Donner, this is history.
Doctor_Who
Reminds me of the Scrubs episode, where JD has just had awkward sex and tries to think of something to say that will diffuse the tension. He settles on “Great job, buddy!”
coolhandluke
with the high five and everything
Wonder Wig
Documented evidence of waking up on the wrong or right side of the bed.
newllend
Wow Billie is really hung up on this, she’s not going to stop till we address this is she?