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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The phrase makes no sense to me at first glance because if I say "I'm going to have some cake" what I mean is I am going to eat it.

[-] Logical@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Weirdo. The rest of us mean that we are going to posses some amount of cake for a period of time.

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Don't speak on my behalf. That's not what I mean when I say I'm having some food. "Yes waiter I'll have the steak. Not for eating. Just for possessing ike a psychopath."

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

What do you want to do with cake other than eat it though? Apart from saving it for later because the only thing you'd be saving it for later is to eat it later.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Own the cake, obviously.

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

You can't eat your cake and eat it too!

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[-] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

that brother is a fucking snitch

[-] princessnorah 11 points 6 days ago

Apparently I never understood this saying until today.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago

I still don't think I fully understand, even as the unabomber put it. Can't eat it and have it? Like, I can't consume and expect the thing to remain, that it?

Side note: only in English, one can "understand", but nobody can "overstand" and anybody that "stand" is doing a wholly different thing.

[-] Kovukono@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago

It comes down to "You can't have the best of two situations. Pick one."

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Ah, that's much more helpful, thanks!

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

LOL that's awesome.

The statement has been around since the 1530s; it's probably due for some modernization.

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I'd love to hear the Unabomber's takes on "taking a piss/shit."

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

It would actually be quite funny to say you're going to leave a shit, come to think of it.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I leave a shit, there's no shit when I return, so presumably someone came and took a shit. What they did with that shit, I prefer not to know, but I'm not going to fault such a vital function.

That's goddamn wild

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Reminds me the advice "when commiting crime put a rock in your boots so people can't recognize you by your walking style."

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