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Salting the soup, while sipping the spoon 

To not understand something correctly or what is important about it especially when it is obvious to those around you.

No matter how much salt you put in the pot it will not change the spoon.
"You can't use that as an argument, you are salting the soup, while sipping the spoon".

"I was trying to make soup, but then I started salting the soup, while sipping the spoon".
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Well, you can't do that with a regular spoon. 

A phrase to describe a situation that shouldn't have been able to happen to begin with but through the pettiness of the universe, did happen.
*At work I reached up to grab a sandwich box, the spring attached to the box holding mechanism broke causing all the boxes to fall onto the ground and knocking over food in the process.*

Me: Well, you can't do that with a regular spoon.

Mad as a spoon

Someone who is psychologically unbalanced and believes in facts which are illogical or ridiculous and are not believed by the mass majority of human beings, e.g. that they are a chicken, that during the night their body hair leaves it's respective follicle’s and goes out boozing or that gnomes steal their underwear.
A man who thought he was being hunted by an invisable chicken was as mad as a spoon.
Mad as a spoon by Ludovico_Drakko August 10, 2008

shit spoon 

One who maliciously meddles or intrudes into other people's affairs or business.
That shit spoon Dovie sure likes to stir the shit.
shit spoon by Robster Dean June 26, 2008

tiny spoon 

A person who steals small amounts of change. Typically denies stealing but change is always missing when they're around, and they always have change.
I think that tiny spoon stole my change. That kid is sketchy they're probably a tiny spoon.
tiny spoon by Sfghbhbbh May 19, 2017

post-nut spoon 

I rammed her hard then had me a post-nut spoon.
That fucking bitch wouldn't gimme a post-nut spoon.
We were in the midst of a post-nut spoon and my dick got stuck to her ass cheeks.
I hate the post-nut spoon, I just want to go home when I'm done.