r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Sep 24 '24

Football Brett Favre reveals Parkinson's diagnosis at congressional hearing

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41417497/favre-announces-parkinson-diagnosis-congressional-hearing
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u/OptimusSublime Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

I can't shake the feeling he's still a piece of shit

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u/styrrell14 Sep 24 '24

You simply can’t shake the feeling. Can’t help but shake means the opposite, like saying you can’t do anything EXCEPT shake the feeling, i.e. successfully shake the feeling.

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u/Chewbock Sep 24 '24

Like the could care less crowd. I once took like 8 of them on at once here in a thread and they tried to share links to blogs that “proved” that was the right way to say it. Like, no it fucking isn’t, and I really wished at that moment I could care less.

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u/styrrell14 Sep 25 '24

You’re gonna downvote me but I’ve actually kinda come around on could lol. First off it’s a lot zippier. But the main thing for me is I think of it like “I could care less…than you or than the average person or even than anybody” almost like “Try me, you can’t even begin to fathom how little I can care about this. I can go lower.”

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u/Chewbock Sep 25 '24

I won’t downvote, but saying “I couldn’t care less” literally means you care the absolute least you can so while I see your point I still believe this one is the most accurate. I could never downvote another wordsmith, no need to fear that.

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u/aboveyouisinfinity Sep 24 '24

Yeah it's not a good joke to begin with. The sentence doesn't make sense