Could care less

John Cleese rants about the American misuse of "Could care less"

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[Vidyadude]

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.

[dacat]

Its true though n one in england says it, only ever see it on american tv shows or books or so forth,

[Tahkayun]

I was about to call you out on some of that. Then I got the joke.

Well played.

[madsketcher]

I SHOULD care less.

[SuperSweetUniverse]

i actually could care less.

[CircleTheSkies]

I've also seen "he could care less" as a sort of flipped off-shoot/mild underestimation.

[CottonTreeTales]

surely you could be bothered.

[Connor Drose]

I think the saying started "I couldn't care less" but then we couldn't be bothered to pronounce the whole thing so it changed to "could".

[LinuxUser119]

This video is unfair.

John Cleese is British and therefore speaks and understands the English language.

How can Mr Cleese seriously expect a lot of bloody foreigners to comprehend the English language?

[kuunami]

I'm American and this mistake drives me crazy!!! I heard Michelle Obama say "he could care less" referring to her husband about something(I don't remember what) and I was yelling at the screen. I heard another person say this on theyoungturks so I searched it to see if it drives other people as crazy as it does to me. lol

[Snax Pendragon]

It does not make sense, end of, anyone who claims otherwise, or claims they are doing it deliberately to be ironic is full of shit, or incredibly dumb, oh wait...Americans

[1035pm]

Vidyadude!!!!! Genius absolute genius