When you say you have a life, what does that mean?

Question

Get a life!

I have one!

What?

Umm??? What do I say now???

What is your life? When someone says: 'Yahoo Answers or actually have a life', what is your life?

I'm confuzzled, a bit...

Answer 1

If you don't have a life (like me!) it means that you are a person with a LOT of free time on their hands, who doesn't really do anything constructive and enjoys filling up their time with stupid tasks :]

Answer 2

i guess the sentence would be get a non-pathetic life

Answer 3

It simply means that you have time to do other things rather than the one you are stcking onto.

Answer 4

Well every thing is to be viewed with respect to the context in which it is said. Get a life, have a life, questions relating to life, are all used with reference to a certain context and situation. In order to ascertain different contextual and idiomatic meanings I suggest you to read both American slang as well as a good english grammar book written by some english language scholar.