No, obviously the correct phrase is “I couldn’t care less”. Because it’s an expression of how little I care, and so my level of caring is so low that it couldn’t be any lower; hence, I couldn’t care less. It is never “I could care less” as I hear on TV, because what would that even mean? You could care less? So you do care a little bit? It sounds like a middle-of-the-road statement. I sort of care. Lame!
Jeff from Coventry writes in with another one: “It’s cheap at half the price!” Of course it fucking would be at half the price! Most things are cheap at half the price. The saying is “It’s cheap at twice the price!”, meaning that it’s so cheap that even if the price were doubled it could still be considered good value.
Get it right!
Oh God I’m being regarded as ‘Jeff from Coventry’. I’ll never live that down.