ed
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What the hell does it mean when people say this? I have read it in a few places, something like 'Pot, kettle, black' sometimes. What the fuck?
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James
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When you call someone something but that quality actually applies to you.
Like if I said to --Dave-- FFS stop posting crap 
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John
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ed you are always going on about how educated you are, you must know what the pot calling the kettle black means and this is just some sort of stupid post 
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ed
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Originally posted by James
When you call someone something but that quality actually applies to you.
Like if I said to --Dave-- FFS stop posting crap
Yea, I gathered that, but what the hell has that got to do with pots and kettles an black people?
[Edited on 21-11-2006 by ed]
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ed
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Originally posted by John
ed you are always going on about how educated you are, you must know what the pot calling the kettle black means and this is just some sort of stupid post
Erm, right, that phrase still means very little to me  
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John
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Well i'd do some research on some more common idioms.
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ssj_kakarot
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/287950.html
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ssj_kakarot
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tis from a book btw.
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ed
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Right, no wonder it made on sense to me. I don't cook shit over a fire, now it does 
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Jules S
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Just call the person in question a hypocrite and have done with it
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ed
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Well, thats what I would do Jules... I wouldn't start talking about pots that have been over a fire and got dirty but hadn't noticed that they had got dirty. Especially as I didn't even think pots talked, unless Beauty and the Beast was a real story...
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Hammer
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quote:
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Well, thats what I would do Jules... I wouldn't start talking about pots that have been over a fire and got dirty but hadn't noticed that they had got dirty. Especially as I didn't even think pots talked, unless Beauty and the Beast was a real story...
You've probably never seen a pot and believe food comes from the hands of french butlers wearing tuxedos, seeing as your part of the upper gentry 
no wait you drive corsas and have a punto you believe has a built in pc on order.
stop trying to bum up your social background and let it mask the fact your an idiot.
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
quote:
Originally posted by ed
Well, thats what I would do Jules... I wouldn't start talking about pots that have been over a fire and got dirty but hadn't noticed that they had got dirty. Especially as I didn't even think pots talked, unless Beauty and the Beast was a real story...
You've probably never seen a pot and believe food comes from the hands of french butlers wearing tuxedos, seeing as your part of the upper gentry
no wait you drive corsas and have a punto you believe has a built in pc on order.
stop trying to bum up your social background and let it mask the fact your an idiot.
What the fuck are you on about?
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Hammer
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what a common saying has to do with pots and kettles and black people?
you've never cooked shit over a fire?
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Hammer
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or maybe everything you have posted is just a lame attempt at humour
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ed
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I've never cooked anything on a fire?
I was trying to find out what this phrase meant idiot.
If you have nothing better to do then don't come on here flaming people.
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Jules S
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
what a common saying has to do with pots and kettles and black people?
you've never cooked shit over a fire?
Hammer,
I've never heard that term of phrase used in a racist context....it's simply a light hearted way of calling somebody a hypocrite IMO
Ie I could easily say 'jesus you are like a pot calling a kettle etc' to my boss
Whereas if I directly called him a hypocrite I would be given my P45
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ed
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Also, the word I used was computer, not PC.
What is a Microsoft Start Menu button doing on my cars steering wheel?
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Hammer
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new puntos have a built in pc?
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ed
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You tell me? They have a computer in the glove box running Windows Mobile. You were the one trying to use my beliefs about by car in a derogatory manner.
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Colin
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Bill gates own's your car 
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Eck
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I have never really seen the point in this saying either Ed. Its a bit dated now and most young folk don't understand it
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mav
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it's like me calling vibrio old
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ed
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John
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It's not windows mobile.
Window's mobile is what runs on pda's.
It is windows for automotive and iirc just gives a standard way for bluetooth devices to connect.
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