This phrase is being used a lot today, and I was wondering what the people answering questions here consider to be "a life"?
Taking suitcases on planes to go on a vacation?
Having challenging jobs that keep us very busy?
Building houses?
Robbing Banks?
Kissing up to supervisors in hopes of getting a raise?
Cheating on tests?
Speeding on highways?
Giving the finger to people on the road?
Displaying Chinese made American flags on S.U.V.'s
...all of these makes a life, I guess?
Or, does it?
2006-08-17 14:02:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I think "get a life" means stop worrying about stupid crap, and get your nose out of other people's business, and find something more worthy to occupy your time. BTW, I make a very good living giving people the finger on the road.
2006-08-17 14:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a terribly old person, and I remember when nobody used the expression, "Get a life!" I think I first heard it about 1972 or so.
The implication was that the person who was pestering you with their idea of what your life should be about was using YOUR life as a replacement for THEIR life. So the idea was that the person should stop trying to live other people's lives for them, and start living their own.
The basic idea, then, was a matter of interpersonal boundaries. "This is my life, and that stuff over there is your life."
The expression, like most expressions, became a casual conversational expression with essentially no meaning, but it can still be used as intended; that is, "Don't try to live my life for me."
2006-08-17 21:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roller blading around a lake when the summer heat finally breaks, and it's 75 instead of 95. And blowing off a client to do it. That may not be a life, but it's a great afternoon.
2006-08-17 21:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by nkasoff 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, all of those would be considered "getting a life."
We may also accept:
Masturbating in a tool shed
Gargeling curdled milk
Smoking large turkeys (not small ones)
Wine Tasting
Gerrymandering
Bulldozing retirement homes illegally
Squeezing cheese
Bellyaching about your bellybutton
Feeling California
Thinking Minnesota
Hip thrusting
and placing Mutha F-ing snakes on a Mutha F-ing plane
All of these make a life, I guess.
Or do they?
2006-08-17 21:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are so many phrases that people use; that is just one of the many. "Get a life" is usually used to motivate slothfulness. Sometimes it works and sometimes it just gets worse. It's the way we use our life that truly counts. If people was a bit friendlier and less critical, we'd live a happier life. Go Figure!
2006-08-17 21:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by ~Jessica~ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It probably means to get into some business of your own: hobbies, friends, just something that doesn't harm anyone, but occupies your mind and passes the time.
2006-08-17 21:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Tee99 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Usault some azz hole tells you to get a life when you don't agree with them or their ways. as if their life was the one you should get I don't know there are a lot of nuggets that need to be shot
2006-08-17 21:08:28 · answer #7 · answered by TpT 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get a life means to stop and think about it or stop and re-think it.
Whatever it is you're saying or doing sounds crazy to someone else or not right or not real.'
2006-08-17 21:09:12 · answer #8 · answered by Bluealt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means live your life in a meaningful productive way.
2006-08-17 21:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means mind your own business and quit trying to run other peoples lives.....
LIVE and LET LIVE!
2006-08-17 21:10:08 · answer #10 · answered by Heidi 4 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋