Does it annoy you when slow people have really nice spikes?

Flagpole wrote:

David Brent wrote:

Excuse me, but I'm pretty sure the proper phrase is, "I COULD have cared less."

Umm...INCORRECT! If you could care less, that means you have room to care less, meaning that you do care at least a little bit. The correct phrase is how I wrote it..."I couldn't have cared less". If you don't like contractions, then "I could not have cared less".

Are you trolling me, dude?

David Brent wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Umm...INCORRECT! If you could care less, that means you have room to care less, meaning that you do care at least a little bit. The correct phrase is how I wrote it..."I couldn't have cared less". If you don't like contractions, then "I could not have cared less".

Are you trolling me, dude?

Thank you for the laugh

agip wrote:

I will say that I tend to laugh at people who have $4,000 bikes to tool around on. but spikes? they are an affordable luxury - I love to see masters guys decked out in spikes, runnning 70 second quarters - it means they care, it means they are trying.

I was going to post this, but then I figured that an affordable luxury to me isn't so affordable to someone else.

By the way, how many masters do you see running 70 second quarters? That's no joke!

Well I'm a girl...

But I've been wearing Nike zoom victory's for like 2 years, even when I was an average runner..

I just liked the way they looked.. I thought they were cute. So I got them. Maybe the other people just liked the way they looked, and they're rich.i don't think it has anything to do with how fast someone is.

David Brent wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Umm...INCORRECT! If you could care less, that means you have room to care less, meaning that you do care at least a little bit. The correct phrase is how I wrote it..."I couldn't have cared less". If you don't like contractions, then "I could not have cared less".

Are you trolling me, dude?

Nope...perhaps YOU are trolling me. If so, good show.

I'm no grammar nazi, but when someone tells me that what I wrote was wrong when it wasn't, I'll let them know.

800 dude wrote:

agip wrote:

I will say that I tend to laugh at people who have $4,000 bikes to tool around on. but spikes? they are an affordable luxury - I love to see masters guys decked out in spikes, runnning 70 second quarters - it means they care, it means they are trying.

I was going to post this, but then I figured that an affordable luxury to me isn't so affordable to someone else.

By the way, how many masters do you see running 70 second quarters? That's no joke!

__

well, what I meant was running a 400 in 70 seconds, not splits.

There are maybe 10 masters guys in NYC who can run 4:40 for a mile...certainly no one is going to begrudge them a nice pair of shoes, eh?

"Could care less" is far more common, and as it's been very common for over 50 years, it really can't be considered incorrect, even if one (understandably) dislikes the phrase.

I agree with the theory is that it is or was intended to be verbally ironic or sarcastic. My personal theory on why it stuck is that it's more forceful. Sometimes you don't want to convey just the absence of a feeling. "I could care less" seems to suggest that one feels strongly about not caring. Perhaps one feels quite strongly that a certain thing should not be cared about.

Examples:

Mother to teenage boy: I'm cleaning out the attic, do you want me to keep any of these toys?

Boy: Oh, I really couldn't care less what you do with them.

vs.

Teenage boy to friend: Hey, did you hear where your ex girlfriend is going to college?

Friend: I could care less what she does with her life!

Nope. It's wrong. The kid really doesn't care about his toys and the teenage boy does care a little bit about where his ex ends up.

SMJO wrote:

Nope. It's wrong. The kid really doesn't care about his toys and the teenage boy does care a little bit about where his ex ends up.

Prescriptivists have been losing the debate since language has existed. It's cute how they keep trying.

Here's a question for you: What is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance?

Yes, but some things are more logical than others. Look, judge, I literally screwed the pooch yesterday, but I'm not into bestiality.

I also like how you write your response in SWE. Cute that you try to be a lil language rebel though.

No, but it bugs me when ugly guys have really hot girlfriends.

Pablo199707 wrote:

Just curious. It kinda bugs me a little when I go to a track meet and see guys wearing nike matumbos in the 3200m, and I end up lapping them. I use $50 spikes, they have $120 spikes. I know they don't make a ton of difference, it just kinda bugs me. Or one time I saw a boys 4x800m team that all had nike zoom victory elites, and they all ran over 2:20. Does anyone else have the ideal that you shouldn't have super expensive spikes if your not fast, and that you should 'earn them' per se, by working hard and getting fast?

if YOU'RE not fast, not your not fast. When you've mastered some basic English skills come back here and try again.

2:20 is pretty fast in my book. If we are talking about 3:20

you might have a case.

No no no. Please watch this:

Well...if we are talking about high schoolers....then their MOM bought the spikes. Or these are new spikes because the kid wore out his last pair. Geeze. This is why I do not coach petty distance runners.

Pablo199707 wrote:

Just curious. It kinda bugs me a little when I go to a track meet and see guys wearing nike matumbos in the 3200m, and I end up lapping them. I use $50 spikes, they have $120 spikes. I know they don't make a ton of difference, it just kinda bugs me. Or one time I saw a boys 4x800m team that all had nike zoom victory elites, and they all ran over 2:20. Does anyone else have the ideal that you shouldn't have super expensive spikes if your not fast, and that you should 'earn them' per se, by working hard and getting fast?

It doesn't annoy me at all, but it makes me snicker a little bit. I understand what you're saying, but your perspective is a little strong. It's an "eyeball-roller", nothing to get worked up about.

Pablo199707 wrote:

Just curious. It kinda bugs me a little when I go to a track meet and see guys wearing nike matumbos in the 3200m, and I end up lapping them. I use $50 spikes, they have $120 spikes. I know they don't make a ton of difference, it just kinda bugs me. Or one time I saw a boys 4x800m team that all had nike zoom victory elites, and they all ran over 2:20. Does anyone else have the ideal that you shouldn't have super expensive spikes if your not fast, and that you should 'earn them' per se, by working hard and getting fast?

It doesn't annoy me at all, but it makes me snicker a little bit. I understand what you're saying, but your perspective is a little strong. It's an "eyeball-roller", nothing to get worked up about.

David Brent wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

When I was racing back in the day, I had no idea what spikes the others were wearing, and I couldn't have cared less. Seems odd to me that you do care.

Excuse me, but I'm pretty sure the proper phrase is, "I COULD have cared less."

Incorrect, sir. When one says they could have cared less, it implies they are at a level of caring. If you could not possibly care any less, you are at a level of not caring. Flagpole is right.