really?

long story short, i dated this kid from march til may, things were pretty good, but he was on a whole different level than me, we didnt really have a chance to connect the way i like to with boyfriends. we broke up because i found someone i connected with, so we broke up rather abruptly, but i still find him attractive, idk why.  i mean we had a good time when we were together, he brought out my catty side lol, which is never good with me haha. but no we had fun, so i just started talking to him again, and we were hitting it off again, and i asked him if he wanted to get some coffee up near him tomorrow, and he goes "whats that gonna accomplish." and i went "i was gonna see where things went and go from there, but if you're not interested its better to know now rather than later." and he goes "im kind of talking to someone" and i went "ok." and left it at that. theres a good chance he's lying about that, but at this point i really couldnt care less.

i couldnt care less, though. not i could care less. because that, as an expression for not or hardly caring, just makes NO sense. if you could care less about something, then all you're telling us is that you do care at least a little bit, because you could care less. imagine this graph in your head cuz im not putting one in here.

here's me on the scale of caring. im at zero, therefore since negative caring is impossible, or just caring of another sort, love and hate being different sides of the same coin, etc, i couldnt care less. i could care more, but i couldnt care less. if i could care less, i would have to care the smallest possible unit of caring in order to give myself room to care less. i cant care nothing if i could care less. but i might care much more than nothing. but i could still truthfully claim to care less.

i could care less is absolutely useless as an indicator or how much you care, because the only thing it rules out is that you dont care at all, which is exactly what you are trying to convey.


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while i've got you, the expression is "can you hold the fort." not "can you hold down the fort." if i ask you to hold the fort, the metaphor im employing is perfectly clear. you and i are in the fort together, holding out against the enemies of the fort who are beseeching the fort. i now have to pop out of the fort for a bit to get some printer toner or take the dog to the vet, while i do this (dont worry about how ill get past the beseeching enemy, i have a secret tunnel and a false beard.) while i do this, i want you to hold the fort, so that when i come back, we'll both still have the fort. a perfectly reasonable metaphor embodying a sound military strategy.

if i ask you to hold Down the fort, what the hell am i talking about? hold down the fort while i go out because as you know it's an inflatable hover-fort, and once relieved of my weight it might float off into the sky. hold down the fort, and when i get back the two of us can tickle the fort.

no. meaningless. stop it.