by wpengine on March 5, 2009 Discuss this oxymoron in the
comments below. IM DISCUSSING THIS BECAUSE I SAY IT ALL THE TIME
$# JTNJ#TYGN45 The reason I hate this phrase is because no one
uses it correctly. People generally use it in order to dismiss
the fact that they don’t know what they’re talking about. For
example: Person 1: “I saw you at Kroger yesterday.” Person 2:
“You mean Wal-Mart?” Person 1: “Same difference.” What would
that difference be? The fact that you can’t remember which store
you were in yesterday, or are to much of a jackass to say, “My
mistake, Wal-Mart”? Correct usage of this phrase would be
something like the following: Person 1: “The boy’s head is
upside down.” Person 2: “So is that boy’s over there.” Person 3:
“Same difference.” An odd choice, to be sure, but it was the
only example I could think of to illustrate the fact that with
the subject in question, there was in fact a difference (i.e.
something against the norm), and that because they were actually
comparing the exact SAME DIFF